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Signed.
People caught should have their cars crushed...
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It doesn't matter if it's malice or because of the lack of patience. It will result in the same thing if it goes wrong - Death of a cyclist.
You are right of course.
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They were probably lucky they didn't have a gun shaped like a table leg. :(
Or even a table leg shaped like a table leg!
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^ Yeah I agree, it is very easy to jump to the conclusion that the dangerous behavior of motorists is due to malice, whereas it is most likely due to ignorance. The lorry driver seems to show a lack of patience overtaking the cyclists around the outside of a bend on narrow streets. He felt he could squeeze his truck through the gap but failed to show much appreciation of the danger he was placing the cyclists in. Reckless?... yes, but malicious?
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fixing a weird rear brake may be the only way to legally let it out of the shop.
Evans cycles let me ride away a Fuji Track with no brakes...
(BTW I rode straight to another [cheaper] shop to fit my front brake)
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Right! My blood is boiling reading some of this.
It time to start reporting these drivers as carrying guns. Then and ONLY then will the policetake it seriously.
please stay safe.
1:20 to 2:00 shows SO19 'hard-stopping' a vehicle because someone reported the occupants had a gun "shaped like a mobile phone"!
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God, watching driving like that makes my blood boil. Why the hell can't motorist show a little patience with cyclists some times. Trying to overtake there is madness!
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Spotted: two nodders fighting on Upper Street.
Pulling away from the lights at Islington Park Street/Canonbury lane yesterday I heard a load of commotion behind me. As I rode off I could see over my shoulder two cyclists in the middle of the road fighting each other! They were holding up a line of traffic and one of the guys even tried to wrestle the other under a car. I had never seen anything like it.
After they went their separate ways I rode to catch up with one of the blokes to ask WTF? His version was that the other cyclist took extreme exception to him skipping through a ped crossing, gave chase and attacked him at the lights threatening to kill him if he did it again or some shit. The wierd thing is at least 5 other cyclist had done exactly the same thing but for some reason he vented his frustration on this one other guy, weird!
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World cup bid fail:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/may/22/2018-world-cup-launch-wembley-bnp
"Jack Warner, the Fifa vice-president and key power-broker, said that inviting a British National Party councillor to England's 2018 World Cup launch at Wembley while having only white and male speakers addressing the audience was an "error" that needed correcting quickly."
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^good choice Treadders.. Have you heard the band he's in? Montezumas I think they're called, quite different but not bad either
Haven't heard them, i'll check them out though. thanks for the recommendation.
couldn't stop listening to this today:
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Anticipating undertakers is a key aspect of cycle training (as is, indeed, training not to undertake). It is unfortunately fairly widespread behaviour among cyclists taking a timid position close to the kerb when trailing a trained rider who follows the Highway Code.
Yeah I agree it was probably a bit of anticipation failure on my part (the hangover didn't help) but I still don't think I deserved to called a 'fucking idiot'. Oh well, ride on...
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I've never really had to deal with cycle plods before(except for watching a pair have their bikes nicked from right beside them by the local n.e.ds while telling off their mates) and was just wondering if anyone had committed an 'offense' of any nature and been chased by the law? Presumably their comedy mtbs wouldn't catch any but the fattest of road/fg riders? May have to get a bike up to full legal road spec - tons of reflectors etc and go pick a race. New sport? Everyone bring £30 for the fixed penalty/winnings and the first back to the pub wins the pot, busted people have to challenge the plod to a duel to the death, using bikes like pugle sticks
just a suggestion
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^^ is that directed at me perchance?
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a single speed wobbler crashed into me from behind this morning (he was on what looked like a rather nice shop 14 bike in a yellowy green)
despite being on flat pedals he proceeded to fall to the ground
i was going to give him a hand back up but he started shouting at me so i thought it best to make a move on - it has made me realise that shouting at every idiot on the road possibly does not endear myself to other road users
so the public are learning but the cyclists are getting worse
I got called a 'Fucking Idiot' by a MTB nodder the other day. Coming up to a red light in the middle(ish) of the lane I slowed up moving into the green cyclist bit and drifted in towards the curb slowly as I passed the stop line... then just out of the corner of my eye I saw a MTBer screaming to a halt almost running into the back of me. I didn't see him at all and did drift into his path, but I kinda don't think I should have to look out for people trying to undertake me at speed to RLJ across a busy junction. There is no doubt I am a fucking idot sometimes but that time I don't really think I was in the wrong, or was I?
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I usually retort this by saying something like this: 'you've no right to be alive, but your disappointing parents clawed into each other one night in some passionless sexual act in which your dad's withered-on-the-vine genitals managed to become turgid in some freak one-off act of animal instinct. From there you've failed in everything you do and everyone you know. Frankly, I've only just met you and I find you repugnant. You repulse me. I wish they could make a replica London and launch it off the coast of Cornwall just so you can be a smug cunt in your own city. I suspect somewhere between day 2 and 3 you'd be so disappointed you won't be able to point your bile laden, vitriolic mouth at someone, that you'll beat yourself to death with your own steering lock. Years later you'll be found in a replica NPC. 'Why?' they'll mutter. But we'll know. WE'LL KNOW!!!! So, why don't you get into your car. Turn on the ignition and keep driving. And keep your venom-laden opinions to yourself until you can learn some manners. Good day indeed."
However, they've normally gone across the traffic lights at 'You've...'
How about getting this printed on a business card or flyer which can be thrown in through the window of the offending car (possibly tied to a brick)... then they can read about how much of a complete cnut they've been in their own time!
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How the police will fight you with their bike.
That is without doubt the funniest thing I have seen this week. What I love is the officer has dropped their batton on the floor to try and fight with the bike!
So maybe at the next G20 we'll be faced with a police line waving shitty MTBs around. Brilliant!!
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Pedal-skating FTW!!!
Ahh that's what it's called.. well it should be banned!!... along with free-wheeling down hills!! .... what?... jealous?...me?... never!!
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My personal pet hate of the moment are the free-wheeling fucktards who think it is ok to fly down the Grenwich foot tunnel because they are balanced on one pedal. Sorry but it says no cycling in the tunnel and in my opinion that still counts... Plus being fixed-wheel means I can't do it so you shouldn't be able to either! ;)
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Shit man! I'm glad the chainring failure didn't end up in a serious crash or anything. For my part in the original thread... I appologise... for the record MTB chainrings didn't attack my village (hog flu did), my brother is alive and well and living in Holland, my fiance ran off all by herself! ;)
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I took this in Les Ecrins, France.
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In order to work out whether a tall uplighter was screw or bayonet I stuck my finger in to feel .... a split second later I was lying flat on my back on the floor with a racing heart and a spasming arm. Not my greatest hour!
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The police can run a partial plate check on the PNC and then through a process of ellimination should be able to pin down the car involved (it is unlikely that there would be many black prius that matched EJ08 *UZ). They can then get all the owner's details... simples. Of course if it is a company car it will make it slightly harder to pin down the driver. The police don't always have the resources to carry out investigations as thoroughly as they or us would like but lets hope the driver gets caught and charged.