Speed we travel at

jeremyrundle

Are drivers complete morons or just the 65+ brigade.

I came off the cycle path into Morisons car park today, the cycle path is very good clearly signed and travels 50' of the car park, after 20' in the car park an old male fart almost walked in front of me, I said "you wouldn't have done that if I had been a car".

When I parked and got to the entrance he (with his old wifey) said "you wan t to slow down you are all the same".

I could think of nothing better to say than (I was doing about 5mph) "Had I been twenty with earings, long hair snd tatoos you wouldn't have had the B%&&s to have spoken to me".

Why are pedestrians to unaware of cyclists, I had both P7 Lenser torches on, and a flashing 3w, I was wearing a yellow jacket (high vis) and am on the large size, IS it ME.

Clever Pun

peds don't show the same respect to cyclists that they afford cars

maybe they don't know how much getting hit hurts?

tailwindhome

JR you are a gem

Blue Meanie

Maybe get some earrings and tattoos?

CiB

D lock him. That'll shut his silly talk.

In a supermarket once I tutted at a youngish bloke who ran over my toes with his trolley full of junk food + baby, with his unpleasant 'partner' in close proximity. He mumbled something back and I reciprocated, and by the time I'd got in the car and started to pull away he'd decided to chase me, on foot!!! What can you do? I stopped so that he could run into the back of the car, then drove off with him still in hot pursuit shouting abuse. What a numpty fellow he must have been. Ha ha ha. He left his 'partner' & poor child waiting whilst he chased a GTi across a car park. Marvellous.

Not just old people are doo-lally. Young pups are too.

notsoblue

Clever Pun wrote:

peds don't show the same respect to cyclists that they afford cars

maybe they don't know how much getting hit hurts?

This. Trust me, colliding with a bike isn't pretty!

The Rookie

My daughter regularily uses a cycle path that runs parallel to a footpath, she sees more pedestrians on the cyclepath than on the footpath, many tut at her and even when she points out the clear cyclepath markings and where the footpath is they still seem at a total loss as to what it all means.

Simon

Gussio

25mph clearly wasn't fast enough for the chap in the silver Audi A3 that hooted me as I rode primary through roadworks in Sheen this evening. I hope that you felt daft when I rolled past you at the next set of traffic lights, you knob.

nmac_2011

Gussio wrote:

25mph clearly wasn't fast enough for the chap in the silver Audi A3 that hooted me as I rode primary through roadworks in Sheen this evening. I hope that you felt daft when I rolled past you at the next set of traffic lights, you knob.

A like button is clearly needed on this forum 8)

deptfordmarmoset

I almost hit a lollipop lady this afternoon. She was busy talking to her mate - no kids around - and she stepped out into my path from behind a car whilst looking in the opposite direction. The thing is, if I had hit her, her and her mate would have made up a story and everyone would believe their word. I'd automatically have been assumed to be the guilty party.

Gawd help the poor kids of Plaistow!

Valy

Gussio wrote:

25mph clearly wasn't fast enough for the chap in the silver Audi A3 that hooted me as I rode primary through roadworks in Sheen this evening. I hope that you felt daft when I rolled past you at the next set of traffic lights, you knob.

Oh those dickheads...

Had one BMW where I was 1-2 seconds late of the lights "beeep" followed by them pulling up beside me and "having a go".... :roll:

Initialised

Peds think you're too fast, cars think you're too slow. I had a couple of car horn serenades this morning. I wasn't really in the way, they just have projected body image dismorphia. Sadly they thought I was speaking foreign when I told them this so I was sadly reduced to communication by simplistic sign-language that they might understand.

Origamist

jeremyrundle wrote:

Why are pedestrians to unaware of cyclists, I had both P7 Lenser torches on, and a flashing 3w, I was wearing a yellow jacket (high vis) and am on the large size, IS it ME.

All you need now is a five tone, modified air zound and you would be a dead ringer for the mother ship in Close Encounters of the Third Kind - people were inextricably drawn toward that too...

jds_1981

Posted this in the commute video footage thread too. Taxi driver not quite working out correct speeds...

http://vimeo.com/19997503

Initialised

jds_1981 wrote:

Posted this in the commute video footage thread too. Taxi driver not quite working out correct speeds...

http://vimeo.com/19997503

Don't you just hate it when that happens?

jeremyrundle

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

I almost hit a lollipop lady this afternoon. She was busy talking to her mate - no kids around - and she stepped out into my path from behind a car whilst looking in the opposite direction. The thing is, if I had hit her, her and her mate would have made up a story and everyone would believe their word. I'd automatically have been assumed to be the guilty party.

