A new level of dumb...

woodgob
woodgob Posts: 96
edited August 2008 in Commuting chat
Woman cycling up a hill on busy, wet and lorry-laden road, in high gear, wobbling all over the place with a CUP OF TEA IN ONE HAND! :shock: Or maybe it was coffee. I dunno. WTF!

Last night on way home, lady cyclist (I use the term as she was on a bike...that's all) almost turned into paste after RLJing into the path of a bus. If the bus driver hadn't been very VERY on the ball, she'd be a lot thinner, that's for sure.

What's happening to people? (SF)
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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    it is a direct result of society accepting that nothing is ever your fault, always someone elses...
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  • Yorkshireman
    Yorkshireman Posts: 999
    I blame the parents ... or the Government ... or society ... or my wife, depending how I feel at the time :roll:
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  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    No big puzzle. Some people are idiots & alcohol/drugs only makes things worse.....that's it.
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  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    Nothing can ever be made foolproof. Because as soon as it is society simply creates a greater fool.
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  • BUICK
    BUICK Posts: 362
    Not as serious, but talking of dummies... saw a fully fledged roadie going uphill through an area of the city a few years back. The gradient banks up on this particular section so he put his head down and powered right into the back of a parked car! It was made even funnier as there was a weird inertia delay that seemed to go on that little bit too long with him looking confused before the bike toppled and he fell over with it.
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  • Parkey
    Parkey Posts: 303
    passout wrote:
    No big puzzle. Some people are idiots & alcohol/drugs only makes things worse.....that's it.

    Are suggesting that the woman was drinking an Irish coffee?
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I used to do that with my peppermint tea every morning when I was on my beach-cruiser-style bike... I'd gaffer-taped a 'cup-holder' to my handlebars which I thought was bloomin' brilliant on my stop-start route!

    Now I'm on a fixed gear it's less of a priority...

    Apologies for having joined the legion of idiots!!!
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  • karl j
    karl j Posts: 517
    you aint the only one LIT, although mine was Tetley.

    and i never got as far as gaffa-ing a cup holder on. Top marks !
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Well, I say cup-holder... it was one of those cardboard things you get from starbucks so you can hold your coffee when it's too hot. Hence the '' s!!

    Worked though :)
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    When I was younger I combined riding carrying a piece of sheet glass (dumbness rating: high) with one-handed cycling with my left hand on the right handlebar (dumbness rating: through the roof). Only with the worlds biggest swerve into oncoming traffic - and a particularly benevolent god - did I not end up under someone's wheels with a 2 foot shard of glass through my abdomen.
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  • victor ludorum
    victor ludorum Posts: 310
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I used to do that with my peppermint tea every morning when I was on my beach-cruiser-style bike... I'd gaffer-taped a 'cup-holder' to my handlebars which I thought was bloomin' brilliant on my stop-start route!

    Now I'm on a fixed gear it's less of a priority...

    Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Soma Fabrications Morning Rush thermal coffee mug and handlebar mounted holder...

    http://www.somafab.com/morningrush.html
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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I used to do that with my peppermint tea every morning when I was on my beach-cruiser-style bike... I'd gaffer-taped a 'cup-holder' to my handlebars which I thought was bloomin' brilliant on my stop-start route!

    Now I'm on a fixed gear it's less of a priority...

    Apologies for having joined the legion of idiots    !!!

    you've just upset the legions of fixed riders now
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    victor ludorum wrote:
    Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Soma Fabrications Morning Rush thermal coffee mug and handlebar mounted holder...

    http://www.somafab.com/morningrush.html

    I want one..

    Can you also get a toast rack?
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  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 11,955
    Doesn't sound like natural selection is doing it's job with regards to the OP's post :roll:
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  • blorg
    blorg Posts: 1,169
    biondino wrote:
    When I was younger I combined riding carrying a piece of sheet glass (dumbness rating: high) with one-handed cycling with my left hand on the right handlebar (dumbness rating: through the roof). Only with the worlds biggest swerve into oncoming traffic - and a particularly benevolent god - did I not end up under someone's wheels with a 2 foot shard of glass through my abdomen.
    I think we have a winner :shock:
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    When I was last in india I saw two guys on a moped transport a piece of sheet glass that must have been 4 foot X 5 foot. The guy pillion had it on his thighs with his hands on the edges.........

    They weren't cycling though........, nor were they drinking tea.
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  • victor ludorum
    victor ludorum Posts: 310
    Greg T wrote:
    When I was last in india I saw two guys on a moped transport a piece of sheet glass that must have been 4 foot X 5 foot. The guy pillion had it on his thighs with his hands on the edges.........

    They weren't cycling though........, nor were they drinking tea.

