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Every day you see those twelve things, eh?
I doubt that even Daddy sees all of those things every day, Princessxxxx.
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What about cyclists who smoke, they didn't get a mention?
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What about cyclists who smoke, they didn't get a mention?
And if they end up damaging someone's vehicle or, worse yet, hurting someone, you can bet they'll probably scarper, puffing away like a chimney as they ride off, laughing.
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I don't even live in a city, yet I see examples from the list almost every day.
Sometimes when I have only driven 0.1miles (According to the dashboard).....my most feared fault is cyclists at night, with zero lights and reflectors in areas with zero or poor (new LED) street lighting (the light pools leaving large dark gaps). It's like a stealth cyclist......they just emerge out of the dark. As a car driver I am supposed to not knock them down. But none of it will get addressed, the gov is trying to force people out of cars + onto 2 wheels, that's why so much of the road space in London has been lost to the new cycle super highway. Seems obvious now, all part of a much grander scheme nationwide. |
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Crazy, isn't it? Every day you see cyclists riding with one hand because they're holding a fag with the other.
And if they end up damaging someone's vehicle or, worse yet, hurting someone, you can bet they'll probably scarper, puffing away like a chimney as they ride off, laughing.The time it happened to me, I was waiting to join a roundabout, and started to enter this, then down this hilly road shot a push bike rider going fast, no lights, I braked, stopped almost on the spot, he lightly hit the front bumper of the car, quickly told me to "f off you f ing C watch where you are going, hand signs and rode off." the rider had no lights at it was very dark, no hi vis wear/etc - this is common occurrence
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FYI: My dad has been writing to his MP to support a commons debate regarding this matter but has not got very far with it.
However, I do agree that some cyclists have a very arrogant, nasty and self entitled attitude. The majority are fine, however. But if a cyclist has a helmet cam, I'd suspect they were trying to catch out an unwary motorist in a mistake. Probably behoves motorists to have a dashboard cam for those otherwise edited out moments just before. |
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The bike overloaded with items - did you weigh them?
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What about cyclists who smoke, they didn't get a mention?
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That's funny because I thought they were mainly white, male and middle class.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...d-middle-class ![]() I bet they wouldn't put "black, female and working class". Sneering lefties strike again at the one remaining undefended demographic target. |
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don`t start me off with cyclists i`ve got to be around the general public in cambridge which is to bikes like wales is to sheep.
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The time it happened to me, I was waiting to join a roundabout, and started to enter this, then down this hilly road shot a push bike rider going fast, no lights, I braked, stopped almost on the spot, he lightly hit the front bumper of the car, quickly told me to "f off you f ing C watch where you are going, hand signs and rode off." the rider had no lights at it was very dark, no hi vis wear/etc - this is common occurrence
![]() I stopped almost on the spot but we collided but lightly and he didn't come off or move 30cm to avoid me. |
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Actually that racist, sexist and ageist Guardian title makes me more irritated than any number of swearing, incoherent cylists
![]() I bet they wouldn't put "black, female and working class". Sneering lefties strike again at the one remaining undefended demographic target. |
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Actually that racist, sexist and ageist Guardian title makes me more irritated than any number of swearing, incoherent cylists
![]() I bet they wouldn't put "black, female and working class". Sneering lefties strike again at the one remaining undefended demographic target. |
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Are you saying that the title is incorrect and that, actually, London cyclists are balanced evenly with regard to ethnicity, gender and class?
But you know as well as I, that if most cyclists were "black, female and working class", the good old Guardian wouldn't have put it in those terms. That's if they referred to the demographic at all. |
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Actually that racist, sexist and ageist Guardian title makes me more irritated than any number of swearing, incoherent cylists
![]() I bet they wouldn't put "black, female and working class". Sneering lefties strike again at the one remaining undefended demographic target. |
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Any mention of smoking clowns riding on bikes yet?
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In factual terms I wouldn't dispute it.
But you know as well as I, that if most cyclists were "black, female and working class", the good old Guardian wouldn't have put it in those terms. That's if they referred to the demographic at all. |
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But do you think over £1bn in London alone would have been spent on cycling infrastructure if the majority of participants and almost all the lobbyists were black, female and working class?
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I thought this was going to be about potholes.
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I recon the OP should give up driving ,she comes across as a menace to other road users as she is constantly looking out for smokers and dodgy cyclists when she should keep her eyes on the road
Last edited by Uncle Fester : 24-12-2016 at 12:38. Reason: typo |
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...wait, how does "limited vocabulary" constitute a public safety hazard?
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Stop every cyclist and make them take a spelling test, that'll sort them out.
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as long as it's not drivers as Princess would be banned
It's the smokers and cyclists who are ill educated though ![]() Does it sound as stupid when I say 'righties' as it does when others say 'lefties'? |
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I blame the lefties - apparently we are to blame for everything, as we come in one homogeneous mass apparently, unlike 'righties'.
Does it sound as stupid when I say 'righties' as it does when others say 'lefties'?
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Rightie sounds like a nickname, isn't rightie a footballer ? Ian Rightie?
![]() ![]() ETA: How many threads have you walked into this weekend carrying a fag and flicking it at people?
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I doubt that even Daddy sees all of those things every day, Princessxxxx.

And if they end up damaging someone's vehicle or, worse yet, hurting someone, you can bet they'll probably scarper, puffing away like a chimney as they ride off, laughing.