Gawd help the poor kids of Plaistow!

CYCLECAM

jeremyrundle

jds_1981 wrote:

Posted this in the commute video footage thread too. Taxi driver not quite working out correct speeds...

http://vimeo.com/19997503

I notice too that the MORON in the car at the lights is blocking your cycle lane

jeremyrundle

Next time you are in a car park and see an OAPratt and their car, take a look I havew yet to see one without dents that is over six months old.

Kieran_Burns

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

I almost hit a lollipop lady this afternoon. She was busy talking to her mate - no kids around - and she stepped out into my path from behind a car whilst looking in the opposite direction. The thing is, if I had hit her, her and her mate would have made up a story and everyone would believe their word. I'd automatically have been assumed to be the guilty party.

Gawd help the poor kids of Plaistow!

Assess the situation:

Environment
1. Stunned Lollipop lady on ground
2. Semi-hysterical mate staring AT stunned LLoG
3. No witnesses

Assets
1. 6' pole with large impact zone attached to the top of it
2. Means of quick and silent escape (the bike you idiot)

Possible actions
1. Attempt to reason with SHMoLLoG
2. Use silent means of escape to avoid situation
3. Bludgeon SHMoLLoG to death with Lollipop and finish off LLoG with same. Arrange bodies so it appears Lesbian Lollipop Lovers fell out over who gets the pole this time.

Decision tree
1. Jelly. Nail. Ceiling.
2. Possible, but unsatisfactory
3. Satisfying but messy

Decision::
Option 3.

Clear and logical analysis shows the correct action, and the voices always suggest the right thing to do......

deptfordmarmoset

Kieran_Burns wrote:

deptfordmarmoset wrote:

I almost hit a lollipop lady this afternoon. She was busy talking to her mate - no kids around - and she stepped out into my path from behind a car whilst looking in the opposite direction. The thing is, if I had hit her, her and her mate would have made up a story and everyone would believe their word. I'd automatically have been assumed to be the guilty party.

Gawd help the poor kids of Plaistow!

Assess the situation:

Environment
1. Stunned Lollipop lady on ground
2. Semi-hysterical mate staring AT stunned LLoG
3. No witnesses

Assets
1. 6' pole with large impact zone attached to the top of it
2. Means of quick and silent escape (the bike you idiot)

Possible actions
1. Attempt to reason with SHMoLLoG
2. Use silent means of escape to avoid situation
3. Bludgeon SHMoLLoG to death with Lollipop and finish off LLoG with same. Arrange bodies so it appears Lesbian Lollipop Lovers fell out over who gets the pole this time.

Decision tree
1. Jelly. Nail. Ceiling.
2. Possible, but unsatisfactory
3. Satisfying but messy

Decision::
Option 3.

Clear and logical analysis shows the correct action, and the voices always suggest the right thing to do......

Clearly, I wasn't thinking fast enough - I only managed to shout the eternal words ''Look before you cross!'' at them after having taken evasive action. And then pootle off with a mixture of astonishment and a curiously satisfying sense of having reminded my grandmother how to suck eggs...

mudcovered

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Decision::
Option 3.

Clear and logical analysis shows the correct action, and the voices always suggest the right thing to do......

Careful, your dark side is showing through.

Mike

Kieran_Burns

mudcovered wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Decision::
Option 3.

Clear and logical analysis shows the correct action, and the voices always suggest the right thing to do......

Careful, your dark side is showing through.

Mike

(jedi wave) These are not the bodies you are looking for (/jedi wave)

deffler

jeremyrundle wrote:

IS it ME.

Yes !

Mark Elvin

I had a chap with his trolley walk out in front of me yesterday, I was about 20ft away, being fixie I slowly rode up behing him & went BOO, not loudly, but about 2' away from his ear, he jumped a bloody mile.

jzed

Came close to losing it tonight. Cycled straight at a set of lights on green when a van pulled across me and then the car behind decided to do the same, I anchored on but he stopped. I continued on with him shouting at me through his window. I saw red and swung round to chase him - his face was a picture and he floored it.