Cycling etiquette

flamite
flamite Posts: 269
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
I am all in favour of all these new cyclists in London, love it, but...

this morning on embankment had already spotted a lovely red scott (with flats?!) cycling erratically, stayed clear, overtook, though nothing of it.

Just by embankment tube was chilling at the lights, he comes flying into me, nearly knocks me off then pushes on ahead, with the lights on red, im shouted, EXCUSE ME! he turns round and snarls, i said it!

where are the manners now a days, noone brought up properly? tsk tsk

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  • bianchi777
    bianchi777 Posts: 101
    Some guy did that to me when I was waiting at some traffic lights in Kirkham, Lancashire. I hate nothing more than seeing cyclists go through a red light without a good reason...it really gives the rest of us a bad name.
  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    he turns round and snarls

    For some reason I get a mental image of a really camp cyclist giving you the come on :D
  • Stuey01
    Stuey01 Posts: 1,273
    You should have chased him down and kicked him in the shins.
    Not climber, not sprinter, not rouleur
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Out of my way fools!
    What were we talking about?
    Oh! Cycling?

    As you were....
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • Rockbuddy
    Rockbuddy Posts: 243
    Phew! Thought this was gonna be another "...why doesn't every other cyclist (who I've never met before and probably will never see again) have a cheery conversation with me at the lights, blah, blah, blah...."

    Anyway, back to the OP, you kinda wish people like that were weeded out by natural selcetion (i.e. Darwin Award), however, in reality they are more likely to cause an accident than become apart of one :roll:
  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    Are you saying I should kill them? For my own safety?
  • Rockbuddy
    Rockbuddy Posts: 243
    tardington wrote:
    Are you saying I should kill them? For my own safety?

    That's one way of looking at it... :lol: No, I'm not advocating murder just hoping Karma will do it's thing... :wink:
  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    Too late.
  • Rockbuddy
    Rockbuddy Posts: 243
    tardington wrote:
    Too late.

    :lol: I'm getting to appreciate your sense of humour (especially the RLJ comment on other thread), it is just a joke right... :shock:
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Kill them, kill them all.
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    Death's too good for rude people. Keep them alive and make them suffer!

    How about endless repeats of "To the Manor Born"? :evil:
    The older I get the faster I was
  • flamite
    flamite Posts: 269
    I guess some people were just born cocks...
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    There's one cock in every room.

    If you walk in and having sized up those already present and you can't easily work out who's the cock....

    It's you.
    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

    What would Thora Hurd do?
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    linoue wrote:
    he turns round and snarls

    For some reason I get a mental image of a really camp cyclist giving you the come on :D

    Nah, I don't fancy him.
    My Focus / My Bob Jackson
    Blog (incl. bikes)
  • Rockbuddy
    Rockbuddy Posts: 243
    Greg T wrote:
    There's one cock in every room.

    If you walk in and having sized up those already present and you can't easily work out who's the cock....

    It's you.

    Problem with that is, if you are a cock (yes I can be so maybe proving my point) you kinda think everyone else in the room is a cock - as it can't be you right... :wink:
  • Rockbuddy
    Rockbuddy Posts: 243
    Was that the moderator? I'm sure I wrote cock... :lol:
  • Rockbuddy
    Rockbuddy Posts: 243
    :lol::lol::lol: Amuzing myself with the automated changes now :lol::lol::lol:

    OK, I'll leave it alone....
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Some fool on a brand new bike did that to me a couple of weeks back - passed me and cut in so fast I nearly went into a lamppost - shouted 'OI' but all I got was a blank stare - to**er :roll:

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