Inappropriate erection
Greg T
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Actually this is about Cable St / Cannon St CS3 Light Sequencing but as I typed it I thought I may die of boredom and I KNEW you'd open this one YOU FILTHY WHORE..
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Those lights drive me mad . . Two complete sets of lights go through before the bike lane gets released - takes forever - honestly I think I'm still there and just dreaming of being at work.
The previous big set under the DLR at Dock St aren't like that - the bike lights have a "turn" in line with the motor traffic . . .
Who can I rant at?
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Those lights drive me mad . . Two complete sets of lights go through before the bike lane gets released - takes forever - honestly I think I'm still there and just dreaming of being at work.
The previous big set under the DLR at Dock St aren't like that - the bike lights have a "turn" in line with the motor traffic . . .
Who can I rant at?
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Don't rant, just RLJ. It's easier and with the lights phasing TfL clearly expect you to do so anyway...Do not write below this line. Office use only.0
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Yeah everyone knows that red lights dont apply to bikes, I RLJ all the time and havent been hit by a car, van or lorry in 3 years of commuting
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<sharp intake of breath> Let's not start that one, eh?
The lights at the end of Bedford Hill in Balham, where you join the A24, sometimes don't change at all. There's an intermittent fault that means that set stick on red while the other two sets and the ped crossings keep cycling through. Eventiually you just have to spot a gap and go for it.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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I saw this beautiful Thai bit of stuff on the train, short skirt, lovely legs, shiny long hair. Absolutely beautiful. I thought dont get an erection please dont get an erectiion that would be so embarrassing, please dont get an erection.
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Greg T wrote:Actually this is about Cable St / Cannon St CS3 Light Sequencing ...
Those lights drive me mad . . Two complete sets of lights go through before the bike lane gets released - takes forever - honestly I think I'm still there and just dreaming of being at work.
Take the Highway instead. Those lights on CS3 drive me nuts too, plus there seem to be a higher proportion of nodders who insist on pulling up in front of you on their £75 Aldi special BSOs and crazy drivers who don't realize that the cycle lane has priority on almost all the junctions, apart from the random ones where the cyclists have to stop for turning cars, oh and the peds who walk on the cycle lane or run out of Shadwell tube onto the zebra crossing without looking, plus the hipster SSes on their way back home from Brick Lane who decide to overtake the BSOs on the wrong side of the cycle lane at 1mph speed difference, blocking it for oncoming cyclists, and the... and the...
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Greg T wrote:Actually this is about Cable St / Cannon St CS3 Light Sequencing but as I typed it I thought I may die of boredom and I KNEW you'd open this one YOU FILTHY WHORE..
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Those lights drive me mad . . Two complete sets of lights go through before the bike lane gets released - takes forever - honestly I think I'm still there and just dreaming of being at work.
The previous big set under the DLR at Dock St aren't like that - the bike lights have a "turn" in line with the motor traffic . . .
Who can I rant at?
The first time I got to that junction I stopped at the stop line and waited and waited and waited. Perhaps it was because of the name ''Cycle Superhighway'' that I hadn't imagined they would have cunningly incorporated a lights phase that automatically excludes cyclists until they stop and press a pedestrian crossing-style button. The other bit of cunning I hadn't anticipated was that they'd placed the button way before the stop line, perfectly out of sight.
I'd like to claim that it was during those wasted minutes of my life I first coined the phrase ''Cycle Pseudohighway'' but, to tell the truth, I've only just thought of it. But it seems to fit.0 -
The odd RLJ does give a 'naughty' thrill in keeping with the thread title.
It's a bit like sitting on a packed train (next to a pencil skirted beauty) knowing you're going commando...Food Chain number = 4
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At my age erections are not so much inappropriate as something to be pleased about....0
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notsoblue wrote:
They followed me, so presumably thought it was a reasonable course of action.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Confusedboy wrote:At my age erections are not so much inappropriate as something to be pleased about....
But with your self-confessed stumpy little T-Rex arms can you do anything with them?FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
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deptfordmarmoset wrote:Perhaps it was because of the name ''Cycle Superhighway'' that I hadn't imagined they would have cunningly incorporated a lights phase that automatically excludes cyclists until they stop and press a pedestrian crossing-style button.
AHHHHHHHH
You have to press the button or the cycle light won't change . . . .
AHHHHHHH
You see - from smut comes truth
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Keyser__Soze wrote:Greg T wrote:Actually this is about Cable St / Cannon St CS3 Light Sequencing ...
Those lights drive me mad . . Two complete sets of lights go through before the bike lane gets released - takes forever - honestly I think I'm still there and just dreaming of being at work.
Take the Highway instead. Those lights on CS3 drive me nuts too, plus there seem to be a higher proportion of nodders who insist on pulling up in front of you on their £75 Aldi special BSOs and crazy drivers who don't realize that the cycle lane has priority on almost all the junctions, apart from the random ones where the cyclists have to stop for turning cars, oh and the peds who walk on the cycle lane or run out of Shadwell tube onto the zebra crossing without looking, plus the hipster SSes on their way back home from Brick Lane who decide to overtake the BSOs on the wrong side of the cycle lane at 1mph speed difference, blocking it for oncoming cyclists, and the... and the...
<breathe>
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Greg T wrote:AHHHHHHHH
You have to press the button or the cycle light won't change . . . .
