RLJer gets nicked

Bikequin

Was cycling with a couple of friends across town tonight to play football, one of them attempted to jump a red light (had just turned from amber) - there was a screech of brakes as a car almost mowed him down.

Not bright on his behalf and entirely his fault - if he hadn't tried to jump the lights wouldn't of happened.

Also I read earlier in the thread that weadmire wrote that you're 130 times more likely to have an accident waiting at red lights than jumping - you can't honestly believe that?

Greg T

Bikequin wrote:

you're 130 times more likely to have an accident waiting at red lights than jumping

67.98% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Here's a question if people wearing red jumpers went around pissing people in green jumpers off - would you imagine a green jumper wearer would be tempted at some point to "get some back".

itboffin

Greg T wrote:

Bikequin wrote:

you're 130 times more likely to have an accident waiting at red lights than jumping

67.98% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Here's a question if people wearing red jumpers went around pissing people in green jumpers off - would you imagine a green jumper wearer would be tempted at some point to "get some back".

FACT!

Evening Mr T

always_tyred

Wallace1492 wrote:

Jesus guys, just ageee to disagree....

Wallace, if the thread distresses you, click on one of the other ones.
Personally, I get anxious and a bit sweaty when I read the SCR thread, so I've stopped.

weadmire

Tyred,
There you go offering advice again. There is likely to be a course in Counselling at your local college of further education. You should attend it. If you don't discover a vocation it might help you recognise this inclination of yours and thereby help you to manage it. A win win I think they call it - heads you win and tails you don't lose. Concerning the advice in question how many times have you been hit by a motor vehicle? I am guessing less than 8. In which case I think I will take my Father's advice before yours, I know he knows plenty about this sort of thing.

Principe,
I am glad to hear I am wrong about your attitude to the comforter. But I was shocked to learn that someone who sees himself as a "scalper" has been riding a compact round London and has apparently never been up an Alp. Did I also notice form that thread in question Tyred is a compact man or just a 27 man?

GregT and Itboffin,
An old chestnut. It might take a while but I will get the numbers. In the meantime which side of the fence are you on? Old Terry would surely be of the view that if you are not cheating you are not trying, but is Greg a Terry wannabe but can't quite get there?

ItBoffin, Despite all the beards and such IT Boffins tend to be rather conventional and attentive to detail. They don't like the volume at 11 so to speak. I expect you want the approximate numbers I quote to be phoney. A question has just come to me. Do you two wear helmets when you are on your bikes? [/u]

il_principe

weadmire wrote:

Principe,
I am glad to hear I am wrong about your attitude to the comforter. But I was shocked to learn that someone who sees himself as a "scalper" has been riding a compact round London and has apparently never been up an Alp. Did I also notice form that thread in question Tyred is a compact man or just a 27 man?

You're not that odd bloke's son, you're the odd bloke himself! Hello you funny little man. Making massively incorrect assumptions was/is another hallmark of his. FYI I own a compact as I bought the bike with the 08 Etape in mind - not the Alps I'll grant you but the Tourmalet and the Hautacam give the Alpine cols a run for their money.

weadmire wrote:

ItBoffin, Despite all the beards and such IT Boffins tend to be rather conventional and attentive to detail. They don't like the volume at 11 so to speak. I expect you want the approximate numbers I quote to be phoney. A question has just come to me. Do you two wear helmets when you are on your bikes? [/u]

Oh dear, could you be more wrong? What an intuitive chap you are.

:roll:

Off you pop now.

Jonnyboy678

weadmire wrote:

Tyred,
Concerning the advice in question how many times have you been hit by a motor vehicle? I am guessing less than 8. In which case I think I will take my Father's advice before yours, I know he knows plenty about this sort of thing.
[/u]

Ever considered the fact that maybe your dad was a sh!t cyclist and that was why he was hit 8 times!!

