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What's wrong with 4x4s?

Some very fine people own them including myself and Mr Cope (or at least he used to circa Autogeddon).

Kammer x

PS. Just kidding - I hate them too, especially when used 'recreationally'. Without ours we'd get snowed in every year, but we're still looking to get rid of the bugger. They're good for finding standing stones over hedges though!

Me too. I'm the owner/operator of the Big Red Beast, as it's known amongst the Scottish Megaraks. A very handy vehicle given Scottish winters, and the fact that half the time I drive on single track roads with passing places.

I'd reserve my contempt for bloody mountain-bikers, who hare about on tracks designed for people on foot. Mountain-bikers with little bells are my especial pet hate. I do recall having a discreet discussion with one a couple of years ago - a group of us were climbing a steep path, about a foot wide, and he came hurtling down ringing his little bell, quite clearly expecting us merely to leap off the path and out of his way. I think he got the picture when I grasped him firmly by the throat, and explained the difficulty of having little bells surgically removed from his fundament. Bah!

Rant over - haw haw haw!