How legal a cyclist are you
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gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
poului said:
That is seriously weird
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
poului said:
very good
spacemonkey
I Love Noodles
chainsaw cat said:
You wouldn't really do that though would you, you're just saying to look 'ard!
david dissadent
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yeh, ret'ard.spacemonkey said:You wouldn't really do that though would you, you're just saying to look 'ard!
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
And cyclists wonder why they have a bad press; become indignant when pedestrians lump them all together as road-rule-abusers and pavement riding ratbags.WouldBe said:Give the cyclist a medal and another pram transfer to stick on his crossbar.
Cyclists do get a rough time from inconsiderate motorists; but, that doesn’t give you the right to mount pavements and wreak your rotten revenge on pedestrians. Either, use the designated areas for cycling (the roads); or, get off your bikes on the pavement – it’s fucking easy; you should try it sometime.
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
If your child was knocked down and injured by a motorist who had mounted the pavement; would you dismiss the incident as ‘…a minor highway code violation…’? While violence is not the answer; isn’t it better that Chainsaw Cat let’s off some steam here, rather than on the next inconsiderate cunt of a cyclist he encounters riding illegally on a pavement?david dissadent said:
Urbanblues
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And the cunt that hospitalised his child by riding illegally on the pavement; he’s not a risk to the public? What kind of punishment does the cyclist deserve for his action?editor said:
david dissadent
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No. Because a car is not a bicycle. Come back when you have worked out why.Urbanblues said:
Will he be beating the shit out of 7 year old kids who ride on the pavement past his house as well?
dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
If I jump a red, I do it slowly after checking it's safe. I ride on the pavement when I need to but give absolute priority to pedestrians, to the extent of cycling very slowly a long way back from them if there is no way to get past safely.
I don't see the problem with that.
Frankly I will ignore what the law says if it is safer for me (and obviously not causing a danger to other road users).
I got caught jumping a red a while ago, when plod asked me why I jumped it I answered that it was safer for me to be ahead of the traffic, especially on that stretch of road. He wasn't impressed, and gave me a £30 fine. He was less impressed when I laughed at him and called it a bicycle tax. First fine I've had in 15 years of cycling, much cheaper than a car.
All the fine has achieved is that if I jump a red I'll look out for plod a bit more carefully.
I don't see the problem with that.
Frankly I will ignore what the law says if it is safer for me (and obviously not causing a danger to other road users).
I got caught jumping a red a while ago, when plod asked me why I jumped it I answered that it was safer for me to be ahead of the traffic, especially on that stretch of road. He wasn't impressed, and gave me a £30 fine. He was less impressed when I laughed at him and called it a bicycle tax. First fine I've had in 15 years of cycling, much cheaper than a car.
All the fine has achieved is that if I jump a red I'll look out for plod a bit more carefully.
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
Fortunately, I’ve never been hospitalised by cyclists tearing along pavements illegally – though, I’ve received two nasty injuries when knocked over twice by cunts on two wheels riding on pavements. My crime was, as a cripple walking with the aid of sticks at less than 1mph, I was unable to react quickly enough; I was not fast enough to step out of the way of cyclists riding on pavements – despite, as one of the cunts pleaded ‘I rang my bell!’ As though the ringing of a bell would in some way sort out that which has eluded science and medicine.david dissadent said:
David dissident (oh, you cyclists are such rebels – knocking over cripples and children – you’ll be taking on cars next) do you deny Chainsaw Cat his anger at inconsiderate cyclists? What gives you cunts the right to ride over and into pedestrians; do you feel so impotent against motorists, that you strike out at something lower down the speed chain than yourselves, cripples and children?
Before posting to this thread my antipathy to cyclists was restricted to the two that hurt me, and those bad ones I see on my day-to-day travels around, particularly, London. However, having read some responses here, I’m rapidly revising my views. Seems to me the cycling community has in its ranks an above average number of arrogant cunts – wouldn’t you agree?
7 year-olds are legally entitled to ride pavements; adult cyclists are not (unless it's a designated cycle route).
david dissadent
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No there not. Come back when you know the law. (They simpley are too young to be held responsible for breaking the law.Urbanblues said:
Urbanblues
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Why don’t you just dismount and walk?dervish said:
Then, frankly you're yet another example of an arrogant-cunt cyclist.dervish said:
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
Go and fuck yourself, you arrogant cunt.david dissadent said:
david dissadent
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What a sad person you are.Urbanblues said:
david dissadent
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You were defending someone who wishes to beat up everyone who is breaking the law. Children under 14 riding on the pavement are breaking the law.Urbanblues said:
dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
Urbanblues said:
Why?
I have to avoid bad driving all the time from arrogant cunt drivers. If someone is inconsiderate in their car and hits me, they have a dent in their precious car. I'll probably be seriously injured.
Incase you missed it earlier I DO NOT ride fast on the pavement, but sometimes it is safer for me to get off the road. I do not ride like a nutter, I DO NOT whizz past peds, I WILL wait for as long as necessary for a ped, it's their pavement after all.
I will not inconvience other people, but I also will not put my life in danger because you have decided that all cyclists are a danger.
If that makes me an arrogant cunt cyclist, tough.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
Urbanblues said:
Of course he is. But attacking someone who didn't do it isn't the answer.
I ride on the pavements but I've never hurt anyone - I get off if there are pedestrians coming, or stop until they are past me. So I am just supposed to put up with it if some lunatic comes out of his house and punches me in the head because another cyclist once hurt his kids?
On that basis I suppose it's fair game to go around punching all motorists, because some of them might also have knocked down pedestrians?
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
No Dissident, you are defending the right of yourself, and people like you to abuse children; you are defending the right of fellow cyclists to carry out illegal activities, cycling on pavements.david dissadent said:
What I’m doing is empathising with a parent whose child has been the victim of illegal activity; a child abused by an abusive cyclist. I’d say Chainsaw Cat’s reaction is the lesser of two evils; in his anger he has made a very human statement. You, and others on this thread have decided to target him for being angry at destructive cyclists; yet, not one of you has considered the fact that his child was hospitalised by the actions of one mob.
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
Ok dervish, choose the laws and rules you wish to obey; but, don't go bitching if others do the same.dervish said:
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
He didn't attack "...someone who didn't do it..." He said cyclists riding pavements near to his home ran the risk of being punched. There is a big difference between making an unguarded comment on a thread, and you cyclists admitting you break the law, and bragging that you’re going to continue doing so – he probably hasn’t punched a cyclist in the head; but, you cyclists have definitely injured and killed pedestrians with your reckless arrogance.Geri said:
When you do hurt someone, which even you have to admit is a possibility; what then; will you then decide to obey the law? No, you are not expected to put up with a lunatic punching you in the head because another cyclist hurt his child; no, you’re expected not to cycle on the pavement – fuck me, you are so fucking arrogant!Geri said:
If punching motorists is what it takes to keep you and cunts like you out of my harms way; go and buy a baseball bat and bash the hell out of motorists – but, keep off the pavements!Geri said:
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
A group, sect, clan, lumpen mass, crew, club, association...Geri said:No, he has directed his anger at any cyclist who happens to be on the pavement, whether they are destructive or not.
And your last sentence doesn't make sense. What is one mob?
Urbanblues
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You know, I'll eat my words when cyclists prove me wrong. But, looks as though I'm to go hungry for a while - if this thread is typical of cyclists.dervish said:I'm not bitching about anything.
But ok I will, and I'm sure you'll carry on with a very blinkered view of cyclist on pavement = abuser.