As someone else mentioned, maybe you should be looking elsewhere for your cycling advice.

il_principe

Jonnyboy678 wrote:

weadmire wrote:

Tyred,
Concerning the advice in question how many times have you been hit by a motor vehicle? I am guessing less than 8. In which case I think I will take my Father's advice before yours, I know he knows plenty about this sort of thing.
[/u]

Ever considered the fact that maybe your dad was a sh!t cyclist and that was why he was hit 8 times!!

As someone else mentioned, maybe you should be looking elsewhere for your cycling advice.

+1 is Eric the Eel your swimming teacher? Ali Dia your football coach?

sebastiandangerfield

how many times have you been hit by a motor vehicle? I am guessing less than 8. In which case I think I will take my Father's advice before yours, I know he knows plenty about this sort of thing.

I'd always take advise about how to be safe on the road from someone who's been run over eight times. You go weadmire!

always_tyred

weadmire wrote:

Tyred,
There you go offering advice again. There is likely to be a course in Counselling at your local college of further education. You should attend it. If you don't discover a vocation it might help you recognise this inclination of yours and thereby help you to manage it. A win win I think they call it - heads you win and tails you don't lose. Concerning the advice in question how many times have you been hit by a motor vehicle? I am guessing less than 8. In which case I think I will take my Father's advice before yours, I know he knows plenty about this sort of thing.

Is it just me or is hearing a grown man (supposedly) unquestioningly worship his father just a little concerning? Are you capable of independent congitive reasoning, Weadmire? Or is that not required to sell T-shirts?

Take someone's word for it, other than daddy's, that it is possible to cycle on Britain's roads without being struck by motorvehicles quite so frequently. If you get run down doing something 8 times, you ARE doing it wrong, okay? Some of the people on this forum cycle thousands of miles a year and have been doing so for decades, without undue traffic light related difficulties.

There are books that might help you - the Highway Code and Cyclecraft, for example.

I just have to ask - what else did your daddy tell you? That school and studying and sh!t was a waste of time?

Stuey01

Personally I'd take advice from the long time cyclist who had managed to avoid being run over 8 times, rather than from the one who had been.

Jay dubbleU

Stuey01 wrote:

Personally I'd take advice from the long time cyclist who had managed to avoid being run over 8 times, rather than from the one who had been.

Being 8 times does kind of call into question the comptence of the cyclist involved

I've had a look at the T-shirts - have you considered therapy ? :twisted:

onebravemonkey

Red lights... I thought trolls were more at home under bridges.

Greg T

Stuey01 wrote:

Personally I'd take advice from the long time cyclist who had managed to avoid being run over 8 times, rather than from the one who had been.

It's like taking BBQ lighting advice from man on fire.

I watched League of Extraordinary Gentlemen last night - the Character of Mina Harker was hot - like the BBQ lighting advice guy is hot - but in a long hair and vampire kind of way rather than long dripping strips of skin kind of gig.




She doesn't dig RLJers - she says they are as lazy in the sack / coffin as they are on the road. Also as funny as a cold sick sandwich.

weadmire

All a little obvious chaps. For the record I am his youngest daughter.

It is likely he is a somewhat more distinguished cyclist than most of you. Until a few years ago about 10k miles a year, a 61 hr PBP, five e'tapes an end to end and a Koln - Genoa, both in about a week. A 22min 10, 52min 25, these are the ones I know about. You lot? Principe, aka la compact scalpette, didn't I give you your chance to boast about your prowess against real men? What happened

Greg T

weadmire wrote:

For the record I am his youngest daughter.

How young?

Do you like puppies?

biondino

weadmire wrote:

What brought me here is the inclination to stamp on dangerous BS of the sort that damages lives

Not RLJing damages lives? You, sir, are a nutjob.

(and I say "sir" because I have never encountered a woman who either talks or thinks like you. Call me a misandrist if you will!)

biondino

And with that (I like to get the last word), shall we stop poking the dancing bear?