AHHHHHHH
You see - from smut comes truth
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The one at the junction of Queen, Queen Victoria and Watling has the same problem. No one ever presses the light and no one ever waits for the cycle light as a result. Everyone just straight RLJs or goes when the matching ped crossing goes green.
Pulled up behind a hilarious gathering of about 15 cyclists there one morning. Cause was the two bike-mounted-cops at the front of the pack. No one wanted to RLJ in front of them and no-one had pressed the button.
Eventually one of the cops just laughed and said "looks safe to me" and everyone set off.
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notsoblue wrote:
Ha, always find this attitude bizarre, as if motorists are the responsible mummies and daddies of the road and cyclists the naughty children who need to be kept in line... We owe motorists nothing... NOTHING!Do not write below this line. Office use only.0 -
Irvinet wrote:Greg T wrote:AHHHHHHHH
You have to press the button or the cycle light won't change . . . .
AHHHHHHH
You see - from smut comes truth
In Porno veritas
The one at the junction of Queen, Queen Victoria and Watling has the same problem. No one ever presses the light and no one ever waits for the cycle light as a result. Everyone just straight RLJs or goes when the matching ped crossing goes green.
Pulled up behind a hilarious gathering of about 15 cyclists there one morning. Cause was the two bike-mounted-cops at the front of the pack. No one wanted to RLJ in front of them and no-one had pressed the button.
Eventually one of the cops just laughed and said "looks safe to me" and everyone set off.
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Keyser__Soze wrote:Take the Highway instead. Those lights on CS3 drive me nuts too, plus there seem to be a higher proportion of nodders who insist on pulling up in front of you on their £75 Aldi special BSOs and crazy drivers who don't realize that the cycle lane has priority on almost all the junctions, apart from the random ones where the cyclists have to stop for turning cars, oh and the peds who walk on the cycle lane or run out of Shadwell tube onto the zebra crossing without looking, plus the hipster SSes on their way back home from Brick Lane who decide to overtake the BSOs on the wrong side of the cycle lane at 1mph speed difference, blocking it for oncoming cyclists, and the... and the...
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This man speaketh the truth. The Highway is MUCH more fun and a damn sight quicker! The increased traffic does mean it's *slightly* more dangerous but as long as you can maintain 20-25 you'll be fine.......just make sure your in the right lane as you approach the traffic island before Limehouse Tunnel and you can use the crossing to duck into Narrow Street via the shared use pavement section :-)
I used to do Cable Street but stopped using it for just the reasons listed above! MTFU, it's either waiting at lights or The Highway :-D0 -
Slightly OT, but a colleague who did the London Triathlon last weekend was describing riding the Limehouse Link tunnel with aerobars at 38mph - obviously without any traffic - sounds like Blackfriars only better.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Bassjunkieuk wrote:Keyser__Soze wrote:Take the Highway instead.
The Highway is MUCH more fun and a damn sight quicker!
You are both wrong the highway is a pain in the arse, more lights, four lanes of traffic shoe horned into space for three and all in all the wrong choice.
Even worse Commercial road - lights a go go and it dumps you in town in a mad one way system, I never seem to go the same way twice and always end up looking at the Gherkin.
edited to addlooking at the Gherkin.
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I may be joining you all in the next few weeks. New client in South Quay will hopefully mean an extended commute providing there are showers and cycle parking where I'm going!--
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It's not at harbour exchange is it? I work there right next to south quay DLR.
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Ah sorted, they have underground parking there. OT but if you like Thai food there is an excellent take away next to tesco's called Lemongrass that does an amazing Penang Chicken! 8)
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Koncordski wrote:Ah sorted, they have underground parking there. OT but if you like Thai food there is an excellent take away next to tesco's called Lemongrass that does an amazing Penang Chicken! 8)
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Bassjunkieuk wrote:Keyser__Soze wrote:Take the Highway instead. Those lights on CS3 drive me nuts too, plus there seem to be a higher proportion of nodders who insist on pulling up in front of you on their £75 Aldi special BSOs and crazy drivers who don't realize that the cycle lane has priority on almost all the junctions, apart from the random ones where the cyclists have to stop for turning cars, oh and the peds who walk on the cycle lane or run out of Shadwell tube onto the zebra crossing without looking, plus the hipster SSes on their way back home from Brick Lane who decide to overtake the BSOs on the wrong side of the cycle lane at 1mph speed difference, blocking it for oncoming cyclists, and the... and the...
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This man speaketh the truth. The Highway is MUCH more fun and a damn sight quicker! The increased traffic does mean it's *slightly* more dangerous but as long as you can maintain 20-25 you'll be fine.......just make sure your in the right lane as you approach the traffic island before Limehouse Tunnel and you can use the crossing to duck into Narrow Street via the shared use pavement section :-)
I used to do Cable Street but stopped using it for just the reasons listed above! MTFU, it's either waiting at lights or The Highway :-D
Strangely I had to go down to the Holiday Inn Express on the Highway earlier in the week, not my normal run, and went there via CS3 - my first experience of a Cycle SuperHighway... if thats what its going to be like when they bring in CS5? down the Edgware Road from the North you can keep it - too narrow, too many obstructions, just bad. I came back to the City on the Highway, so much quicker and no hassle passing slower riders...Invacare Spectra Plus electric wheelchair, max speed 4mph
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