At the shallow end of the gene pool...

[John the Monkey]

...it is apparently a good idea to ride two abreast the wrong way in a bus lane, in the pitch dark, with no lights on your bicycle.

Saw two lads doing this on Oxford Road last night (Oxford Road being Europe's busiest bus route). I managed to avoid the dopey c**ts myself, with a bit of luck the buses did too. Bizarrely, the chav bravado of the two led them to shout things unintelligible (to me at least) at traffic, whilst the smaller of the two pulled wheelies on his BMX.

 

[Jergen99]

Maybe they used to be users of the local buses and found out that the blighters never show up anyway.

 

[John the Monkey]

Maybe they used to be users of the local buses and found out that the blighters never show up anyway.

On Oxford Road? It's not so much that you wait ages for one and then two turn up, as that they never stop turning up...

 

[Jergen99]

In such a place, why would anyone need cars or bikes? I've never heard of buses that actually arrive regularly! This place is surely deserving of some award.

 

[fossyant]

Oxford Road - Europe's busiest bus route - official I believe..... no awards, lots of students and it a main artery into Manchester from the South.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I nearly squashed someone doing much the same thing on a roundabout in Nuneaton at 5.45 this morning. Idiot.

 

[Tynan]

if they're on bmxs and doing wheelies usual rules don't apply, saw a girl last night in head to toe black with nada in the way of lights or reflectors drifting across lanes at the lary junction at the start of Broad Lane in Tottenham

literally a ghostly shape flitting through traffic