Damned pedestrians!

richVSrich

Cycling home and a pedestrian tried to run across a junction. I shouted and she screamed...couldnt brake in time , clipped her and i went down.

Somehow I wasnt injured, and neither was she - she ran off as I was shouting.

My bike needs a new rear wheel, rear mech, hanger, chain (hopefully insurance will cough up)

B*tch.

aripallaris

bad luck mate. as long as your werent harmed then a little wallet beating isnt too bad.

CycleOfViolence

This ejeet and his filmic entourage was blocking my route to work this morning and his crew were blocking it with equipment on my way home.

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/pass ... 6593-1.jpg

Utterly blocked the towpath, cables, lights, reflectors and suck ups, security guard manhandled me as a tried to ride by and I was told to stop lest I disturb filming.

I disturbed the filming with my protests and they let me by, Robson or Jerome or Stephen looked angry, no lions by the canal as far as I know.

It'll be all to do again in the morning.

richVSrich

aripallaris wrote:

bad luck mate. as long as your werent harmed then a little wallet beating isnt too bad.

yeah i know - twice i 've had close calls where it could have been a lot worse...

just so angry with pedestrians who jump in the road... (but she wont be doing that again any time soon i guess)

richVSrich

CycleOfViolence wrote:

This ejeet and his filmic entourage was blocking my route to work this morning and his crew were blocking it with equipment on my way home.

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/pass ... 6593-1.jpg

Utterly blocked the towpath, cables, lights, reflectors and suck ups, security guard manhandled me as a tried to ride by and I was told to stop lest I disturb filming.

I disturbed the filming with my protests and they let me by, Robson or Jerome or Stephen looked angry, no lions by the canal as far as I know.

It'll be all to do again in the morning.

dont know the show...do you have a bell? that could be quite amusing ringing it through the background

Initialised

A group of kids/teens on foot, scooters and BMXs jumped out into the road almost directly in front of a roadie I was sparring with on the way home. A near miss but totally avoidable with a bit of road sense.

richVSrich

Initialised wrote:

A group of kids/teens on foot, scooters and BMXs jumped out into the road almost directly in front of a roadie I was sparring with on the way home. A near miss but totally avoidable with a bit of road sense.

that sucks initialised..but glad it was ok..

im tempted to build a trike with a bulldozer blade on it! (and maybe a machine gun as well :P) haha

XmasTreeOnWheels

I always try to adopt the 'hazard' attitude they teach you in the Driving Theory Test when it comes to pedestrians. If there are any around (which there often are on many points of my journey home) then I do not carry on 'hell for leather' but adjust my speed so that if they do suddenly jump into the road then I can stop. It's a bit dull to have to slow down, and in central London that means a rather ploddy pace, but after several years of cycle commuting I've only ever had near misses, and the nearest misses were those where I hadn't scrubbed off enough speed because I decided to take the risk that the pedestrian wouldn't do anything stupid!

I do see some cyclists going at crazy speeds through highly pedestrianised areas on their commute, and frankly they are asking for it as they have left themselves absolutely no margin for error. It's not a race! Better to get home a few minutes later than risk injury or damage.

hangeron

CycleOfViolence wrote:

This ejeet and his filmic entourage was blocking my route to work this morning and his crew were blocking it with equipment on my way home.

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/pass ... 6593-1.jpg

Utterly blocked the towpath, cables, lights, reflectors and suck ups, security guard manhandled me as a tried to ride by and I was told to stop lest I disturb filming.

I disturbed the filming with my protests and they let me by, Robson or Jerome or Stephen looked angry, no lions by the canal as far as I know.

It'll be all to do again in the morning.

tazer him...in the kock

Stiff_Orange

Nothing surprises me about pedestrians anymore.
On my commute the council have built cycle tracks, not shared paths but a clear distinction. 8 foot pavement then a kerb stone going down to 6 foot cycleway with big pictures of bikes every 50 metres a kerb up then about 3 feet of grass verge or concrete before another kerb down to the road.
Every morning all the pedestians are walking down the cycle way listening to ipods or pushing prams just ignoring the cyclists trying to get past and then looking at you as if your in the wrong when you ring a bell. I don't know if they are ignorant, stupid or both.
I now use the road again.

hangeron

Stiff_Orange wrote:

Nothing surprises me about pedestrians anymore.
On my commute the council have built cycle tracks, not shared paths but a clear distinction. 8 foot pavement then a kerb stone going down to 6 foot cycleway with big pictures of bikes every 50 metres a kerb up then about 3 feet of grass verge or concrete before another kerb down to the road.
Every morning all the pedestians are walking down the cycle way listening to ipods or pushing prams just ignoring the cyclists trying to get past and then looking at you as if your in the wrong when you ring a bell. I don't know if they are ignorant, stupid or both.
I now use the road again.

