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ANOTHER cyclist hit by a car! Does that still surprise you to the extent that it has to be on your front page?

Cyclists have no respect for motorists: they ride, not only two abreast, but sometimes even three abreast.

I dare any motorist to overtake them on Simon's Town or Kalk Bay Main Roads without knocking one down.

My question is, why do the organisers have to choose this terribly narrow road from St James to Simon's Town for their cycle tours?

And not only cycle tours, but marathons as we had an example of on Sunday, 19 March. The runners were on one lane whilst cyclists took the other lane, with cars piled up from Muizenberg to Seaforth.

All churches are on Main Road, so those parishioners who could walk had to walk to church whilst those unfortunate ones who cannot do so had to stay at home.

Do these organisers have no respect for religion? We get that impression, since marathons and cycle tours are always on Sunday mornings.

We are now fed-up with the way we are forced to stay home whilst these people can enjoy their "recreation". They are the only people who inconvenience the public, enjoying their "sport".

I am not sorry to hear about cyclists being knocked down. What about the pedestrians who were knocked down by them? A red robot means nothing to them. Pedestrian robots do not exist in their little minds. An elderly man was knocked down by the cyclists in Fish Hoek and he died as a result of his injuries.

The incident was not reported on the local paper's front page.

Something has to be done before more lives are lost. We are fed-up!

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