I hit a Ped.

[Keith Oates]

Come to Vietnam and you'll have all the ped problems that you can handle - and bikes - and cars - and buses - and trucks - and cows (oxen) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[hackbike 666]

Come to Vietnam and you'll have all the ped problems that you can handle - and bikes - and cars - and buses - and trucks - and cows (oxen) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love it.

 

[asterix]

I reckon York is the worst place in the world for finding careless pedestrians. How I have managed to avoid a strike so far is a mystery although I have taken out a plastic carrier bag as the guy stepped off the kerb w/o looking.

Manchester has provided richer pickings (2). 1 jogger who didn't look and a big fat person who remained standing while I fell off (low speed, on a cycle track fortunately).

 

[beanzontoast]

I reckon York is the worst place in the world for finding careless pedestrians.

No chance - you should try the Wardwick in Derby. [Monty Python mode] Worst place in the universe! [/Monty Python mode].

They chuck themselves off pavements like there's no tomorrow (which could well be true for some of them if they keep it up). Last night, four stepped out onto the road in front of me without looking as I passed through. That's in a 100 yard stretch. Because it's mostly buses, taxis and bikes, they seem to think if they can't hear an engine, they don't need to look for traffic.

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

I see this a lot when I am out on my bike in the cycle lane. Usually it's a group of lads and girls at a bus stop and as I approach one of the lads will step backwards on and off the kerb while chatting to his mates and then at the last moment take a couple of extra steps backwards into my path.

I have learnt to change to primary on the approach and pass wide.

Yeah, on one of my morning routes to work I pass a bus stop and if I time it wrong it will be teeming with early teeens. As well as the one you describe, there'll always be the hilarious lad who thinks it's cool to pretend to trip into the road as you pass.

Which is fine if you're expecting it and already in primary but would be a pest had you not spotted it and swerved whilst a cager was passing.

 

[tyred]

Come to Vietnam and you'll have all the ped problems that you can handle - and bikes - and cars - and buses - and trucks - and cows (oxen) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keeps you alert

 

[goo_mason]

Yeah, on one of my morning routes to work I pass a bus stop and if I time it wrong it will be teeming with early teeens. As well as the one you describe, there'll always be the hilarious lad who thinks it's cool to pretend to trip into the road as you pass.

Which is fine if you're expecting it and already in primary but would be a pest had you not spotted it and swerved whilst a cager was passing.

Ahhh, fond memories of my years on the off-road cyclepath commute and the Neds who'd see you coming, turn away, keep watching you from the corner of their eye and walk backwards into your path at the last second. I also remember the fun of being pounced upon by domtyler on these very forums for buying an Airzound and using it to avoid the situation later. (They'd no longer have been able to claim not to have been aware of my approach if I'd ever been unfortunate enough to hit one of the Burberry-clad scrotes )

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

Ahhh, fond memories of my years on the off-road cyclepath commute and the Neds who'd see you coming, turn away, keep watching you from the corner of their eye and walk backwards into your path at the last second. I also remember the fun of being pounced upon by domtyler on these very forums for buying an Airzound and using it to avoid the situation later. (They'd no longer have been able to claim not to have been aware of my approach if I'd ever been unfortunate enough to hit one of the Burberry-clad scrotes )

Yeah, the lighter evenings are meaning I see fewer bunnies on the first couple of miles of the way home round the lakes, and more chavs wandering about with their pitbulls. Which is a bit of a stereotype, I'll grant, but all too often true sadly.

I must have been a bit early this morning, or a bus was late, I turned into one of the roads on the first housing estate I cross and it was a sea of kids milling about in the vicinity of the bus stop.

 

[Unimaginative]

as I approach one of the lads will step backwards on and off the kerb while chatting to his mates and then at the last moment take a couple of extra steps backwards into my path.

In that situation, I doubt I would be able to resist yelling 'boo!' into their ear just as I pass (slowly) behind.

 

[iwf]

God, I wish I'd be able to hit the ped that walked out in front of me. Perhaps then I wouldn't be sitting here with a broken hip.

When I eventually get back on the bike, an airhorn will be one of my first purchases. Bollocks to shouting Boo.

 

[hackbike 666]

Yes I have two 6v horns (oooer) feel much safer with them on as the peds think im a larger vehicle.(or something like that)

Need to fit the 12v horn for testing on the spare bike.

 

[Riding in Circles]

I have a problem with the thread title, for some reason it invokes the tune of Kate Perrys "I kissed a girl" but with different words;

I hit a ped and I liked it,
I got covered in brains and kidneys.

 

[DJ]

Like the OP almost exactly the same happened to me, my shoulder got the ped right on the nose tho, I turned around to see a guy staggering around looking dazed, and blood flowing out, then another man came up and said just leg it, So I did, after shouting sorry, it was in one of those areas of london where you just don't stop.

 

[hackbike 666]

Blimey,I thought I was the only one originally and apparently it was down to bad cycling blah blah blah.

 

[Bman]

Been there. Done that.

A few years back….. Two peds decided they could run across the (narrow) road in front of me... They stopped and looked, but still decided to make a run for it. Then one of them changed their mind and stopped. The other continuing, blocking the only other escape route. I did brake, but I couldn’t avoid hitting her. She went down and I went sliding. Her friend helped her up and then they started to walk off! I realised I was laying in a bit of a blind spot and still on a road so picked myself and my bike up and limped off onto the pavement. Before I had assessed my injuries they were gone. Suffice to say, I can still feel the lump in my mouth caused by the injury. No sorry. Nothing.

Countless near misses and a few years later:

Just the other day, these two blokes both had *just* managed to narrowly avoid two lanes of traffic by running over a dual carriageway and were boasting about it to each other when about to walk across the (parallel) cycletrack, without looking. Bear in mind this is a downhill stretch for me, and I wasn’t going slow (I think 35mph is my record): I made my presence known as one of them stepped out without looking. The second stopped, as you would expect. But the one who was now nearly half way across, looked at me and decided to play “chicken”. Moving away at the last second. If we had connected, it wouldn’t have been minor injuries!


I think I need a camera!