mr_hippo
Living Legend & Old Fart
A very small percentage of members here spend more time whinging and wailing about cycling than they do cycling. Cycling is very much like life - full of hazards. You may want to spend your life wrapped in bubble wrap with someone reading stories to you out of the Bible of Political Correctness but face it, it aint going to happen.
Please stop posting the photo out of the Highway Code about overtaking cyclists. How much of you commute is on roads like that? Read the words associated with the photo - I think it advises drivers to give as much room to cyclists as they do to cars. Now look at your videos and see how much room drivers are giving other drivers!
Now, can someone give me a reference that states that cyclists will always have a tailwind, fine weather and ideal roads? You cannot find one - not even in CycleCrap? We do not live in an ideal world, do we? All of us have bad days as well as good; the main difference is that many of us do not let the bad bits spoil our day.
Mobile phone use - yes I have heard the argument that a driver using a mobile phone can be involved in accident and could kill a member of your family. Someone could drop an unfinished bag of chips and your elderly mum or gran could slip on them, crack their head open and die but you do nothing about litter louts, why not? Oh, sorry, pedestrians do not have number plates and there is no way of outing them on youtube and giving you a sense of purpose.
You are noe home from work, family time, but not for you! You have to review your footage to see if there is anything worth a mention on here and an upload to youtube. Congratualtions, you have found something 'worthy', please, please, please spend a few extra minutes putting into Windows Movie Maker (or similar) to enhance the brightness. You know what happened at 01:37 into the clip - others do not because it is too dark.
So either learn to take the rough with the smooth or give up cycling.
If you think this is a rant - it is not. Believe me you do not want to be within 5 miles of me when l am in rant mode!
Please stop posting the photo out of the Highway Code about overtaking cyclists. How much of you commute is on roads like that? Read the words associated with the photo - I think it advises drivers to give as much room to cyclists as they do to cars. Now look at your videos and see how much room drivers are giving other drivers!
Now, can someone give me a reference that states that cyclists will always have a tailwind, fine weather and ideal roads? You cannot find one - not even in CycleCrap? We do not live in an ideal world, do we? All of us have bad days as well as good; the main difference is that many of us do not let the bad bits spoil our day.
Mobile phone use - yes I have heard the argument that a driver using a mobile phone can be involved in accident and could kill a member of your family. Someone could drop an unfinished bag of chips and your elderly mum or gran could slip on them, crack their head open and die but you do nothing about litter louts, why not? Oh, sorry, pedestrians do not have number plates and there is no way of outing them on youtube and giving you a sense of purpose.
You are noe home from work, family time, but not for you! You have to review your footage to see if there is anything worth a mention on here and an upload to youtube. Congratualtions, you have found something 'worthy', please, please, please spend a few extra minutes putting into Windows Movie Maker (or similar) to enhance the brightness. You know what happened at 01:37 into the clip - others do not because it is too dark.
So either learn to take the rough with the smooth or give up cycling.
If you think this is a rant - it is not. Believe me you do not want to be within 5 miles of me when l am in rant mode!
