Peds!

Daily Mail are on to it... we are safe

"unless they are inserting the earpods in their eyes i don't see the link"
now there is an idea... that would learn them!

Tip Of The Day
Instead of hitting lazy peds who step out on mobile phones or flicking their iPods. get real close lean right into their ear and add a little something to their Music/Conversation.

dodging peds at speed is fun. it's best when they don't even notice you..

Daily Mail are on to it... we are safe

"unless they are inserting the earpods in their eyes i don't see the link"
now there is an idea... that would learn them!

Tip Of The Day
Instead of hitting lazy peds who step out on mobile phones or flicking their iPods. get real close lean right into their ear and add a little something to their Music/Conversation.

+1 learn how to shout loudly - much more satisfying than getting abusive

Is that based on any specific legislation or case law? Sounds a bit iffy to me.

read your highway code

+1 learn how to shout loudly - much more satisfying than getting abusive

hence this;

Imaging the fright they´ll get if they heard that thing, even a small pathetic one is loud enough.

My most useful shout at peds is a very loud "HEADS"

I find it stops almost everyone in their tracks, makes a few people jump, but generally they get out the way.

I do much the same Jimbo. But I shout "CUNTS".

I do much the same Jimbo. But I shout "CUNTS".

I'll try that later

I always carry one of these around, and throw him at any Ped who gets in the way.

Not only does it mean I don't get hit. The Ped also gets a lesson in road safety. It's a win win situation.

Is that Darth Vader?

No, you're getting confused. He only did the voice for Darth Vader.

Yes.
James Earl Jones did the voice. Although it would be amusing to here it with a west country lilt.

Looks like I ran into the released fucktards hippy missed today, no less than 5 times someone stepped out right into my path without so much as a cursory glance as to where they were stepping. 3 of them caused me to fall off my bike, once pretty seriously, if I didn't move my head, it would have been run over by a taxi that would have never been able to stop in time. Come around 4'o'clock it happens again as I'm going full pelt down Oxford St., the guy is facing away from the flow of traffic and steps straight out in front of me, I had half a second in which I *could *have reacted but the red mist had descended and I rode straight into the fucker at full speed and sent him flying, I fell too but I knew it was coming so I fell into a roll and got up pretty quickly. A bystander thankfully made my point for me by telling the guy he shouldn't have stepped out like that and I could have been a bus and he would be a lot worse off. I did feel pretty guilty about five minutes later when the adrenalin and rage subsided though

So what you're saying is: YOU ARE A COURIER! Get used to it, calm down and HTFU.
Fraternally yours.

oh dear the fucktards have taken over the fucktard lockup

So what you're saying is: YOU ARE A COURIER! Get used to it, calm down and HTFU.
Fraternally yours.

I blame my iPod for running out of battery and not letting me have my daily Bob Marley dose, always puts me in a good mood and every bad event of the day gets easily brushed off. I've taken to singing really loudly and badly as my early warning system to peds now.

You came off 3 times in a day and don't think that perhaps your risk calcuator needs a bit of re-calibrating?

I see your point, however, that day doubled the amount of crashes I've had in my life* and was the first time I've crashed and it;s actually been my fault so I'll stick with it for now ;)

*not including the plethora of bmx stacks I've had in my time

I managed to run into a young girl today. I was turning into a dead end road which has an alleyway leading to another road and a man and his two children were spread across the whole road. As I began to brake, the father and one child moved right out of the way but he left his little girl on her own. A comedy direction change from both of us ensued before finally coming to a stop with the girl hugging my front wheel. I was completely stunned and apologised as my primary concern was for the child. Unfortunately the guy decided, as I'm sure he wasn't thinking, to have a pop at me, questioning "why were you going up a one way road in the first place?". Unfortunately for him the road isn't one way, it's just a dead end for cars so I pointed that out to him, which shut him up and sent him packing. I'm just happy the girl wasn't injured, she didn't cry, she was just stunned, as was I.

