It's Alive!

[GJABS]

Does it have the name "Gordon"?
In which case it's "Gordon's Alive!"

[LondonManc]

I ride as courteously as I can, I have no wish to offend some pschotic muppet in a ton of metal. Do you drive that way?

Like a psychotic muppet or through Marylebone?

[vetran]

I appreciate that you don't have much room (that cycle lane between those two red lines on the A40 near Marylebone looks rubbish) but you do try to have it both ways; you want us to give you as much room as we would a car but are happy to try and get through gaps that don't exist and bump car mirrors.

I ride as courteously as I can, I have no wish to offend some pschotic muppet in a ton of metal. Do you drive that way?

[LondonManc]

Maybe if cars actually treated cyclists as vulnerable road users then there would be more cyclists alive?

UK Road Cycling Laws and Rules Explained: Overtaking Cyclists




That doesn't mean speeding past me at 50mph at 3mm away and then immediately turning left. Pretty much a daily occurrence. Always made more interesting by the lack of tarmac around the drain they so thoughtfully included across the cycle lane.

I appreciate that you don't have much room (that cycle lane between those two red lines on the A40 near Marylebone looks rubbish) but you do try to have it both ways; you want us to give you as much room as we would a car but are happy to try and get through gaps that don't exist and bump car mirrors.

[xoggoth]

Mmm. That looks really eaty.

[VectraMan]

That doesn't mean speeding past me at 50mph at 3mm away and then immediately turning left. Pretty much a daily occurrence. Always made more interesting by the lack of tarmac around the drain they so thoughtfully included across the cycle lane.

Cycled up the A-road into town the other day, which is a route I rarely do, and there's a drain every 20 yards or so that you need to avoid whilst the traffic is whizzing by. As we know cycle lanes are only an excuse for car drivers not to give you any room.

Car drivers: I hate them. Except when I am one and then it's cyclists: I hate them.

[vetran]

Perhaps if cyclists knew the highway code, there would be less of a them and us attitude from cyclists in the first place.

Maybe if cars actually treated cyclists as vulnerable road users then there would be more cyclists alive?

UK Road Cycling Laws and Rules Explained: Overtaking Cyclists

give motorcyclists, cyclists and horse riders at least as much room as you would when overtaking a car (see Rules 211-215)

That doesn't mean speeding past me at 50mph at 3mm away and then immediately turning left. Pretty much a daily occurrence. Always made more interesting by the lack of tarmac around the drain they so thoughtfully included across the cycle lane.

[LondonManc]

and of course its in the cycle lane, bloody car drivers will honk if you go round it.

Perhaps if cyclists knew the highway code, there would be less of a them and us attitude from cyclists in the first place.

[vetran]

and of course its in the cycle lane, bloody car drivers will honk if you go round it.

[LondonManc]

Cool. Blackadder The Fifth - Percy discovers green again.

[VectraMan]

Steve McQueen was right!

[zeitghost]

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