Cyclist attitudes.

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Reading about the Zil Lanes in under on the beeb and they posted this tweet from some idiot.

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There are cockends all over the place.

Some have briefcases, some own companies, some ride pushbikes and some have motorbikes.

Meh.

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well you see, cyclists in london fall into 2 catagories

1) jumped up enviromentalist hippies

2) "loves thier tech to much to buy a car/motorcycle"

sorry, i'll add a third

3) to stupid to be given a driving license (like that one with the ipod, sod letting her behind the wheel of a car or bars of a motorcycle)

so sure they'll kick up a stink and a fuss, just plough over them on ur way to work.
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[UnknownStuntm...]

I agree, the cyclist brigade has a loud mouthpiece. But I reckon most people see it for what it is. Crusty Jugglers with a big mouth.

In the real world, it's my opinion there are two types of cyclist, those that want to cycle, and those that have to cycle. And it's only those that want to cycle who get all militant and shouty. The "untrained cyclist" has no desire to better his or her skills on the saddle and hence will quietly and carelessly whistle through most of whatever changes anyone is asking or screaming for.

There's no answer, hence my big ol' Meh up above.

[Amreet]

exactly. Every group of road users has a group of cocks that end up leading to hatred from other road users. There are plenty of cyclists i come across that do more obs than some bikers I see, but then there are also the brain dead ipod zombies with no idea what's going on around them.

I think the cycle lane situation in London is absurd, lots of cycle lanes there are actually incredibly dangerous, some that cross roundabouts with no give way markings etc. LOADS that put the cyclist traffic directly in the door zone, all this leads to is the clever cyclists getting shit for trying not to die by avoiding riding in the part of the road where the healthy majority of cyclist fatalities occur, despite it being marked as a cycle lane.

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Lycra wearing bellends.

They are so damn uppidy about it too.
Run 'em all down
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On cyclists, I reckon you should have to take some sort of CBT type day class before you can cycle on the road, which can be removed similar to a license. Not only to prevent bad cycling for other road users, but for some cyclists own safety.

I managed 14 years of 200 mile a week though London with 1-2 accidents in all that time. I am baffled as to how some folk manage an accident a week.

Same as some motorcyclists I guess. Some folk just delude themselves into how good they are.

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[Minty]

I'm a cyclist and have been abused by other cyclists that have been caught out by me actually stopping at red lights.

I cycle the same as I ride me mo'bike. Follow the rules of the road*












*except maybe speed limits.
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[jackw72]

I am a cyclist who often goes through red lights and I understand that it causes anger from some people, the problem is there are people like that fuck-wit that knocked down serendipity who need to be culled and there are people who intelligently look at a situation like that, if that were you or I on a motorcycle we would slow for the end of the lorry and check round the rear of it not just poodle along as if there is not a care in the world. That behaviour will ultimately get you squashed. Motor or not.

If motorcycles were given the power to go through red lights then I would imagine 99% of the time it would be easy to judge whether it was safe to go or not. When you get to know the traffic lights and their order of working it becomes very easy to look for danger from one direction and it also makes it easy on a cycle to avoid that danger as a bicycle is a tiny target to hit in a car/bike.


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Ha ha, love how people just assume I'm jumping reds because I said cycling was quicker without actually thinking that perhaps there are cycle lanes that run on pavements, cycle lanes that have different light sequences to the road traffic lights (I can show you plenty of those in Manchester), have cycle routes that go through underpasses/over bridges or that to avoid all of those bad sequence traffic lights on a motorbike it's a much longer journey going on ring roads and bypasses. I can cycle from my house 4 miles right into the city centre on canal tow-paths as well. It's a very direct, straight and quick route and the paths are nice and wide so there's plenty of room for everyone.

This is exactly the kind of thing I mean about motorcyclists being the first to moan about prejudices against them but are also front of the queue to dish them out.

I'm not going to stick up for the cyclists who think that it's fine to jump reds all the time or that they have some kind of upper hand because they're on a bike because they all do my head in too and then I get lumped in with them.

As a user of both forms of transport regularly I can see both sides of the coin and understand all the various arguments. I agree that there should be some kind of test (and I don't mean a cycling proficieny course at 11 years old in primary school ) as I've seen some shockingly bad cycling since being in Manchester. There are plenty of totally blind/clueless students cycling up and down Oxford road that somehow haven't been killed by just pulling out in front of buses and taxis yet and it's only a matter of time before something bad happens there if it hasn't happened already. But then I also like the flexibility of cycling and the obvious cost benefits of cycling over motoring or public transport.

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