uphillstruggler
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Nice one, unfortunatley that applies to my hill climbing ability on Giant Rapid Flat bar (beemer and flat bar - not looking good is it
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Got your beemer stuck in the snow?
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Nice one, unfortunatley that applies to my hill climbing ability on Giant Rapid Flat bar (beemer and flat bar - not looking good is it
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Glow worm
Legendary Member
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- Near Newmarket
Yeah same here! I would have thought offering help to someone clearly in a spot of bother, irrespective of their I.Q. would be a natural human reaction. Filming someone struggling like that and sniggering like a silly kid is vile behavior. I sometimes wonder what the hell's wrong with some folks?
heretic
New Member
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- In the shed
I'll help peds, cyclists, public transport users/drivers, but motons? If the car gets wrecked that's one less idiot on the road to hassle us! 
PaulSecteur
No longer a Specialized fanboy
- Location
- Walsall, West Mids.
Personally, I would have given her some help.
I have been lucky enough to come from a family where things like driving in snow, knowing about front a rear wheel drive and all that sort of information are freely passsed about. I can even remember my dad letting me drive on the works deserted but snow covered car park before I had a license. So to me, driving a rear wheel drive car on snow is a know "best avoided" situation. She migh not have had the benifit of that sort of knowledge.
Or to put it another way... Say she is a computer expert. She notices your wireless internet is not secure. Would you prefer for her to not bother to tell you, or tell you and offer to help you out?
Its very easy to be smug when you know, especially something that you think of as common knowledge.
I have been lucky enough to come from a family where things like driving in snow, knowing about front a rear wheel drive and all that sort of information are freely passsed about. I can even remember my dad letting me drive on the works deserted but snow covered car park before I had a license. So to me, driving a rear wheel drive car on snow is a know "best avoided" situation. She migh not have had the benifit of that sort of knowledge.
Or to put it another way... Say she is a computer expert. She notices your wireless internet is not secure. Would you prefer for her to not bother to tell you, or tell you and offer to help you out?
Its very easy to be smug when you know, especially something that you think of as common knowledge.
Campfire
Über Member
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- near Risley Moss, Warrington
Gosh, she hadn't a clue, had she? I suppose she was in first gear too, with the wheels spinning like that! She probably had no idea whatsoever that the car is rear wheel driven. I spent about 7 years in my early driving life in the Peak District, where you just HAD to know how to get out of a fix. Always went to work with ballast in back, boot or van back, and a shovel, with a sack or two.
I've got an ancient 3 Series and it's not bad but I believe some of the new ones are hopeless in snow and ice. I do try to avoid it whenI can though and get a bus or walk unless I have to in these conditions.
I've got an ancient 3 Series and it's not bad but I believe some of the new ones are hopeless in snow and ice. I do try to avoid it whenI can though and get a bus or walk unless I have to in these conditions.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
I always help people who are stuck, can't stop myself- it's not even their fault if it's because they are stupid or ignorant or just in an unfamiliar situation, they still need someone to give them a hand. If they are complete prats then at least you can have a laugh while you're sorting them out!
Like to think that if I help someone, they pass it on. If they don't then it's their loss not mine.
Surely we've all been stuck in a situation where we've relied on help which has sometimes come from complete strangers? I have.
[Edit: she is particularly stupid though....]
Like to think that if I help someone, they pass it on. If they don't then it's their loss not mine.
Surely we've all been stuck in a situation where we've relied on help which has sometimes come from complete strangers? I have.
[Edit: she is particularly stupid though....]
Campfire
Über Member
- Location
- near Risley Moss, Warrington
Yes Archie_tect, I would always offer help too - and do on many occasions. I was going down a particularly snowy lane the other day when I saw a learner driver coming towards me. I just thought that that driver would have had a much more meaningful course of instruction before taking his test than people learning in any other season/conditions. I think it was good that the instructor had the guts to do that and the new driver would have a skill not otherwise gained.
