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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: a right bastard of a grazed knee.
Date: 15 Mar 2025 09:41:02 GMT
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John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:04:21 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> https://newsthump.com/2025/03/13/entire-nation-united-in-its-desire-to-see-no-handed-cyclist-fall-off/
> 
> 
> And on the same page:
> "A Basingstoke man suffered an unprecedented hardship this morning
> when he discovered his car windows covered in frost and, to his
> horror, realised he had run out of de-icer, forcing him to manually
> scrape the ice off like some sort of 18th-century peasant."
> 
> "an unprecedented hardship"! Life must be Hell in G.B. :-)
> 

It is a joke site!

This said I do feel smug using my car which is an old Volvo and thus has
very strong heating and so frosty windows are essentially start car,
waiting briefly for the car to clear it!

No scraping required, clearly the bike is even less of hindrance!

Roger Merriman