I shall be glad when half-term is over.

I don't see many children running out from between parked cars....I do however see lots of children being ferried around in Range Rover Sports......

I saw a woman walking towards the cycle lane that I was going down... (it's got kerbs on both sides and she was going to cross over).

I thought, it's OK she's gonna stop and look when she gets to the kerb, so I ease off the pedals but don't bother pulling my brakes...

next thing I know she steps right out in front of me without looking (she has her head down, looking at her feet)...

my brain freezes up and I pull the front brake but fail to apply the back brake... front brake doesn't bite, I panic, and BLAM.

Eyebrow = cut

Front tooth = broken

All of her knuckles = grazed

Bridge of her Nose = cut

Nostrils = bloody

Leg= hurt, can't stand up

Crying

I apologise and call an ambulance... then it all sinks in... I am a fucking idiot.

I don't care that she wasn't looking... it was my fault for rushing, not slowing down enough and failing to perform an emergency stop...

Do you know what the twatting cops said? "for your own safety you should consider wearing high vis clothing in future"

I had a black coat on when they came, but at the time of the incident I was wearing a green jersey which stands right out. I said to the copper "high vis clothing only works if people are actually looking, she wasn't looking so in this case it would have made no difference"

thought i would share a small tale, bolting across waterloo bridge took a right to go up to holborn and pow a really drunk girl jumps from between a crowd of peeps right into my path she got knocked out! at on point i thought she was dead i was doing 30, and then quickly ran to check me bike all good the question is thou i think there should be some some kind of somethin to raise public awarness of the fucking roads because if i was a motorcar she would be dead!

close call.

there used to be all sorts of public information adverts and stuff years ago...

it's time we had some more, and not all about cars, there's no point trying to educate people to be careful of cars when they are crossing as cars are usually at a standstill in town and pedestrians are used to being able to bolt across in the gaps. And always two feet from a perfectly decent crossing.

Almost nobody bothers to look before stepping into the road these days, no responsibility, or aggressive (thinking they are so hard everyone else will stop) or just plain careless. personally I think if the taxpayer is paying for all these pedestrian crossings everywhere they should be used and not ignored as unlike bike lanes they are actually safer than the road.

Jaywalking should be an offence, fine the fuckers. all other road users get fined, do it to those fucktards.

anyway, back to coloured clown bikes, BLB, rate-my-fixie etc..

After my Oxford St collision the other day I was talking to a bloke about fencing off the road at choke points like TCR.

i think there should be some some kind of somethin to raise public awarness of the fucking roads .

There was in my day. Learn em young I say (sic)

Had my first near miss since I got back on the bike yesterday - 2 kids stepped out without a look. One was carrying a puppy. The other a shoebox. Oh the (potential) humanity!

Jaywalking should be an offence, fine the fuckers. all other road users get fined, do it to those fucktards.

Technically "jaywalking" is an offence, it's just the definition of jaywalking in the UK is different to what most people think it is due to its definition in USA.

USA Jaywalking: walking across a street outside of marked cross-walks and not at a corner, and/or against a signal light. If there is vehicle traffic or clear markings of a place to cross, this is a traffic misdemeanor subject to fine, and may be (but not conclusively) contributory negligence in the event of injury to the jay walker by a vehicle.

UK Jaywalking: To cross the road at a non designated crossing point for the purpose of causing an obstruction to road traffic. However it is up to the discretion of the police officer viewing the obstruction,

From a policeman, "the obstruction must be more than trivial. If a person loitered on the crossing, or stood, drunk (or otherwise) in the middle the road intentionally obstructing the traffic, then they commit an offence."

Had my first near miss since I got back on the bike yesterday - 2 kids stepped out without a look. One was carrying a puppy. The other a shoebox. Oh the (potential) humanity!

Was there someone else moving a pain of glass across the road, another person moving chickens in creates and some else stacking some empty cardboard boxs for no particular reason?