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REY 531C
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I thought I’d curate some of
I thought I’d curate some of the anti-cyclist stuff for the benefit of future generations (or something)
Contributions welcome.
Cyclists should be made to…
Wear a helmet
Have a bell
Not ride two abreast
Wear high visibility clothing
Take a proficiency test/ “MOT”
Have insurance
Have a registration mark
Pay road tax
Only ride in the cycle lane
Not ride “fast” roads (“roads are for cars”)
Not ride x “dangerous” road
Not ride at rush hour when it’s busy
Not ride at night
In fact, it’s a sliding scale, a slippery slope.
Any act of appeasement in the form of a change in the law simply takes “them” further down the list.
I used to do a night-time
I used to do a night-time commute. The Proviz “pix” jerseys are good for catching the light; the cheaper jackets and gilets aren’t breathable.
Get your lighting high – e.g. consider a front/ rear helmet light; clip a rear light in your jersey pocket and have handlebar end front /rear lights. You can get little yellow lights that clip in your spokes. I had one of those sides flashing orange lights for a time, but it got nicked, bizarrely. I was lit up like a Christmas tree!
Consider a dynohub if you’re going to do this regularly.
I felt safer in pitch black, rather than dusk because the cars don’t know where the edge of the road is.
I AM DRIVING A CAR –
I AM DRIVING A CAR – REPAYMENTS, PETROL, VED, INSURANCE THEN HARASSED, TAXED, CHARGED AND FINED TO BUGGERY, THE WORLD’S MOST HARD DONE BY VICTIM: MY JOURNEY MATTERS YOURS DOES NOT – ALL YOU DO IS SAUNTER ALONG WITHOUT A CARE IN THE WORLD, NO AWARENESS OF WHAT OTHERS ARE DEALING WITH.
GET OUT OF MY WAY!!
Costing several nano seconds
Costing several nano seconds of precious time to get to the back of the 50 minute drive-thru queue. “Fast food” indeed!
similar experiences here in
similar experiences here in south wilts, though no actual incidents so far.
Today, Saturday a.m. is cool and drizzley and we’ve taken my wife’s horse for a walk in the unfashionable part of the New Forest. Cars are about, sure, but we’ve had 100% courtesy, which we don’t always get.
it would seem that idiot drivers are solar powered.
Don’t do it.
Don’t do it.
whatever we concede (or lose) we will never get back and “they” will just go after the next thing.I sometimes think, would it be good to pay a nominal £10 VED for my bikes, just to shut “them” up (at a push, advance the cause for infrastructure).
But then I go back to the above.
would you get more respect from idiots on the roads if you did do any of it? I doubt.
maybe a mixture of the
maybe a mixture of the unseasonable warm weather and people finally being “off the leash” after two months’ acute hardship? Mostly, we did without in lockdown but now we’re back to the feeling of having to compete to have crammed the most in today.
Whether it’s just more media attention, but it does sound really angsty: my local newspapers are full of reports of spitting and abuse on the seafront in Bournemouth, fights in car parks, and on my village Facebook, the usual have a picnic or BBQ and just leave all the mess behind, but happening in really localised spots. Things you don’t see to this degree normally.The Comments section, with its trolls and keyboard warriors – now I’m not commuting and my current job isn’t mega-taxing, there’s more time to look at this stuff outside my professional bubble – is quite worrying. I guess fear is still with us.
No driver in my village seems to realise that peds and cyclists need to social distance from each other, none of it helped by pavement parking (no better way of saying “sod all of you”). No-one seems to plan or think ahead, or hang back when there’s something going on ahead, like I was taught to do by my father. Until there’s a vaccine, negotiating each other politely in any setting is now a really vital skill, one that in large sections of society we’ve thrown away in my lifetime.
If general behaviour in the pursuit of leisure is this wild, self-centred, disrespectful and even lawless, heaven help vulnerable road users when these folk climb aboard their SUVs.
In my cycling world, it’s pretty much business as usual now, which is to say not too bad. The good news, that cyclists have known for some time, is that the real idiots are not in general early risers.
some sprays of Plusgas or
some sprays of Plusgas or similar might help.
are there flats on the outsides of where the pedals screw in that you could get a pedal tool around?
(No subject)
“Don’t let my wife sell my
“Don’t let my wife sell my bikes for what I told her I paid for them”
The comments were not meant
The comments were not meant seriously – no sense of humour! Good line on social distancing here.
At least my IPad knows to take me to the right one.
Some more refining needed to
Some more refining needed to get these into useable shape, I think.
I liked “or you could get the bus” re cycle lanes.
Don’t agree about a reg Mark for bikes
No better way of saying “sod
No better way of saying “sod all of you” than pavement parking!
to get anywhere in my village, you have to cross a river bridge which has a separate ped walkway on one side. Lockdown and the annual village fair are the only time you get to walk the opposite side. Anyway, the other day two guys were lingering on the walkway so my wife led us on the road alongside the walkway, cue: grey Volvo monster coming at us (and some kind of angry gesture from the driver that appeared to encourage us to move further out into her path).
Getting drivers to understand peds are social distancing was never going to be easy. “HE WAS WALKING IN THE ROAD WITHOUT A CARE IN THE WORLD”
People have gotten fatter –
People have gotten fatter – why have they gotten fatter..? When you see the newest Mini next to a 1960s original, it really brings it home to you have fat they’ve become. “Ha ha! I’d never fit in that!” There’s very little that’s micra about today’s Nissan Micra.
Folk don’t own their cars outright these days. I remember being asked at my main dealer garage once “do you pay for your servicing?”
