Peds!

.... When I shout WTF at the guy all the other peds. nearby look at me like I committed genocide with a sawn off uni-pack.
Rant over, thankyou... FE
HA! Brilliant!

Youth culture is leading the way on this issue as with many others. If someone fucks you off, guns and knifes are the answer.

Good job you've got a brake then - a lesson to us all...
;-D

when I was cycling up an empty Kingsway Road in the middle of the day, all the light was green and quite up ahead what look like hundreds of pedestrians crossing the road despite the red walking light, and more than half of them seen me, but carry on walking sporadically in a "should I cross? do I have enough time before he get here? should I wait?" and ended up with a bizarre labyinth of people, within 10 metres after weaving left and right trying to find the best line to get through safety but in the end when I can't find a line due to people moving sporadically, I screamed "OH FOR FUCK SAKE!", and they run back to the pavement in embarrassement.

pissed me off as well, it would be a hypocrite if I did the same as a pedestrians, thought I'm more aware of the surrounding due to obvious reason.

haha...yep know that feeling.

It's those fuckers that insist on crossing the road when the lights are green and there is no traffic and they eyeball you and get as close as they can to you without causing an accident that really get on my tits...

'Yes the lights are green, no im not a fucking car and yes ive still got right of way'

I find the best way to deal with it is to wait until they're right next to you then scream at them....see how high they jump.

In numbers they are like lemmings. i love the way they stand and stare, like day of the living dead at times

@Bobby - works even better when they are chest out, on the phone charlie big potatoes and you come on the blind side and let rip right in there ear. hahai had a perma tanned bloke on the corner of charlotte St jump so quick he tripped over his own feet.. still makes me laugh now. i just wished i was there to see him get up and still act cool

In numbers they are like lemmings. i love the way they stand and stare, like day of the living dead at times

taking the Northern Line does simply just that!

I find the best way to deal with it is to wait until they're right next to you then scream at them....see how high they jump.

I love doing that but also a bit risky as that increase a chance of an serious injuries if the peds decided to jump toward you in surprised, thought it's terribly hard to resist making offending peds jumped.

a ped on Oxford street di the same, she looked one way, the wrong way and plundered right into my path.
Next thing that happens is that all her bags in one hand, filled with designer clothes, chocolates , you name it, hooked onto my drop levers and swoooosh!! they went everywhere!
ANd i mean everywhere.
Her stuff was all over the place.
I helped pick her stuff up, but she was lucky not to have worse me thinks. close shave.

Spotted: Me, this morning, very nearly being mowed down by three plums on geared bikes jumping a red light at the crossroads of Clerkenwell Rd and St John's St.

Spotted: Me, this morning, very nearly being mowed down by three plums on geared bikes jumping a red light

TSK!

I'm not anti-light hopping generally! Only when I'm crossing as a ped.

^ Hypocrite.. ish

Youth culture is leading the way on this issue as with many others. If someone fucks you off, guns and knifes are the answer.

Guns for show . . knives for a pro! :) (bit harsh tho, I only hope all the peds we hit will look twice b4 stepping into the road in the future, but at what price!!!)

get one of those air horns you 'refil' with a bike pump should scare the bejesus outta em

'Yes the lights are green, no im not a fucking car and yes ive still got right of way'

Technically you don't have right of way.

TSK!

I was nowhere near there at the time, honest guv.

that is right, peds come first

I was nowhere near there at the time, honest guv.

Wahey! I see what you did there...

that is right, paeds come first

of course...

a ped on Oxford street di the same, she looked one way, the wrong way and plundered right into my path.
Next thing that happens is that all her bags in one hand, filled with designer clothes, chocolates , you name it, hooked onto my drop levers and swoooosh!! they went everywhere!
ANd i mean everywhere.
Her stuff was all over the place.
I helped pick her stuff up, but she was lucky not to have worse me thinks. close shave.

Years ago on Kingsland Rd, some idiot was crossing the road diagonally, approaching me while I was being passed by traffic, and couldn't go kerbside due to parked cars. They were carrying a coat over there arm (an expensive one I think), and it got hooked over my bar-end. I only just managed to keep control, as the coat was wrenched out of their hand.

I kept riding, regathered my composure, and nonchalantly unhooked the coat from my bar-end when I passed the first decently sized filthy puddle in the gutter.

I was young and angry back then.

Peds can feel my death stare through the back of their heads.. they're too scared to step onto the road when I'm near. Sparta!

that is right, peds come first

Always the gent.

I'm the same I always make sure that whatever I fuck cums first, man woman or beast.

Raptile is not like this however, he has no mercy.

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It's those fuckers that insist on crossing the road when the lights are green and there is no traffic and they eyeball you and get as close as they can to you without causing an accident that really get on my tits...

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Yes - those peds that walk into the road right up to you thinking they've calculated your speed and will safely cross inches past your back wheel ...

Kill them all

I do understand that peds in the way can be a really big problem, indeed it tends to be the number *preceived *danger for London cyclists. But it cuts both ways - if you ask the average pedestrian what the number one danger is they will almost invariably mention cyclists on the pavement.

But when you look at the collision and injury stats, a totally different picture emerges. The number one danger to cyclist in London is lorries. Peds hardly figure. Likewise the number one danger to peds is not cyclists, probably more peds are killed by cars on the footway in ONE year than by collisions with cyclists in TWENTY years.

I think the problem is that London is very crowded, and the majority of the road is given over to motorised traffic, with soft vehicles forced into a competition for the marginal space - which is what leads to these conflicts.

What's the solution - well, as a cyclist, it's important to remember that pedestrians have an ABSOLUTE right to use the road - unless otherwise stated, and cyclists have a duty to anticipate that pedestrians may be about to step off the footway, and to try take avoiding action ahead of time. This is not a popular message, but any cursory reading of the Highway Code, or indeed even the most basic professional cycle-training will demonstrate this.