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Sealed Partridge bearings ;)
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im alright now, thanks for the concern. just road rash really...
keep on replaying the event in my head. thinkin what i couldve done better. i normally ride pretty close to the kerb and although i look at everything ahead of me and try to anticipate every numpty's actions, it is very easy for someone to step out onto my path. so many places where this can happen, borough high st, fulham, kings road, etc, areas where i can easily hit 30kph. what if it had been a child getting away from the minder?!?
was thinkin bout bending the hbar drop into position, but i hear ya daccordi, will just replace it
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30 klicks sounds like a fair old wack to me how about moving out into the traffic
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I had some dip sh*t biatch do the same to me the other night... She was stood in the middle of the road waited for a car to pass then progress to cross my path!
I have duel electron halogen lights, they illuminate roads signs miles away... How i didn't hit her, i'll never know! It's like they are totally blinkered? -
seriously there have been times when i've crashed myself to avoid hitting people in this manner and had to restrain myself from hitting them and i'm completely not a violent guy!
where do u think the worst place in london is for these incidents and at what time? (charing cross road of a friday night, 7pm/waterloo road by the station at the same time, I would say
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A lot of peds figure that you'll slow down and let them pass because you'll get hurt too. Which is why going behind them tends to work better.
Irritating, but how else do you explain people swearing at you for going through a green light in central London when they've decided to cross en masse?
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Really? I shoulderbarged a teenager on oxford street because i tried going behind him. The instant I moved to his inside he backtracked. Luckily (for me) I didn't get knocked off, but I think he probably got a nasty bruise. By the way he reacted I think i was probably right not to stop and see if he was ok.
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i find, that you stare where you 'going' to and don't look them in the eye at all, it seems to work on hungerford bridge with the tourists, who are all snapping the london eye or when i ...ahem...mount the pavement occasionally. They can tell from your eyes where you intend to be. Looking people in the eye just confuses them and they have no doubt where you intend to be if you look at the line your taking. Same thing happens when your walking, if you look someone in the eye, you both gravitate towards each other, but if you look to your intended direction you tend not to do the funky chicken. Well it works for me, so anyway tune in next week to the post that reads "the guy thought i was staring where he thought i wanted HIM to go."
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ihatelaw seriously there have been times when i've crashed myself to avoid hitting people in this manner and had to restrain myself from hitting them and i'm completely not a violent guy!
where do u think the worst place in london is for these incidents and at what time? (charing cross road of a Friday night, 7pm/waterloo road by the station at the same time, I would say
ox ford st, between marble arch and oxford circus. never ride there, i did it 4 times, hit 4 peds, all their fault. let them all go, and had to buy an new wheel and new forks for my troubles.
any where on oxford st at rush hour. i was riding fast with a green light, a ped walked out into my gap, there was a stopped buss in my lane against the curb, that big thing of concrete and rails where the lights are and a van on coming fast, as i aimed for the gap and yelled, he kept walking, pushing me in front of the van and i reached him as he stepped into the vans path, there was no way it could stop and he was in my gap, i had a choice, ped, van, or bus. naturally i chose the softest of the three and anticipating the impact i used my shoulders to push him left, out of the way of the on coming van, and out of the gap, i turned into the gap, the van almost catching my back wheel.i looked over my shoulder and the guy had fallen, didnt look bad. he was probably off to the pub to tell his mate about the crazy cyclist who pushed him over. if it hadn't been for me his mates would have been drinking in his memory, and it would have been one messy van.
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oxford st's got a rush hour? the no of peds there's pretty constant chris. relentless. it's only quiet before 0800 and after 2300
...30 klicks sounds like a fair old wack to me how about moving out into the traffic
guestimate, i dont really know how fast i go as i dont have a comp on my fixed gear (who does?). but of course the more peds there are the more likely ill slow down. to me, i like to keep my speed up, be as close to general traffic speed as possible. less diff speed between you and vehicles, drivers give way when you slide in (overtaking) and you beat buses.
i dont go shoulder width away from the kerb...prob at least a swinging car door's length away. but also limited by the space given to me by an adjacent vehicle. i ran into the lady right in the middle of the lane (city bound lane was about 6m wide at that point). maybe i shouldnt have shouted
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I have them step out when I drive the van too, it's not just bikes they like to dodge.
I've found women with young toddlers standing in the middle of two lanes of traffic which is pushing 60mph, at night in the pissing rain, expecting to get across.
I usually wind down the window and ask "what the fuck do you think you're doing? you will cause an ACCIDENT" do they apologise? do they even acknowledge?do they fuck.
just plain pig-ignorant, lazy, selfish cunts. these are the same type of people that drop litter.
some humans are just too LAZY to use a crossing two feet away, or look where they're going.
one of my favourite games is when slowing down for lights/junctions and you get some twats wandering through the slowing traffic, because they can only be bothered to do a route 1 at an angle, they aim for the gap behind the van before it's there, like they're anticipating the speed. But the traffic is slowing, not going at a constant speed, so sometimes I stop slightly earlier, or slow down even more..
these twats will actually walk into the back of the van rather than adjust their speed/direction by a tiny amount, it's hilarious but saddening.
My generation was brought up to respect the road, and be careful when crossing it.
Some of the stunts these muppets pull are beyond belief.Where is Tufty? where is the Green Cross Code Man?
where is Great Britain?where are my teeth..they were in the glass last night....
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I fucking hate driving BTW. it's not even a transit and it pisses me off, it does 1000miles a year, which is very little..
guess we use it once a month on average.I hate cars even more, and one thing I hate more than driving is being a passenger in a car.
you know it takes about 45mins to go 2 miles around here? why do these muppets sit in that day in, day out?
YOU tell me, MrMouse. you tell me why.
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I left ten years ago, I love old blighty, but I doubt I'll be coming back
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we're at the forefront of whatever, the rest of Europe will catch up soon enough.
people that move away to places like Spain and say "England's gone down the pan" are in for a terrible shock.
it can go either way, maybe we'll come out of this cycle of class division and find a modern utopia, maybe we'll carry on fucking the place up.
whatever happens, the rest of the civilised world with either wish they were here, or be in the same filthy boat.
it's a win/win situation.
my £2/2€/2$ worth
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fatboyralph oxford st's got a rush hour?
yes the number is higher 8-9.30am 11.30am-1.30pm, and 5-7pm mon-turs with the busy time extending to 5-9pm on Fridays.
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One trick that works really rather well is to tell them just to move. Yelling at them doesn't work because they can't really hear you, but if you signal with your hand as you would if you were driving a car saying 'go ahead', they tend to cross without dancing the funky chicken in the middle of the road. I do that a lot at zebra crossings, where people will wait until I have come to a complete stop to cross unless I signal them across with my hand, which is obv. a bit irritating, especially if I'm going up hill and have some decent momentum going. Nodding the head exaggeratedly in the appropriate direction also works, though is less immediately understood.
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i just speed up and aim for the kiddies
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