Rode in to driveway and propped bike by the front door. Bin day next morning so head out of drive way to find out if it's the green waste or the recyled this week (I can never remember).
Old habits die hard, poke head out of driveway to check both ways before emerging. WHOOOSH as a cyclist who I judged to be in his early forties wafts by about two inches from my nose on the bloody pavement, closely followed by his dog. If I'd just walked out without looking we'd have been a tangled heap on the floor.
Stood there doing guppy fish impression for a couple of seconds, thought about remonstrating but gave up 'cause really couldn't be bothered. Riding on the pavement is not cool and it's not clever, especially when it's dark and you don't even have any lights.
you shoulda launched the (appropriate) bin at 'im and brought that recalcitrant down. bwahahhahahahahhah
endroll> Ah but were YOU waring a helmet! There's your problem!!! endroll> And did YOU have a light and rear flasher? 😉
As it happens, yes. I'd just got off the bike and still had my helmet on. I also happen to have a white flasher on the front and four red flashers on the back of the helmet.
you shoulda launched the (appropriate) bin at 'im and brought that recalcitrant down. bwahahhahahahahhah
endroll> Ah but were YOU waring a helmet! There's your problem!!! endroll> And did YOU have a light and rear flasher? 😉
As it happens, yes. I'd just got off the bike and still had my helmet on. I also happen to have a white flasher on the front and four red flashers on the back of the helmet.
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Rode in to driveway and propped bike by the front door. Bin day next morning so head out of drive way to find out if it's the green waste or the recyled this week (I can never remember).
Old habits die hard, poke head out of driveway to check both ways before emerging. WHOOOSH as a cyclist who I judged to be in his early forties wafts by about two inches from my nose on the bloody pavement, closely followed by his dog. If I'd just walked out without looking we'd have been a tangled heap on the floor.
Stood there doing guppy fish impression for a couple of seconds, thought about remonstrating but gave up 'cause really couldn't be bothered. Riding on the pavement is not cool and it's not clever, especially when it's dark and you don't even have any lights.
He was wearing a helmet though 🙄
-- EuanB
Although I do ride my bike home for about 30 metres on a generally deserted footpath, I consider general riding on footpaths most dangerous. I discouraged my kids in their younger days from riding on the footpath because of the risk of being hit by a car leaving a driveway. In my 30 metre ride along the footpath I crawl past every driveway, not crossing it until I have peeked through the fence to see if it's empty. I have seen many cyclists hoon past driveways.
On 2005-07-27, Terry Collins (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>Marx SS wrote: > >>was the dog wearing a helmet? > >One of our local $2 shops has safety vests for dogs! > >No helmets but. > ><I was there buying a toy to amuse the cat, Okay - honest>
As long as you weren't there to buy a dog accessory. Dogs are icky.
-- TimC "Application encountered an error while failing. Error recovered successfully, proceeding to fail"
*gasps* dogs are so not icky! :eek:
(people buy things to amuse a cat? I thought that was what they owned people for?? 😄 )
