Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Control your kid even if it's just so they know when they are older and you let them travel unsupervised to not be a dick.

It's a bikeshop not a playground.

Small children should be stored in the overhead racks provided. And they should use their indoor voices.

mumsnet

f-f-f-f-forumbreaker!

Children should be looked at and not talk.

Wait... Is that right?

Everywhere is a play ground. Life is for joy. Grumpy twunt.

+1 internetrep for 'twunt' revival.

Are we still using 'belm'?

Shit - Should I not be using 'We'?

Depends what you use it for.

Wait... Is that right?

Tell it to the fuzz. They should be knocking anytime soon...

n/a

^

here in Italy, it makes no difference what you do, it's dog eat dog, quite tribal. Some drivers will try and kill you, some will congratulate you on your ride, all will expect you to disobey whatever rules you feel like, and you expect the same from them. Puts all this into perspective.

Italy is a pleasant country with nice food but also very corrupt. It is difficult to achieve anything honestly. And there is no sense of collective responsibility. The UK is not so corrupt. We do have a sense of collective responsibility, although some abrogate it. You have to choose.

Cyclists with no lights irritate me much more than cyclists who RLJ, not sure why. Seen quite a few, not all riders were on clarty old shitty bikes either.

I hate clarty bikes.

In Padova, no local cyclists had lights on their bikes.

Despite Italian driving stereotypes, no-one was killed or injured.

Italian driving stereotypes

English driver killed speeding in tunnel...

Nasal voice.

That's the opening sequence, driver was Italian. Roger Beckerman, as played by Rosanno Brazzi.

Ah rep, was it a blessing or a curse?

I got very annoyed on my commute this morning when I was barreling along and came across a red light at a ped crossing and the only one crossing was someone cycling a bike. This really winds me up, being forced to stop so cyclists can cross a road, and it happens a lot in Bristol so I shouted at him to cycle on the road, and repeated it when he asked what I had said. I know the light is red but I feel very little obligation to stop for other cyclist to ride across the road. If they are off and pushing fine, but if riding be prepared to receive some verbals.

I'd estimate the majority of bike riding in Bristol goes on on the pavements.

Then when I got to work I got screamed at by a colleague who also cycles, for going along a narrow road rather than use a cyclepath route. I was told I had a deathwish and I was the kind of cyclist that she shouts at for riding along that road, as if it was a deliberately selfish and anti-social act. I said it's a road and I have as much right to be on it as any car. She is a massive twat (and certified nodder) so I just walked away in the end.

so I just walked away in the end.

seems she won after all.

Yeah, never walk away unless you leave them in a bloody pool on the floor.

I know the light is red but I feel very little obligation to stop

Um.. right.