Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Sometimes, these situations bring out the best in people.
Sometimes not.
Sometimes not.
More "welcoming" (or not) lockdown signs.
- Thread starter BorderReiver
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Everybody worries at different levels and intensities to this awful virus. I've seen people wearing masks and disposable gloves and will cross the road when confronted with people.Others just carry on like normal.
It's a balancing act to what each feels is safe to do for themselves. The local fruit and veg shop won't let people in and will only serve customers from a table blocking the entrance to the shop. Other shops like supermarkets are fully open where the staff have been in close proximity of shoppers since day one of the lock down.
It a case of some being over cautious and others not. We should just respect each others fears and worries. A cafe owner would welcome the trade from anybody at the moment but there either closed or fearful for there safety, who can blame them.
This lock down isn't going to go on forever, so in the meantime just go with the flow and respect each others levels of anxietys
It's a balancing act to what each feels is safe to do for themselves. The local fruit and veg shop won't let people in and will only serve customers from a table blocking the entrance to the shop. Other shops like supermarkets are fully open where the staff have been in close proximity of shoppers since day one of the lock down.
It a case of some being over cautious and others not. We should just respect each others fears and worries. A cafe owner would welcome the trade from anybody at the moment but there either closed or fearful for there safety, who can blame them.
This lock down isn't going to go on forever, so in the meantime just go with the flow and respect each others levels of anxietys
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
I'd love to see the Venn diagram of the people who make these signs, Daily Mail readers, and the pink-faced retired majors on Question Time.
Globalti
Legendary Member
Living on the edge of a Lancashire mill town I can tell you that 14% of the town's population is playing fast and loose with the rules and at the same time wondering why their ethnic group comprises 36% of cases of Corona. We have had numerous examples of family groups meeting up and we have seen our neighbours entertaining members of their extended family including a GP and a paediatric consultant.
The risk posed by a few fit and healthy athletes breezing through a sparsely-populated village seem tiny by comparison.
The risk posed by a few fit and healthy athletes breezing through a sparsely-populated village seem tiny by comparison.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Excuse me, deplorable scumbags, would you mind terribly not being quite so deplorable and scummy. Thanks awfully.
As if a polite hand-wringing request will make a blind bit of difference.
(For the benefit of those who don't display graphics it's a polite letter from BC and Cycling UK asking morons not to be morons.)
As if a polite hand-wringing request will make a blind bit of difference.
(For the benefit of those who don't display graphics it's a polite letter from BC and Cycling UK asking morons not to be morons.)
Slick
Guru
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
"Don't hate 'cos you ain't"
I popped out and counted them. In truth I googled it, just typed in average age of people in xxxxx.
SkipdiverJohn
Deplorable Brexiteer
- Location
- London
So you've never been standing by the side of a road then, when a roadie, or group of them, come past huffing and puffing like steam trains - honking out of the saddle giving it a lung-busting effort to get up a gradient at speed rather than dropping right down into a low gear and spinning up? It doesn't take a genius to work out that the heavy breathing cyclists exhalations are going to carry further on the air than someone who just accepts that the climb is going to be slow, stays in the saddle, and gears down.
The virus doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I can see why some people don't want heavy breathing riders passing close by.
ExpatTyke
Yorkshireman in Deepest Somerset
- Location
- Weston-super-Mare
I had a quick look on the Facebook page for the Wharfe View Cafe (same business) - it looks like the previous owner was very pro-cycling but sold up a couple of months ago. Presumably that sign's been put up by either the new owner or tenant or a local curtain twitcher.
Slick
Guru
22.8% where I live.
22.8% where I live.
So not mostly as somebody thought earlier.
Last edited:
Slick
Guru
Surprisingly not. I actually found quite a detailed report of the whole region, very interesting. 👍
T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
- Location
- Northern Ireland
If I saw any such signs I would simply take it as a heads up to not support the business again. A local organic farm shop/tea room had very little cyclist custom until myself and my mate started visiting, posting pics on strava etc.. Similarly I've seen small cafes change owners and get a little hostile towards cyclists - close entirely.
