Peds!

Im selling my bike. This is madness.

Now there is an idea: fit cars with bike radar.

Im selling my bike. This is madness.

dibs the frame.

One day at band camp......

hahahaha i watched america pie the other day and in some way I was listening to that girl and in some stange way she reminded me of me... except I'm not ginger and I don't go to band camp and I'm no weird like her ... so really she doesn't remind me of me :D

Why is it that the general public cannot seem to see cyclist even though they are in bright gear??!!!!

One day I was cycling with this bright jacket on and I shouted out 'Excuse me' to this women who was walking on the cycling path(GRRR) and then she goes 'Aaahhh where did you come from!!!'

Is there some reason why the public walking on cycling paths are immune to bright jackets, bells and shouting??

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

start of big rant.

just because you buy a yellow vest or wear a helmet or obey traffic lights, DOES NOT make you a safe cyclist or makes other respect you on the road or stops you getting into accidents. same deal with a fucking bell, it is not intended to make people move out of your way with fucking 20 rings of the thing. you are on a bicycle, not fucking hard to ride around someone. get over it, the world doesn't revolve around you.

this is london my friend!

Good merging skills, hippy.

And quality rant, Dale.

I've got a friend that I met when we worked together. He was forever saying "Where's that screwdriver gone?", and I would pick it up for him off his tip of a desk. It was a running joke.

Then one day after a couple of after work beers (i.e. not pissed), he looked both ways and walked straight out in front of a car he had looked right at but just didn't see. The colleague he was with didn't have a chance to even call out a warning. Luckily, it was a side-street, so the car was going pretty slowly - no serious damage, couple of days in hospital and feeling rather sore afterwards.

Sometimes people just don't see things. Human error happens. I'm always expecting peds to not register me and step out, because their brain is looking for cars.

Just happened...... Heading east on the Uxbridge Road, approaching a red light at the Shepard's Bush Green Junction, I was passing inside stationary traffic in the cycle lane and this thick as a plank idiot steps off the pavement and in to the cycle lane with his missus. I managed to scrape past him, glanced off the front of a car, then ploughed in to another stationary car, face planting the rear window. WAC. He says he didn't see me, the cun* didn't even look!!!

I wasn't going fast, he literally stepped out 2 meters in front of me. It's been a while since I've experienced an accident. It's a harsh reminder for me that there are a lot of oxygen wasters walking the streets.

Bee careful out there.

aka mouth breathers, yes, i had one of those on marlybone road,
no where near a pedestrian crossing,
full on snail pace traffic,
and me,
going 15-20mph,
plenty of space,
and booom!
A mouth breather ! interjects my passage ! fuck off ! you twat !
there is a pedestrian crossing down the road, learn to use it why don't you.

Bike was ok, as was i, balanced myself to my feet.
He on the other hand went hurtling like a bowling pin, and the papers he was harnessing in his arm scattered everywhere.
Lets hope he learnt the hard way, but being a mouth breather we can't expect too much.

i had an incident with a ped yesterday.

he was running for his bus. he saw me and then couldn't decide whether to cross or not.

a glancing blow ensued.

still first one in many years riding in london.

so not too bad.

but yes it does involve riding considerately.

london is full of people and it helps if we all try to rub along together - safely.

i prefer people when they are a pedestrian to when they are a driver.

A while ago I hit a seven year old who ran out between stationary traffic. I picked myself up from the gutter two metres down the road, mostly unhurt. I think the child was too, at least his dad said so and judging by the colourful language he used, bruised but not more seriously hurt.
Now I take more care when filtering long queues of stationary traffic.

Cycling down Shaftesbury Avenue today I saw the one of the funniest pedestrian interactions.

Two dozy fools walking along the pavement just turned, and without looking strode out into the middle of the road.

They were apparently utterly oblivious of anything around them until "BANG!" they actually walked into each other.

Ok, so the chances of brainless muppet walking out into the road without looking is high, but for two of them to do so simultaneously from opposite sides seems a little rarer. This was one of those Roses Magic Moments.

that avatar isn't even subtle.
edit- I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often really.

Nope, it's quite animated actually.

I hope you laughed in their general direction James.

I did laugh and recounted the story to a bunch of cyclists I met up with for supper tonight. They too found it quite amusing.

I did laugh and recounted the story to a bunch of cyclists I met up with for supper tonight. They too found it quite amusing.

'supper'.....you sound so delightfully posh, welcome back :)

Well a dinner party rather requires a dinner jacket, so being an evening meal I presume it was supper.

Well a dinner party rather requires a dinner jacket, so being an evening meal I presume it was supper.

it's 'tea' where I come from, 'breakfast, dinner, tea', I have in recent years begun to say 'lunch' and will occasionally say 'dinner' instead of 'meal' or 'tea' if I have to. Uncouth I know (where's Lucifer, he'll know what I'm on about...not that he's 'common' of course, just northern)

oh, and supper is a biscuit at bed time by the way

Jokes on you...

I bet they fell in love and will live happily ever after.

That would be odd, but thankfully the two idiot men would be unable to breed, so of potential benefit to the gene pool.

ade,had this dinner/lunch argument with many a peep.my response is at school we never had "lunchladies" only dinnerladies.your right ade its breakfast,dinner,tea

Sorry, we had slaves, serfs and kitchen staff