On 4 Dec 2006 12:46:45 -0800, "'Arf" <[email hidden]>
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Big help for spotting you in my bicycle's mirror when I'm screaming down Barry Drive next to the bus lane, but then I choose to look for bikes.
You should use the bicycle paths instead of endangering yourself and obstructing the road with your slow-moving vehicle.
60kmh in a 60kmh zone, RIght I should be on the paths. Faster than the cars most mornings, so they should move off the road for my convenience? There is space to share.
You should use the bicycle paths instead of endangering yourself and obstructing the road with your slow-moving vehicle.
Now why would most cyclists want to use a psyclepath when the road is perfectly good, faster, when psyclepaths are generally more dangerous, don't go where I want to go, full of debris, etc. etc. Silly blighter! That, or you're a troll and ICMFP.
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:42:08 +1100, "bikerbetty" <[email hidden]> wrote:
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Big help for spotting you in my bicycle's mirror when I'm screaming down Barry Drive next to the bus lane, but then I choose to look for bikes.
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You should use the bicycle paths instead of endangering yourself and obstructing the road with your slow-moving vehicle.
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Slow moving? I've done a lot of driving and cyling in urban settings. IME cycling is faster than driving on average. Is your experience otherwise?
Considering I distinctly recall a bushfire crossing Barry Drive a good few years ago, we're clearly not talking about an "Urban SETTING".
Bicycles are not faster than cars, they lack acceleration and their riders have a comprehensive disregard for the rules of the road and their fellow road users.
"'Arf" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:1165350962.876836.235830@ 79g2000cws.googlegroups.com:
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Bicycles are not faster than cars, they lack acceleration and their riders have a comprehensive disregard for the rules of the road and their fellow road users.
They're basically a selfish cack of punts.
Being a car driver, motorcyclist and cyclist I don't have a problem sharing the highway with other road users, whereas you obviously do.
Bicycles are not faster than cars, they lack acceleration and their riders have a comprehensive disregard for the rules of the road and their fellow road users.
And yet, they are legally entitled to use the road, so deal with it and stop whining.
"'Arf" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:1165350962.876836.235830@ 79g2000cws.googlegroups.com:
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Bicycles are not faster than cars, they lack acceleration and their riders have a comprehensive disregard for the rules of the road and their fellow road users.
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They're basically a selfish cack of punts.
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Being a car driver, motorcyclist and cyclist I don't have a problem sharing the highway with other road users, whereas you obviously do.
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So who's being the selfish 2@ here?
When I'm on the road, I use it with consideration for its other users.
Cyclists show no such consideration: they threaten pedestrians, ignore red lights, stop signs, give way signs (in fact they ignore all road rules) and ride in such a way as to cause maximum amount of obstruction to faster vehicles.
On 5 Dec 2006 12:36:02 -0800, "'Arf" <[email hidden]>
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Considering I distinctly recall a bushfire crossing Barry Drive a good few years ago, we're clearly not talking about an "Urban SETTING".
Its in the center of a city so clearly you're making this [censored] up as you go. Do you believe any of what you're spouting? Not that urban or ortherwise is any reason not to share the road.
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"'Arf" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:1165350962.876836.235830@ 79g2000cws.googlegroups.com:
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Bicycles are not faster than cars, they lack acceleration and their riders have a comprehensive disregard for the rules of the road and their fellow road users.
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They're basically a selfish cack of punts.
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Being a car driver, motorcyclist and cyclist I don't have a problem sharing the highway with other road users, whereas you obviously do.
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So who's being the selfish 2@ here?
When I'm on the road, I use it with consideration for its other users.
Cyclists show no such consideration: they threaten pedestrians, ignore red lights, stop signs, give way signs (in fact they ignore all road rules) and ride in such a way as to cause maximum amount of obstruction to faster vehicles.
No doubt there are some inconsiderate cyclists, same as there are some inconsiderate car driver and bikers. Seems a bit of a broad brush you are using though.
"'Arf" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:1165350962.876836.235830@ 79g2000cws.googlegroups.com:
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Bicycles are not faster than cars, they lack acceleration and their riders have a comprehensive disregard for the rules of the road and their fellow road users.
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They're basically a selfish cack of punts.
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Being a car driver, motorcyclist and cyclist I don't have a problem sharing the highway with other road users, whereas you obviously do.
