Some students need to be shot

[downfader]

The audacity of it. I go to pick up my bike from the sheds at work and ride home only to find some plank with a sh***y electric folder had not only jammed their bike in next to mind - handlebar on handlebar, but also knocked my bike over and scratched the Kinesis' frame all along the top tube.

[really rude word deleted to save your blushes]

This is the third time some idiot had damaged a bike of mine this year. If I catch them at it I will break their f***ing fingers off. As I retreived my bike theirs fell flat over, such was the stupid way they'd locked it up! Front wheel locked to the bottom of the sheffield stand. I should have slashed the tyres.

 

[summerdays]

I feel your pain ... I have the same problems in my son's school bike shed ... and gradually worked out which are the least popular stands - the ones furthest from the entry point and lock it up between the stand and the shelter (reducing the potential number of bikes that could touch it). You need a lock with big spikes sticking out sort of punk like ... only thing is I haven't seen one like that - that might put him off locking his bike up next to yours .

 

[Bigsharn]

Slashing the tyres is SO violent and uncalled for...

Little piece of gravel in the valvecap is more like it, then they wonder why it doesn't pump up

 

[skudupnorth]

What do you mean some students ??? Take out a load out i say and make the rest get a bloody job instead of doing some useless course on the social life of the Meerkat in captivity ! I hate it when you try your best to care for something you have bought only for some idiot to come along and and damage it !

 

[thomas]

How do you know it was a student?

 

[Headgardener]

How do you know it was a student?

You haven't been to Southampton then? Effin' everywhere with no clue about riding a bike or dealing with ped's or other traffic.

 

[downfader]

You haven't been to Southampton then? Effin' everywhere with no clue about riding a bike or dealing with ped's or other traffic.

Pretty much the truth.

My employer also has a large student body studying on the grounds. I get used to seeing them arrive on their BSOs and co. There are a couple of diehard roadies who are students though and they seem to show respect. I did have a word with some moron this summer when he pulled his bike out and rammed about 3 others pretty hard. I think I shouted something like "what the hell do you think you're doing!?" In complete disbelief.

 

[automatic_jon]

That's quite a jump suggesting the offender is a student simply because it happened in Scumpton. I've seen just as many numpties on bikes in St Mary's and Newtown as I have in Highfield and Burgess Road. As a student at Portsmouth uni, assigned to Southampton General Hospital I'm familiar with student and non-student cycling numpties.

ETA: That's not to say that some students don't want shooting.

 

[ACS]

Students, for intelligent people they really are pretty stupid people.

#1. Student with his shopping, stuffed into overloaded thin plasitc bags dangling off his handle bars, standing in the middle of the main road out of St Andrews holding onto his rusty BSO steady with one hand while trying to rescue the trail of items left behind with the other and wondering why drivers are shouting abuse at him.

#2. Male student riding a MTB BSO that is far to small for him, spinning madly on the lowest gear possble, with a full set of golf clubs over his back, chatting on his mobile and weaving between the cycle lane and the white line (19th hole effect), again because of his inability to hold a stable position in the road the school buses could not get past him. Much blasting of horns. Slipped along side him and expressed a forthright view only to be told to 'f*ck off. No problems not holding me up, but I think he was about road kill.

#3. Male student standing by the bike stand outside the university holding his front Q/R wheel and a D-Lock.

#4. Female student riding down a busy road leading to the halls with a 8 foot cardboard tube secured to the rack extending out into the road, forcing cars trying to overtake her into the gutter on the opposite side of the road just to squeeze past her safely.

 

[ThePainInSpain]

Students, for intelligent people they really are pretty stupid people.

#1. Student with his shopping, stuffed into overloaded thin plasitc bags dangling off his handle bars, standing in the middle of the main road out of St Andrews holding onto his rusty BSO steady with one hand while trying to rescue the trail of items left behind with the other and wondering why drivers are shouting abuse at him.

#2. Male student riding a MTB BSO that is far to small for him, spinning madly on the lowest gear possble, with a full set of golf clubs over his back, chatting on his mobile and weaving between the cycle lane and the white line (19th hole effect), again because of his inability to hold a stable position in the road the school buses could not get past him. Much blasting of horns. Slipped along side him and expressed a forthright view only to be told to 'f*ck off. No problems not holding me up, but I think he was about road kill.

#3. Male student standing by the bike stand outside the university holding his front Q/R wheel and a D-Lock.

#4. Female student riding down a busy road leading to the halls with a 8 foot cardboard tube secured to the rack extending out into the road, forcing cars trying to overtake her into the gutter on the opposite side of the road just to squeeze past her safely.

#1. Spanish
#2. Spanish
#3. Spanish
#4. Spanish

See that sort of thing all the time over here, but it ain't students.

#1. usually applies to someone riding a motor scooter, and not always shopping, could be a bail of hay, chickens, even the kids on occasions................

 

[thomas]

You haven't been to Southampton then? Effin' everywhere with no clue about riding a bike or dealing with ped's or other traffic.

Pretty much the truth.

My employer also has a large student body studying on the grounds. I get used to seeing them arrive on their BSOs and co. There are a couple of diehard roadies who are students though and they seem to show respect. I did have a word with some moron this summer when he pulled his bike out and rammed about 3 others pretty hard. I think I shouted something like "what the hell do you think you're doing!?" In complete disbelief.

ookkkaaaay....So I say again. How do you know this was caused by a Student? Believe it or not, stupid students do get jobs and still do stupid things.

I'm a student. I wouldn't ram your bike with mine. Or at least if I did damage yours (highly unlikely) I'd leave a note and we could claim off my CTC insurance.

 

[hypnose]

most students have little or no respect for their superiors nowadays, why they going to worry about a bike in a bike rack?

 

[thomas]

most students have little or no respect for their superiors nowadays, why they going to worry about a bike in a bike rack?

Students also like beer. It doesn't mean that when a brewery gets robbed that it's a student.

It could just of easily have been a lesser paid employee jealous of the fancy bike....or any other number of stories.

 

[downfader]

ookkkaaaay....So I say again. How do you know this was caused by a Student? Believe it or not, stupid students do get jobs and still do stupid things.

I'm a student. I wouldn't ram your bike with mine. Or at least if I did damage yours (highly unlikely) I'd leave a note and we could claim off my CTC insurance.

OK tbh theres no sticker on there saying S'ton Uni or whatever. Its an educated guess having seen those bikes ridden in and talking to others in the lockup. I'm 99% sure and usually right when I ask/chat to them.

 

[automatic_jon]

When students behave in disrespectful and stupid ways I don't thing they're doing it because they're students, they're doing it because they're, on the whole, young.
Looking back at when I was that age I can't imagine I was the most concientious, however I'd like to think I'm a bit better at it now even though I'm now a (mature) student.