Chavs doing "wheelies"

[Accy cyclist]

@Accy cyclist I see your point about choosing the wrong place to wheelie. Your 'near miss' from "12 feet" made me chuckle though. Every car passing on the road, or the opposite side for that matter, would be chalked up as a near miss on that basis.

Yes it was a near miss. You're referring to a near miss when a vehicle overtakes you not when it cuts across your path i presume?

 

[Steady]

That's the same for car drivers also. Motorcyclists too for that matter.

Around here, there are a lot of considerate drivers. Sometimes too considerate, if anything, when they hover with loads of room. I always wave to thank them. I wonder what proportion of cyclists do that, or just put it down to it being what a motorist simply should be doing?

I always wave a thanks when I think an alternative action could have easily been the choice to make but would have inconvenienced me, or be considered less considerate or perhaps left me with the thought "if I wasn't on a bike, that wouldn't have been done" so any time anybody waits those extra few seconds, or I can see is looking out for where I am I tend to express my thanks. It's just reinforcing good behaviour, and let's face it, everybody likes to be thanked for thankless actions.


As for wheelies.. I just wish I could do one. :-(

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I think there is a lot of envy in this thread

 

[glenn forger]

Who cares? It's no skin off my rice pudding.

 

[jayonabike]

12 ft near miss? FFS. Chavs, just because it's a lad on a bike pulling a wheelie. Double FFS.

 

[Peteaud]

I can't do Wheelies

If i try i fall off, and look an even bigger nobber.

 

[Mugshot]

Chavs

 

[ScotiaLass]

That's the same for car drivers also. Motorcyclists too for that matter.

Around here, there are a lot of considerate drivers. Sometimes too considerate, if anything, when they hover with loads of room. I always wave to thank them. I wonder what proportion of cyclists do that, or just put it down to it being what a motorist simply should be doing?

I wave a thank-you too.
I don't cycle on-road that much, but if a driver holds back as I'm going through a pinch point, I give them a wave as I hear them move past me.
Manners cost nothing, as my dear mum used to tell me.

 

[AndyRM]

12 feet is a near miss? Very good.

I've seen a few kids doing it round our bit of Wallsend. There's barely any traffic on the back-streets so it's not much of a problem. A few months ago I saw one lad stack it and end up on his back with 50lb of Argos bike crushing his balls for his trouble. I nearly crashed myself from laughing.

 

[Spinney]

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[glenn forger]

I wave a thank-you too.
I don't cycle on-road that much, but if a driver holds back as I'm going through a pinch point, I give them a wave as I hear them move past me.
Manners cost nothing, as my dear mum used to tell me.

I like how drivers respond to a wave of thanks. If they are Joe Cool with ice in their veins they raise one finger (not that one!) from the steering wheel in acknowledgement. If they're elderly they don't seem to like doing that so they smile or nod politely. If they are a bus driver they are the absolute best, I hold back to let them pull out and I get the hazard lights flashing briefly as a thanks. That's fifty points.

 

[ianrauk]

back in the day I learnt how to wheelie a Chopper....

Love wheelies, love seeing 'chavs' wheelie as they are far better at it then me.

 

[Dan B]

That's the same for car drivers also.

I can't remember the last time I saw a car driver pull a wheelie, though

 

[AndyRM]

I can't remember the last time I saw a car driver pull a wheelie, though

Here you go

 

[Beebo]

Chavs

I never tire of watching that, a no handed wheelie on a road bike up the Alp!
Totally nuts.