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Re: Bike trailers prohibited in Spain

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From: Avery Burdett
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 00:00
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Michael Garrett (garrett@cbpp.org) writes:
> Yes, but will anyone actually do this?

Maybe not, but the first step in complaining is to let the other party
know what options are available to give him (other party) an opportunity to
think of the consequences. Someone gave us an e-mail address. Let's take
the first step. 

> 
> The pro-helmet people have one thing going for them.  They are organized.
> Most of us are simply complainers who do nothing but type back and forth to
> each other while they lobby legislators to pass what they see as a "boon to
> society."

Now's the time for a change. Some of us have fought helmet laws using
different means. Some have been successful. A simple e-mail message would be a
start. Let's fill his e-mail box.

 
> Avery Burdett wrote:
> 
>> "Leon Poels" (lpoels@spf-europe.nl) writes:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Now I read in 'die Luftpumpe', the magazine of the ADFC in Aachen (D),
>> > that bike trailer use is prohibited in Spain immediately.
>> >
>> > Let's complain at the Spanish minister of interior affairs:
>> > estafeta@aquiles.mir.es
>> >
>>
>> Let's not just complain. Let's tell him we will not tour Spain, and will
>> support a boycott of Spanish Tourism and Spanish wine while anti-cycling
>> laws exist there. Tourism and wine are important sectors of the economy of
>> Spain.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Avery Burdett
>> Ottawa, Ontario
> 


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Avery Burdett
Ottawa, Ontario
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From: ab833@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Avery Burdett)
Subject: Re: Bike trailers prohibited in Spain
Date: 1999/10/22
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