How was your cycle commute?
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Nowhere else to keep it!
Just remembered that some people keep it on the frame. D'oh! Still, must be quite an effort to dislodge.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I find real violence disturbing and will go out of my way to avoid it. If that's cowardice, I'm proud to be a coward.
I find all this barely contained glee at the prospect of violence even more disturbing. I also find it rather dubious ie I am sceptical about people's stories about it. I doubt joustmaster would admit to a crime if he really did it.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
Sorry to interrupt this debate with some of yer actual cycling but...
On the way back from Edinburgh. Bloody hilly, hot, cold, rainy and sunny. We got alternately soaked and sunburned. Slept 2 hours till midnight then rode thru the night to get to Barnard Castle. Approx 550 miles completed now. A few riders with 1,000 yard stares!
On the way back from Edinburgh. Bloody hilly, hot, cold, rainy and sunny. We got alternately soaked and sunburned. Slept 2 hours till midnight then rode thru the night to get to Barnard Castle. Approx 550 miles completed now. A few riders with 1,000 yard stares!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Tomorrow is gonna be hot, a_chap - take care!
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
How did you know he wouldn't get out and beat the shit out of you after you kicked his car? Equally, how did you know he'd get out of the car if you did nothing?
joustmaster
offcumdun
You can't easily get out out of a car if someone is stood by the door. And its clear if someone has lost the plot enough to be getting out, especially as he'd just driven me off the road.
joustmaster
offcumdun
I cycled from London to Brighton on Sunday. I can still feel it in my legs a bit now. I can't even begin to think how you are feeling.. Congratulations on the massive effort.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
So it's ok to throw his weight around?
joustmaster
offcumdun
Just to be clear, I'm not riding round looking to fight drivers who cross my path. Just that those on those occasions, less than once a year, when someone goes actually maliciously attacks me, I will go for them.
Which is interesting, as a pedestrian, its probably been about 8 years since I had to fight someone.
Which is interesting, as a pedestrian, its probably been about 8 years since I had to fight someone.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
joustmaster
offcumdun
Surely its ok to fight in defense? If you don't think that then I don't think we have any common ground for this discussion.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Sure, it's ok to fight in defence, but it is very rarely necessary.
Where do you live where there are that many nutters that they attack you once a year or so?
And how many times have you had to defend yourself?
Maybe your size invites trouble as I've yet to have to defend myself against some nutter attacking me. <touch wood>
Where do you live where there are that many nutters that they attack you once a year or so?
And how many times have you had to defend yourself?
Maybe your size invites trouble as I've yet to have to defend myself against some nutter attacking me. <touch wood>
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
What a load of old shit. If you really feel you must fight other road users that often there's something serious wrong.
pissflaps
i've got a headache in my pants...
no one feels they 'must fight other road users' - get a fucking grip will you? self defense is an entirely justified recourse, and short of being at the scene described, you really have no business pontificating about how people should react in specific circumstances.
ChrisD
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gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I think that's how I get away with it - though yesterday's rat-running van driver who I forced to stop called me "fat" - which I am - though it doesn't show - and it's the third time a dodgy van driver has called me that over the past year.. an odd sort of thing to shout at a cyclist of all people.
Thankfully I've never found myself involved in actual violence.
an eye for an eye, makes everyone blind........
For some reason there is a great animosity to cyclists in this country, kicking off at motorists is just gonna reinforce those attitudes. Unfortunately you get dickheads in all forms of transportation and cyclists can be just as bad as motorists.
For some reason there is a great animosity to cyclists in this country, kicking off at motorists is just gonna reinforce those attitudes. Unfortunately you get dickheads in all forms of transportation and cyclists can be just as bad as motorists.
joustmaster
offcumdun
Like you say, you are happy to let a driver attack you, then wait and hope they leave. Were as I will lash out back at them, in a hope of stopping them or driving them off. To make them leave or to make them get out of the one ton weapon, is my aim.
Its a rare thing. Just a 2 or 3 times since I started cycling down here 5 or 6 years ago.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I can only reference my own experience, which is a van driver trying to run me off the road, which I had no defence from. I had no weapon to hand and I'm glad I didn't as someone would have got hurt, probably me.
I am not 'happy' letting anyone attack me!
As I said earlier in the thread, I was lucky enough to see sense, back down and let it go.
I am not 'happy' letting anyone attack me!
As I said earlier in the thread, I was lucky enough to see sense, back down and let it go.
pissflaps
i've got a headache in my pants...
bullshit. let me know when you successfully manage to use your bike as a weapon to bully and intimidate a car-bound road user and i'll eat my hat.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
As you have asserted, it's possible if you have a d-lock
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Just to intimidate them and smash up their car
Lol threatening behaviour
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I doubt we'll ever "teach" the bullies to respect us, but I always feel that it's good for cyclists to be seen by others to be standing up for themselves.
I got a broad smile from a bus passenger the other day when I was telling off the bus lane parkers.
I think there's more hope with the casually bad drivers - most of whom can be kept in check with an assertive road position and very clear indication of intent.
My suggestions for keeping things the right side of assault and criminal damage are as usual a camera and a loud horn.
(I had to give up on the dual air horns though - really unpleasantly loud - possibly harmful to my hearing - let alone theirs.)
Has anyone on here encountered the Traffic Droid in the flesh ?
I got a broad smile from a bus passenger the other day when I was telling off the bus lane parkers.
I think there's more hope with the casually bad drivers - most of whom can be kept in check with an assertive road position and very clear indication of intent.
My suggestions for keeping things the right side of assault and criminal damage are as usual a camera and a loud horn.
(I had to give up on the dual air horns though - really unpleasantly loud - possibly harmful to my hearing - let alone theirs.)
Has anyone on here encountered the Traffic Droid in the flesh ?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
You're the one advocating criminal behaviour. You don't like people pointing out that your attitude is extreme and not representative of most road users. You are part of the problem.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Someone ask gg what a traffic droid is as I think he is ignoring me
