Please can we ban certain topics

[keithhazel]

Barnowl posted:
.... I'm still quite taken with the idea of a leather flying helmet. This one looks most interesting ....

Great modern styling, it's got built in head phones for a MP3 player, outstanding
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if a little stick is given to us by people calling us "lazy" for riding and "electric bike"...how much stick would we get if we looked like we had "ditched" our lancaster and continueing our raid on a bike ???.........if i wear a helmet i dont want music in my ears but protection for my head,i once and ONLY once rode a bike with music coming from my player and i got to this roundabout and i had NO IDEA of what to do,...i decided then and there that the roads are dangerous enough with poor conditions and bad drivers so NO MORE distractions for me while im riding....

 

[flecc]

Well said Keith. I won't even use a car radio when driving, only what's going on outside matters.
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[nin26]

I have music playing while I cycle - but only very quietly. I can still hear the traffic perfectly well. I used to ride my motorcycle with earplugs in (as you should if you value your hearing) - you quickly adapt to it. I don't like music on in the car though - its already muffled enough!

 

[Phil the drill]

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I dont want music in my ears but protection for my head,i once and ONLY once rode a bike with music coming from my player and i got to this roundabout and i had NO IDEA of what to do,...i decided then and there that the roads are dangerous enough with poor conditions and bad drivers so NO MORE distractions for me while im riding....

Now my wife would say 'That's because you're a bloke - so you can't multi-task!'
Is she right?

Phil

 

[flecc]

Now my wife would say 'That's because you're a bloke - so you can't multi-task!'
Is she right?

Phil

No!

There's doing one thing well or doing more things simultaneously less well.

Gender doesn't come into it.
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[Barnowl]

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if a little stick is given to us by people calling us "lazy" for riding and "electric bike"...how much stick would we get if we looked like we had "ditched" our lancaster and continueing our raid on a bike ???.........if i wear a helmet i dont want music in my ears but protection for my head,i once and ONLY once rode a bike with music coming from my player and i got to this roundabout and i had NO IDEA of what to do,...i decided then and there that the roads are dangerous enough with poor conditions and bad drivers so NO MORE distractions for me while im riding....

Yeah have to agree about the MP3 and focus. I don't use one myself - MP3 player that is. Still we were only having a bit of fun originally prompted by Phil the drills leather flying helmet which by the way we haven't seen yet. Or did those rats finish it off?

 

[Footie]

We've seen this barrage of disapproval about headphones http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/electric-bicycles/54-wearing-earphones-while-cycling.html?highlight=phones and MP3’s before (sorry can’t find the thread where I got lectured). It’s part of the course, if you post about it someone is bound to wag their disapproving finger at you and say “naughty, naughty” – the older ones are the worst ones
At the end of the day it’s all about personal choice – that’s why we all ride different bikes – isn’t it great not to be a brain dead crowd follower
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[flecc]

We've seen this barrage of disapproval about headphones

At the end of the day it’s all about personal choice – that’s why we all ride different bikes – isn’t it great not to be a brain dead crowd follower
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No barrage Footie, just expressing our personal choice. . My views on others having earphones are in the thread you highlighted here.
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[Footie]

.... just expressing our personal choice. ....

We agree flecc

PS: Found the one about me http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/charging-post/2455-stupidity-other-road-users-2.html

Got called "the height of stupidity" no mincing words here
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[flecc]

We agree flecc

PS: Found the one about me http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/forum/charging-post/2455-stupidity-other-road-users-2.html

Got called "the height of stupidity" no mincing words here
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See what you mean Footie. Couldn't find it at first as your link was to page two. Here's the page one link
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[Footie]

Back from work.
Perhaps I am the "the height of stupidity" - I tried to link to the actual post but it all went Bodmin
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[flecc]

Easily done when searching for an entry Footie, I know 'cos I've done it a few times myself.

I've sometimes even forgotten to take the post link and entered a blank link in my post.
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[keithhazel]

Now my wife would say 'That's because you're a bloke - so you can't multi-task!'
Is she right?

Phil

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multi tasking is the role you do when doing more then 1 none life threatening jobs at once where minor errors cost you nothing, riding a bike IS life threatening and even minor errors can be fatal....i had a BIG scare and escape at that roundabout and with it realised if it had been a busy roundabout with ANY other vehicles i may not now even be in a position to winge about flat batteries or whether i wear a bike helmet or not...

 

[keithhazel]

– isn’t it great not to be a brain dead
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it sure is