Dogtrousers
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One question I ask myself is "What would Sergeant Wilson do?". You don't have to actually say "Would you mind awfully..." But it helps to think it.
If I ask pedestrians to move - do they have to?
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snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
The front brake on my hybrid bike has a most "unfortunate" squeal/shriek sound which, despite my thoughts to fix it, still persists. 
It slightly 'ups the urgency' if the peds have not responded to the bell (which is a "tring-tring", not a "ping") and they do tend to move fairly rapidly - and I always thank them.
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It slightly 'ups the urgency' if the peds have not responded to the bell (which is a "tring-tring", not a "ping") and they do tend to move fairly rapidly - and I always thank them.
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SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
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yeh - and that was the cause of my OH purchasing me a bottle of brake cleaner... instead of chocolates as a present! AHHHHThe ftont brake on my hybrid bike has a most "unfortunate" squeal/shriek sound which, despite my thoughts to fix it, still persists.
It slightly 'ups the urgency' if the peds have not responded to the bell (which is a "tring-tring", not a "ping") and they do tend to move fairly rapidly - and I always thank them. :Grin: ...
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(Edit: got my own back today and marched him into a hotel chocolate shop and made him buy me some chocolate...
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mustang1
Guru
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- London, UK
Like the others said, you don't have right of way. What you could do is get off your bike and make yourself a pedestrian, then just walk incruciatingly slowly and big the entire path. When they ask you to move, give then the same answer they gave you.
mr_cellophane
Legendary Member
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- Essex
Walk round them on the grass and then stand on the path for 5 minutes while you clean the mud off your bike and shoes. See if then can go single file to walk round you !
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Pedestrians have priority
as do cyclist when riding slowly two abreast...we cant have it both ways.
patience and courtesy, works for me.
as do cyclist when riding slowly two abreast...we cant have it both ways.
patience and courtesy, works for me.
marzjennings
Guru
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- Houston, Texas, USA
As mentioned it's not the nicest way to treat peds, though sometimes very tempting. But a useful training exercise in getting used to how the bike feels when the rear wheel breaks traction. Best place to start is on grass where the back wheel will skid easily and you won't really damage the rear tyre. On the road, skidding will shred your tyres, but becoming familiar with the sensation will prepare you for when you lose traction on gravel or a wet manhole cover.
Of course we can - we naturally have the moral high ground because we're cyclists ...
Burn the heretic !
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
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- Bristol
But you just had an enormous amount delivered, you want moreyeh - and that was the cause of my OH purchasing me a bottle of brake cleaner... instead of chocolates as a present! AHHHH
(Edit: got my own back today and marched him into a hotel chocolate shop and made him buy me some chocolate...
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
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I have generously been giving them away to familyBut you just had an enormous amount delivered, you want more
... anyhow hotel chocolate is usually for my drinking chocolate which I was down to 2 servings of... and given I have a hot chocolate with breakfast before I go for a bike ride, that's tomorrow and Monday and then I would have been out of it 
still haven't used the brake cleaner 
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
I had a bit of an embarrassing incident today. I rode up behind two people walking two-abreast full width on a narrow bit of unsegregated shared-use. Even if they were side-by-side a bit closer, I could get past, but no matter. I rang my fairly quiet brrring bell just so they'd know I was approaching (I've been told off for eavesdropping and for making people jump before by approaching too quietly) and the gent almost threw the lady into the side of a parked car! I sheepishly said thanks and accelerated past before I heard what she said to him because I think the air might be about to turn blue...
J.Primus
Senior Member
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- Northerner living in London
That is the worst. I've had someone launch themselves into a bush when I rang my bell cycling up the towpaths in the Leigh Valley. You do feel really bad but it is still really their fault....
