Cradle warning

[busch1]

 

Just got sent this email now

 

URGENT WARNING

<> To all members,     Please be aware that we do have issues that need resolving with regards to the cradle cycle routes and the residents in the area.   Recently there have been incidents of tension and we have been informed that there could be blockading of the route to cyclists over the weekend. This would be totally illegal and we advise all cyclists firstly, not to be drawn into confrontations of any nature verbal or otherwise. Should you find yourselves blocked we implore you to sit it out without engagement, just phone the police and ask them to come out to resolve the stand off.   We have the following contacts; firstly as the area is under the jurisdiction of Muldersdrift, the contact is the station commander, Capt. Van Wyk, on (011) 668-7600. Should for whatever reason you not be able to get the required response then the back up would be to contact Mogale City?s, Sup. Daan Grobler on (011) 951-1111.   Please under no circumstances allow yourselves to be drawn into a confrontation, should there be any unlawful actions carried out toward you or your fellow cyclists take the necessary details and when able to, lay the appropriate charge against the perpetrators with the police and allow it to take it?s legal course, CGC will undertake the legal stand and ensure the matter is taken to it?s ultimate conclusion.     I am sure that you do not need to be reminded that we need to abide by the rules of the road and be predictable. A bicycle is a defined as a vehicle on the road and should be treated a such and the cyclist is termed the driver and is expected to travel on the road and abide by road rules as if he were in his car, this is as per the national traffic act. Please abide by the rules of the road, riding single file on narrow roads and two abreast only where there are shoulders or appropriate cycling paths, thank you for your cooperation and thus ensuring your safety.     Yours in safe cycling <> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} < id="ieooui" id=":38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D"> <> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <> Giovanni Mottalini       (Chairman)

 

busch12010-01-15 04:58:13

[Jackes]

From what I hear the cradle is everything but a "warming" place

[TNT1]

I thought global warming affected us all, not just the frustrated motorists in the cradle?

[Jackes]

O and since Bob is not on form this morning....

 

https://www.bikehub.co.za/forum_posts.asp?TID=73168&PN=10

 

https://www.bikehub.co.za/forum_posts.asp?TID=73286&KW=

 

 

 

[TNT1]

 

O and since Bob is not on form this morning....

 

 

 

 

 

Yes I am, I am just saving my vitriol for cap'n fatty and the KFC 10...

 

[Jackes]

KFC, now there is a thought... 

[Slowbee]

with thee kind of emails - the cradle people will win. less and less people will go. and if the negative image continues, they will even loose the tourists, but hey who cares- at least their roads will be empty.

[firewolf]

cradle suxs man! I don't even know where it is, but I sure don't ever wanna put my bike on it's roads.  Or my body.  What part of the country is this place in?  Like a backwater place or what?

[Guest Agteros]

With all the law enforcing that will be out there now I reckon it will be a VERY safe area to take my 8 year old

 

 

 

 

 

NOT!!!

 

[javadude]

We should just send Chunky and OB out that way tomorrow to sort them all out.

[slowpoke]

velo, let's rather keep the cyclists away and safe. that mrples and "mr x" and cradleresident dudes seem very weird.

 

kinda bad news for malema and the anc crowd - it appears that neanderthals were in fact whities, not blacks...........

[Owen]

This whole Cradle story is bullsh*t.

 

I grew up in a country where my parents could not go to certain places because of the colour of their skin. There is no way in hell some bakkie driving lot are going to tell me where i should ride my bicycle. I bought it. I will ride it on any public road in the SA.

 

Until it's crimal offence to ride my bicycle on that piece of road, I am going to ride..................

[slowpoke]

Owen, i'd rather not hear that anything has happened to you - so rather be safe. their behaviour, comments and approach will be their own undoing and we'll then be able to cycle there safely after that.

[Danger Dassie]

100% Owen, I have a ride there tomorrow and most likely a ride at Teak on Sunday morning.

 

And unfortunately fully prepared prepared for any incidents that could occur.