Bloody cyclists, riding half-asleep

What are these people doing on the roads? If you can't be minimally
attentive, you shouldn't be there.

Yesterday I saw a huge group of riders - all decked out in lycra and
shades, like a huge bunch of poofy stick insects - come around a right
hand bend, all together, and oblivious to what was on the other side of
it, and coming towards them fast.

They must have been half-asleep, each blindly following the one in
front, and then they were caught napping.

Apart from a few on the front who managed to get away safely they were
all taken by surprise, and scattered right across the road like a bag of
spilled shopping. It was carnage, but fortunately no-one was seriously
hurt (some bruised pride, perhaps). It certainly ruined their ride.

You should have seen the looks on their faces, a combination of horror
and the desperate attempt to make it look as though everything was
normal and they hadn't royally screwed-up.

Wakey-wakey, cyclists! Next time you go for a ride dressed up like
post-modernist ponces think what might be coming in the opposite
direction around that right-hand-bend, because you're not the only thing
on the roads that can travel at speed.

One of the few riders who had obviously kept his wits about him was
interviewed on TV, and he was saying that when you see a turn coming up,
it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what you have to do
next.

Rocket scientist? These guys were too dozy even to be bicycle-riding
scientists.

Daniele

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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What are these people doing on the roads? If you can't be minimally
attentive, you shouldn't be there.

Trollometer reads 1:10

mileburner wrote:

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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What are these people doing on the roads? If you can't be minimally
attentive, you shouldn't be there.

Trollometer reads 1:10

That would be a whooooosh on your part then.
Alan.
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"A.Lee" wrote in message
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mileburner wrote:

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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What are these people doing on the roads? If you can't be minimally
attentive, you shouldn't be there.

Trollometer reads 1:10

That would be a whooooosh on your part then.
Alan.

Which part of the original post do you think deserves a higher quality mark?

mileburner:

Trollometer reads 1:10

Daniele's take on yesterday's Tour de France stage tickled my humour buds.

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99% agree, troll or otherwise.

mileburner wrote:

"A.Lee" wrote in message
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mileburner wrote:
"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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What are these people doing on the roads? If you can't be minimally
attentive, you shouldn't be there.

Trollometer reads 1:10

That would be a whooooosh on your part then.

Which part of the original post do you think deserves a higher quality mark?

The OP was a reference, tongue in cheek, to the crash in the TdF
yesterday.
Understand now?

Alan.

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"A.Lee" wrote in message
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mileburner wrote:

"A.Lee" wrote in message
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mileburner wrote:
"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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What are these people doing on the roads? If you can't be minimally
attentive, you shouldn't be there.

Trollometer reads 1:10

That would be a whooooosh on your part then.

Which part of the original post do you think deserves a higher quality
mark?

The OP was a reference, tongue in cheek, to the crash in the TdF
yesterday.
Understand now?

Nope. I am not a spectator :-)

D.M. Procida wrote:
It was carnage, but fortunately no-one was seriously
hurt (some bruised pride, perhaps).


Carnage usually involves a lot of the red stuff - one on-line dictinary
says the word has it's root as "16c: French, from Latin carnaticum
payment in meat"

(local paper reported fire where no-one got hurt but was apparently
'carnage' )



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Happi Monday wrote:


99% agree, troll or otherwise.


more like 95.4%


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