Spitting whilst riding

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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    msmancunia wrote:
    It's nothing to do with hygiene - it's just disgusting. If you aren't racing (and SCR doesn't count), then there's no excuse for just sitting up for ten seconds, pulling out a tissue and either blowing your nose or having a good cough.

    Possibly in the lanes of Cheshire you can do that, but if you stop on the CS7 you cause a pile up... :?
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  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    The anti social issue is about spitting on the pedestrian pavement... spitting on the road shared with vehicles is not an issue...

    I'm a natural "to the left" spitter. Trying to spit to the right feels awkward.

    Besides, the last thing I need when overtaking someone is for them to lob a gobful of phlegm at me!
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  • drlodge
    drlodge Posts: 4,826
    Spitters are quiters, so I'm told :roll:

    I can't ride no-handed without concentrating, so taking out a tissue from somewhere is out of the question. I don't see the issue really of spitting, snot-rocketing etc on the road as long as you don't do it right in the face of others.
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  • msmancunia
    msmancunia Posts: 1,415
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    msmancunia wrote:
    It's nothing to do with hygiene - it's just disgusting. If you aren't racing (and SCR doesn't count), then there's no excuse for just sitting up for ten seconds, pulling out a tissue and either blowing your nose or having a good cough.

    Possibly in the lanes of Cheshire you can do that, but if you stop on the CS7 you cause a pile up... :?

    Oh please. Are you telling me you can't ride a bike and blow your nose at the same time? Even I can do that and I'm rubbish at riding a bike. And I don't ride in the lanes of Cheshire - too posh for the likes of me :D I'm sink estates, cannabis farms and dodgy lock ups all the way to Cragg Vale....
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,325
    msmancunia wrote:
    Oh please. Are you telling me you can't ride a bike and blow your nose at the same time? Even I can do that and I'm rubbish at riding a bike. And I don't ride in the lanes of Cheshire - too posh for the likes of me :D I'm sink estates, cannabis farms and dodgy lock ups all the way to Cragg Vale....

    I suppose I could carry a tissue, but it would get soaked in sweat and useless in no time... besides, why destroying forest for paper tissue that I don't need... a good spit on the road has never offended any driver... never been beeped at for spitting, never!
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    msmancunia wrote:
    I just have a drink...
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