Here the full ken story About 2 years ago (and still is) the cyclist issue was totally out of hand in the cradle. An email was sent to residents and from the response it was clear that 99% of residents had issues with cyclists. I then set up a meeting with Giovanni and a guy called Charl from the traffic department. At this meeting it was acknowledged that these problems were serious and things had to be done. A few things that were agreed upon: Giovanni would send people out here, and if clubs or groups were breaking the rules they would be dealt with. All races would be go through the Muldersdrift police forum If races were not run correctly, there would be a recourse not allowing the event organiser to hold another race in the area. There would only be a few races a year in the area, instead of a race every second weekend. Residents would be made aware of races No road closures And then the normal stuff, passing on the message that riding 3 or 4 in the road is not on, must ride in the cycle lane ect. I then sent an email out to the community saying that Giovanni was serious about sorting the issues out. The bottom line is nothing was sorted out and in my opinion Giovanni was just hoping this would all go away. Races in the area are organised by any Tom Dick and Harry. There were three races held on the same day last week in our area. The Syringa spa road was closed. This is a main route I could not even get out my gate and had to stay home. In other words there was total chaos. So that?s the history <?: prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> The present Think bike has taken it upon themselves to appoint themselves as traffic cops, stopping motorists so that cyclists can now have right of way. This is illegal. We are now supposed to bow down to self appointed traffic cops for the pleasure of a few. I sent an email to think bike about this and I cc Ken. A few emails went back and forth between Paul Young and the bottom line was that he didn?t acknowledge any of my issues. An email from Ken SENT TO ME was by mistake sent to Paul Young (Ken is not that computer literate). Ken hit the ?reply to all? by mistake. A few issues here. A private email was posted on the forum without the permission of the sender. Only a part of the email was posted - I assume to stir up as much emotion as possible. From this a lot of emails were sent to ken, even death threats. We do not even have to talk about the forum. Some misconceptions about Ken He does not shoot lions. Ken is a conservationist who saves lions at his own cost from all over Africa. (running an aeroplane is expensive) He has a private lion reserve where these lions live. Ken motto is courtesy costs nothing. The sticker is on his car. The cyclists that Ken knocked over was not Ken going for them, but the cyclists own stupidity. Ken could of explained it better, but the email was never meant to go to the forum. I myself have also knocked a cyclist over, not on purpose, but because of the cyclists stupidly. Ken is also not someone to stand down and be run away from issues. So the conclusion is. All posts on the forum have been copied. Charges have been laid with the police and the copy of the thread has been given to his lawyers. If you know Ken, you can expect a call. Those who threatened legal action against Ken, you are very welcome to proceed. As you know all IP addresses are logged. Mark Thijs has stepped in and made the effort to sort this all out. (Good luck for the operation) A meeting is going to be set up when he is back and few things from our side are: We want minutes of the meeting Those attending the meeting must be serious about sorting out the issues. There must be recourse if issues are not addressed. Last thing By looking at the comments on the thread, these are the same guys that ride through here. Do you think these guys obey the rules and act with respect to the residents? Remember you are a guest here. for every distasteful comment, it just gives us one more reason to not want these people here. No one is and never will advocate riding cyclists over, but we can and will make life very difficult for any cyclist riding through here. After awhile hopefully, cyclists will then get the message and go and ride somewhere else, and make those residents lives a misery. But let?s see how the meeting goes and hopefully the outcome will be ?Cyclists are welcome?