Tazer em...in the kock!

armoureddrummer

I repeatedly rang my bell and shouted excuse me at a bloke earlier after grinding to a near halt on a path near my work earlier. Eventually he heard the 4th bellowed excuse me and jumped with a fright and hurled abuse at me.

I have been considering mounting a compressed air can in a bottle cage and adding an air horn to my bike for the deaf pedestrian. ( I might add this guy was not deaf, he was just ignorant!)

Stiff_Orange

hangeron wrote:

Tazer em...in the kock!

I'm seeing a pattern here.

What about the bus driver who stepped out of his back door without looking and I hit and broke his leg?

kurako

armoureddrummer wrote:

I repeatedly rang my bell and shouted excuse me at a bloke earlier after grinding to a near halt on a path near my work earlier. Eventually he heard the 4th bellowed excuse me and jumped with a fright and hurled abuse at me.

I have been considering mounting a compressed air can in a bottle cage and adding an air horn to my bike for the deaf pedestrian. ( I might add this guy was not deaf, he was just ignorant!)

Are you related to jeremyrundle? Real men ride on the road.

keyser__soze

Had far more run-ins with mopeds/motorbikes than peds recently. One prize motorcycling chutney ferret this morning pulled into the outside of the ASL at a set of lights on the Kings Road, then set off in the outside lane then swerved right across traffic back into the cycle lane and forced me to bunny-hop on the pavement. I told him that he'd nearly hit me and to get out of the cycle lane and he started mouthing off about how he was going to smack me. I offered to stop as I was ready to kick the crap out of him but he zoomed off. Pillock. Only remembered a partial numberplate: LF06 2.

Conjoy

XmasTreeOnWheels wrote:

I always try to adopt the 'hazard' attitude they teach you in the Driving Theory Test when it comes to pedestrians. If there are any around (which there often are on many points of my journey home) then I do not carry on 'hell for leather' but adjust my speed so that if they do suddenly jump into the road then I can stop. It's a bit dull to have to slow down, and in central London that means a rather ploddy pace, but after several years of cycle commuting I've only ever had near misses, and the nearest misses were those where I hadn't scrubbed off enough speed because I decided to take the risk that the pedestrian wouldn't do anything stupid!

I do see some cyclists going at crazy speeds through highly pedestrianised areas on their commute, and frankly they are asking for it as they have left themselves absolutely no margin for error. It's not a race! Better to get home a few minutes later than risk injury or damage.

I would totally agree, cyclists are easily the worst road users around London, and this is coming from a confirmed commuter thats done done routes to docklands, the city, north and west London. The attitude just seems to be that pedestrians and other road users are an interference to the important work they are doing. How more are not injured is to the credit and awareness of London drivers.
If you look on these forums, every discussion about brakes always has exmplaes of how some silly pedestrian ran in front of the cyclist, but if you look at the way most cyclists commute through city streets you'd think they had a death wish.

Sirius631

CycleOfViolence wrote:

This ejeet and his filmic entourage was blocking my route to work this morning and his crew were blocking it with equipment on my way home.

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/pass ... 6593-1.jpg

Utterly blocked the towpath, cables, lights, reflectors and suck ups, security guard manhandled me as a tried to ride by and I was told to stop lest I disturb filming.

I disturbed the filming with my protests and they let me by, Robson or Jerome or Stephen looked angry, no lions by the canal as far as I know.

It'll be all to do again in the morning.

They probably had permission from British Waterways. Did you have your canal towpath licence on you? Bet you don't have one.

CycleOfViolence

Sirius631 wrote:

CycleOfViolence wrote:

This ejeet and his filmic entourage was blocking my route to work this morning and his crew were blocking it with equipment on my way home.

http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/pass ... 6593-1.jpg

Utterly blocked the towpath, cables, lights, reflectors and suck ups, security guard manhandled me as a tried to ride by and I was told to stop lest I disturb filming.

I disturbed the filming with my protests and they let me by, Robson or Jerome or Stephen looked angry, no lions by the canal as far as I know.

It'll be all to do again in the morning.

They probably had permission from British Waterways. Did you have your canal towpath licence on you? Bet you don't have one.

Licence saved as a pdf on Dropbox and accessed via my trusty always with me smartphone within a few seconds, it saves a paper version getting soggy.... :roll:

what was your point again ?

