Reply to: Bloody cyclists!

[MyUserName]

D-Lock to the driver's face the next time they stop generally gets the message across

FTFY

[DaveB]

Gesticulation and middle finger salutes to close passing motorists?

D-Lock to the wing mirror the next time they stop generally gets the message across

[original PM]

Gesticulation and middle finger salutes to close passing motorists?

I will teach her them when she is older...

and has learnt how to cycle faster to get away

[original PM]

Well that's a good thing; many young cyclists only discover that hand signals are worthwhile and not 'uncool' after they've been splattered across the pavement and had a trip to A&E.

Did they also explain to her that using a Stupidphone (TM) while cycling is just asking for trouble?

They did but as she is only 10 she ain't got one yet...

althoigh I wonder if she will try to use her tablet whilst riding - that will probably not end well!

[Mich the Tester]

Still exists - my daughter did hers just the other week.

She is now not allowed to ride on the pavement and must use hand signals correctly.

Well that's a good thing; many young cyclists only discover that hand signals are worthwhile and not 'uncool' after they've been splattered across the pavement and had a trip to A&E.

Did they also explain to her that using a Stupidphone (TM) while cycling is just asking for trouble?

[hyperD]

... and must use hand signals correctly.

Gesticulation and middle finger salutes to close passing motorists?

[original PM]

Whatever happened to the Cycle Proficiency Test? I still have my certificate and badge. I remember at school that they made us do it if we cycled to school and I was glad I did. I was also glad that I took my motorcycle test and rode a motorbike. On a cycle and a motorbike you're more open to the elements, the road and other drivers and tends to make you more aware (especially how hard a road is and how slippery it can be!)

Still exists - my daughter did hers just the other week.

She is now not allowed to ride on the pavement and must use hand signals correctly.

[Mich the Tester]

Bastra

Ah yes, the supercar of choice for the staff of Domino's Pizzas.

[darmstadt]

Whatever happened to the Cycle Proficiency Test? I still have my certificate and badge. I remember at school that they made us do it if we cycled to school and I was glad I did. I was also glad that I took my motorcycle test and rode a motorbike. On a cycle and a motorbike you're more open to the elements, the road and other drivers and tends to make you more aware (especially how hard a road is and how slippery it can be!)

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Golf? Audi? Astra? Big plastic spoilers?

Bastra

[Mich the Tester]

I was on the end of a road rage ranter the other week. I was driving my car and waiting for a place where I could see far enough ahead to pass a cyclist safely and giving him enough room. Dickhead behind who was already taligating me pretty agressively starts flashing the lights of his chavmobile because I hadn't immediately passed (dangerously close) the bloke on a bike. The irony of him ranting at me whilst we sat side by side at red traffic lights not 100 yards further on was lost on the pillock.

Golf? Audi? Astra? Big plastic spoilers?

[Mich the Tester]

(note I do not have a 4x4!)

Good; they´re terribly naff if you´re not a farmer.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I was on the end of a road rage ranter the other week. I was driving my car and waiting for a place where I could see far enough ahead to pass a cyclist safely and giving him enough room. Dickhead behind who was already taligating me pretty agressively starts flashing the lights of his chavmobile because I hadn't immediately passed (dangerously close) the bloke on a bike. The irony of him ranting at me whilst we sat side by side at red traffic lights not 100 yards further on was lost on the pillock.

[original PM]

Road tax was abolished in 1937.

If you nonetheless think that being taxed for owning a car somehow gives you extra rights over the Queen's Highway: I pay Vehicle Excise Duty on two motorised vehicles, neither of which I am using when cycling; so I'm entitled to twice as much road as many drivers, if that's the way such matters are going to be decided.

They will be decided by me in my 4x4 and you on your 2x1 playing chicken

probably



(note I do not have a 4x4!)

[NickFitz]

Also do cyclist actually pay road tax?

Road tax was abolished in 1937.

If you nonetheless think that being taxed for owning a car somehow gives you extra rights over the Queen's Highway: I pay Vehicle Excise Duty on two motorised vehicles, neither of which I am using when cycling; so I'm entitled to twice as much road as many drivers, if that's the way such matters are going to be decided.