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Mondeo Man |
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Mondeo Man Trackday Trickster
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Posted: 13:35 - 22 Dec 2012 Post subject: Do cyclists go looking for trouble? |
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I cycle to work many days, and also out and about at weekends.
The thing that amazes me is how sedate and uneventful it is. I've been cycling for ten years plus and can count on one hand the number of times "cagers" have done something worthy of rebuke. When it happens, I think to myself, "you know, I'm not a perfect driver, I'm sure I've made mistakes. ..."
Yet, if you look at youtube, or talk to the average skinny tyred cyclist, you'd think cars were all out to get us. Cyclists seem as inflicted by pointless roadrage as anyone else - getting hot under the collar over incidents which are, actually, nothing. And, I think a lot of cyclists want minor incidents to happen, because otherwise they are recording trees and traffic lights.
I cycle and I see other cyclists and I think most cyclists haven't got a clue. The number I see undertaking as they join roundabouts, for example, is staggering. Or changing lanes - or position in lane - without any rear obs. And frankly, any cyclist who dies under a left turning lorry was as dimwitted as those who die at train crossings: fairly obvious to me not to take on a lorry at a junction.
Worst of all, is youngsters with no lights and mobile phones, texting. What the fuck? I'd love to see these wasters fall off. |
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G The Voice of Reason
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JonB Afraid of Mileage
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colin1 Captain Safety
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el_oso World Chat Champion
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Simple World Chat Champion
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I would challenge anyone to ride down Foleshill road in Coventry on a regular basis and not be run off the road by (typically) a man of dark skin with tattoos who drives a car with tinted windows and halfords accessories, who will then at the next set of traffic lights get out of his car to try and physically stop you and educate you on the highway code.
I actually don't ride on the road anymore. It's all very well being in the right in the eyes of the law, that doesn't help you if you're in a hospital bed or a coffin. Rather use my big steel diesel box and take my bike somewhere away from the dregs of Coventry.
My bike is Orange (in colour) my jacket is orange, I have an Exposure flare on the back, it's on even in daytime and I keep pace with traffic, I stop at red lights etc. Still get idiots trying to kill you.
Must be road tax envy.
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Cyclists are of course the only road user who doesn't require insurance to use it (horses riders do as do all motorised vehicle drivers), don't pay a road tax and require no test. They are also largely untraceable.
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Derivative World Chat Champion
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smegballs World Chat Champion
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 11 years, 98 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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