Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

You didn't come here for sympathy though did you?

I saw people were discussing riding on the pavement and thought I'd share my recent experience, trying to illustrate there are occasions it isn't the work of Beelzebub himself, like when you're taking the dog out.

I see parents riding slowly down the pavement with their brood following after on wobbly little bikes with stabilisers and I don't think, 'fuck me, what anti-social bastards', I don't see a vast difference trying to get 1-4 dogs to the park, given the speed I go and the route I use.

There's always little grey areas, and blue and orange and pink. The world isn't all absolutes, and I make my own decisions.

Fair enough. I think if most on here were honest, you approaching at 2mph with hound in tow would not actually result in you getting called out. Your indignation at the lady's indignation seems a bit odd though.

What about riding on the pavement in order to jump a red light?

With a dog?

London 2012 is all about recursive indignation.

What about riding a red dog on a bike?

Fair enough. I think if most on here were honest, you approaching at 2mph with hound in tow would not actually result in you getting called out. Your indignation at the lady's indignation seems a bit odd though.

It was just she was really, really annoying

Riding on a dog, with headphones on, to jump a red light

Who's wearing headphones you or the dog?

ave we lynched him yet - oh yes I see that we have

You could probably put your headphones on the dog to make it more aware as it goes through the red, then put them back on your own head after it has performed this risky manouver

[csb] The road outside my house is a shared ped / bike route.

I recently saw a chap "walking" his dog (staffie) on a full sus supermarket special.

He seemed to be completely oblivious the dog was actually in position below:

as he was riding, at speed, pulling poor old pooch along and leaving a 5 metre trail of dog crap outside my house.

Kind of like the Red Arrows, but no planes, just dogshit.

/csb

Kind of like the Red Arrows, but no planes, just dogshit.

Ooh, can we have this if the queen makes it to her next Jubilee?

[csb]

as he was riding, at speed, pulling poor old pooch along and leaving a 5 metre trail of dog crap outside my house.

Kind of like the Red Arrows, but no planes, just dogshit.

/csb

Was he wearing a hoodie? I was once encouraged by such types not to pick up after my (ill) dog had deposited something of mammoth proportions but lacking any real structural integrity. Although tempted I did continue to manfully scrap the offending material off the pavement, for the sake of the kids.

I still get the flashbacks

This is why I will never own a dog.

Somebody posted on this forum, I forget who, about how every time he looks at a dog owner picking up "a freshly steaming hound coil" he thinks about "how soft and yielding it must be", citing that as the reason he didn't want to own a dog. Ever since I read that, I now think the same thing every time I see a dog owner doing the clean-up deed.

I can't really say it's enriched my experience of life much. :(

The benefits of owning a dog far away the picking up of shit. Strange to say picking up freshly-laid turd is much better than cold ones from the garden. Apparently the SAS when in extreme cold, shit into a bag then use the sealed bag as a hand-warming.

I shit you not.

I need a side-cam to video the mutt when I'm sprinting on the bike and he's running alongside me. Something very profound in that, you start to get inside the dog's head.

This is the Mutt:

Lurchers love to run, they love to go fast for the sake of it, just like us fixed riders. Running with them, being part of the pack is pure fucking joy. His name is Trigger, he was found tied to a lamp-post, starving and covered with mange. Despite terrible treatment when he was a pup, he is the soppiest twat you'll ever meet. Rescuing him was THE best thing I have ever done. If that isn't a reason to pick up shit, then I don't know one.

Apparently the SAS when in extreme cold, shit into a bag then use the sealed bag as a hand-warming.

On my winter climbing trips I take a designated 'piss bottle' so I can piss at night without having to leave my sleeping bag (because it's often about -25C). When I'm done, guess where it goes. That's right - the bottle goes right in the bag like some kind of gross hot water bottle. Not worth wasting that warmth!

If that isn't a reason to pick up shit, then I don't know one.

Money?

Social Good?

Fetish?

Money?

Social Good?

Fetish?

Fetish I get, social good I don't, but I am very curious how you get paid to pick up shit

I shit you not.

Genius...

Trigger is adorable & Jimmy Fingers is adorable too

Lurcher = proper dog

I lubs you too Buddha

and so does Trigger

Lurcher bull crosses are serious business.