Pedestrian called 999 to report me cycling on a cycle path...

[Salty seadog]

They don't make one of them anymore..

Or the yellow pages.

 

[simonali]

My main reason for posting the video was that the boy is reading a racing bikes catalogue, which is definitive proof that they exist!

 

[swansonj]

“Racing bike” and “road bike” are both marketing terms, designed to make people feel good, rather than functional terms, designed to convey information. Nothing wrong with using marketing terms to make people feel good - except that both terms (more so “road bike”) convey unfortunate subliminal messages about what is normative in cycling.

 

[simonali]

And lo, the pedantry doth continueth...

 

[Salty seadog]

 

[simonali]

I'm not going down there, I want to stay up here with the funny folk.

 

[Salty seadog]

I'm not going down there, I want to stay up here with the funny folk.

Anyway, those screen things.....

 

[simonali]

Still no eye deer

 

[Salty seadog]

Still no eye deer

Ahhh the old one are the best.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

West Riding of Yorkshire.

Whenever I hear that phrase I always think of

W.R.C.C. Now wash your hands

 

[classic33]

Still no eye deer

Pink Eye?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I just remembered the best noise ever to alert pedestrians, dogs, even cars: the sound of squealy disk brakes!

 

[mjr]

I have never had that, I have had people almost jump out of their skin when saying a simple "Hello" they were clearly in another world.

I hate people who sneak up and say hello when a nice bell from a safe distance is so much more polite... but back to a more serious topic:

 

[mjr]

Home made signs mean nothing and have no jurisdiction. Ignore or rip down and dump in the bin.

Are they flyposting? Can flyposters be given ASBOs these days?

 

[Andy in Germany]

I know a lot of people disagree, but I hate bells, it seems to me you are ringing it saying get out of my way, a polite excuse me is my preferred way it works most of the time and a thank you when I pass, but you do get the odd wheres your bell? even when they have quite clearly heard excuse me and moved out of the way, of course neither is any good against headphones.

A bell is a legal requirement on a bike in Germany but I feel the same about them. I try to ring when I'm some distance away and make sure to say thank you when I do pass the pedestrians. Strangely, several times I've been thanked in return -especially by horse riders- for 'giving them plenty of warning'.

One time in northern Germany I was told off for 'not whistling' and after that I realised many cyclists there do whistle pedestrians out of the way.Must be a local thing.

I find the cacophony of rattles made by my Bakfiets alerts pedestrians/horses et c long before I think of ringing a bell.