A new mobile menace?

Farmer Alfalfa said:

Whilst trundling towards the quaintly named Skirmett yesterday I encountered a fellow road-user
coming towards me, texting...

...while riding a horse!

Have any other cyclists encountered anything like this and do they consider it to be dangerous?

I text while riding my bike.
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"Farmer Alfalfa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Whilst trundling towards the quaintly named Skirmett yesterday I

encountered

Quoted message said:

a fellow road-user coming towards me, texting...

...while riding a horse!

Have any other cyclists encountered anything like this and do they

consider

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it to be dangerous?

Round here (Mid-Wales) there's loads of them out at the weekends. They can be difficult and
generally riders expect the rest of us to stop for them to go by. It does seem that some horses are
too skittish to be on the road. They rear up and kick out as vehicles go by. Their (often
inexperienced looking) riders seem rather frightened.

Having said that there's plenty of horses that are under full control and are obviously well trained
- we just need them all to be like that.

John

"Farmer Alfalfa" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:3f0da7be@
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texting...

...while riding a horse!

Probably a case of the mode of transport being more intelligent than the driver. Mind you, with the
engine management systems you get in cars these days, that's probably fairly common ;-)

Have fun!

Graeme

Farmer Alfalfa said:

Whilst trundling towards the quaintly named Skirmett yesterday I encountered a fellow road-user
coming towards me, texting...

...while riding a horse!

Have any other cyclists encountered anything like this and do they consider it to be dangerous?

F A

That's not a problem the horse knows what it's doing even if the rider doesn't. ;-)

Farmer Alfalfa said:

Whilst trundling towards the quaintly named Skirmett yesterday I encountered a fellow road-user
coming towards me, texting...

...while riding a horse!

Have any other cyclists encountered anything like this and do they consider it to be dangerous?

That depends entirely upon the horse!

Quite a few years ago I almost became one of the first persons to get run over by a mobile phone
user.... while kayaking on the Moselle! One of those overpriced, oversized, and overengined cabin
cruisers, barreling up the river with a Don Johnson lookalike on the flying bridge yakking away on
his mobile. I can only hope there was a big barge waiting for him behind the next bend...

Mark van Gorkom.

Farmer Alfalfa said:

Have any other cyclists encountered anything like this and do they consider it to be dangerous?

of Stan, especially when approached while recumbent.

Oh, you meant the texting busines...

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Only if the horse is the one doing the texting!

Peter Taylor

"Farmer Alfalfa" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Whilst trundling towards the quaintly named Skirmett yesterday I

encountered

Quoted message said:

a fellow road-user coming towards me, texting...

...while riding a horse!

Have any other cyclists encountered anything like this and do they

consider

Quoted message said:

it to be dangerous?

F A

Dave Larrington said:

of Stan, especially when approached while recumbent.

Ain't that the truth. Especially if the horse in question has recently been spooked by a CNC.

Guy
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Ain't that the truth. Especially if the horse in question has recently been spooked by a CNC.

If I was riding along a quiet country lane and a honking great computer-controlled milling machine
leapt out in front of me, I think I'd be spooked too !

(Although I'd try to catch and tame it. Feral CNC's are rare, but they do make great pets)

Andy Dingley said:

Feral CNC's are rare, but they do make great pets

Clueless Numpty Cagers are not at all rare, though generally feral, and nobody would want one
as a pet :-)

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Dave Larrington said:

of Stan, especially when approached while recumbent.

We obviously get a better class of them around here. Quite common to come across them while green
laneing out in Angus; all the ones I meet are well controlled and unfazed by me or the 'bent.

Pete.
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"Farmer Alfalfa" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:3f0da7be@
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texting...

...while riding a horse!

Probably a case of the mode of transport being more intelligent than the driver. Mind you, with
the engine management systems you get in cars these days, that's probably fairly common ;-)

On the south downs over the weekend i came across a few fellow cyclists whose mode of transport was
more intelligent that they were! (overtaking at speed, clearly nervous cyclists picking a track
through a stony track, on narrow tracks with no warnign of any sort)

pk

So there I was, plummetting down a hill on the way home from Dunwich when into view cometh a WGF[1].
Not wishing Champion to trample all over me and my expensive bicycle, I anchor up sharply (Hope M4
on the front wheel now,
mmm) and trickle past Trigger at a walking pace...

...unlike the clue-free bonehead in the XJ6 who came close to getting me on one side and Dobbin on
the other. Grrrr. Oh for a gun and a box of matches.

1 - Walking Glue Factory

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...unlike the clue-free bonehead in the XJ6 who came close to getting me

on

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one side and Dobbin on the other

Happened to me recently - riding up Nine Mile Ride (kids: don't try this at home) with a couple of
ponies coming the other way pulling traps, Captain Clueless decides that his journey to the next
traffic jam is too important to wait ten seconds, passed us far too close and far too fast, and cut
in sharply to miss the first of the oncoming pony traps. Perhaps he was concerned that his el-cheapo
personalised numberplate may not have got the message across so we would be in some doubt as to
whether he really was a [censored]. Not after that we weren't.

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