Andyr249

I once had a girlfriend from Bloem. Not quite sure I agree with you though. Area looks great for MTB'ing!! Need to plan a trip!

So you are basically saying, just like cradleresident and mr ples, that you won't wait a few seconds until it is safe to pass a group of cyclists but you have no problem if it was a slow moving vehicle?

MarkU, there is actually very other place to ride where there are long, uninterupted strectches of road with not robot or stop street every few hundred metres. Cradleresident, CSA will probably be a waste of time. There is so much politics and issues going on with CSA at the moment. Why not try and involve other parties such as the clubs (Cyclelab and Club 100 come to mind) who use the area as well as places who offer cyclists a place to park? Maybe they could give out flyers or put up boards with mutually agreed upon appeals or "code of conduct" type of things. While there are some cyclists who are at fault, there are also some cradle residents who are at fault. The roads in the cradle are not as busy as some roads in more built up areas and I doubt that there would be bumper to bumper traffic. So waiting behind a few cyclists in order to pass safely would only take a few extra seconds. Do the cradle residents get as upset about getting stuck behind a truck going at a slow speed as they do about going slowly behind cyclists at slow speed? Cyclists pose less of a threat to cradle residents than the very real criminal elements that our country faces. As far as I understand it, from the posts by your "Mr. Ples", you have a whole civil protection thing set up. Are you not focussing on the wrong people? It is like the USA watching the UK while Old Osama goes in he back door and causes havoc. Surely more attention should be focused on that rather than cyclists? Shouldn't we all be more tolerant about our differences and accept them?

Looks fabulous Anton! Can't wait to see the finished bike. PS: My SL3 is totally fantastic and I am really loving riding it! Thanks again!

You should chat to the guys in the MTB section of the Cyclelab Club. You should get quite a bit of info.

I believe I read in another thread on the hub about a certain rider that was recently bust for doping that he was also a "better man you can't wish to meet". Why doesn't Dave prove to us that he is indeed a "better man you can't wish to meet" and not endanger cyclists?

Sometimes it is fast, sometimes it is slow. I know Indigo Kid is having problems with the Hub in Braamfontein.

Get an armed Predator UAV. Or better still, get a C130 Spectre. Those flame thrower things out your handle bars could work. I read an article awhile ago about some guy putting them under the door of his car to burn hijackers. Best thing you can do is plan a safe route. If you can't then stick to you car.

interesting that you should mention that. the same publication recently published a story about a man who was cleared of murdering his wife by strangulation in his sleep. i think there was also a rape case where the perpetrator was said to be sleeping during the act. will see if i can find some links. I will have a look in my Crim Law textbook to get a bit more info. What many people don't understand is that you need all the elements of a crime to be present to have criminal liability. Capacity is one of them and various things can impact on criminal capacity. Incapacity due to fainting, as in this case, strikes out the capacity so there is no liability. You kill someone in private defence. Technically you unlawfully killed another person so it is murder. But the private defence strikes out the fault requirement.

What we need to do criminalised doping like they have in France (I think it is). That will be more of a deterent. At the moment it is take the risk, get a two year ban and then compete again. If there were harsher penalties then it may help. Every team should commit to an Anti-Doping Program like Medscheme and Saxo Bank.

Ah Mud Dee, that is great!!

Plausible defence. Form of incapacitation. It is a different story if the woman was prone to fainting and knew or foresaw the possibility of fainting while driving and still drove regardless. Then she would be held criminally liable. At varsity we studied a few criminal cases that dealt with that. If I remember correctly one accused even got acquitted for killing someone in his sleep. He was having a nightmare and hit out and killed his family member. But he wasn't in control of his body at the time.

That looks nasty! Hope it heal quickly!

Congrats! That is a great achievement!

Wow, it was quite a storm!!

Looks good! Good you see you getting him to wear a helmet at such a young age!

Speedy recovery Ian.