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Thread: Having fun with cyclists
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8th February 2011, 11:02 AM #16
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8th February 2011, 11:03 AM #17
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10th February 2011, 11:14 AM #18
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10th February 2011, 12:07 PM #19
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Yeah, if I'd been on the motorbike I'd have been tempted to catch up with him and kick in a panel or two.
(Used to ride a BSA 500 single; the 1000cc 4 is better!).Cheers, Ern
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10th February 2011, 12:27 PM #20
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10th February 2011, 12:38 PM #21
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LOL.
I used to fantasize about a metal water pistol filled with brake fluid.Cheers, Ern
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10th February 2011, 05:10 PM #22
I find the folding mirrors most cars have now are really good. You can give it a little tap which folds it against the car but doesn't damage anything. It's my form of an exclamation mark expressing my dissatisfaction with their driving abilities and is an inconvenience for them to stop and fix the mirror
I have 'tapped' a few windows of cars as they try to squeeze through gaps that were never safe as well. I figure if they're within arms reach of me on my bike then they're too closeIt's only a mistake if you don't learn from it.
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10th February 2011, 07:03 PM #23
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10th February 2011, 07:53 PM #24
A quick squirt from either a motorist or a cyclist doesn't achieve anything except increase the unnecessary animosity that exists between many motorists and cyclists.
I'm really sick of motorists who think they own the road and equally sick of cyclists who have the same mind set. I don't see what's so hard about reaching a compromise where both motorists and cyclists share the road.
I don't know how this can be achieved but it seems that it requires a paradigm shift in the way we approach using the road in our chosen mode of transport.Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)
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11th February 2011, 02:13 PM #25
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Drink bottles getting thrown from passing cars is pretty common too. I usually just ignore them completely and just continue on my way. I have found from experience that confrontations have never really been productive and just get the offenders more annoyed which was not my intention.
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12th February 2011, 12:45 PM #26
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12th February 2011, 12:48 PM #27
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12th February 2011, 01:09 PM #28
I don't think people see the equation as "one person on a bike= one person in a car! " That's the problem. They start thinking that a car has right of way cos it is bigger! Forgetting that it is still illegal to run over someone even if they do a dumb thing!
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12th February 2011, 01:19 PM #29
Some people don't see anything when they're driving their car or riding their bike except themselves and "their" road.
I ride a bike as well as drive a car and I really can't see cyclists being worse than motorists when it comes to disregard for their own and other road user's safety and straight out acts of stupidity.
Last week I went for a ride and saw at least a dozen motorists merrily talking or texting on their mobile phones while negotiating roundabouts or intersections....one just about pulled out from a stop sign in front of me and only saw me because I had seen him on his phone and yelled at him to make sure hed seen me. The same day I also came across a pack of bike riders....3 abreast on a narrow winding road and one of them busy with both hands off the bars talking on his mobile phone...he got an appropriate comment from me as I went past.Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)
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12th February 2011, 01:29 PM #30
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Sharing is something that is completely alien to everyone these days.
Cycling is a bit of a bugger of an area, you are much faster than pedestrians and they get very cranky at you if they have to share the path and then you are much slower than road traffic who get equally as cranky at you.
Now being a pedestrian, cyclist and motorist (and former motorcyclist), you get to see the good, the bad and the ugly in all users.
As my mother says, there is nothing you can do to change others behaviour so concentrate on your own and try to be the best and most considerate you can be.
Hopefully at least one person will pay it forward..