Richmond Park = Full of tossers

I blame Bike radar or GCN

GCN especially.

I went at 10am on a weekday morning and it was nice and quiet, would not risk it on a weekend

Blame:
Zac Goldsmith
GCN
David Millar
5th floor
Dynorods

And Rapha (based on the evidence from the photo on the previous page)

And those lfgss cunts, especially with their three lap challenge.

Good reminder. I need to be back doing laps there on my day off.

Went yesterday for a few laps, rode behind a fella said morning as I went past, nothing. A group of two coming the other way again a cheery morning, nothing. Everyone seems so serious.

Richmond Park is serious business.

If you speak, you don't win.

Actually I don't get this.

Do you say good morning to everyone you meet on the street?

If someone says for morning to me and I don't know them, they're just going to get a funny look from me while I try to work out who they are.

Ha, I was discussing with my girlfriend going walking in the north of England v south.

Up north pretty much everyone nods, smiles, says hello. Down south everyone looks surly. I'm trying to get her into the habit of smiling at people and saying hello, it is a bit uncomfortable for her

It's about numbers. Too many people and most people stop doing it.

The nods/waves/greetings/etc from other cyclists generally start up again once outside the North/South circular.

The nods from other cyclists generally start up again once outside the North/South circular.

London has loads of fucking nodders

This.

I'm your mate because we both ride bikes?

Piss off.

I say hello whenever I overtake as a way of softening the harsh blow of defeat that I have just dealt them.

You should offer them some jelly babies too

I believe a liquorice allsort is more traditional.

my mother always told me not hand out free sweets in the park

Oh that's it. Glad someone got the intended reference

I whistle Dambusters whenever I overtake as a way of showing them just how easily I defeated them.

Then 30 seconds later I pretend to take a phone call or have a mechanical so I can catch my breath.

i know your type!

Not sure which Richmond Park thread to best post this in, but here goes. This has been prompted by the death of Hilda Griffiths in Regent's Park, and I've posted it in the relevant thread:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/396074/

For discussion purposes, I'm also posting it in park-related threads.

The call for speed limits for cyclists is nothing new and comes again and again, whether there have been crashes or not. It's long been considered not to be an effective measure/deterrent at all and that it would do more harm than good. It's also a distraction from the much greater number of deaths and injuries caused by drivers, who cause them despite the existence of speed limits. Reducing road danger at source is to change cyclists' behaviour, but in the sense of improving their understanding of risk. This requires constant education, of the sort that should also be available to drivers, but of course that costs more than imposing comparatively ineffective speed limits.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/royal-parks-london-speed-limit-cyclists-accidents-b1188932.html

I've also put it into a Regent's Park-related thread here:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17557271/

"London’s Royal Parks demand 20mph speed limit for cyclists after series of accidents"

And I demand to scrap all tax incentives given to low emissions vehicles, unfreeze fuel duty and add 20% on top and use that money to build better active travel infrastructure.

If only demands meant anything ..

You'd be surprised how much more effective being demanding is if you have some power and influence, as the Royal Parks do ...