Cyclist red light

father_jack
father_jack Posts: 3,509
edited September 2010 in The bottom bracket
In town today, a pretty girl on a brompton looking bike went through a red light. :roll: (crossroads) And if that wasn't bad enough she didn't even look left or right, could have been a oncoming truck for all she knew! :roll:
Say... That's a nice bike..
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  • Airwave
    Airwave Posts: 483
    The other day whilst i was out on the MTB around town i saw a young lady riding along chatting away on her mobile.Just to make it wosre it was getting pretty dark&she did'nt have any lights.But she was wearing a helmet-daft or what.Even saw a teenager on a horse leading another horse on a not so qiuet road whilst chatting on a mobile,The way i look at it is that these idiots make up a good proportion of the casualty figuires on the roads.Which means the stats are'nt quiet so bad for more sensible road users.
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  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    Leave them to it - no doubt Darwin was right
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  • Valy
    Valy Posts: 1,321
    Not entirely the same thing but,

    I was on holidays in France and when we were driving to the airport on a motorway [around Paris] there was a guy on a motorbike... he was either texting, or had both hands on ONE side of the handlebar. Followed by a manoeuvre into an exit IIRC. Though he might have had both hands on both sides of the handlebar.
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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Driving home in twilight last weekend down a fairly twisty but wide B road I was a sensible distance behind the car in front both doing 30 in a speed camera controlled spot. A bike appears up the road travelling in the same direction with no lights on.

    I'm just chastising him in my own mind for all the "you give us a bad name" bit when I stop myself and give him the benefit of the doubt for maybe just being caught out by the shortening days...

    Just as the car in front of me is almost at his back wheel, with absolutely no hint he was doing anything other than riding in a straight line, he veers sharp right and hops up onto the far pavement missing being hit by a split second.

    Benefit of doubt promptly retracted. F***ing moron.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Cycling home from work one day, a lady passed me in her car, and she had a novel open on the steering wheel. :shock: :shock: :shock:
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    johnfinch wrote:
    Cycling home from work one day, a lady passed me in her car, and she had a novel open on the steering wheel. :shock: :shock: :shock:

    That's cool.
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