Inches Away From A Side-On This Morning, But With A Twist!!....

[domtyler]

BM, he's been away for Donkeys ages (even longer than you) so I think this is Dom's way of saying hello!

Aye up!

What's new?

 

[goo_mason]

This is more like it! All we need now is col (please come back!) and Mr Hippo (please stay away!) and this'll turn into a retro CC thread in no time.

DomTyler and Col - the shoulderpads of CC

 

[magnatom]

Aye up!

What's new?

I go faster now and don't breath as hard as I used to!

So what have you been up to and where have you been hiding?

 

[domtyler]

You're on a windup, right Dom? You can't be serious, and besides, by riding on the pavement he wasn't an innocent member of the public.

I wouldn't really say that no. How do you know that guy does not suffer from serious emotional and/or psychological issues that prevent him from venturing onto the road?

 

[domtyler]

I go faster now and don't breath as hard as I used to!

So what have you been up to and where have you been hiding?

Work has not been kind to my sphincter muscles over the past year but I have somehow managed to survive the mass culls and even come out the other side significantly better paid which is nice! Looking forward to bonus season again now!

Can't really cycle in my new role and don't get the time to web surf as much as I did which is a bit of a bummer.

Will shortly become a dad for the second time as well!

Apart from that, bugger all really!

 

[Origamist]

Not really sure what makes you think you have the authority to chastise innocent members of the public in that 'highfaluting' fashion.

I come back from lunch and look who crawls out of the woodwork...

All we need now is Cab (if only he could pull himself away from the marrows and faecal matter of his allotment) and then we will have completed the CC/C+ "Old Boys" commuting network...

 

[magnatom]

Work has not been kind to my sphincter muscles over the past year but I have somehow managed to survive the mass culls and even come out the other side significantly better paid which is nice! Looking forward to bonus season again now!

Can't really cycle in my new role and don't get the time to web surf as much as I did which is a bit of a bummer.

Will shortly become a dad for the second time as well!

Apart from that, bugger all really!

Glad it's worked out for you.

2 kids is nothing... I have a third on the way!

 

[Twenty Inch]

I suppose it's time for me to call DomTyler a cock, or something. It's been so long for both of us I can't really remember how we're supposed to behave.

 

[Bollo]

Glad it's worked out for you.

2 kids is nothing... I have a third on the way!

FFS Maggers! If you'd switch to some proper medical phsyics with ionising radiation rather than messing with iron filings, this wouldn't be a problem.

 

[magnatom]

FFS Maggers! If you'd switch to some proper medical phsyics with ionising radiation rather than messing with iron filings, this wouldn't be a problem.

So if I switch to Nuclear Medicine now, will I avoid an operation?....

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Hey! my thread's turned into a big friends reunited love-in!

Oh well I suppose it's been put to good use.....

Carry on!!!

 

[Bollo]

So if I switch to Nuclear Medicine now, will I avoid an operation?....

Simply bombard your cock and balls with antimatter and job done.

 

[Arch]

Havn't got sound at work, will have another look when I get home though.

Made me laugh him going over the crossing though - not that I ever do that sort of thing of course

Seriously though, everyone has to start somewhere and that's going to be a pavement, confidence has to be built up. Just started a full time commute on bike (only a couple of mile) and is now mostly on road, I tend to just use the pavement whilst struggling up the bit of hill as I'm going mega slow.

Don't worry about being slow, you'll get faster.

If you want to build up confidence on the road though (and if you mostly ride on the road this maybe doesn't quite apply), the pavement isn't the place to get it. It's like stabilisers, once they come off, you still have to learn to ride without them. If you are new to cycling, may I sugest a look at the book Cyclecraft? Most poeple on here would say it's a good whay to learn cycling roadcraft.

The problem with people riding on the pavement, even carefully*, is that other people get het up about it (it is after all, illegal) and use it to prop up their arguments about all us 'lycra louts' who apparently never stop at red light,s and are constantly mowing down old ladies on the pavement and murdering puppies. Much better to get off the pavement and onto the road and take your rightful place in the jungle....

*of course most of us, if we wanted to, could ride perfectly safely on the pavement, because we know to moderate our speed for the conditions - but we'd rather get on on the road. The trouble is, everyone sees the pricks who weave about at top speed, and we all get branded.

Welcome back Dom!

 

[semislickstick]

I wonder how many 'pavement cyclists' are actually mistaken as doing something they shouldn't, I've had comments from walkers and joggers who had no idea they were on a shared use path, despite the little blue signs (the joggers on a path that actually had painted bikes under foot every so often)

 

[purplepolly]

I wonder how many 'pavement cyclists' are actually mistaken as doing something they shouldn't,

This year so far...

I've been shouted at maybe half a dozen times, in language I wouldn't repeat to my mother, for cycling across pedestrian crossings. They were all toucan crossings, which of course cyclists can legally cycle over.

I've been shouted at for cycling on the pavement a couple of times by drivers queueing alongside a split pavement / cyclepath. I was on the cyclepath which is clearly marked in newish green paint and big white pcitures of bicycles.

I've been chased round a business park and almost forced off the bike by a wvm who thought I had been cycling on the pavement. It was a national cycle route and the driver was been standing underneath the blue and white cyclepath signs before he started venting his spleen at me.


Based on this, I automatically disbelieve, on grounds of incompetency, any non-cyclist who claims to have seen a pavement cyclist.