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Post by kris on Dec 20, 2017 20:28:12 GMT
I hate cyclists who have really bright lights and shine them in the eyes of anybody coming towards them. Effectively blinding anybody infront of them, yes they can see where they are going but anybdy coming towards them can't see a thing. I blame really bright cheap led's oh and the self centeredness of our society generally.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2017 20:32:30 GMT
Merry christmas Rog
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Post by kris on Dec 20, 2017 20:40:12 GMT
Merry christmas Rog cyclists don't deserve christmas.
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Post by dyertribe on Dec 20, 2017 21:07:56 GMT
I hate cyclists who think that ringing their bell gives them right of way on any road, towpath or pavement they happen to be on.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2017 21:16:45 GMT
To be honest I increasingly just dislike cyclists full stop. They are a bloody nuisance on the roads, especially the ones wearing dark clothing and no lights at all in winter they should just be confined to dedicated cycleways.
I stopped a couple of weeks back to point out the error of the ways of one such moron and he went absolute ballistic with me because I couldn't see him. I should have just gently knocked him off into the gutter instead and ran over his rather expensive bike.
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Post by kris on Dec 20, 2017 21:20:07 GMT
I'm beginning to agree with you Martin I think I should just start pushing them Into the cut. I think no lights and a sensitivity to other people is better than really bright lights and a im alright jack attitude though.
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Post by Telemachus on Dec 20, 2017 21:47:26 GMT
I'm beginning to agree with you Martin Oh dear, I seem to have slipped into a parallel universe.
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Post by kris on Dec 20, 2017 21:50:34 GMT
I'm beginning to agree with you Martin Oh dear, I seem to have slipped into a parallel universe. ive actually agreed with Martin before, not about everything I hasten to add. I've even agreed with things you've posted before Nick although I did have to swallow the bile that it brought up.
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 20, 2017 22:16:48 GMT
Apart from a couple of Cambridge city centre pedestrian area tossers 25 years ago I can't say cyclists have ever caused me enough annoyance that I would single them out.
There are twats in cars with super bright headlights, twats on motorcycles who think it's their right to never use dipped lights, cyclists with those led lights Kris mentioned and on foot, old ladies who never, ever alter their course to allow for others.
Bunch of cunts the lot of them!
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Post by Delta9 on Dec 20, 2017 22:24:24 GMT
It's the middle aged men in yellow lycra that piss me off the most. If someone can't afford a car and is using their only form of transport to get to work I have a little more understanding, but riding for pleasure, dressing like a bellend and doing so on busy A roads or narrow country roads really boils my piss. If you turn your left hand windscreen washer to the side you can 'accidentally' squirt them as you pass
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 20, 2017 23:03:17 GMT
It's the middle aged men in yellow lycra that piss me off the most. If someone can't afford a car and is using their only form of transport to get to work I have a little more understanding, but riding for pleasure, dressing like a bellend and doing so on busy A roads or narrow country roads really boils my piss. If you turn your left hand windscreen washer to the side you can 'accidentally' squirt them as you pass We get dozens of those who fit your visual description around here, maybe hundreds. The marina cafe is somewhere they congregate for a bacon sarnie. But despite looking silly they behave courteously on the road so I say good on them. I do get annoyed if I'm up on the moors and city people, who if they dressed in country colours you wouldn't really notice, are head to foot bright coloured visual litter with (for some fuckin reason) a pair of ski poles. Honestly if you can't walk up a hill without falling over you should stay in your car.They do the bight clothing on the one in a million chance the weather might catch them out and they need rescuing I suppose, but could pack something suitable that would have the same effect? Fortunately these folk generally litter the countryside only at weekends so can be largely avoided. The whole thing stems from people being conned into thinking that doing anything whatsoever involves spending money and the more money you spend the better you're doing it. All the gear and no idea. My brightest kit is dark blue, most of it dark green or brown, no fucking ski poles but I do have a windproof hat. And another thimg - maps, the cunts have maps and a compass but all too often are miles from where they think they are and going the wrong direction, dressed like a cross between a skier and a warning sign.
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Post by Stumpy on Dec 20, 2017 23:18:19 GMT
To be honest I increasingly just dislike cyclists full stop. They are a bloody nuisance on the roads, especially the ones wearing dark clothing and no lights at all in winter they should just be confined to dedicated cycleways. I stopped a couple of weeks back to point out the error of the ways of one such moron and he went absolute ballistic with me because I couldn't see him. I should have just gently knocked him off into the gutter instead and ran over his rather expensive bike. Around here it's called 'The Pavement'.
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Post by kris on Dec 21, 2017 3:15:03 GMT
To be honest I increasingly just dislike cyclists full stop. They are a bloody nuisance on the roads, especially the ones wearing dark clothing and no lights at all in winter they should just be confined to dedicated cycleways. I stopped a couple of weeks back to point out the error of the ways of one such moron and he went absolute ballistic with me because I couldn't see him. I should have just gently knocked him off into the gutter instead and ran over his rather expensive bike. Around here it's called 'The Pavement'. they seem to think the towpath is a dedicated cycle path.
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Post by tonyb on Dec 21, 2017 7:37:11 GMT
Around here it's called 'The Pavement'. they seem to think the towpath is a dedicated cycle path. I have been told as much by a youth who forced himself past us at well over 10mph ringing his bell like mad on the K&A "improved" towpath in Reading. Its a pity the morons who get funding to stick up "cycle route xx" all over the place do not organise wardens to keep such pratts in order.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 8:14:47 GMT
It is a sad state of affairs and slightly ironic that improvements to towpath access simply result in more wanker cyclists making it unpleasant. One approach for the bright light problem which I agree is very antisocial is to get yourself a powerful torch (one of those ones which says "this product may cause temporary blindness" as this is what the cyclist is using), when they approach just shine your torch directly at their face. You have as much right as they do to have a light I have very occasionally come across cyclists who have large lamps and small lamps and actually turn off the large one when they approach a pedestrian. OK it was once. And it was a boater on a bike on a very dark path with almost nobody about except me. Another thing is strobe lights. These can cause significant problems for some people but dickhead cyclists seem to think it's ok. Tossers I think it's all related to cars. These people are naturally just inconsidrate racy car drivers who have taken to bicycles for one reason or another. Put them on bikes the behaviour is exactly the same as when they are in their cars. Its a car driver mentality. Its actuslly very sad and shows some sort of societal problem as kris suggests in his OP Obviously it would be good if cycles had proper dedicated cycleways (preferably tunnels ) but while they don't they are basically a nuisance to more or less everyone else. Of course they are saving the planet for future generations so they are in the Right forever. Carte blanche to be a cunt.
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