Daily Mail in cycling shocker!

That thing of Old Market Sq. makes loads of sense, he deserves a big live NO-NO.

And road surfaces are now being made to be porous to absorb sound down into the road to reduce noise pollution. Downwside is the surfaces last 6 years instead of almost twice as long, so need resurfacing more often. Yes, that resurfacing is paid for by tax payers money... blah blah, so if you drive a car that makes noise you're costing tax payers more blah blah blah. Inversely, quiet bicycles could be saving every tax payer money.

A bit off topic and serious, but true.

i never knew that. thanks for the info.

yeah i think i maybe a bit serious at times and that i am bugging everybody. maybe i should lighten the fuck up.

i think i might go out for a ride. signing off. good thread though.

Cath Wiggins - what a woman!

From her twitter:

cathwiggins: one last word..James Martin you peanut dicked knob jockey of a turd pate making shit eating arse wipe I hope you fall in your blender

Modern cars are very very quiet, as far as the engines go. Well until some chav owner puts a fat exhaust on. Must be the EU drive-by noise regs. And I think they are getting even stricter. I was travelling behind a Jaguar diesel the other day, and genuinely could not hear the engine. Most noise from cars seems to come from the tyres rolling along the road nowadays. Fatter tyres = more road noise. That and stereos. I don't think electric cars are any quieter in normal use really.

The noisiest vehicles are buses (exempt from most noise and emissions regs for political reasons) followed by vans. Apart from Harleys, which all make a bloody racket, even motorbikes are quiet when new these days. Too quiet to be noticed in fact, which is why the owners (yes, including me) buy louder pipes. Nice little earner for the makers.

Two more factors in road surface wear are that modern crash protection regulations have made cars a hell of a lot heavier than they used to be, and the proliferation of speed bumps has been directly responsible for the big 4x4 replacing the small supermini as the city car of choice.
Add in the massive leap in bus numbers and it's a wonder they haven't worn down to the cobbles.

cathy wiggins... win.

Cathy Wiggins - genius.

He's got a point though surely. Cyclists are a bunch of wankers. Look how quickly us lot have managed to upset his carefully cultivated image. I blame Clive for all this anti-cyclist feeling

Bang to rights as usual.

Genius thread.
Wonder what Tesla will have to say about it? Also wonder how many more motor manufacturers will be willing to loan him something after this?
Maybe we should get the Greek tourist board on board...
"From there it was on to Greece, alongside hundreds of young couples flocking to get married there thanks to Mamma Mia.
I warn you, nearlyweds - it may be sunny, but the magic soon wears off: once you've seen the statues and ruined amphitheatres, you realise the rest of the country is a total and utter dump. National dish? Olives and warm lager. Primary export? Fat, hairy women. No wonder blokes in Ancient Greece preferred each other... "
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1210680/JAMES-MARTIN-The-Mercedes-E500-Coupe-good-I-didnt-want-back.html#ixzz0R7S74JSq

Tosser.

Cath Wiggins - LFGSS married to a sporting personality type person of the Year 2009!

Maybe we should get a WAC trophy for James Cunting Martin, and present it to him in person at a highly public event

by present it, do you mean shove it firmly up his clacker?

I hope he stands in dog poo and walks it through his house.

by present it, do you mean shove it firmly up his clacker?

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I hope a coconut falls on his head.

I hope he decides to have toast for breakfast in the morning, waits anxiously for it to pop up and then realises that the toaster wasn't plugged in.

:)

I hope a bird poos on him, and contrary to popular belief, he has no good luck.

I hope he gets caught masturbating.

I hope he loses the ferrule from the end of one of his shoelaces so that it frays, and then accidentally pulls it out of the lacehole and has the devil of a job trying to thread it back through.

I hope he sleeps on his arms funny and isn't able to move them periodically when he wakes up.

This thread is making me lol heartily. Thanks guys.

I hope he's trying to re-install Windows XP but then it refuses to accept his serial number because he lend the disc to his friend, who used the serial too, forcing him to phone Microsoft customer support and re-authorise his copy of Windows.

I hope he discovers and then accidentally smashes a valuable antique dinner service.

I hope buys something from eBay which he needs urgently, thinking to himself that he made a bargain, only to realise that the seller is based in Hong Kong and the parcel will need two weeks to arrive.

I hope he gets the hiccups at an inopportune juncture.

I hope he forgets his parent's wedding anniversary.

I hope his bedroom window develops a condensation problem.