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Post by wapentake on May 5, 2024 18:19:24 GMT
They should and isn't strange how the woman walking on the pavement who waved a woman away who was cycling who fell on the road was prosecuted and sent to prison. Many laws are ignored by cyclists,I was at the front of a line of traffic yesterday at a pedestrian crossing lights on red when a **** on bike resplendent in Lycra shot past on the outside of the traffic at speed and could not possibly be sure no one was crossing. link |
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Post by jonksy on May 5, 2024 18:40:21 GMT
They should and isn't strange how the woman walking on the pavement who waved a woman away who was cycling who fell on the road was prosecuted and sent to prison. Many laws are ignored by cyclists,I was at the front of a line of traffic yesterday at a pedestrian crossing lights on red when a **** on bike resplendent in Lycra shot past on the outside of the traffic at speed and could not possibly be sure no one was crossing. linkYes I read that article....I wonder if it applys in wales as twatford has reduced the speed limit to 20 MPH in many areas? |
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Post by wapentake on May 5, 2024 19:01:29 GMT
They should and isn't strange how the woman walking on the pavement who waved a woman away who was cycling who fell on the road was prosecuted and sent to prison. Many laws are ignored by cyclists,I was at the front of a line of traffic yesterday at a pedestrian crossing lights on red when a **** on bike resplendent in Lycra shot past on the outside of the traffic at speed and could not possibly be sure no one was crossing. linkYes I read that article....I wonder if it applys in wales as twatford has reduced the speed limit to 20 MPH in many areas? Probably not,they only hate motorists |
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on May 5, 2024 19:10:02 GMT
The narrow 20 mph limit road I live on has many parked cars either side along it. It is used by cyclists who speed down it's incline. In order to safely cross I have to walk to where there are no parked cars so that I can see them coming. Even then they are sometimes moving at such a speed that I have to carefully check the road rather than just give a quick glance. One cyclist recently ran into a parked car when he was confronted by a car that moved out from behind the car. The car driver didn't see him as he wasn't in the driver's line of sight.
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Post by johnofgwent on May 13, 2024 9:44:47 GMT
I can personally vouch for the fact speed limits do not apply to cyclists having gone past a speed trap in a 30 at well over 40 and had not the slightest reaction.
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Post by johnofgwent on May 13, 2024 10:38:44 GMT
Yes I read that article....I wonder if it applys in wales as twatford has reduced the speed limit to 20 MPH in many areas? Probably not,they only hate motorists Cardiff Buses have for decades stopped in Dumfries Place just north of Queen Street Station.
Over the last year or so bike lane insanity has taken over and the six bus stops are now reduced to only one, with a blue painted roadway giving priority to lycratwats right next to it. Passengers alighting have no choice buit to run the gauntlet of cyclists on it.
As i tried to get off the number 30 there, to go to my last company do for the CEO's retirement a month or so back at 6:30 on a friday one such twat ride right past me, or tried to, just as i got off the bus. And I mean he had about ten fot of road to himself and he chose to aim for the edge of the bus lane bight by the bus, clearly wishing to impose his new found legal superiority.
My elbow scored a perfect direct hit on his throat and into a telephone broadband box he went head first. He sat there wanting to curse furiously but not having the power owing to the need to choke.
The bus driver rushed out of his seat to see if **I** was alright and initiated a stringful of curses at the still prone lycratwat.
Most of the lower deck fellow passengers applauded
It's been a while since i did that to anyone. It felt good. Maybe I've been radicalised. It's a shame it wasn't the corrupt zambian first minster, the whole street wouold have applauded
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on May 13, 2024 13:15:09 GMT
Probably not,they only hate motorists Cardiff Buses have for decades stopped in Dumfries Place just north of Queen Street Station.
Over the last year or so bike lane insanity has taken over and the six bus stops are now reduced to only one, with a blue painted roadway giving priority to lycratwats right next to it. Passengers alighting have no choice buit to run the gauntlet of cyclists on it.
As i tried to get off the number 30 there, to go to my last company do for the CEO's retirement a month or so back at 6:30 on a friday one such twat ride right past me, or tried to, just as i got off the bus. And I mean he had about ten fot of road to himself and he chose to aim for the edge of the bus lane bight by the bus, clearly wishing to impose his new found legal superiority.
