On the way to work, i need to cross the road, so i use the zebra crossing, traffic slows down, i begin to cross, but a cyclist decides he’s overtaking the traffic which has now stopped, missing me by about a foot, im actually a bit dumbfounded, obviously i called him a cockwomble, and some other choice words, but seriously, some people infuriate me beyond belief!!
How legal are shoes with one foot spike strips extending from either side? Learn 'em up a bit.
I wish everyone using the roads would just be a little calmer and kinder.
All shit like this does is push us to license plates and insurance for all push-bikes.That would be a literal nightmare. Fucking about with MOT, tax, servicing, insurance, and repairs for a car is bad enough. Having to do the same for a bike would be infuriating. Another faucet to drain money from you as well.
“Install one of our black box trackers today for 50% off your insurance! Ignore that we can track all your movements, even down to the smallest of accelerations, so we can build a profile on you, charge you more in future because we deem your riding style unsafe despite you having no incidents, and for an extra bit of dosh we’ll sell your movements to advertisers so they can better try to extract even more money from you. What have you got to lose? Sign up today!”
I’ll be very sad the day that I have to put plates on my bike, but I personally cannot see a way that the current silliness (deliveroos on the pavement, 40mph e-bikes) gets reigned in without making an un-plated bike the exception.
Number plates* or Registration plates* also it’s spelled licence.
Okay but I do think we need regs for bikes
Hey, hey, I was tyred.
Confusicius say “man who runs in front of bicyclist, can get tyred”.
I wish ‘everyone’ included the self-important enviro-defenders mowing down pedestrians.
This happens daily where I live. The cyclists even have the gaul to scream at me for crossing the road where they’re cycling.
Some people are just cunts.
Busses: bloody cyclists!
Cars: bloody cyclists!
Lorries: bloody cyclists!
Motorbikes: bloody cyclists!
Pedestrians: bloody cyclists!
Cyclists: I’m doing good for the environment! Everyone else can fuck off!
😂
True but as a mainly pedestrian why does that give cyclists the right to run me over and not take my safety into account? Am I not doing good for the environment too?
We should give everyone respect that shares the road and crossings and pavements. Cyclists seem to be cohort that gives the least amount of respect to everyone. Egalitarian really when you think about it. 😉
Your breathing produces co2 (cyclists don’t breathe)
They are machines. One with the bike they sit upon.
I normally run into cyclists who prefer to ride on the pavement, id happily walk towards them as they cycle towards me, forcing them to actually go around me, am i fuck moving out of their way!
Good idea, thank you!
What you failed to notice - and it’s okay as it’s subtle - is that the cyclist transformed from car-mode to pedestrian-mode to use the zebra crossing and thus you needed to share to (not ‘with’) him while he was needing your space. Then, of course, he was back to car-mode after leaving the zebra, and saving the environment (so brave!) once again.
It’s easy to make that mistake. It’s obvious you do owe the cockwomble an apology, though, for taking his space when he was a pedestrian saving the environment and thus better than you.
I try and have respect, and share the road with cyclists.
But they are not reciprocal
