ChrisFilter
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Meh... I'll go through as many red lights as I judge is safe for me and other road users.
Cyclists on the pavement
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Meh... I'll go through as many red lights as I judge is safe for me and other road users.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Do you have any idea how annoying it is trying to cross a road and cars AND bikes go through the red light, so even though the green man is showing I can't cross because if I did cross on the green man I'd get hit by a car or bike?
ChrisFilter
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Yep, I know exactly how annoying it is. I don't ever get anywhere close to even slightly annoying anyone crossing the road.
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
I nearly hit a bloke (in my car) the other day who swerved off the pavement onto the road right in front of me. I bet it would've been my fault if I had too
not if you were driving in a safe manner.
anyway, you only nearly hit him, which means you were probably driving safely, watching out for potential hazards and leaving plenty of space.
well done you.
ChrisFilter
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Sorry about that, but I'm not adding 10 mins to a 40 min commute just to avoid annoying indignant cyclists.
I completely agree that reckless cycling is fucking annoying. I regularly shake my head and mutter 'wanker' under my breath when witnessing some other cyclist's stupidity, but I know my route like the back of my hand and know when it's safe for all concerned for me to cross at a red light so will continue to do so.
Anyway, this has been done to death. There's never a consensus. Some people are hard-line, some people are cautiously 'cheeky' and some people fly around with giving a fuck.
mauvais
on reddit or something
To be honest i don't really care what you do when noone else is around - if you get killed it's your own lookout. However if I'm obeying the law and you go around me on the pavement and through a red, as well as all the other issues like making cyclists look like cunts. you might as well be pushing to the front of a queue for a cash machine. If you were in a car you wouldn't do anything like that to other drivers, so don't take the piss out of me
mauvais
on reddit or something
By the way, if you notice all these idiot cyclists without a clue how to ride - of which there are plenty - don't you think they might notice you and go, uhhhh, other cyclists don't bother stopping, neither will I *crunch*... Their problem, without question, but frankly I don't really want to set an example that gets someone killed.
chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
I had a bloke on a pushbike ride into my car today.
He was coming up the pavement parallel to me in the same direction as me. I was waiting to turn right at a roundabout. I could see him in my passenger side mirror and turned to look as I always do for undertaking bikes/mopeds.
off I went turning left. He carried straight on, down the kerb onto the road intending to go ahead at the roundabout and smacked into my front left wheel.
No great harm done, but I was well shaken up (he prolbably was too) and once I knew he was ok I called him about 23 types of cunt.
Given what I've posted about pavement cyclists I should feel quite chuffed at the life lesson for this guy but somehow I don't.
Anyway, the point is, as I drove off I felt a bit shaky still and stopped almost immediately. The guy - this is all happening in my mirror - remounted, sat on his bike for a moment or two, then fucked off straight over a pelican against a red, making a mum and child jump out of the way!
What ChrisFilter said - some people just don't give a fuck.
He was coming up the pavement parallel to me in the same direction as me. I was waiting to turn right at a roundabout. I could see him in my passenger side mirror and turned to look as I always do for undertaking bikes/mopeds.
off I went turning left. He carried straight on, down the kerb onto the road intending to go ahead at the roundabout and smacked into my front left wheel.
No great harm done, but I was well shaken up (he prolbably was too) and once I knew he was ok I called him about 23 types of cunt.
Given what I've posted about pavement cyclists I should feel quite chuffed at the life lesson for this guy but somehow I don't.
Anyway, the point is, as I drove off I felt a bit shaky still and stopped almost immediately. The guy - this is all happening in my mirror - remounted, sat on his bike for a moment or two, then fucked off straight over a pelican against a red, making a mum and child jump out of the way!
What ChrisFilter said - some people just don't give a fuck.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
There certainly is some spectacularly inept behaviour by cyclists whose only training was probably on a BMX or skateboard. I routinely shout at the idiots who even I can barely see as a cyclist (no windscreen in the way) on lit urban streets.
