He touched my car

[Pedrosanchezo]

I feel your missing my point Pedro but I'm not about to fall out with you over it as I don't entirely disagree with you, I just occasionally feel the need to point out the ridiculousness of something trivial. Meanwhile....

I don't fall out with people easily. I am actually very placid in nature. Some things irk me which lead me to respond. Usually politely. I understand the trivialness to some regarding this situation, and i agree. That though has no bearing on how others will feel about it. That's the unknown. For that reason i would not choose to lean on a motor vehicle if i can simply unclip. Some might consider it rude and for that there is no need.

 

[Robson3022]

So I filter forward in some lights your already there unclipped waiting so I put my hand on your handle bars and rest there waititng for the lights to change?


Right............

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

Good call and I've used up my trivial thread quota of the month now.

I've now filled my monthly quota in one night. Good night folks.

 

[Dan B]

Silly argument. Just because something is in an area accessible to the public it doesn't give the public the right to damage it.

It wasn't an argument, it was a question. If you come round to my house and scratch my furniture, I'll be pissed off. If I'd left it at the side of the road, I think I have much less justification for flying off the handle

 

[Gary E]

Just curious and I'm in no way trying to re-open an argument here. But what's so damn hard about un-clipping anyway?

 

[theclaud]

So I filter forward in some lights your already there unclipped waiting so I put my hand on your handle bars and rest there waititng for the lights to change?


Right............

Why would you do that?

 

[Robson3022]

I wouldn't in the same way i wouldn't do it to a car.


Or is this equally acceptable??

 

[theclaud]

Possessions. ANY. You know, as in whats mine and whats yours. It's 9/10th's of the law you know. (Attempt at a joke).

So I can place anything I like on a public highway and no one may touch it? An anvil? A sofa? A yak? (Just for the sake of argument) a scattering of tacks?

 

[theclaud]

I wouldn't in the same way i wouldn't do it to a car.


Or is this equally acceptable??

It's a false equivalence. As in pretending things are The Same when they are obviously Different.

 

[Robson3022]

How are they in the grand scheme of things? Both are means of transport/pleasure? Whats the difference saves me unclipping?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Just curious and I'm in no way trying to re-open an argument here. But what's so damn hard about un-clipping anyway?

I've been wondering this as well. I spend much of my time on the road trying to avoid physical contact with vehicles and putting a foot down only seems like part and parcel of that independence.

 

[theclaud]

How are they in the grand scheme of things? Both are means of transport/pleasure? Whats the difference saves me unclipping?

I'm not talking about their transport function - I'm just trying to picture a situation where it would be useful, convenient and safe to rest on another cyclist's handlebars. I can't picture one. And that's because a car provides a large stable surface entirely unlike a bicycle's handlebars. The argument about unclipping is wasted on me - I don't lean on vehicles because it doesn't suit my preferences for road positioning. The thing to grasp, though, is that it is harmless.

 

[lukesdad]

Trundling through heavy traffic into York in my car this morning a roadie made his way up the nearside and rested his right hand on my bootlid.

I'm guessing this was to save him from unclipping his cleats as he knew we would be off again in a few seconds, which we were.

Do lots of road cyclists do this?

First time it's happened to me, although I don't drive a lot in traffic.

And is resting your hand on another vehicle acceptable or sensible behaviour?

No and No.

10 pages hmm clocks must have just altered.

 

[Lurpak]

I once leant on a bus window. The woman inside glanced at me and raised her hand to meet mine as a smile lifted her pale soft cheeks and her well massive eyes melted into mine. She was listening to her ipod, Coldplay probably, wanted to 'fix me' no doubt, the meddling harlot. Sod that. I rode on.

 

[dellzeqq]

One mans car is another mans bike. Just because it means little to you does not mean the rest of the population will conform. I am pretty sure the same issue being discussed in a "petrolheads" forum would have a different perspective.

yes, but they are small people with small brains and small everything else.

I don't put my hand on cars these days but that's because a) the wretched things move off, and, as clipless moments go, that would be the most embarrassing and b) I can't deal with the little volcano of outrage that sometimes ensues. But I do recall leaning my bike against a BMW when I was taking a rest on a country road, and the person who owned the BMW came across the road to remonstrate. Odd.