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Video: Frustrated London cyclist uses air horn to clear cycle lanes of pedestrians
“I am fed up with people walking in the cycle lane in London,” writes Reckless Bradley underneath this YouTube Video. “It’s like they don't even care that it is there.” As you can see, Reckless Bradley therefore decided to take action by investing in an air horn.
You can hear the cumulative frustration of previous incidents in the cyclist’s muttering each time he happens upon a pedestrian.
The strength of feeling and his course of action obviously come as a surprise to most of those he encounters and one man, towards the end of the video, reacts aggressively.
The stunt is essentially a reprise of this one from last year where a cyclist stuck a car horn on his bike in a bid to clear people out of his way while riding across Brooklyn Bridge in New York.
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I've finally got around to watching this with the sound on (at home, instead of in the office). Got to say, Reckless Bradley really doesn't come across very well. Before he uses the airhorn thing, he never particularly seems to speak to people/use his voice. All those pedestrians walking in the cycle lanes and listening for oncoming motor traffic instead of looking for *all* traffic would p!ss me off too, but going straight to an airhorn (OMG that thing is *loud*!) seems like the nuclear option.
I've walked in cycle lanes. Most notably when going somewhere on foot where I usually cycle. Literally found myself thinking 'something's amiss here, I've fogotten something, what the heck is it...oh yeah, the bike' [gets out of cycle lane]
There's a footpath along side almost every road that it there only for use by pedestrians. As soon as a cycle lane opens it gets invaded by walkers, joggers, dogs, push chairs, scooters, mobility scooters, motorbikes, f*cking cross-country skiers on land skies! .... And they all walk with the back to the traffic, dressed in black in the dark.
Funny video.
His answer for people being dicks is to be a bigger dick. i bell would do.
Youtube at it's... normal.
I was re-watching this, and wondered why Punchy Man in Black at the end hadn't just crossed the road to walk on a pavement at the other side, rather than walking in a mandatory cycle lane with his back to traffic?
(Mind you, don't contractors have some sort of obligation to put diversionary routes in place if they block a footpath? Like the ones I saw yesterday who'd helpfully put a 'diversion' sign up whilst they took down a load of scaffolding. That would be the diversion that immediately went up four steps and was therefore slightly less than wheelchair accessible...).
The punchy man in black is a bit of a twunt it seems.
Dom Joly has already been there.
https://youtu.be/nDTz0Bj5hJk?t=1m29s
And Portlandia did something similar:
https://youtu.be/V3nMnr8ZirI
Simply brilliant.
As my wise old grandma used to say, if you're gonna be a cunt, at least be a funny cunt.
Given that pedestrians are so insistent on walking on the cycle lanes whilst ignoring the pavement, surely we should switch them so the pavements become cycle paths and the cycle lanes footpaths.
As one definition put it: Cycle lanes = pedestrian ASLs.
Some of the most dangerous road users are "delivery" types riding 125s on L-plates. Old blokes on 1000cc sportsbikes, not so much. Young guys on 1000cc sportsbikes... well judging by some of the riding I see, I only hope they don't take anyone with them when they donate their organs. And, is it me, or are there many more young riders tearing around on 15 grand's worth of superbike than there were a few years ago?
North Yorkshire stats told a different story a few years back. 9 out of 10 death or serious injuries were riders over 40. Coming back into biking and not bringing reflexes and skills to the new breed of bikes.
Years ago I was pretty quick, got banned, left of bikes for about 3 years and never got back to level I left at. I'd imagine if you gave it 15 years, old age and horsepower don't mix well.
Damn I miss my vfr400, stick on some bt90s and I could lean it over until the footpegs ground away.
Yep, there are a lot more young guys on high performance sportsbikes now. They used to be bought just buy older riders. I was going home from work a few months back when I saw an ambulance and as I drew closer, a rider getting CPR. A car had pulled out from a side road and he'd been filtering, but from the distance between where he'd collided with the car and where him and his R1 had landed, it was easy to tell he'd been well in excess of the 40mph speed limit.
I saw in the local paper a couple of days later that he'd died. He was 34. Speed limits are there for a reason and if he'd stuck to them, chances are he'd have had a few brken bones at worst.
One of the guys in the estate, in his 20s, stacked his Gixxer not so long ago. He's off the crutches now. Another one of that crowd stacked his sportsbike (I forget what) and was less lucky.
You can buy a secondhand 600, 750 or 1,000 for a few grand. That doesn't mean you know how to ride it. The power to weight ratio of a modern sportsbike is truly astounding, making a performance car a like a Ferrari look a bit like a tractor.
The guy in the vid deserves nothing but contempt. But hey, I'm sure he's making a few pence on YouTube today.
Because I know that some at least will appreciate it.
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The people crossing the road/path were mostly out of the way, but people crossing without looking is nothing new, and once they've started crossing, they have right of way.
As a cyclist and motorcyclist, when someone crosses in front of me I tend to politely suggest that they look before crossing, but otherwise ride in a way that assumes anyone could make an inintential suicide bid at any moment, in the same way that I assume that any vehicle could suddenly try to intentionally/unintentially kill me at any moment.
The people walking along the road/cycle path have no excuse given the huge pavements everywhere.
But that only gives rise to going at 5mph or never going on the road.
That bloke at the end should be done for assault, plain and simple.
I get the the ones actually walking along, but you can't do that to folk ALREADY crossing, they actually have right of way!
Did you mean priority? Not sure what you mean by already crossing, is it only ok to alert them before they step off the kerb?
They've still willfully walked out in front of moving traffic (or done it without looking), can't see the problem of alerting them to the rider's presence.
If you were cycling and pulled out in front of moving motor vehicles, without looking, do you think that drivers might use their horns?
Pedestrians do have priority if they've already started to cross a road, but I don't think that applies if you are already indicating to enter that road before they cross.
Similarly, if you indicate to pull out in front of a motor vehicle, then they shouldn't use their horn unless your maneouvre forces them to slow-down/alter course.
So, if a pedestrian doesn't bother looking and forces you to slow-down/alter course then it's a matter of safety to signal (loudly) that they've just put themselves in danger.
Don't think that applies to signal controlled crossings though?
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At traffic lights. There may be special signals for pedestrians. You should only start to cross the road when the green figure shows.
Although I can't really tell if the lights were green for the pedestrians and the traffic given the contra lane !
I don't think the Highway Code is particularly clear on that matter. The instruction to pedestrians is a "should", so there's no legal obligation for pedestrians to follow that (e.g. unlike U.S. jaywalking).
I'd agree with you though, that the more specific crossing instructions should supercede the more general instructions.
The red signal at crossings means it may not be safe to cross. It doesn't mean you must not cross. Like any other section of road, it's fine to cross if it's clear to do so.
Crossing with the red man lit up is fine as long as you aren't walking into the path of moving vehicles!
It's just whether rule 170 applies if it is a controlled crossing and the lights are red.
I don't think it does and wish pedestrians would check when crossing on a red !
Yes priority if you want to be pedantic and "already" means just that, already crossing, not about to cross.
I still don't think you've grasped what you've implied even though I spelled it out for you.
You are suggesting it's only ok to alert pedestrians to your presence when they are not on the road... This seems at odds with the highway code as horn use is supposed to be to alert other road users to danger or your presence. Or do we a have a Schrödinger's Pedestrian situation?
Legalise cycling on the footpaths, it's clear pedestrians are more than happy to share space with cyclists.
And no pedestrians were hurt in this production
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