CitroJim's AX, C3 Picasso, Cycling and Running Tales

[CitroJim]

and the cyclist always loses in a conflict with a car.

Yes, as I know only too well...

................. while their bicycles would have to go through an equivalent of the MoT, but all other roads users have to do this anyway.

Anyone told the horsey community about that?

Horse MoTs - a lucrative new revenue stream for vets

It'd take longer to print the paperwork for a bike MOT test than actually carry out the MOT test !

I was quite surprised at just how long it took to do all the admin and print the certificate when Bluebell went in for her MoT... The tester expressed some exasperation with it...

[Hell Razor5543]

Where cycle helmets are concerned, my elder Godson did not want to wear one, as it would spoil his hairstyle. I turned up with two large water melons and one cycle helmet. I held one melon at head height, and dropped it onto a kerbstone; it came apart. I then put the helmet onto the second melon and dropped it the same way (making sure the helmet took the impact). The melon was unscathed (the helmet wasn't, but it had done its' job properly). My Godsons choose to wear cycle helmets.

[CitroJim]

That's a great way to educate James

[Stickyfinger]

[CitroJim]

I'd be pretty bloody miserable too if someone dumped a watermelon on my head

[Stickyfinger]

Your user image looks like you have one on Jim

[CitroJim]

Your user image looks like you have one on Jim

That's a proper TT aero racing helmet Offers much more protection than a watermelon And besides, on a watermelon there's nowhere to clip on a visor!

[myglaren]

You can't eat a helmet though.

[Stickyfinger]

Your user image looks like you have one on Jim

That's a proper TT aero racing helmet Offers much more protection than a watermelon And besides, on a watermelon there's nowhere to clip on a visor!

Goggles are the answer Jim

[MattBLancs]

You can't eat a helmet though.

That's merely a question of determination surely

What was that chap who ate everything called, Mr Mange Tout?

Ah yes, Google says that is right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito

[Hell Razor5543]

I have yet to see anybody wearing a melon helmet with a helmet!

[CitroJim]

Last evening I ran a 10K race around one of my favourite places... Salcey Forest, halfway between Paggers and Northampton. There's something very special about running on a dark and stormy night in pouring rain with great company and getting very muddy with our way lit only by our head torches in dense woodland on muddy trails

Me, cold, wet, muddy, happy and smiling at the end... And that was after spending all day in the Forest from first light helping out at a big ultra marathon event... We erected five large gazebos in torrential rain!

Maybe not everyone's cup of tea but I loved it... I had a lot of washing to do this morning!

In the New Year I'll be back in the forest running the second and third in the series of these 10K night races and then in March I'll be running an ultra marathon (50K) there

Before that, in a couple of weeks I'll be in the forest again to run a Christmas 10K race...

[Michel]

You can't eat a helmet though.

That's merely a question of determination surely

What was that chap who ate everything called, Mr Mange Tout?

Ah yes, Google says that is right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito

He was one of my heroes when I was a kid, I was utterly spellbound by the fact he ate a Cessna 150 light aircraft

[Michel]

Panorama Road Rage Cars V Bikes

Typical modern BBC programming, designed/directed just to get both sides angry. Panorama has fallen so far. There is enough conflict between road users without this type of crap offering nothing helpful or positive to any road user no matter the type of transport they choose to use.

Panorama hasn't fallen at all. It's always been low-level sensationalist claptrap, even back when I was a kid.

[Michel]

I have yet to see anybody wearing a melon helmet with a helmet!

If you appear wearing a helmet next time you're round here, it will be arranged.

*note. That said "will", not "could".

It is a promise. Not a threat.