http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Cyclists are a menace causing accidents on roads where traffic travels at 60mph en Sun, 31 May 2026 08:04:05 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8422 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:21:15 +0000 chdot 8422@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Wrong thread??"</p> <p>Oh yes!!!!</p> <p>Was reading lunchtime's posts via rss and got confused!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8419 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:05:50 +0000 steveo 8419@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wrong thread?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8418 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:03:45 +0000 chdot 8418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"and spit and froth..."</p> <p>dog or owner? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8412 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:05:30 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 8412@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm reprinting that word for word in the next citycycling - that's just toooooooooo good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8411 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:01:46 +0000 spytfyre 8411@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>and spit and froth... don't forget the froth... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8408 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:42:07 +0000 Stepdoh 8408@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...but would you write it in green crayon? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8404 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:34:34 +0000 wee folding bike 8404@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I suspect the choice of 6 mph was to sound nice against the 60 for the speed limit.</p> <p>I'd write it like that but then I'd make a good deal more sense in the rest of the letter too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8403 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:30:22 +0000 cb 8403@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Pretty crappy cyclists going at 6mph, was it a trike?"</p> <p>I would have thought that 6mph was a randomly low figure picked out of the air by the letter writer. She/he did say it was a race after all. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8401 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:28:07 +0000 Stepdoh 8401@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow so to register a car you've got to pay $140 plus 105% of the open market value of the car plus an excise duty of 20% of the OMV + $800 road tax ....</p> <p>it goes on. No wonder the MRT is so shiny! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8396 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:10:02 +0000 chdot 8396@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"just imagine the cycle facilities we'd get, "</p> <p>You don't think it would be spent on cycle facilities do you?...</p> <p>So assuming Herald letter writer thinks that's price of an average bike, imagine that being the tax % on a car - and the money being spent on <em>cycling improvements</em>!</p> <p>(I believe it's something like that in Singapore.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8394 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:05:44 +0000 Stepdoh 8394@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pretty crappy cyclists going at 6mph, was it a trike?</p> <p>:) Great idea about the £500 levy, just imagine the cycle facilities we'd get, and hey it would only marginally put up the price of an Asda BSO by 714% (ish) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=937#post-8389 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:51:39 +0000 chdot 8389@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.heraldscotland.com:80/comment/herald-letters/letters-tuesday-15-june-2010-1.1034802" rel="nofollow">http://www.heraldscotland.com:80/comment/herald-letters/letters-tuesday-15-june-2010-1.1034802</a> </p>