Bike couriers London

[Boycey]

alley cat races aren't what they used to be. first one i did was on halloween night on a pentagram course based on "from hell", checkpoints had mummies with riddles, masonic initiation ceremonies, vampires- at the penultimate checkpoint you had to wrestle a large drunk near-naked man to get your bike back.

can't even remember the prizes.

these days it's all condor frames and fakengers turning up to "prove" themselves. londonfgss has a lot to answer for, it used to be just between a bunch of mates having a laugh on a friday night.

 

[scalyboy]

And yep, red lights meant fuck all to me either, if the way ahead was clear I went, no time to obey lemming laws of the road.

Well done for checking the road was clear before going through a red; unfortunately not all cyclists are as considerate. As a London pedestrian I have had to leap out the way of cyclists running red lights on many occasions. I am actually old enough to remember a time when, if the 'green man' was showing, pedestrians could cross the road without checking in either direction for cyclists coming through. No longer!

Walking in London is much less of a pleasure than it used to be, say, 20 years ago, and I'm sorry to say that (for me) this is in large part due to the selfish and dangerous actions of a sizeable minority of cyclists. Shame, cos pedestrians and cyclists IMHO are, or should be, allies or kindred spirits - both being vulnerable to cars.

 

[pk]

Pedestrians to me always take priority over bikes, I'd always let them go first, never mount a pavement unless empty, etc.

But bikes take priority over everything else.

 

[sim667]

they only ride like that in a video because they can....

there's a lot of things that i do because i cant, but it doesnt actually achieve anything..... let them have their little alley cat races, we live in a world where we are wrapped in cotton wool...... it does a pedestrian good to be spacked into by a cyclist every now and then...... it does a cyclist good to be spacked by a car every now and then too.

 

[scalyboy]

...... it does a pedestrian good to be spacked into by a cyclist every now and then...... it does a cyclist good to be spacked by a car every now and then too.

1/10

 

[sim667]

1/10

I think your missing the point....... personally i feel its worth at least a 3.

 

[sim667]

1/10

lol

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

if this had been cars doing the same thing i wonder if the pro twats on bikes would have been so enthusiatic...

utter shitcunts the lot of them gives cycling a bad name though i guess it's all documentary evidence to nick the fuckers and take them off the roads for 2 to 3 years... here's hoping...

 

[sim667]

How would they keep them off the road? You dont need a license to ride a bike.......