Well I'm in the 9% I'm glad to know. You can't concentrate on a crossword if you are on your phone.
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A simple idea that could save cyclists from getting injured
- Thread starter The Oldman
- Start date
Well I'm in the 9% I'm glad to know. You can't concentrate on a crossword if you are on your phone.
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Two sausages, 2 bacon( crispy) , black pudding, 2 potato cakes, spoon of baked beans. Eggs: 1 fried, 1 poached. Coleslaw (controversial but absolutely necessary). And two slices of Holy Ghost (on a separate plate with real butter).
Is that right? Oh and yes, woman who eat crisps in an office should wash up their cups and shit in the first trap. Unless they have big tits, then they can do whatever they want. Unless they're fat. Then they should move to Poland.
Poyet OUT.
Is that right? Oh and yes, woman who eat crisps in an office should wash up their cups and shit in the first trap. Unless they have big tits, then they can do whatever they want. Unless they're fat. Then they should move to Poland.
Poyet OUT.
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
- 6,284
Cyclists, cyclists everywhere.
Go out in your car at weekends and there are mini pelletons round every corner. Racing through narrow country lanes at breakneck speed.
Its the new jogging and I'm sick of it. They are a menace. They block the way ahead. You are blinded.
This madness has to stop. Unshapely bodies poured into lycra and tight female bottoms distracting motorists. The police need to intervene. Its out of control.
Go out in your car at weekends and there are mini pelletons round every corner. Racing through narrow country lanes at breakneck speed.
Its the new jogging and I'm sick of it. They are a menace. They block the way ahead. You are blinded.
This madness has to stop. Unshapely bodies poured into lycra and tight female bottoms distracting motorists. The police need to intervene. Its out of control.
blue'n'white
Well-known member
As a motorist I assume everyone on the road - no matter how many wheels they're using - is a moron and adjust accordingly.
GOM
living vicariously
Surely cyclists should have the same guidance as car drivers, leave a gap when passing.
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
- 10,733
What's a pelleton?
I was once doing a sportive with my mate Phil.
It was early in the mixed ability event, so we were overtaking plenty of riders.
Phil was riding in front of me hammering down a decent straight road when inexplicably he knocked the pace right back.
I'm sat on his wheel wondering why the hell we were now dawdling a good 10mph slower.
Finally Phil moved to overtake and there in front was a tight female bottom poured into a well worn, nearly see through, pair of lycra shorts.
The filthy creep.
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Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Is the correct answer.
No such thing as "road tax". It's vehicle excise duty, and not all vehicles have to pay it (if your exhaust emissions are clean enough, you don't pay (eg my Prius company car has a £0 VED); the government changed this earlier this year so only vehicles with 0 emissions are exempt in future, though). Given that cycles have no exhaust emissions (unless you've eaten too many baked beans and eggs), they don't pay VED.
For the Dutch, they get indoctrinated from very early life. I'll be teaching my little boy to use the dutch reach once he's old enough to be getting in and out by himself. As a parent, it's the right thing to do - it not only protects others (cyclists and motorcyclists, of which I am one) but also protects my kid long term.
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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I know. I was not being entirely serious. I am very much from the cycling fraternity.
Murray 17
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- Jul 6, 2003
- 2,159
Where did you get that figure from? [emoji1]
I think we all know that a far greater % of cyclists than motorists break the rules of the road.
I've actually started praising cyclists who wait behind the white line at traffic lights!
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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Utter rubbish.
Perhaps I should start congratulating the drivers who don't pull up in the advanced cyclist's box.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Or weld 'em up General Lee style - Yee-harr!
I'll start congratulating some drivers for having a less than 40 inch waist.
#babysteps.
Murray 17
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- Jul 6, 2003
- 2,159
Yes, there is an ignorance for this line from some drivers.
However, weaving through a junction because you don't want to wait at the lights with everyone else, or cycling along the pavement, is a lot more dangerous than a car waiting at the (admittedly wrong) stop line.
You may well obey all the rules of the road, as do I on the rare occasions I cycle, but a large proportion of cyclists don't.
That is very true.
Those 3000+ people from 2007-15 from England and Wales who died throwing themselves under law abiding cars, only have themselves to blame.
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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No, you notice the cyclists that don't. Most are sensible.
For safety it is often common sense for cyclists to wait ahead of the traffic at traffic lights - it's why advanced cycle boxes exist. Where they don't, it can be prudent to wait ahead of the white line.
We have 20mph speed limits throughout many built up areas these days. What percentage of drivers do you think stick to these?
And mobile phones...
There are at least as many bad drivers as there are cyclists. The obvious point is that the drivers are in a large object than can kill people.