I guess I don't see that much of it in Bristol because cycling is less popular than elsewhere (hilly terrain, no congestion charge) and the volume of traffic so much less.
The powers that be presumably have a dilemma insisting on training / registration as it would price thousands of decent cyclists off the road.
I guess I don't see that much of it in Bristol because cycling is less popular than elsewhere (hilly terrain, no congestion charge) and the volume of traffic so much less.
The powers that be presumably have a dilemma insisting on training / registration as it would price thousands of decent cyclists off the road.
lighterthief
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How on earth can you tell?
ChrisFilter
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How on earth can you tell?
Because if there's people crossing the road I won't pass.. it's not rocket science.
ChrisFilter
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If you think obeying the rules of the road to the exact letter is the right way to do things, then good for you. For me, I have enough common sense to be able to ride safely without strictly following road rules laid down for car drivers.
lighterthief
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Beg pardon, m'lud, your original statement was at the very least ambiguous.
Yeah I'm like that with driving Chris. I mean, I can still drive when I've had a few pints nothing's ever happened so far. Other people may decide not to because the law says so but I'm saving a fortune on taxis and get to give all my pissed up mates a lift home too. It's the other drivers that are the problem
tommers
Currently in investor / advisor mode.
ChrisFilter
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Yeah I'm like that with driving Chris. I mean, I can still drive when I've had a few pints nothing's ever happened so far. Other people may decide not to because the law says so but I'm saving a fortune on taxis and get to give all my pissed up mates a lift home too. It's the other drivers that are the problem
*sigh*
Can't be arsed. Besides, if people didn't sneak through the occasional red light it'd give self-righteous, holier-than-thou people nothing to moan or feel indignant about.
mauvais
on reddit or something
I've arguably got enough "common sense" to walk to the front of the queue at Tescos, punch some old granny in the face, throw down my cash and run away cackling, saving vital minutes, but it wouldn't make me any less of a dick.
ChrisFilter
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How does that in any way equate to common sense? All it shows is how weirdly you see this situation. Are you in London? I appreciate the issue might be different outside of Central London.
Would you be ok with someone dismounting and push their bike across a 'safe to cross' red light or is it just the actually being on the bike you have a problem with?
ChrisFilter
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Probably makes a big difference.
So if walking is alright, why is it not ok to slowly creep across the lights when 'mounted'?
ChrisFilter
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Quite.
mauvais
on reddit or something
I'd think they were a bit daft for their impatience, but they are then a ped and jaywalking isn't illegal, whereas failing to stop and riding on the pavement is.
ChrisFilter
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So it's about legality? That's ridiculous when you consider the laws were written for cars.
Do you never break any other laws?
Do you never break any other laws?
fjydj
is specified
exactly
I don't like cyclists who use pavements.
One day I was walking across a footbridge that didn't just have a cyclist path marked out, there was even a separate bridge for cyclists. So, I walked along the pedestrian bridge when some twat came hurtling towards me on his bike. I waited until the very last moment before sticking my fist out at full hard reach right in front of his nose.
He ducked just as I thought he would. Fell from his bike and rolled on the ground whilst bike went on and fell into the river. He tried to get up and make an argument, but he had apparently hurt his leg to much - rubbing his shin whilst cowering away.
That taught him.
I'm a right cunt at times
One day I was walking across a footbridge that didn't just have a cyclist path marked out, there was even a separate bridge for cyclists. So, I walked along the pedestrian bridge when some twat came hurtling towards me on his bike. I waited until the very last moment before sticking my fist out at full hard reach right in front of his nose.
He ducked just as I thought he would. Fell from his bike and rolled on the ground whilst bike went on and fell into the river. He tried to get up and make an argument, but he had apparently hurt his leg to much - rubbing his shin whilst cowering away.
That taught him.
I'm a right cunt at times
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