Is Holland really a safe place to cycle?

[Derek C]

Apparently about half the field in the Tour de France managed to fall
off their bikes in the Dutch stages yesterday! See:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8786916.stm

Good job they where all wearing cycle helmets!

Derek C

[Martin Borsje[_8_]]

Derek C used his keyboard to write :
> Apparently about half the field in the Tour de France managed to fall
> off their bikes in the Dutch stages yesterday! See:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8786916.stm

> Good job they where all wearing cycle helmets!

> Derek C

This to inform you that Brussels is located in Belgium.

And as long as belgium is not been separated in the french speaking and
dutch speaking part (Flamish) Brussels will remain Belgian and not
Dutch.

Belgium has been separated from the Netherlands in 1836 - no TdF
then...

;-)

[FrengaX]

On Jul 6, 8:08*pm, Derek C > wrote:
> Apparently about half the field in the Tour de France managed to fall
> off their bikes in the Dutch stages yesterday! See:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8786916.stm
>
> Good job they where all wearing cycle helmets!

Were you trying to make a sesible point?
No, thought not.

Quite amazing how they managed to get into such a tangle, pretty much
no-one could get through.

[Jim A]

On 07/06/2010 08:08 PM, Derek C wrote:
> Apparently about half the field in the Tour de France managed to fall
> off their bikes in the Dutch stages yesterday! See:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8786916.stm
>
> Good job they where all wearing cycle helmets!
>
> Derek C
>

Serves 'em right for riding so stupidly fast. They ought to slow down
and enjoy the ride.

--
www.slowbicyclemovement.org - enjoy the ride

[Just zis Guy, you know?[_2_]]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:08:27 -0700 (PDT), Derek C
> wrote:

>Apparently about half the field in the Tour de France managed to fall
>off their bikes in the Dutch stages yesterday!

I don't think any of the crashes happened in Holland, or anywhere in
Nederlands at all come to that.

Guy
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[Just zis Guy, you know?[_2_]]

On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:54:11 +0200, Martin Borsje >
wrote:

>This to inform you that Brussels is located in Belgium.

True dat. Also while Rotterdam is in Zuid-Holland a decent part of the
route across Netherlands was, as far as I can tell, not in Holland at
all.

Guy
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[Tony Raven[_3_]]

FrengaX wrote:

>
> Quite amazing how they managed to get into such a tangle, pretty much
> no-one could get through.

Apparently the motorbike that went down spread oil all over the road
which is what caused all the crashes.

--
Tony

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

[The Medway Handyman[_2_]]

No.

Last time I was in Amsterdam a **** on a push bike ran into me.

She fell of & hurt her leg. I laughed out loud.


--
Dave - intelligent enough to realise that a push bike is a kid's toy, not a
viable form of transport.

[Mr. Benn[_4_]]

"Jim A" > wrote in message
...
> On 07/06/2010 08:08 PM, Derek C wrote:
>> Apparently about half the field in the Tour de France managed to fall
>> off their bikes in the Dutch stages yesterday! See:
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8786916.stm
>>
>> Good job they where all wearing cycle helmets!
>>
>> Derek C
>>
>
> Serves 'em right for riding so stupidly fast. They ought to slow down and
> enjoy the ride.

I can't blame them for riding fast - it is a race after all but they really
shouldn't cycle so close together. That is what causes accidents. One
cyclist topples and so do many of those around him.