My elbow scored a perfect direct hit on his throat and into a telephone broadband box he went head first. He sat there wanting to curse furiously but not having the power owing to the need to choke.
The bus driver rushed out of his seat to see if **I** was alright and initiated a stringful of curses at the still prone lycratwat.
Most of the lower deck fellow passengers applauded
It's been a while since i did that to anyone. It felt good. Maybe I've been radicalised. It's a shame it wasn't the corrupt zambian first minster, the whole street wouold have applauded
To be fair to cyclists, drivers complain if they use the roads yet the cycle lanes are often very badly designed.
As you describe, many around here run right through bus stops bringing cyclists and pedestrians into conflict and I'm sure that neither want that.
If you're going to have a cycle lane it should be for cyclists and not have bus passengers alighting in the middle of it. That's just asking for trouble.
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Post by johnofgwent on May 13, 2024 15:36:48 GMT
These were built during the effing lockdown andcwere designed by a car hating council to strike fear into all except two wheeled lycra twats.
The bus, which used to pull up where the cycle lane is now, has no option except to discharge passengers directly into the path of said cyclists. Someone will die soon as a result If i have any hand in the matter, they will die wearing lycra and a cycle helmet
Having nipped into google to pull up an image, i now realise it was the bin i propelled the twat into. Very solidly concreted
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on May 13, 2024 17:26:21 GMT
These were built during the effing lockdown andcwere designed by a car hating council to strike fear into all except two wheeled lycra twats. The bus, which used to pull up where the cycle lane is now, has no option except to discharge passengers directly into the path of said cyclists... Yes, exactly: It's a bad design. |
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Post by johnofgwent on May 13, 2024 18:44:52 GMT
These were built during the effing lockdown andcwere designed by a car hating council to strike fear into all except two wheeled lycra twats. The bus, which used to pull up where the cycle lane is now, has no option except to discharge passengers directly into the path of said cyclists... Yes, exactly: It's a bad design. But not, I think, by accident |
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Post by wapentake on May 13, 2024 19:15:19 GMT
It seems that riding furiously is still an active law from the 1860’s so why wasn’t that applied to this person who killed the pedestrian.
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Post by blackiswhite on May 13, 2024 20:32:26 GMT
It seems that riding furiously is still an active law from the 1860’s so why wasn’t that applied to this person who killed the pedestrian. Maybe because furious cycling is a difficult offence to prove. This cyclist was travelling at 29mph. The lady crossing the road did not look properly, so it wasn't the cyclist's fault, was it? Pedestrians have responsibilities, too. |
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Post by wapentake on May 13, 2024 20:52:46 GMT
It seems that riding furiously is still an active law from the 1860’s so why wasn’t that applied to this person who killed the pedestrian. Maybe because furious cycling is a difficult offence to prove. This cyclist was travelling at 29mph. The lady crossing the road did not look properly, so it wasn't the cyclist's fault, was it? Pedestrians have responsibilities, too. Yes but this or the facts were never tested in law just dismissed on the grounds that speeding laws do not apply to cyclists,difficult to prove or no surely the ladies family deserve to see this tested and do you imagine that were a motor vehicle involved that whether she looked properly or not the offence would go unpunished. |
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Post by blackiswhite on May 13, 2024 21:03:14 GMT
Maybe because furious cycling is a difficult offence to prove. This cyclist was travelling at 29mph. The lady crossing the road did not look properly, so it wasn't the cyclist's fault, was it? Pedestrians have responsibilities, too. Yes but this or the facts were never tested in law just dismissed on the grounds that speeding laws do not apply to cyclists,difficult to prove or no surely the ladies family deserve to see this tested and do you imagine that were a motor vehicle involved that whether she looked properly or not the offence would go unpunished. What offence? None has been established? |
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Post by wapentake on May 13, 2024 21:18:09 GMT
Yes but this or the facts were never tested in law just dismissed on the grounds that speeding laws do not apply to cyclists,difficult to prove or no surely the ladies family deserve to see this tested and do you imagine that were a motor vehicle involved that whether she looked properly or not the offence would go unpunished. What offence? None has been established? The point I made,riding furiously is an offence that could be tested in court (hard to prove or not) and carries a sentence should it be proved up to two years in jail. |
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