Peds!

discovered a great term today for said peds - meanderthals (think it sums up the ipod-listening, phone-talking unaware-of-their-surroundings peds brilliantly)

but have no hate for them, you just gotta be more aware of them. not even going to comment on the "Jaywalking should be an offence, fine the fuckers"

Had one step out on a red light and get annoyed that I was going through an amber... I love that...

Ped "that's a red light"
Me "so's the pedestrian crossing dickhead"... only I'd got to the next junction before I got to the word dickhead...

Also outside oval station woman started wheeling her pram out onto the bike lane while the light was green and I was bombing it up the lane, I let out a gutteral scream... she got out the way... don't know where the hell that came from though!? Think I might need to get more sleep!

I got told off by an old lady who was crossing the road yesterday. I had rolled over the ASL cause it was full of cars, and had kept rolling towards the other side of the junction (there wasn't any traffic coming) but waited to let people go over at the crossing.

She looked at me and said, very sternly, "NO! You should wait behind the line, like everyone else" and carried on crossing, tutting to herself.

Next time I see any 'vulnerable' people crossing the road, I know what I'll be dealing with it..

So...this looks like a good place to advertise my shirt :-)

Coming out in a matter of weeks...

but have no hate for them, you just gotta be more aware of them. not even going to comment on the "Jaywalking should be an offence, fine the fuckers"

well if people are incapable of facing up to their own responsibility and educating them doesn't work, then what? let them cause accidents and hurt themselves and others?

the reason I said it is because it seems to be the only language some people understand these days, the reality of being the cause of someone's death/injury has no imapct, not that it's bothered the phone/texters whilst driving brigade, or some of the wannabes on bikes that can't read the road and ride like pricks

Nhatt, I want one.

or even maybe tattooed on my chest!

BTW, the new shirt will be signed Team Awesome and printed in conjuction with House Of Pistard.

i love it!

awesome shirt.

YEAH! I'm especially please the the girlengers like it. I got a lot of flack from some other bike ladies about it.

i like the other one too [you husband's] so i am in the list for both

not feminine enough for me.

If the ped chooses to step out and gets hurt it's them selves to blame and they wont be doing it again in a hurry.
fining Jay walkers isn't the answer, but the day i get knocked off by some ipod/mobile distracted twat i'm removing that piece of electrical shit and re-assembling it across the road. (I am secretly looking forward to that)

i did have a braying suited fat toss pot stepping out on TCR last year and i leaned over to grab the phone out of his hand and he leant back just in time as my finges brushed his chubby chops. his face was a picture!

Cool, he's still in negotiations with HoP* over the re-printing of the shirt, so mine will be first.

*in other words, he keeps buying Xander drinks and whispering in his ear while wringing his hands together and licking his lips.**

**No, wait, that was on of the three Lord of The Rings films. He was just buying him drinks.

I think it's kamikaze pensioner day today, had one step off the pavement in front of me without looking, only for another one to do exactly the same thing 100 metres down the road

Thursday is pension day, friday they are all hung over.

Nhatt: please sign me up for that shirt. Veh veh nice.

Cool. They will be black t-shirts with cupcake pink print. I'm having 25 printed, and I'll let you all know when they are out.

Cool. They will be black t-shirts with cupcake pink print. I'm having 25 printed, and I'll let you all know when they are out.

Only 25!? I'm a manly man and even i would rock that t-shirt!

Well, We'll see how they sell. It's a fundraiser to make Bike Prom happen, so I wanted to make sure I wasn't stuck with lots of stock and owing HoP loads of cash on top of having to rent stuff for the prom.

A second printing could happen.

YEAH! I'm especially please the the girlengers like it. I got a lot of flack from some other bike ladies about it.

They need to harden the fuck up (HTFU for short)

Time to bring Vader back...

...can they bring back the green cross code? All these "Don't die before you've lived" adverts are there for shock, but none of them say "LOOK BOTH WAYS YOU PLUM"

I think my favorite was always Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes)'s road safety poster that said:

Be Careful Or Be Roadkill!

I ran into my first ped of the year today. Theobalds Road, somewhere between the two places where peds are supposed to cross. 9am, so the road is busy, busy, and I had just cleared the junction with Grays Inn Rd, heading East, at speed, past a bendy bus about to stop, past some nodders, I'm flying. Here's a car slowing down, must have its reasons, filter left, here we go - whoa - a ped - what's she doing here - crossing the road? - walk! - don't stop - she's stopped - aaaargh!

I'm on the road, on my back, still clipped in. The ped is saying sorry, sorry, are you all right? I'm all right, course I'm all right, unclip, get up. Ms ped is Spanish, still apologising. She's shocked. "Sorry, sorry." Bollocks to this, I'm up, I'm off.

Then! The car that stopped to allow the ped to cross is still there. There's a big fat lady in there, shouting at me as she drives off: "You cyclists. You're always doing that! Always!" I look around, there's my ped, still saying sorry, and a line of cyclists who have stopped behind me, looking on. "So it's my fault now, is it?" I shout - at the driver, then at everyone else. "Was it my fault?" From the ped, another "Sorry!"; from the cyclists, nothing, incredulous looks.

I hit the ped, but it's the motorists that hate us.

the fat bitch in the car probably has not had sexual intercourse for a while... don't worry about it. main thing you're both ok.

the fat bitch in the car probably has not had sexual intercourse for a while... don't worry about it. main thing you're both ok.

You're right, that is the main thing. But: three times this year now I've had motorists telling me they think I have no right to be on the road.