Ran over a Ped Today :(

[Sittingduck]

Geezer looked like some kind of scouse chuckle brother to be honest and definitely wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Still, glad he wasn't injured (or was putting on a brave face if he was). Happened on a very bustling street and I could hear the "Oooh's" from the spectators stood at the bus stop opposite.

Shame about the pooch Jim.

Was it a shared path Lisa or one of those with a white line seperating the Peds from bikes?

 

[Lisa21]

Was it a shared path Lisa or one of those with a white line seperating the Peds from bikes?

It was a shared path-she was walking bang on the white line.Probably testing to see if she was still drunk after the weekend

 

[Sittingduck]

Muppet alert then. I suggest a playful slap of her ass next time you go by her

 

[redjedi]

Close call SD.

One of my workmates broke a collar bone after colliding with a ped. He was off the bike for months.

I hope his toe swells up in the morning

 

[Sittingduck]

I'd put money on the foot hurting pretty badly

 

[Jim_Noir]

I got hit by a guy on a racer going down hill when I was a kid, I ran in front of him... wasn't sore.. My Dad blames this for my hobbies of going into a ring to get the living day lights kicked out of me

 

[Aperitif]

You ran over somoeone's foot on your bike SiD?

The poor sod.

I have been close to collision but never made contact. Camden Town on Friday evening, by the Hobgoblin, is a classic near miss (but I wish I could mow you down) zone.

 

[hackbike 666]

I was going to put a thread up about peds after yesterdays inward commute with one main incident and the other on the basis of couldn't care less and stupidity.

Coming down from Tower Gateway after 1230pm down Lower Thames street at speed I spy peds at the traffic lights which are showing green (for me) and also slow moving traffic.A few peds at the said traffic lights and I don't like it so I stick my finger on the horn button and both horns blare out.So far so good then just as I get to where the peds are,with the horns blaring out a ped decides to step off of the pavement in front of me,then I call her a stupid twat.(Yes I did slow as I approached them as I do not trust peds,you can always rely on them to do something stupid)

I get to Southwark Bridge to the cycle lane which is protected by concrete barriers and there is a ped actually walking in there with her back to me staring at her phone and walking away from me.The Northbound cycle lane is closed as usual.

I thought these cycle lanes were to protect cyclists from big lorries and buses that use the bridge and not for some selfish ped who has the whole of the ppavement to walk on.

What am I supposed to do? I despair of some of the general morons in London.

 

[Crankarm]

I was going to put a thread up about peds after yesterdays inward commute with one main incident and the other on the basis of couldn't care less and stupidity.

Coming down from Tower Gateway after 1230pm down Lower Thames street at speed I spy peds at the traffic lights which are showing green (for me) and also slow moving traffic.A few peds at the said traffic lights and I don't like it so I stick my finger on the horn button and both horns blare out.So far so good then just as I get to where the peds are,with the horns blaring out a ped decides to step off of the pavement in front of me,then I call her a stupid twat.(Yes I did slow as I approached them as I do not trust peds,you can always rely on them to do something stupid)

I get to Southwark Bridge to the cycle lane which is protected by concrete barriers and there is a ped actually walking in there with her back to me staring at her phone and walking away from me.The Northbound cycle lane is closed as usual.

I thought these cycle lanes were to protect cyclists from big lorries and buses that use the bridge and not for some selfish ped who has the whole of the ppavement to walk on.

What am I supposed to do? I despair of some of the general morons in London.

If they step out on you just knock the mobile out of their hand. That will teach them to jay walk and talk .

 

[hackbike 666]

No peds on the return but a bus flashing me on Waterloo Bridge as I approached the bus stop before him.

I mean wtf was that about?

Caught him up at the north end of the bridge and was asking what the problem was but he just ignored me.

I think it was an 88 bus.

There used to be a cyclist on here who used to buy chocolates for nice bus drivers but if he rode over Waterloo Bridge he'd have a fit.

 

[beanzontoast]

what is the etiquette for warning people that your coming? And dont say airhorn you lot. There must be a polite way. I whistle, but somtimes it may sound like a wolf whistle lol. I think "oi" is good if used at the right time

"Oi!" is a good quick warning. "Watch out!" isn't bad either.

To be avoided is: "I believe if we each continue to pursue our respective trajectories and velocities without due regard for each other's course and speed, it is my estimation that there is a high probability of a cyclist-pedestrian collision which might possibly result in one or both of us sustaining unfortunate and (in all likelihood) painful personal injury necessitating self-applied first aid treatment at the very least or in the worst-case scenario requiring the urgent summoning of a competent and professionally qualified member of the medical profession in order that they might minister palliative care en situ and thereafter continue remedial treatment upon conveying us to the nearest repository for the sick and injured which maintains a suitable accident and emergency department."

 

[PBancroft]

what is the etiquette for warning people that your coming? And dont say airhorn you lot. There must be a polite way. I whistle, but somtimes it may sound like a wolf whistle lol. I think "oi" is good if used at the right time

The problem is there isn't a standard for bikes. On my old bike I had a bell, and once or twice a ped would tell me off for using it to warn them (when they weren't looking) as it was "rude."

My current bike doesn't have a bell, and recently I said excuse me to a ped stood in the middle of the road. He told me to "get a bell."

Can't win.

 

[Sittingduck]

You ran over somoeone's foot on your bike SiD?

The poor sod.

I have been close to collision but never made contact. Camden Town on Friday evening, by the Hobgoblin, is a classic near miss (but I wish I could mow you down) zone.

Indeed

 

[mickle]

"Oi!" is a good quick warning. "Watch out!" isn't bad either.

To be avoided is: "I believe if we each continue to pursue our respective trajectories and velocities without due regard for each other's course and speed, it is my estimation that there is a high probability of a cyclist-pedestrian collision which might possibly result in one or both of us sustaining unfortunate and (in all likelihood) painful personal injury necessitating self-applied first aid treatment at the very least or in the worst-case scenario requiring the urgent summoning of a competent and professionally qualified member of the medical profession in order that they might minister palliative care en situ and thereafter continue remedial treatment upon conveying us to the nearest repository for the sick and injured which maintains a suitable accident and emergency department."

 

[John the Monkey]

I had a bell on the first commuter I ever had (a drop bar ten speed). It was easy enough to "ting" if you saw people up ahead.

The problem with it was that no one ever seemed to know what it was supposed to mean. Up in Rusholme, with the students (where it was most needed) it either couldn't penetrate the wall of sound from their iPODs, or, when it was heard, they'd stop and look around in a vague sort of a way, trying to recall what such a sound could possibly mean. The last straw for me was a similar experience to that outlined by Mr. Paul, where an old chap on a bridle path up near home told me off for "ting"-ing aggressively.

These days, I favour an "Excuse me please" or "Mind your backs" where people are obstructing the path, a "passing on your left/right" for going past pedestrians, bikes and horses and a shout of "BIKE!" or "WATCH OUT!" where someone steps into my path suddenly.