SUVs make up more than 40% of new cars sold in the UK – while fully electric vehicles account for less than 2%

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Not sure what your justification would be for doing it but go ahead. If it's cosmetic damage and the bike still works I won't give a shit.

A car is the only thing you leave lying around in public indefinitely with the expectation no harm will come to it. Even a bike, if you leave it in the street overnight then lock or no lock it will get nicked sooner than later and nobody will be sympathetic. Of course you can't just leave your shit lying around in public.

Your bike is stolen and nobody is sympathetic? What a horrid world you live in Frank. No wonder you're like you are.

 

[hash tag]

Out on a walk, I spotted this this lot doing the school run; 6 premium SUVs and a premium estate.

 

[Elpenor]

School drive not the school run surely

 

[editor]

That's fine. We can just do the ones in public.

How often do you find someone's bike to be completely blocking your pedestrian right of way?
Is your street dominated by vast amounts of bikes taking up huge swathes of road space?

 

[hash tag]

How often do you find someone's bike to be completely blocking your pedestrian right of way?
Is your street dominated by vast amounts of bikes taking up huge swathes of road space?

Regularly.

 

[editor]

Regularly.

Pics or STFU.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

How often do you find someone's bike to be completely blocking your pedestrian right of way?
Is your street dominated by vast amounts of bikes taking up huge swathes of road space?

Keying people's cars is still a cunt's trick. It's not like Kid_Eternity drives some huge 4x4.

 

[editor]

Keying people's cars is still a cunt's trick. It's not like Kid_Eternity drives some huge 4x4.

You appear to be answering a completely different post to mine.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

You appear to be answering a completely different post to mine.

Then you missed the context of my post.

 

[hash tag]

Pics or STFU.

Taken at 17.39....minutes after my previous post. This was one of about five on a 2 mileish walk home. Happy?

 

[klang]

That's a marketing scam meant to annoy and litter.

 

[klang]

Paper bags are no better than plastic bags because look at all these mc d bags littering our streets

 

[SpookyFrank]

Taken at 17.39....minutes after my previous post. This was one of about five on a 2 mileish walk home. Happy?
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Next time, instead of taking a picture, just move it out the way. You know, the way you can't do with an Audi Q8.

 

[hash tag]

Next time, instead of taking a picture, just move it out the way. You know, the way you can't do with an Audi Q8.

Taken purely in answer to ed. I have posted similar pictures on a littering website. I normally throw them in the road.
Btw. My walk this evening was nearly 5 miles. No pavement parking was noted, though you will see above, lots of SUVs on the school run.

 

[kebabking]

Taken at 17.39....minutes after my previous post. This was one of about five on a 2 mileish walk home. Happy?
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Next time, instead of taking a picture, just move it out the way. You know, the way you can't do with an Audi Q8.

Next time, move it with an Audi Q8. It's all about the special flavour of the schadenfreude..

 

[editor]

Taken at 17.39....minutes after my previous post. This was one of about five on a 2 mileish walk home. Happy?
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It's not someone's bike though, is it?

 

[hash tag]

It is someone's bike, it's just that the Simone is not an individual but owned by a company. It was dumped there, thoughtlessly by "someone", an individual.

 

[story]

Taken purely in answer to ed. I have posted similar pictures on a littering website. I normally throw them in the road.
Btw. My walk this evening was nearly 5 miles. No pavement parking was noted, though you will see above, lots of SUVs on the school run.

You throw public use electric bikes into the road?

How is that a solution?

Seems like a wanker’s move to me.

 

[Rob Ray]

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[not-bono-ever]

i read somewhere that modern / new cars in LA produce cleaner air than what is being sucked in. I have no link to back this up obvs so likely shite

 

[story]

i read somewhere that modern / new cars in LA produce cleaner air than what is being sucked in. I have no link to back this up obvs so likely shite

I can imagine that the exhaust from a single modern car is cleaner than the air collected from around the collective tailpipes of several cars all close together in standstill traffic. And I can imagine some sort of stop and stare headline being generated from that finding,

 

[Chz]

The claim was the car exhausting cleaner air than it took in. So not necessarily at tailpipe level, but on a busy road at least. And it was certainly true in the mid-90s when the claim was made. I'm not sure that it's still true after 30 years of emission control advances and the general lack of diesel on US roads. Remember that California has been at the head of emissions control efforts (way ahead of the EU) since the 60s.when Reagan created CARB.

 

[hash tag]

You throw public use electric bikes into the road?

How is that a solution?

Seems like a wanker’s move to me.

You have a problem with removing a dangerous obstruction out of the way of pedestrians and possibly inconveniencing car users?

 

[SpookyFrank]

You have a problem with removing a dangerous obstruction out of the way of pedestrians and possibly inconveniencing car users?

Putting it in the road is more likely to inconvenience car users I would say.

 

[hash tag]

Putting it in the road is more likely to inconvenience car users I would say.

yep.

 

[Orang Utan]

You have a problem with removing a dangerous obstruction out of the way of pedestrians and possibly inconveniencing car users?

Surely it’s more dangerous blocking a road than a pavement?

 

[kebabking]

Surely it’s more dangerous blocking a road than a pavement?

Not really - assuming it's seen, then the driver just stops, and either sits there, moves it, or waits for a gap in the incoming traffic to move around it.

But a pedestrian - and let's use either a wheelchair user or buggy pusher - either moves it (would a little old lady using a mobility scooter feel either confident, or able, to move it?), or goes out into the road, perhaps clattering down a kerb, into the traffic.

One of those is much more dangerous than the other.

 

[editor]

Not really - assuming it's seen, then the driver just stops, and either sits there, moves it, or waits for a gap in the incoming traffic to move around it.

But a pedestrian - and let's use either a wheelchair user or buggy pusher - either moves it (would a little old lady using a mobility scooter feel either confident, or able, to move it?), or goes out into the road, perhaps clattering down a kerb, into the traffic.

One of those is much more dangerous than the other.

Or just put it to the side, inconveniencing neither road users or pedestrians.

 

[kebabking]

Or just put it to the side, inconveniencing neither road users or pedestrians.

Well indeed - pavements shouldn't be obstructed, whether by bikes, or cars, or anything else. The effect on pedestrians is the same, so the sanction should be the same.

 

[editor]

Well indeed - pavements shouldn't be obstructed, whether by bikes, or cars, or anything else. The effect on pedestrians is the same, so the sanction should be the same.

It's not the same though, is it? Last night the pavement outside my flat was totally blocked by a fucking shithead in a Range Rover who took over the entire pavement so people had to walk into a busy road to get past.

It's ridiculous to claim that a single bike creates a similar obstruction.

Just look at this utter cunt from a few months back:



And for the record, I'm all for compelling bike hire firms to ensure their bikes don't end up littering pavements.