Greg T

biondino wrote:

Call me a misandrist if you will!)

I'd call you that if I knew what one was.

always_tyred

weadmire wrote:

All a little obvious chaps. For the record I am his youngest daughter.

It is likely he is a somewhat more distinguished cyclist than most of you. Until a few years ago about 10k miles a year, a 61 hr PBP, five e'tapes an end to end and a Koln - Genoa, both in about a week. A 22min 10, 52min 25, these are the ones I know about. You lot? Principe, aka la compact scalpette, didn't I give you your chance to boast about your prowess against real men? What happened

My hero is Lance Armstrong. He's cool. I listen to everything he says, or tweets. I have a poster of him on my bedroom wall.

biondino

Greg T wrote:

weadmire wrote:

For the record I am his youngest daughter.

How young?

Do you like puppies?

Chapeau, my dear Mr T!

_Brun_

biondino wrote:

weadmire wrote:

What brought me here is the inclination to stamp on dangerous BS of the sort that damages lives

Not RLJing damages lives? You, sir, are a nutjob.

(and I say "sir" because I have never encountered a woman who either talks or thinks like you. Call me a misandrist if you will!)

Credit where it's due, this girl's got balls.

always_tyred

_Brun_ wrote:

biondino wrote:

weadmire wrote:

What brought me here is the inclination to stamp on dangerous BS of the sort that damages lives

Not RLJing damages lives? You, sir, are a nutjob.

(and I say "sir" because I have never encountered a woman who either talks or thinks like you. Call me a misandrist if you will!)

Credit where it's due, this girl's got balls.

Literally.

il_principe

_Brun_ wrote:

biondino wrote:

weadmire wrote:

What brought me here is the inclination to stamp on dangerous BS of the sort that damages lives

Not RLJing damages lives? You, sir, are a nutjob.

(and I say "sir" because I have never encountered a woman who either talks or thinks like you. Call me a misandrist if you will!)

Credit where it's due, this girl's got balls.

I hear that pretending to be a girl on internet forums isn't that rare, but I fear he's chosen the wrong sort of forum...

Greg T

Always Tyred wrote:

My hero is Lance Armstrong. He's cool. I listen to everything he says, or tweets. I have a poster of him on my bedroom wall.

Lance only won the tour seven times - the mad chick's Dad has got spanked off his bike eight times.

Now I'm not a stat-ist-ition but eight is more then seven - he knows more about bikes and stuff.

8-7 I'm compelled - and hot - and wearing my Britney as naughty school girl kit also.

biondino

I wonder if future generations will view cyclists stopping at red lights as smoking is viewed today - once upon a time everyone did it, it was considered harmless and de rigeur, but gradually dedicated, brave research scientists like weadmire took on the might of the tobacco conglomerates with their discoveries that actually, it would likely kill you...

biondino

biondino wrote:

And with that (I like to get the last word), shall we stop poking the dancing bear?

Sorry, I clearly meant to say "let's keep poking the dancing bear until it starts rocking backwards and forwards in a corner, gibbering".

always_tyred

Il Principe wrote:

I hear that pretending to be a girl on internet forums isn't that rare, but I fear he's chosen the wrong sort of forum...

Ladyboys are playing at the Edinburgh Festival again this year.

Jimfrandisco

Boasting about how good your dad was on a bike to justify your personal opinions on what is an illegal act - did it really have to get as sad an pathetic as this?

prawny

weadmire wrote:

All a little obvious chaps. For the record I am his youngest daughter.

It is likely he is a somewhat more distinguished cyclist than most of you. Until a few years ago about 10k miles a year, a 61 hr PBP, five e'tapes an end to end and a Koln - Genoa, both in about a week. A 22min 10, 52min 25, these are the ones I know about. You lot? Principe, aka la compact scalpette, didn't I give you your chance to boast about your prowess against real men? What happened

My dad was a boxer, I bet he could beat up your dad :P