Let's Stand In The Road!

can i sit in the road?

Lazy.

there was a bald man strolling accross oxford street the other day who done that glance at you and then look the other way think while still crossing - so I made a comedy squeak squeak noise as I rubbed his smooth bonce on the way past - got a few laughs ..he never gave chase, lazy bald bastard..

@Seak - thanks, never fails to cheer me the fuck up. [/it's a forum affair]

To be fair. Some people lead such painfully repressed lives that the only power or control that they ever exert over others is to put them to inconvenience by obstructing them. They do this to show that they can and in order to retain some semblance of self will.

Either that or they really have had enough of life.

That or dropping cats into wheelie-bins.

I regularly get idiot 16 year olds near liverpool street shouting and trying to jump in front of my bike - this is where I should shout I cant brake. Or going across london bridge a troupe of tourists crossing the 8 lanes of traffic then they see people on bikes and they stop walking so I aim to ride behind them, then they start running backwards to the central divide then I nearly hit them.

This has real Darwin potential.

@Seak - thanks, never fails to cheer me the fuck up. [/it's a forum affair]

It's a core component of my 'it's a nice day and I'm going to stand in the road' soundtrack.

if you cycle really close to people standing in the road and then shout very loudly right next to them, it has a most pleasing effect
and they move smartly to the side of the road

I'm just catching up with this latest trend.Oh the shame of being a secondary adopter or whatever people who copy what the cool people do are called.

Thanks for bringing us the freestanding idea, BMMF, and sharing your knowledge of the ascendant zeitgeisty nextbigthingys.

I feel a 'fixedpush' film coming...

I did some wicked standing this morning. Not in the road but the post office.

Skillz.

Here in Bankside there is an exciting variation on "Standing in the road" called "autistically marching along the contraflow bicycle lane in the same direction as the bicycles"

bonus combo move points to be had when you couple this variation with "shouting on your mobile phone" and follow up with a traditional Stand In The Road once the contraflow system has ended

if you cycle really close to people standing in the road and then shout very loudly right next to them, it has a most pleasing effect
and they move smartly to the side of the road

I like to ride very close behind them and say "WHOOOOOOOSH" as I do so.

Keeps me amused in a rather infantile way.

My Stepdad used to tell me to
"Go Play with the Traffic"
or
" Go and polish the Cat's Eyes"

So i'm pretty used to Dealing with being in the middle of a road.

ftfy

I like to ride very close behind them and say "WHOOOOOOOSH" as I do so.

Keeps me amused in a rather infantile way.

I've always preferred.......... "Oy Oy" ..... but current Steed seems to have developed a rattle which makes stealth cycling a bit more difficult....

ffs: if you're going to followsomeonewho'stakingachanceincrossingtheroadcanyoudoitattheirpacenotasslowasthat
thanks.

I like to ride very close behind them and say "WHOOOOOOOSH" as I do so.

Keeps me amused in a rather infantile way.

I like to shout honk honk honk honk... I like it when they drop their phone.

I'm just catching up with this latest trend.Oh the shame of being a secondary adopter or whatever people who copy what the cool people do are called.

Thanks for bringing us the freestanding idea, BMMF, and sharing your knowledge of the ascendant zeitgeisty nextbigthingys.

I feel a 'fixedpush' film coming...

Hipster?

Yep! That's it.

OK here's some sweet Standing In The Road I checked out yesterday in Soho, and two guys this morning in Waterloo. Some really rad parts of the road being stood in. Its so strange how now I've been told about Standing In The Road, I've realised this craze is sweeping the nation!

I should add that none of these people were waiting for traffic to pass so they could finish crossing... pausing, if you like. They were just standing there.

I might go out in my lunch break and maybe try out some beginners' Standing In The Road.

keep to the back roads to start off with Skully. Work up to the A roads and motorways.

Personal favoirate. Some advanced standing in the road going on here, checking the phone (two hands though, more points for one hand), looking a bit like Balki with a beard.

this is my new favourite thread.

@ Skully - thanks for providing photographic evidence. I never entirely trust my own perception of reality. You've eased… my troubled mind.

YouTube- The Buff Medways: Troubled Mind

OK, I've been holding back but I just can't do it any longer: The thread title is all wrong. What it should read as is 'Let's Stand in the Carriageway.' The road or street comprises both the footway and the carriageway, and none of you carriageway hogs would bat an eyelid if people stood on the footway.

Fuck off.

keep to the back roads to start off with Skully. Work up to the A roads and motorways.

Skully would always prefer the back roads. more opportunity to enjoy the standing in the road. who wants to stand there quickly?

Fuck off.

Thread hog.