Just nearly ran a cyclist over!

IcarusGreen

[RANT] Seriously, Just popped down the local for some supplies and on my way out there's a onto the main road. Some guy on a and a pair of on his dumb head just road straight off the pavement from behind a bush in front of me. He didn't causing me to suddenly and use my excessively. The bloke didn't even me and just cycled off oblivious to his near experience. I wasn't going fast, in fact I was already slowing down for the roundabout can't believe how close I came to hitting him! If I hadn't already been on the brakes I probably would have! [/RANT]

The Northern Monkey

montevideoguy

Raymondavalon

The sh¡t people Post to get their count up....

welshkev

Raymondavalon wrote:

The sh¡t people Post to get their count up....

i know, only 33 posts and he's coming out with rubbish like that

toastedone

IcarusGreen

welshkev wrote:

Raymondavalon wrote:

The sh¡t people Post to get their count up....

i know, only 33 posts and he's coming out with rubbish like that

:roll:

Anonymous

I want to see your car if you've got a horn like that.

toastedone

deadkenny wrote:

I want to see your car if you've got a horn like that.

http://static2.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs ... 830915.jpg

paul.skibum

I knocked a kid of his bike years back - I turned right at a mini roundabout around dusk and this kid wheelied off the pavement in front of me - I clipped his pedal and rear wheel hurting his ankle and busting my side light.

He had the nerve to say he had right of way as I was coming from the left. I appraised him of the facts and pointed out that if he wasnt on the road, didnt have lights and didnt look before dropping off the pavement he was not exactly obeying the highway code.

I had to pay for a new light cluster though as he refused to tell me where he lived.

Ryan Jones

Hold on, you nearly hit him yet in the process clocked onto his Bose Headphones and Marin hardtail........ :roll:

Bobhellen

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephmanue ... 036943086/

i would think it looks like this you know your a red neck when

IcarusGreen

Ryan Jones wrote:

Hold on, you nearly hit him yet in the process clocked onto his Bose Headphones and Marin hardtail........ :roll:

It was a Marin Hardtail (most decent bikes are in Abingdon as thats what the LBS sells) but not sure what the head phones were, they were just massive and totally enclosed his ears.

t0pc4t

I have a special place in my heart for people who cycle on the road with headphones the pleasurers of pigs that they are.

Anonymous

Bobhellen wrote:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephmanuel1980/5036943086/

i would think it looks like this you know your a red neck when

Ah, joined forum for cycling, Yoda has.

bails87

t0pc4t wrote:

I have a special place in my heart for people who cycle on the road with headphones the pleasurers of pigs that they are.

I trust you never drive with the stereo on and your car windows shut?

OP: most ballachingley awkward post for a while, so thanks for that. But the cyclist sounds like a pleb.

Saw a chav on a bike the other day, whilst holding his phone to his ear with one hand, weaving between the pavement and road, around parked cars, back on the pavement, through a packed bus stop and then back onto the road, all without even a glance over his shoulder. I was on the bike so just gave him a wide berth and did a sick super-rad wheelie all the way past him. Then almost got run over by a hairdresser in a TT jumping a red light. I should have been on the pavement with the chav, much safer!

t0pc4t

not the same as driving with the windows up. On the trails, your choice, on the roads, dangerous.

KitsuneAndy

t0pc4t wrote:

not the same as driving with the windows up. On the trails, your choice, on the roads, dangerous.

Don't see how it's much more dangerous. All it means is you don't get to hear the car before it ploughs into you from behind.

sheepsteeth

KitsuneAndy wrote:

it ploughs into you from behind.

thats like my obvious.

t0pc4t

KitsuneAndy wrote:

t0pc4t wrote:

not the same as driving with the windows up. On the trails, your choice, on the roads, dangerous.

Don't see how it's much more dangerous. All it means is you don't get to hear the car before it ploughs into you from behind.

The point of view I'm coming from is more as a commuter cyclist, I find when other cyclist have their headphones on they're a liability to me. When I'm driving I don't tend to notice whether someone has headphones in or not.

I also hate joggers with ipods as well.

Ryan Jones

I don't mind using my earphones, as while it doesn't give you the hearing, as rightly pointed out, what's the difference between that and someone with a stereo in a car ? As long as you check before manoeuvring then headphones won't make the blindest bit of difference except when a car comes too close to you, which unless you're from the real life matrix, you won't have chance to do anything about !

Thewaylander

Ryan Jones wrote:

I don't mind using my earphones, as while it doesn't give you the hearing, as rightly pointed out, what's the difference between that and someone with a stereo in a car ? As long as you check before manoeuvring then headphones won't make the blindest bit of difference except when a car comes too close to you, which unless you're from the real life matrix, you won't have chance to do anything about !

To be honest the difference between a stereo in a car, and on a bike is huge, its probably on average 1.2-1.5 tonnes of metal and plastic protecting you, unless you have a merc then its 3!

Ryan Jones

That's besides the point, seeing as if you're riding correctly the biggest danger to you is other road users, who aren't going to give a jot whether you've got earphones on or not as they plough into you, pull out in front of you or such.

Are there any situations which you'd avoid an incident by not having earphones in ?

bails87

t0pc4t wrote:

The point of view I'm coming from is more as a commuter cyclist, I find when other cyclist have their headphones on they're a liability to me.

Do you cover yourself in cowbells when you're commuting?

t0pc4t

if I did the filthy catamites still wouldn't notice me as I'm coming up the cycle paths.

I have a bell but a reasonably loud one. It's a trade off between letting people know you're coming and scaring old grannies out walking their dogs. As I ride the same route at the same times each day I try not to scare the grannies, it's rude. Most of the time my bell works fine, except when there is some speng with an ipod wobbling all over the path getting in my way totally unaware of the world around them.

I'm not a fan of spengs getting in my way be they joggers or other cyclists.

I've toyed with the idea of Ben Hur style blades but that would leave a nasty gory mess on the paths which would upset the stromachs of the old ladies' dogs.

bails87

t0pc4t wrote:

I've toyed with the idea of Ben Hur style blades

Good idea.

I tend to say "excuse me" or "out of the way caaant before I leave you in a ditch" depending on my mood.

Not that cyclists are much of a problem here, I ride on the road like a non-speng and overtake the few of them that are around before they know what's going on.

nicklouse

I have knocked a forum member of his bike with a car.

I just did not see him behind me.

t0pc4t

see I used to say 'Hello' but the thing is it doesn't tell people there is a bike coming. I used to think a bell would sound really aggressive but then I had this poor woman freak as I steamed past her.

I stopped to make sure she was OK and said I thought she knew I was there and she said 'I didn't hear your bell'

so I got one that night

had some old boy congratulate me a couple of weeks ago, 'first bell I have heard in years, well done young man'

bails87

nicklouse wrote:

I have knocked a forum member of his bike with a car.

I just did not see him behind me.

So someone off the forum crept up from behind, took you by surprise and then you had a 'coming together'.


Josh?

nicklouse

this was years before the forum existed in any form.

bails87

t0pc4t wrote:

'I didn't hear your bell'

"Oh, I've got a bell end for you....."