Sirius631

Good that you have the licence. I suppose I was expecting you to not have one because from your posting you came off as being the self-righteous type, whose God-given right to use the towpath was being unjustly taken away. Was there any particular reason that you had to make a nuisence of yourself by disturbing filming rather than waiting a few minutes for a break in scenes and then asking to pass, pointing out the inconvenience caused by them blocking the whole path?

keyser__soze

Sirius631, not sure about you but most of us would rather not be manhandled while going about our commute, nor be ordered around by people with no authority.

bails87

Keyser__Soze wrote:

Sirius631, not sure about you but most of us would rather not be manhandled while going about our commute, nor be ordered around by people with no authority.

Exactly.

God given rights? Self righteous? A bit OTT really. Someone was blocking the towpath and refused to let anyone past. They sound like the self righteous ones with ideas of god given rights!

jeremyrundle

Kurako wrote:

armoureddrummer wrote:

I repeatedly rang my bell and shouted excuse me at a bloke earlier after grinding to a near halt on a path near my work earlier. Eventually he heard the 4th bellowed excuse me and jumped with a fright and hurled abuse at me.

I have been considering mounting a compressed air can in a bottle cage and adding an air horn to my bike for the deaf pedestrian. ( I might add this guy was not deaf, he was just ignorant!)

Are you related to jeremyrundle? Real men ride on the road.

:!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!:

Jeremyrundle

jeremyrundle

Kurako wrote:

armoureddrummer wrote:

I repeatedly rang my bell and shouted excuse me at a bloke earlier after grinding to a near halt on a path near my work earlier. Eventually he heard the 4th bellowed excuse me and jumped with a fright and hurled abuse at me.

I have been considering mounting a compressed air can in a bottle cage and adding an air horn to my bike for the deaf pedestrian. ( I might add this guy was not deaf, he was just ignorant!)

Are you related to jeremyrundle? Real men ride on the road.

Are you in some way being rude and saying I am not a real man :!: why....

Or are you talking about my beloved airzound..... or 2 or 3 or 4

Jeremyrundle

kurako

jeremyrundle wrote:

Kurako wrote:

armoureddrummer wrote:

I repeatedly rang my bell and shouted excuse me at a bloke earlier after grinding to a near halt on a path near my work earlier. Eventually he heard the 4th bellowed excuse me and jumped with a fright and hurled abuse at me.

I have been considering mounting a compressed air can in a bottle cage and adding an air horn to my bike for the deaf pedestrian. ( I might add this guy was not deaf, he was just ignorant!)

Are you related to jeremyrundle? Real men ride on the road.

Are you in some way being rude and saying I am not a real man :!: why....

Or are you talking about my beloved airzound..... or 2 or 3 or 4

Jeremyrundle

I was thinking mostly about the airzound, yes.

Why do people think it's ok to blast others with airhorns? This is exactly the sort of BS that drivers pull all the time and we all know what w*nkers a lot of drivers can be. Why would you want to mirror that sort of disgraceful behaviour?

Why the 'real men ride on the road' comment? If you don't want to get on the road because you are intimidated by cars and the impatience and aggression of some drivers then don't ride around paths with the same attitude towards peds.

Twostage

Most of the pedestrians I come across on my commute are on a combined bridleway/cycepath. I ding my bell and they move out of the way, normally with a smile. Lots of them have dogs which you just know are going to decide to go to the other side of the path as you get close so I slow down. Can't get my head around those 150 foot dog leads though, particularly when the dog iis on one side of the path and the owner is on the other and they have to reel the dog in like a fish.

wizzlebanger

Is there any demographic change in attitude?

Reason I say this.....

My route home along the busy A6 uses a shared cycle / pedestrian lane. It is marked up as so.

I admit it's not the busiest of thoroughfares but if a pedestrian is walking towards me they have so far always moved to the side. I smile, say thank you and we all go on our merry way.

If I have to pass someone going in the same direction as me rather than shout, ring a bell or bustle past I just slow down, hop onto the road at an appropriate point and then hop back on the cycleway when passed.

No fuss.

My mantra is that everyone is trying to get to their destination with as little fuss as possible. I realise that sometimes you have situations forced upon you but I think a little patience from everyone would go a long way.

dondare

For many years I rode my bike assuming that pedestrians would not suddenly run into the road without looking. After three collisions I realized that this assumption was false. I suppose that I was a slow learner but I got there in the end.
Now I know that this is exactly what pedestrians do, and always will do, I look out for them. There haven't been any more collisions.

t4tomo

Twas ever thus, and with ipods, phones and 24/7 texting, pedestrians seem to have less time to look before crossing roads.