    The things you see on the roads in India don't count. I swear, the laws of physics are different there. That's the only way that some of the things you see are possible...
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  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    victor ludorum wrote:

    Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Soma Fabrications Morning Rush thermal coffee mug and handlebar mounted holder...

    http://www.somafab.com/morningrush.html

    I like their disclaimer...

    "**Coffee is hot and potentially dangerous. Soma recommends you operate your mug only when your bike is stopped."
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  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    How about an ashtray for my cigar? I do so hate to litter.
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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    Ridden with a surfboard under one arm many times.
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  • blorg
    blorg Posts: 1,169
    I do actually have a Bodum cafetiere cup that fits into a water-bottle holder. You can leave it brewing for the first few minutes of a commute before pushing down the plunger.
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    victor ludorum wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I used to do that with my peppermint tea every morning when I was on my beach-cruiser-style bike... I'd gaffer-taped a 'cup-holder' to my handlebars which I thought was bloomin' brilliant on my stop-start route!

    Now I'm on a fixed gear it's less of a priority...

    Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Soma Fabrications Morning Rush thermal coffee mug and handlebar mounted holder...

    http://www.somafab.com/morningrush.html

    I quite like the logo "My other legal stimulant is my bike" I see plenty of cringe worthy bike antics in London, asides from the obvious RLJ's I've seen cyclist trying to keep left and going up the inside of a bus that's heading for a bus stop! Although I tend to put this down to inexperience rather then sheer stupidity as it's makes me feel better :-)
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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    biondino wrote:
    When I was younger I combined riding carrying a piece of sheet glass (dumbness rating: high) with one-handed cycling with my left hand on the right handlebar (dumbness rating: through the roof). Only with the worlds biggest swerve into oncoming traffic - and a particularly benevolent god - did I not end up under someone's wheels with a 2 foot shard of glass through my abdomen.
    That is incredibly stupid! As I read it, I had an image of the scene in 'The Omen' when Jonathan Pryce (?) gets decapitated by a sheet of glass sliding off of a cart.

    The most stupid thing I've seen was a POB tootlling along, during the rush hour, carrying a portable telly in one hand. The telly was from the era where 'portable' meant a handle was attached to it - thus a 20 story tower block with a handle would be described as portable!

    The amazing thing about it was that he decided to do a u-turn over the central reservation - and made it!
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  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    I've cycled carrying my gf's bike that was locked to my frame at the time...
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  • jedster
    jedster Posts: 1,717
    biondino wrote:
    When I was younger I combined riding carrying a piece of sheet glass (dumbness rating: high) with one-handed cycling with my left hand on the right handlebar (dumbness rating: through the roof). Only with the worlds biggest swerve into oncoming traffic - and a particularly benevolent god - did I not end up under someone's wheels with a 2 foot shard of glass through my abdomen.

    I think we have a winner

    Indeed, I was going to report the time I did the descent from Alpe D'huez blindfolded while juggling woodworking chisels but faced with biondino's idiocy it hardly seems worth it

    :twisted:
  • victor ludorum
    victor ludorum Posts: 310
    I've seen a guy riding round shebu (thanks LiT) green (mondo traffic) with another complete bike over his shoulder...
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Yeah, see now I am having this have-one-working-bike-and-one-not-need-method-to-transport-broken-bike-to-bike-shop conumdrum...

    The one that is not working is my old cruiser, which needs a new bottom bracket, new chain, new tube. the tube and the chain I could do myself, but not the bracket, I don't think.

    So I've been wondering if I could ride my fixie whilst pushing the cruiser... I sure as hell couldn't carry the cruiser, that thing weighs a ton.

    Ahhhh new heights of idiocy...
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  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Yeah, see now I am having this have-one-working-bike-and-one-not-need-method-to-transport-broken-bike-to-bike-shop conumdrum...

    The one that is not working is my old cruiser, which needs a new bottom bracket, new chain, new tube. the tube and the chain I could do myself, but not the bracket, I don't think.

    So I've been wondering if I could ride my fixie whilst pushing the cruiser... I sure as hell couldn't carry the cruiser, that thing weighs a ton.

    Ahhhh new heights of idiocy...

    I've seen it done...

    http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12580339
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  • karl j
    karl j Posts: 517
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Yeah, see now I am having this have-one-working-bike-and-one-not-need-method-to-transport-broken-bike-to-bike-shop conumdrum...
    ...
    So I've been wondering if I could ride my fixie whilst pushing the cruiser... I sure as hell couldn't carry the cruiser, that thing weighs a ton.

    is it possible to bungee strap the broken one onto the back, (front wheel off the ground may be wise ?) so it's sort of like a trailer ?
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Now that is an intriguing idea - I have a pannier rack and everything, you see...

    If I crash I'll hold you fully responsible, Karl!

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