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His weight is irrelevant (as you know James, I too am a fat twat and I ride 150 miles a week) what is relevant is the amount of media time spent (wasted) talking about RLJing and insurance whenever cycling is in the media.

Zoe (my trainee) was ace. She quickly deflected those silly arguments and mentioned riding a car door away from cars and telling drivers to watch out for cyclists. She made a good point about the law favouring the rich and insisted that cycling should nit be made more complicated by any legislation as it is crucial to society. Adam Rayner agreed with most of her points towards the end.

Cycling came out on top

you are not morbidly obese

we can all carry a reasonable amount of fat and be healthy. he is cearly not healthy

I do agree that rlj and insurance is not helpful (but is always trotted out) and zoe dealt with that perfectly pointing out it was not true for all cyclists etc.