*MERGED* Militant Cyclists & Joggers

[ThunderPants73]

The amount of times I've nearly been knocked off my bike by car drivers failing to check their blind spot before pulling off or even opening the door is amazing.

If a car driver bothers to use their indicators it's a miracle.

I'm one of the few that take cycling seriously and DO obey the rules of the road. I was nearly hit the other day by some twot doing a wheelie on a moped up the middle of the high street.

Cycle lanes? The cycle lanes around my town usually have feckin' cars parked in them, which means you either have to pull out into the traffic (onto a narrower lane made narrower by the inclusion of the car park... sorry, cycle lane), or mount the pavement and be reviled. Personally, I squeeze by the cars and take off/damage as many wing mirrors as I can.

I was nearly hit the other month by some plonker in a car pulling into a space next to the bike racks outside of Tesco, gave me a right roasting for being there, trying to lock my bike up. The fact that the space he was trying to pull into was reserved for motorcycles was totally lost on the turd.

[spreadsheet]

Originally Posted by ThunderPants73

Cycle lanes? The cycle lanes around my town usually have feckin' cars parked in them, which means you either have to pull out into the traffic (onto a narrower lane made narrower by the inclusion of the car park... sorry, cycle lane), or mount the pavement and be reviled.

I am both (or have been) cyclist and car driver and been vengeful on either front


It maddens me when you see a chav come careering round a corner on a pavement resplendent with spliff in mouth and yet I don't see a huge problem with cyclists going through parks - as long as they take it easy and sound a casual bell


I don't like it when there's two lycra clad frenzied types clogging up the road right next to a park shouting loudly to each other about what offers are currently on at waitrose!


so - as usual, it seems, not everyone is the same

---------- Post added 04-12-2013 at 00:03 ---------- Previous post was 03-12-2013 at 23:57 ----------

happy anniversary to the thread as I see it's now over ten years old!!

[Ramrod]

Hell of a bump!

I too am on both sides of the fence but I always indicate when driving(saved my bacon a couple of times!) and never cycle two abreast etc...

[Derek]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/s...-2013120681761

THE abolition of tax discs has left drivers without physical evidence of paying something that cyclists don’t.

Thousands of motorists cherished the windscreen adornment as visual proof that roads belong to four-wheeled transport.