Bloody Cyclists

[WTFH]

I could post up lots of stories of car drivers trying to run down cyclists round my area. At least they would be true....

Are you calling me a liar?



Here's another example... I was in our back garden 3 weeks ago collecting eggs on a Saturday morning when some cyclists came through the village having a discussion about "how pretty this f***ing village is, some lucky c**ts live here".


I say "having a discussion", but it was loud enough that half the village heard them. Lovely polite people.
Oh, and urinating on the wall of our house, or up against my wife's car, wonderful human beings. As for the energy gel packets that get discarded, tell me, is there any need for that? Can't you carry it home with you?


But the best bit is that my wife is qualified as a nurse, and when people come off their bikes they end up coming to our house to get patched up.
Of the 40-50 people we've patched up in the last 5 years only one person has come back to thank us - and that was a horse rider.
No cyclist has ever thanked us or offered to pay for the bandages and first aid kit that we buy.

[GlenW]

Are you calling me a liar?



Here's another example... I was in our back garden 3 weeks ago collecting eggs on a Saturday morning when some cyclists came through the village having a discussion about "how pretty this f***ing village is, some lucky c**ts live here".


I say "having a discussion", but it was loud enough that half the village heard them. Lovely polite people.
Oh, and urinating on the wall of our house, or up against my wife's car, wonderful human beings. As for the energy gel packets that get discarded, tell me, is there any need for that? Can't you carry it home with you?


But the best bit is that my wife is qualified as a nurse, and when people come off their bikes they end up coming to our house to get patched up.
Of the 40-50 people we've patched up in the last 5 years only one person has come back to thank us - and that was a horse rider.
No cyclist has ever thanked us or offered to pay for the bandages and first aid kit that we buy.

You're just a hero, a fecking liar, but still a hero.

[BrilloPad]

Are you calling me a liar?

Yes. Because of your sweeping generalisations and extrapolations.

There are plenty of bad cyclists out there. And good ones. Same can be said of car drivers and pedestrians.

There is space for all of us out there.

[SueEllen]

Interesting post by the Dorking Cockerel this morning on Facebook:
"I assume all the riders that took part yesterday are going to go back round today and clear up all the crap they chucked overboard on their little cycle ride?"






Nope, someone else's job to clear up after them because they have the right to do whatever the feck they want with no responsibility or concern for others apart from themselves.

You are being stupid now.

The rubbish is caused by the lack of organisation by the race organisers as runners who run halfs and marathons don't clear up after themselves either.

Some (lucky) volunteers are given the job of clearing up the race route.

[SueEllen]

I say "having a discussion", but it was loud enough that half the village heard them. Lovely polite people.
Oh, and urinating on the wall of our house, or up against my wife's car, wonderful human beings. As for the energy gel packets that get discarded, tell me, is there any need for that? Can't you carry it home with you?

The urination problem is an issue of all mass participation events. Very few in the UK actually have enough toilets, and actually bother talking to pub owners/petrol stations to ask if participants can use them.

And no they can't take the gels with them.

If the race organisers are too cheap and stupid to organise rubbish collection teams then it's up to your community to kick up a fuss to your council(s) and the race organisers. Also use social media to embarrass the race organisers.

[MicrosoftBob]

The urination problem is an issue of all mass participation events. Very few in the UK actually have enough toilets, and actually bother talking to pub owners/petrol stations to ask if participants can use them.

I bet the national watersports festival doesn't have that problem

[darmstadt]

What I noticed in London this weekend was a total disregard by many cyclists for not only other road users but pedestrians and themselves. I saw at least 2 women cyclists, who seem to be the ones getting killed, riding down the middle of a busy road, going through red lights and cutting across traffic. I saw quite a few riding the wrong way down pavements but the worst were the 'Boris Bike' riders, they were all over the place. Now I expect quite a lot of these are not daily cyclists so its to be expected that they are feckless morons. Currently London is not a city that I would recommend cycling in...

Mind you, I got myself an Oyster Card, that's a pretty good little thing to have but there was one instance where I was ripped off. You used to be able to walk from one side of Earls Court Station to the other without having to take a long'ish detour. Now you have to swipe in, then swipe out at the other end and I noticed it cost 30 pence!!!

[SueEllen]

In London both pedestrians and cyclists have no regard for other road users.

One reason why it's actually safer to cycle in London than you would think as car drivers are on their guard.

The ones with no patience are van drivers and taxi drivers. As long as you don't do stupid things around a HGV or bus e.g. go on the inside of it you are fine.

[BrilloPad]

In London both pedestrians and cyclists have no regard for other road users.

One reason why it's actually safer to cycle in London than you would think as car drivers are on their guard.

The ones with no patience are van drivers and taxi drivers. As long as you don't do stupid things around a HGV or bus e.g. go on the inside of it you are fine.

You have never cycled in London have you.

[SueEllen]

You have never cycled in London have you.

Unfortunately I have.

I also drive in London and occasionally across it.