Unwritten Rules

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JT1988

New Member
Location
Hornchurch
Hi all, this is only my second post, i have been commiting to work for a bout 3 weeks now (15 mile each way)

Can we start a thread where we have the unwritten rules for cycling written! I am new to this so I thought I would leave it to you guys.
 
Location
Rammy
but then they wouldn't be unwritten :0

they can be sumarised by saying "don't be a div and you'll be fine" ;)
 

Will1985

Guru
Location
Norfolk
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Greenbank

Über Member
#1 When arriving at a set of traffic lights on red, if you do bother to stop, ignore the queue of cyclists waiting patiently in the order they arrived at the lights. Simply go straight to the front of the queue past all of the people that overtook you on the last section and pull in front blocking their swift egress.

And there's also no rush when the lights do change to green. Simply begin to slowly wobble forward in your slow gentle easy style without a care in the world.

#2 The only reasonable time for having a go at a fellow cyclist for being "stupid and irresponsible" for "not wearing a helmet" is when:
a) you're wearing one yourself that is done up so loosely that, in the event of an accident, the straps of it would only serve to remove your ears before it eventually bounced off down the road.
B) and it's dark and you don't have any lights and a practically invisible
c) and then plowing through the pedestrian crossing with scant regard for the pedestrians trying to use it to cross the road.
 

dellzeqq

pre-talced and mighty
Location
SW2
#3 If you are an Islington cyclists you are exempt from all rules, written or unwritten. If a cyclist has stopped at a red light you are allowed to go past giving two inches of clearance before wobbling on as in #1 above. If that same cyclist comes up behind you on the open road you are entitled to veer from left to right and to shout out '**** off' in clipped middle class tones if he or she clips your front wheel
#4 Members of the London Dynamo are allowed to ride on the pavement at Hampton Court Bridge and to travel at 35mph downhill in Richmond Park where the speed limit is 20mph. This is because they are 'training' which, in this instance, means eyeing up each other's bikes while calling their mummys to ask them to collect them in the 4x4 so that they don't have to ride on those nasty roads.
 

arallsopp

Post of The Year 2009 winner
Location
Bromley, Kent
Greenbank said:
#1 When arriving at a set of traffic lights on red, if you do bother to stop, ignore the queue of cyclists waiting patiently in the order they arrived at the lights. Simply go straight to the front of the queue past all of the people that overtook you on the last section and pull in front blocking their swift egress.

Not infact an unwritten rule. This is actually the well documented "sandbar of idiocy". B)
 

Jake

New Member
ROFL very good. although i was doing 34.9mph downhill in Richmond Park on saturday lol
 

Fab Foodie

hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
Location
Kirton, Devon.
Full-on Lycra-clad Roadies must never acknowledge the riders of any other type of cyclist. We must maintain our air of aloofness at all time.

You can never like Campagnolo AND Shimano.

In any photo of a fixie, the chain is always slack.
 
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