[rollei_list] Re: OFF-TOPIC - Bicycles
- From: David Restall - System Administrator <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:33:42 +0100
Eric -
> How can you say it defeats the "object" when you don't know what my
> object is? IMO this is a rough analogy all around... I can show you
> some beautiful and brilliant images shot on digital...
mea culpa - for me personally it defeats the object. It may be your cup
of tea but not mine.
> When I lived on the continent as a small boy, similar motorized bikes
> where ubiquitous and mostly served as a second (or even first) auto
Ahh the Solex and others. As a boy I always wanted one of those to make
pedalling easier, never did get one and never will. I have a Norton for
that :-)
> replacement. It is conceivable that something like this could serve as
> a second car replacement for my family IF no one dies, gets their
> kidneys rattled apart, or get stranded somewhere because of mechanical
> failure or theft...
Point taken - mind you pushing a mountain bike for any distance is hard
work, if it broke down it could be a liablility. The big problem in
the UK would be with the authorities. IIRC they are treated as MOPEDS
here and you would have to have motor insurance, wear a helmet take
a test and be at least 16 years old. The laws here make it difficult
to use anything like that "in a public place". If you are driving on
public land or land that the public have access to, you can be stopped
by the police and asked to produce your driving documents. Failure to
produce is a criminal offence. The police are using it to stop illegal
off road motorcyclists and 4x4 drivers. There was a banner headline a
just before Christmas in the local paper about minimoto bikes and the
local constabulary pointed out that there is no public area on Teesside
where they could be ridden legally - so don't buy one for Christmas
unless you have permission to ride it on private land.
So not only will your fillings get rattled out (Norton Again ;-), you'll
smell of two stroke oil and you'll end up with a criminal record too :-)
TTFN
D
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Eric Goldstein
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On 6/8/06, David Restall - System Administrator <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hmmm. Sort of defeats the object. It's the cycling equivalent
> of a digital camera. It's just not the same as doing it yourself.
> I was out a couple of weeks ago on Emily (so called because like all
> Suffragettes she spends a lot of time chained to railings) and I had
> ridden for 6 undulating miles up a 300m climb against a pretty nasty
> wind and I was getting a bit fed up. At the top the road turned and
> the wind was more favourable. I then sped up and was flying - I was
> cheered by some motorists parked at the roadside. Now that was living,
> that was a manual Rollei, that was not a P&S do it all digital :-) When
> I turned off, I turned into the headwind proper and I had to pedal down
> the hills. I could not make more than 8mph on the flat :-( You know
> you are alive after days like that, you know nothing with an engine.
> I should have gone round the route in the opposite direction, but that
> would have meant getting to the cafe too early.
>
> I've not managed to take a good photograph (one that says how I feel)
> about the hills round here, but when I do this will be where I post
> them :-)
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Dave
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