BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
- Location
- South London
mickle said:Never ridden a bike in South London then?
Apparently he tried being a courier for 5 weeks.
mickle said:Never ridden a bike in South London then?
User3143 said:RLJing has in some respects become part of cycling culture now.
I looked over my shoulder and pulled over (to the left hand side of a white line which marked a slip road) to let him through. There was no requirement to indicate because I was turning neither right nor left. The response to my considerate manouver was to be side-swiped with the side of an ambulance.User3143 said:
col said:Every time those cyclists that put themselves in an awkward position or dont move just to prove a point and get some sort of reaction from motorists,and wont admit it,but come out with the bull of it would have been too dangerous to just get out of the way,add another motorist against cyclists i think.these people are not doing any good for us ,they are making it worse,especially when dubious techniques are used to set up an incident to prove a point,they wont admit this of course.
"The sheer hell of it" isn't the usual reason. The usual reason is that the cyclist is "in the way." This comes from the driver's attitude that cyclists are not part of the real traffic; a view reinforced by every cyclist who conspicuously breaks the law.User3143 said:There not, motorists can say that they hate cyclists blah, blah, blah. But when it comes down to it I find it highly unlikely that they would in anyway endanger the life of a cyclist just for the sheer hell of it.
How can you be so totally unaware of public opinion? Do you talk to people and listen to what they say? Do you ever go on forum sites where the majority of members are not cyclists?User3143 said:I really must be missing something because I never have no real trouble with motorists at all, don't feel we have a bad rep, and don't feel that the misgivings of every other cyclists is taken out of me when I am out on my bike.
In my opinion brogues should be brown. Black oxfords have more class than black brogues.Cunobelin said:Harold Shipman wore black brogues..... he also had a beard and glasses!
I can think of nothing more probable.Cunobelin said:Does that mean that anyone working with the NHS and wears glasses, has a beard or wears black shoes murders their patients?
I've made this point a couple of times. I also believe that cyclists are safer drivers.Cunobelin said:(I actually fit this profile perfectly!)
I take absolute and total responsibility for the way I ride, but I will not accept responsibility for anyone else - it is a fact that there are bad drivers and bad cyslists.
Interestingly there is an apparent observation that as the number of people converting to bikes for financial or other reasons the standards drop. Probably because many are simply riding bikes in the same way that they used to drive their cars!
User3143 said:Yeah there is, if you have pulled over to the left hand side of the road and started to slow down (if you did) then you do have give a signal.
Think of a car puling over the left? Do they give a signal of course they do.
User3143 said:Yeah there is, if you have pulled over to the left hand side of the road and started to slow down (if you did) then you do have give a signal.
Think of a car puling over the left? Do they give a signal of course they do.
magnatom said:Guys, what are you doing!?
Lee is a troll. Pure and simple. He has even admited as much (i.e. that he is on the wind up) in other threads. Ignore him. His position in untenable, but that's the challenge for him. To defend the undefendable. He's a debater for the sake of debate. Nothing else.
At university one of the debates teams jokingly referred to themselves as the massed-debaters. I wonder if this applies here...