stereotypes?

[Sandra6]

Oh, this again. Maybe all those injured by cyclists are in those secret hospitals and morgues I don't know about.

Just because they don't injure or kill somebody doesn't mean they aren't a risk. And a number of them come a cropper themselves.
Just because there aren't statistics to back it up, you can't pretend it isn't happening.
Some cyclists jump red lights, then the person coming in the opposite direction is forced to take evasive or protective action.
Some people on bikes hop on and off the pavement causing motorists and cyclists to swerve or brake.
Some ride down the pavement at a right of knotts making you leap out of the way to safety.
If those instances were my only experience of cyclists I'd be inclined to mutter "bloody cyclists putting others at risk all the time" too.

 

[Markymark]

Just because they don't injure or kill somebody doesn't mean they aren't a risk. And a number of them come a cropper themselves.
Just because there aren't statistics to back it up, you can't pretend it isn't happening.
Some cyclists jump red lights, then the person coming in the opposite direction is forced to take evasive or protective action.
Some people on bikes hop on and off the pavement causing motorists and cyclists to swerve or brake.
Some ride down the pavement at a right of knotts making you leap out of the way to safety.
If those instances were my only experience of cyclists I'd be inclined to mutter "bloody cyclists putting others at risk all the time" too.

Too much nonsense to go through point by point but I'll take my chances with the risks from cyclists (which doesn't include injury or death so I'm guessing the risk of a bad haircut?)

All the rest can be summed up as an inconvenience. Hardly in the same magnitude as the detah and injury as motirsts would have us pinned down for and our resulting death and injury partly to blame for.

It appears you are sucked into this sterotype

 

[Sandra6]

Too much nonsense to go through point by point but I'll take my chances with the risks from cyclists (which doesn't include injury or death so I'm guessing the risk of a bad haircut?)

All the rest can be summed up as an inconvenience. Hardly in the same magnitude as the detah and injury as motirsts would have us pinned down for and our resulting death and injury partly to blame for.

It appears you are sucked into this sterotype

Having been hit twice by people riding bikes, and been given more than a bad haircut as a result, I beg to differ.
I also know of a few young people who have landed themselves in the hospital through taking risks while riding in and out of traffic.

You seem to be sucked into the stereotype that motorists think cyclists are a plague upon society.

 

[Jody]

About half of the ones I see regularly are putting themselves and others at risk..

You must have some pretty bad cyclists up there if one in two are a danger to themselves and others. The majority of cyclists I see in a day be it road or off road ride well and courteously

 

[Markymark]

Having been hit twice by people riding bikes, and been given more than a bad haircut as a result, I beg to differ.
I also know of a few young people who have landed themselves in the hospital through taking risks while riding in and out of traffic.

You seem to be sucked into the stereotype that motorists think cyclists are a plague upon society.

I walk/cycle/drive around literally hundreds of cyclists a day in London and never had an issue.. must be we're all much better cyclists down here. Or it's not really an issue (as again the hospital beds and mortuaries will testify to). Although maybe there's a ward of drivers who swerved into trees to miss a cyclist that again I don't know about it.

Oh, as a clue, if there's no stats to back something up, in something as heavily recorded as traffic and hospital data, then the chances are it's because it isn't true.

 

[Sandra6]

Sorry, I was mistaken. I was never hit by a cyclist on the pavement afterall.
And I clearly didn't fall off my bike when I swerved as another rider decided to bounce off the pavement straight into my path.
Thank you for putting me right. I'd forgotten that if you weren't there to witness a thing it never happened.
I stand corrected.

 

[Markymark]

Sorry, I was mistaken. I was never hit by a cyclist on the pavement afterall.
And I clearly didn't fall off my bike when I swerved as another rider decided to bounce off the pavement straight into my path.
Thank you for putting me right. I'd forgotten that if you weren't there to witness a thing it never happened.
I stand corrected.

So we can talk anecdotes all day long which as you can demonstrate, is pointless. Best thing is to look at the overall picture and nationwide stats....which shows that cyclists are mostly harmless.

 

[wheresthetorch]

I'm a stereotype. I ride a bicycle, and keep holding up motorists who are in a hurry.