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So who's being the selfish 2@ here?
When I'm on the road, I use it with consideration for its other users.
Cyclists show no such consideration: they threaten pedestrians, ignore red lights, stop signs, give way signs (in fact they ignore all road rules) and ride in such a way as to cause maximum amount of obstruction to faster vehicles.
Does 'Arf stand for half a brain? Or for 'havin' a lau'arf' 'cos you're a little bit waay, a little oooh, geezer like the nonse you are. If we take your dumb comment, we can make it more accurate like so...
Most drivers show no such consideration: they threaten pedestrians, ignore red lights, stop signs, give way signs (in fact they ignore all road rules) and drive in such a way as to cause maximum amount of obstruction and injury to everyone else.
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"'Arf" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:1165350962.876836.235830@ 79g2000cws.googlegroups.com:
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Bicycles are not faster than cars, they lack acceleration and their riders have a comprehensive disregard for the rules of the road and their fellow road users.
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They're basically a selfish cack of punts.
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Being a car driver, motorcyclist and cyclist I don't have a problem sharing the highway with other road users, whereas you obviously do.
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So who's being the selfish 2@ here?
When I'm on the road, I use it with consideration for its other users.
Cyclists show no such consideration: they threaten pedestrians, ignore red lights, stop signs, give way signs (in fact they ignore all road rules) and ride in such a way as to cause maximum amount of obstruction to faster vehicles.
As most adult cyclists are car drivers/owners, you could try thinking of them as 'motorists on bikes'. Once you realise that they are motorists you can begin to understand why some of them behave as selfishly as car drivers do.
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Cyclists show no such consideration: they threaten pedestrians, ignore red lights, stop signs, give way signs (in fact they ignore all road rules) and ride in such a way as to cause maximum amount of obstruction to faster vehicles.
Faster vehicles? That'll be the hundreds of cars I pass on my commute every day? I did drive once, down the local motorway with no cyclists to hold me up, but it took so much longer that I've never repeated the experience.
Just condider this 'Arf a brain: if all the cyclists decided to drive cars, you and your car wouldn't go anywhere.
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:42:08 +1100, "bikerbetty" <[email hidden]> wrote:
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Big help for spotting you in my bicycle's mirror when I'm screaming down Barry Drive next to the bus lane, but then I choose to look for bikes.
You should use the bicycle paths instead of endangering yourself and obstructing the road with your slow-moving vehicle.
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I used to dream of a recoiless rifle as an appropriate response to being horned at pointlessly close range. Nowdays it would be an RPG7.
We have cycle and taxi/bus lanes in Newport. These are for the sole use of boy racers with fogs no police intervention at all
In urban areas of the US, we have the same situation, except substitute arrogant yuppies in SUV's and luxury cars or (in the hood) gangbangers in unlicensed vehicles. It is prudent to stay out of the way of the latter, as they often (illegally) possess semi-automatic firearms.
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:42:08 +1100, "bikerbetty" <[email hidden]> wrote:
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Big help for spotting you in my bicycle's mirror when I'm screaming down Barry Drive next to the bus lane, but then I choose to look for bikes.
You should use the bicycle paths instead of endangering yourself and obstructing the road with your slow-moving vehicle.
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I used to dream of a recoiless rifle as an appropriate response to being horned at pointlessly close range. Nowdays it would be an RPG7.
I don't think that's trolling. Back in the day when I and friends used to commute along the A6, we'd regularly have discussions about what sorts of weapons we'd like to strap to our bikes to deal with dangerous motorists. We never actually did it, of course - RPGs are hard to come by - but it was a good way of letting off steam.
I think that's what Aeek's doing, and I sympathise.
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"'Arf" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:1165350962.876836.235830@ 79g2000cws.googlegroups.com:
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Bicycles are not faster than cars, they lack acceleration and their riders have a comprehensive disregard for the rules of the road and their fellow road users.
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They're basically a selfish cack of punts.
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Being a car driver, motorcyclist and cyclist I don't have a problem sharing the highway with other road users, whereas you obviously do.
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So who's being the selfish 2@ here?
When I'm on the road, I use it with consideration for its other users.
Cyclists show no such consideration:
There are bad cyclists, granted. But there are not nearly as many bad cyclists as bad drivers; and most cyclists are not bad cyclists. I wish the same were true of drivers.
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