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Id rather ride a bike with two flat tires home than step into that cheery fuckers cab.
Yes, a miserable git but you can't fault his observations. Having to drive around London all day and witness all that moronicity from paedalists can't do much to keep you cheery either.
 
Nope; they're just a different type of cunt. These are the ones who'll crash through red lights, charge between lines of traffic, and swerve in front or behind peds on crossings because they can't possibly lose any speed.

Ive only had one run in with a lycra man cyclist, was bizarre - I was heading to get some diesel at local garage and spotted him so overtook giving him a full vehicle width when passing then turned into forecourt. He then cycled by slowly shouting incoherently and waving his arms at me, no idea what his problem was but he just fkd off.

One thing I did notice about him tho was hehad one of those GoPro type cameras stuck on his head so maybe he was looking for footage for his YouTube channel:D
 
This vid pretty much sums up London cyclists. Check out the dickhead at 0.35 secs. Absolutely typical though:


The bloke at 35 sec, terrible we can all agree (and the cabbies repeated it 3 x for full effect). Other then that most of those were perfectly safe with the cyclists slowing and treating the light as a give way and passing through only because it's clear and safe to do so. If that's the best he can get from ~8 hours a day driving about then it's even less of a problem then I'd have thought.

I notice he cut the clip at 1.40 just before he ran the red light himself or at the very least went in the ASL.
 
Other then that most of those were perfectly safe with the cyclists slowing and treating the light as a give way and passing through only because it's clear and safe to do so.
Except it isn't a give way sign. It's a red light. It means you must stop.
I take it you're one of those cyclists who thinks red lights only apply to motorists.
 
Yea I thought it was pretty mild and notable that the man almost hit just crossed the road and didn't bat an eyelid.
 
Other then that most of those were perfectly safe with the cyclists slowing and treating the light as a give way and passing through only because it's clear and safe to do so.

Agree that it may have been safe and not directly endangered others, and the crimes committed were not Worse Than Hitler, but......

It is a mandatory requirement to stop at a red.
As you can see from the above comments it can easily wind up people in surrounding cars. All it needs is for one of them to: decide that all cyclists are as bad as that example they have just seen; intellectualise them as sub-human and then to; do something endangering to the next random person on a bike that they come across, "because they are all as bad as each other".

It can be annoying to lose momentum and have to wait at a red, when it is clearly safe to go - but that's the way it goes
 
Agree that it may have been safe and not directly endangered others, and the crimes committed were not Worse Than Hitler, but......

It is a mandatory requirement to stop at a red.
As you can see from the above comments it can easily wind up people in surrounding cars. All it needs is for one of them to: decide that all cyclists are as bad as that example they have just seen; intellectualise them as sub-human and then to; do something endangering to the next random person on a bike that they come across, "because they are all as bad as each other".

It can be annoying to lose momentum and have to wait at a red, when it is clearly safe to go - but that's the way it goes
A cyclist with sense. What a refreshing change.
 
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I'd suggest it's more common than you think. It's just that a few knob ends (most just being annoying, some endangering their own safety without even realising and, a few endangering other users as well) tend to get a higher profile and attract those sweeping generalisations that we have seen in this thread

It's the same with those drivers that cut up cyclists, don't give sufficient space, cut across them to turn left, pull out in front etc etc. A few can give a bad name to the many
 
Ive only had one run in with a lycra man cyclist, was bizarre - I was heading to get some diesel at local garage and spotted him so overtook giving him a full vehicle width when passing then turned into forecourt. He then cycled by slowly shouting incoherently and waving his arms at me, no idea what his problem was but he just fkd off.

One thing I did notice about him tho was hehad one of those GoPro type cameras stuck on his head so maybe he was looking for footage for his YouTube channel:D
Did you cut across him when you turned into the garage? That would make anyone shout.

Also there is a lot of assumption that cyclists are going somewhere like work on this thread. Lots of people cycle for fitness in the same way runners do. Be a bit boring if we were all the same, wouldnt it?
 
I thengyou


I'd suggest it's more common than you think. It's just that a few knob ends (most just being annoying, some endangering their own safety without even realising and, a few endangering other users as well) tend to get a higher profile and attract those sweeping generalisations that we have seen in this thread

It's the same with those drivers that cut up cyclists, don't give sufficient space, cut across them to turn left, pull out in front etc etc. A few can give a bad name to the many

Stop being sensible, there's no place for that on this thread.
 
Did you cut across him when you turned into the garage? That would make anyone shout.

Also there is a lot of assumption that cyclists are going somewhere like work on this thread. Lots of people cycle for fitness in the same way runners do. Be a bit boring if we were all the same, wouldnt it?

No, I was mindful of him at all times, turned in with him way behind me, hence his bizarre behaviour.
 
The point is this is not a cycling standards thread. We can't have one of those any more, because you kept shitting all over them and getting them locked.
Nah, it was you and your bad advice, and another dummy spitter that got it closed, because you couldn't handle the truth.
 
Did you cut across him when you turned into the garage? That would make anyone shout.

Also there is a lot of assumption that cyclists are going somewhere like work on this thread. Lots of people cycle for fitness in the same way runners do. Be a bit boring if we were all the same, wouldnt it?

The Queen’s highway is part of the transport network, not some kind of fucking gymnasium. If these people wish to cycle for fitness there are velodromes and cycle tracks for them.
 
They arent as good as the road. Queen's highway? Lol :D Dont worry, my dad sometimes 'goes for a drive' for no reason so that levels it out a bit.

The analogy would be, ‘I like a spot of motorsport, so I’ll head out on the A3 in my Formula 3 for a bit of sport’ - it’s not on, imho.
 
Also there is a lot of assumption that cyclists are going somewhere like work on this thread. Lots of people cycle for fitness in the same way runners do. Be a bit boring if we were all the same, wouldnt it?
I must remember to use that excuse next time a copper asks me why I'm doing bench presses in the middle lane of the M6.
 
The analogy would be, ‘I like a spot of motorsport, so I’ll head out on the A3 in my Formula 3 for a bit of sport’ - it’s not on, imho.
Well not really. Because cyclists dont pollute, speed or use their heavy powerful vehicle like a weapon.
 
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