ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
For God's sake, owner of the cretinously parked bike in Hebden Bridge today ... It is bad enough having red light-jumping cyclists making motorists hate us, but did you really have to go out of your way to make pedestrians hate us too! You are either incredibly stupid, incredibly selfish or both! (Assuming that you didn't do what you did deliberately to wind people up!) 
Let me explain ... Take a look at this Streetview link which shows a side street off Market Street, the main road through Hebden Bridge. The owner of a sit-up-and-beg bicycle with a basket on the front had locked his/her bike to the one-way sign post, with the bike projecting out across 2/3 of the pavement! When I came to it, an old disabled man was struggling to get his mobility scooter through the small remaining gap between the end of the bicycle and the kerb! The bike was locked in such a way that it couldn't be moved off the pavement.
People were standing in disbelief and muttering about 'bloody cyclists' and in this case, I don't blame them!
Somebody had written a note to the cyclist and sealed it in an envelope and attached it to the basket. I'd love to know what the note said ...
If that selfish/stupid cyclist had only taken a cursory look around, (s)he would have quickly spotted an ideal place to lock the bike, out of the way of pedestrians ... Look here and you will see a metal hoop bolted to the wall. Hebden Bridge's LBS, Blazing Saddles, used to be located inside that shop and they installed several of those hoops for customers to lock their bikes to. The hoops were left behind when the shop moved down the road.
I'm still angry now - what a bloody moron!
Let me explain ... Take a look at this Streetview link which shows a side street off Market Street, the main road through Hebden Bridge. The owner of a sit-up-and-beg bicycle with a basket on the front had locked his/her bike to the one-way sign post, with the bike projecting out across 2/3 of the pavement! When I came to it, an old disabled man was struggling to get his mobility scooter through the small remaining gap between the end of the bicycle and the kerb! The bike was locked in such a way that it couldn't be moved off the pavement.
People were standing in disbelief and muttering about 'bloody cyclists' and in this case, I don't blame them!
Somebody had written a note to the cyclist and sealed it in an envelope and attached it to the basket. I'd love to know what the note said ...
If that selfish/stupid cyclist had only taken a cursory look around, (s)he would have quickly spotted an ideal place to lock the bike, out of the way of pedestrians ... Look here and you will see a metal hoop bolted to the wall. Hebden Bridge's LBS, Blazing Saddles, used to be located inside that shop and they installed several of those hoops for customers to lock their bikes to. The hoops were left behind when the shop moved down the road.
I'm still angry now - what a bloody moron!
