Bikes on pavements again - but this time it's topical!

[detective-boy]

True, and you get a bed to yourself inside.....

Not necessarily ...

 

[Geri]

I almost collided with a pedestrian today - he ran across the road but only looked to his left first for some reason (not a one way street) and I was approaching from his right. Luckily I had anticipated what he was going to do, and slowed right down so I managed to go around him.

Why don't people look?!

 

[Urbanblues]

I almost collided with a pedestrian today - he ran across the road but only looked to his left first for some reason (not a one way street) and I was approaching from his right. Luckily I had anticipated what he was going to do, and slowed right down so I managed to go around him.

Why don't people look?!

Dunno sweet 'eart. But, they don't. Like the cyclist that wanted to mow me down in Gower Street tonight. The little 'green man' winks, and says for me to go; yet, Mr Guerrilla Cyclist thinks differently. I push off the dropped pavement to make my way across the road; a cunt in Lycra pushing on two wheels tries to run into me.

Who’s in the wrong Geri?

 

[Geri]

Dunno sweet 'eart. But, they don't. Like the cyclist that wanted to mow me down in Gower Street tonight. The little 'green man' winks, and says for me to go; yet, Mr Guerrilla Cyclist thinks differently. I push off the dropped pavement to make my way across the road; a cunt in Lycra pushing on two wheels tries to run into me.

Who’s in the wrong Geri?

Well, the cyclist clearly. You're not going to trick me into defending idiot cyclists, you know - I come across plenty of them myself, either when walking or when cycling.

If you're an idiot, you're an idiot - whatever means of transport you happen to chose.

 

[Gnoxulf]

Why is this? This is what I just don't understand.
And is it countrywide? Or mainly just in London where the majority of road users just seem generally pissed off and need a whipping boy?

I've been knocked down by motorists on three separate occasions, all of them due to someone not indicating and making a sharp sudden turn causing me to hit them, and on two of those occasions, the driver then got out of the car and attempted to assault me.