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Could a mod change it to "Most cyclists are scum" then?
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Tufty was Road Safety.
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I'd do it again but you obviously wouldn't get the message. |
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Spooky, I've been thinking about cyclists this week. The red lightjumping, thoughtless s in their ill fitting cylcing shorts.
Cyclists are the first to moan if they get cut up by a car, but give little or no thought for pedestrians. The type I hate the most are the ones that don't stop at Zebra crossings. It seems it is too much effort to pull the brake and start pedalling again. So they just check thir pedaling so they just miss you or they swerve round you, all whilst you're trying to second guess which one they do. I now play a little game, I check my step and shimmy. That really fecks them up. Don't get me started on the couriers, the smelly, long haired dog on a string squatters. They have their own rules.
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These threads always go round in circles - the anti-cyclists who have their pre-conceived notions of what most of us get up to and those of us who do ride could just as easily respond in kind with our rants about white van man and chavs in souped-up Saxos and no-one on either side ever seems to be able to come up with a solution (and I'm not suggesting I can).
Maybe we should all just learn to direct our fury in a more targeted way to those who specifically deserve it - as a cyclist nothing winds me up more than having to defend myself over things I have NEVER done. But I will admit I find it difficult when I see fellow riders (and this extends to those I ride with sometimes) flout the highway code. |
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I feel a war coming on. Come on you cyclists!
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As a cyclist for many years this is what I believe has changed cyclists.
Several years ago most cyclists were aware of and obeyed the law of the road. Cycling is now 'trendy' and healthy. Thanks to various parties badly promoting cycling as an alternative to driving, along with the lack of decent public transport and for central London the events of 7/7 have meant this type of behaviour has been transfered from the car to the bike. The bike is much more dangerous in the hands of these new types of riders we see today. Most simply don't know what they are doing. |
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I was going to type a long reply to this thread, but I can't be arsed to flight the Clarkson lobby.... suffice to say Welshneil and KennyB get it right (above). In Holland bicycle lanes are like roads (not small green painted sections of pavement or wonky lines painted along busy A-roads) and cars, bikes, pedestrians and trams manage to co-exist peacefully. Probably because road users do not have the same pathetic defensive mentality that they do in this country (eg drivers saying "what right does that cyclist have to get ahead of me at the lights," when the answer is "because he's on a bike and he can weave through traffic and past red lights if it's safe to do so and therefore should and you can't because you're in a car you twat").
I hope that makes sense, if not I can produce a much-extended rant. By the way I drive to work every day but cycle for pleasure. Drivers and pedestrians look out for me about 99% of the time when I am in my car, and about 50% of the time when I am on my bike. I'd say that explains a lot of cyclists' frustration. Last edited by New_Malden_Eagle; 08-08-2006 at 11:32 PM. |
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The enigma I find here is that whilst NZ motorists usually respect and exercise reasonable caution when there are cyclists around, NZ motorists seem to revert to "untamed morons" when it comes to other general road manners and driving habits. I have found driving standards here to be noticeably inferior to those in the UK, not helped by the fact that the minumum age for driving here is only 15, an age when kids (which is what they are) don't have the maturity to act responsibly and with good anticipation or judgement of potential risks and dangers. Fifteen year-olds behind the wheel of a car drive with the mentality that they are having a buzz as if on a fairground ride rather than realising that they are at the controls of a potentially lethal machine which can kill either them or other innocent parties. Worse still, by far and away, the greatest proportion of drink or drugs influenced driving offences committed in NZ is by 15 to 19 year-olds. Without an extensive public transport system as an alternative, teaching kids to develop the right attitude for safe driving is a major problem here. A bit of a digression from the original subject I know, but the common link is that the issue is all about attitude towards respecting the road code without exception and how to behave whether a motorist or a cyclist when sharing our ever increasingly congested roads. |
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Te Pouakai... I know from my visit to NZ 3 years ago that road deaths in your country are proportionately particularly high, but I had no idea that driving was allowed from age 15. AFAIK aren't these rates high because of a large number of drink driving accidents, which is easily explainable by the hugely disparate population (esp. in the South)?
Anyhow, I think as a cyclist I'd rather take my chances on NZ's roads than London's (except maybe Auckland's)... |
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Incidentally, the bare statistics are, I believe, that in the UK there is one accident per 19,000 drivers out of a population of 60 million. Here in NZ, that statistic is one per 10,000 out of a population of only 4 million. That says everything about comparable driving standards, especially as NZ roads are bigger, wider and far less congested than those in the UK with rush-hour traffic jams adding maybe 5 minutes to your journey, unless you happen to live in Auckland that is which is gridlocked at the best of times. |
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i used to be in the tufty club , jeez makes me feel old
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