Similarly, they get quite interested if one happens to squeeze through the tiny gaps they leave; causing one to break, bend or dislodge a wing mirror in the process.
He's right, you know. It's astonishing how attached to a nearside mirror the Thoughtless Motor-ist becomes once said mirror is forcibly detached and sent spinning - crash, tinkle - down the road. And even more astonishing is their reaction to being told, "I don't see where the problem lies. After all, it's not as if you /use/ it!"
N.B. We do not advocate the application of Blunt Force Trauma to bits of motor vehicles unless the possibility of escaping in the traffic and spending the next two weeks on a different velocipede approaches 100%. The Mgt.
Is that why the stupid bovine of the female sex pulled out accross the road forcing me to perform an emergency stop, how the hell could she see I'm disabled I'm not sure, nor how she thought pulling out in front of a two ton land-rover was sensible....
S'alright. I was driving a large 15 seater minibus the other week. It was huge, white, and stopped and the traffic lights in neutral with the handbrake on.
Some silly sod still managed to hit me.
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I've driven an invisible transit before. Had someone roll backwards about 10m and hit me despite tooting on the horn.
Could have been a US tourist trying to do a hill start on a manual geared car. This is a well known hazard in hilly cities in the tourist season.
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N.B. We do not advocate the application of Blunt Force Trauma to bits of motor vehicles unless the possibility of escaping in the traffic and spending the next two weeks on a different velocipede approaches 100%.
Point of Order, M'lud. This presupposes that Cagerites have the ability to distinguish between different velocipedes. After all, it is a Well Known Fact that All Cyclists Know Each Other (in the biblical sense, even) and have a pool of Interchangeable Bikes for no other porpoise other than to Delay the Laura Byedin Motorist.
Point of Order, M'lud. This presupposes that Cagerites have the ability to distinguish between different velocipedes. After all, it is a Well Known Fact that All Cyclists Know Each Other (in the biblical sense, even) and have a pool of Interchangeable Bikes for no other porpoise other than to Delay the Laura Byedin Motorist.
This may be so for Specific Values of Bicycle, Lord Copper, but we Adherents to the Dark Side are more easily noticed as being Not run of the Mill. That is not to suggest that, having committed a Crime against Motoring "Humanity", I will switch to riding a conventional Bicycle for a few days until the Thoughtless Motor-ist returns to its usual State of Amnesia. No Sir!
-- Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/> Like Kant, it is my wish to create my own individual epistemology. But I also wish to find out what is for pudding.
Do you as the 'disabled community' have effective ways of fighting (blatently illegal) parking that blocks a pavement and forces you down a nasty kerb and into a potentially-dangerous road? It's so bad here that more often than not I can't even walk down the pavement without going out into the road, and any wheelchair user, or even a frailer person walking unsteadily/with a stick in this road might feel unable to go out at all. The police don't seem interested.
Shocking isn't it? 'Daily Mail' type rants about pavement cyclists are par for the course, but oh no, car drivers don't block the pavement, or park across dropped pavement.
Shocking isn't it? 'Daily Mail' type rants about pavement cyclists are par for the course, but oh no, car drivers don't block the pavement, or park across dropped pavement.
Surely you've been in this froup long enough, John, to know that this /does/ happen, but only when the vehicles have been hi-jacked by militant members of Cyclistic Jihad...
I've driven an invisible transit before. Had someone roll backwards about 10m and hit me despite tooting on the horn.
Could have been a US tourist trying to do a hill start on a manual geared car. This is a well known hazard in hilly cities in the tourist season.
'Twas a native of the London Alps[1]. As it was, there was no damage done apart from a slightly scuffed bumper so I said something along the lines of it not being a very smart thing to do, and suggested they get a move on and stop holding the traffic up.
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[1] Swiss Cottage. Not much of a hill and not much of a tourist destination unless you are somwehat lost.
Shocking isn't it? 'Daily Mail' type rants about pavement cyclists are par for the course, but oh no, car drivers don't block the pavement, or park across dropped pavement.
Surely you've been in this froup long enough, John, to know that this /does/ happen, but only when the vehicles have been hi-jacked by militant members of Cyclistic Jihad...
Strikes head as the realisation strikes. So THAT's what those shapes under tarpaulins where, being hauled along under cover of the Critical Mass. Poor cars being kidnapped to be placed in illegal parking places.
That is not to suggest that, having committed a Crime against Motoring "Humanity", I will switch to riding a conventional Bicycle for a few days until the Thoughtless Motor-ist returns to its usual State of Amnesia. No Sir!
Sadly not an option for moi, at least not on my commute back from work. A postie on a Streetmachine GT is probably *far* too memorable! :-( -- These opinions might not even be mine ... Let alone connected with my employer ...
"Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Surely you've been in this froup long enough, John, to know that this
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happen, but only when the vehicles have been hi-jacked by militant members of Cyclistic Jihad...
Blow me! The bleedin' obvious has become clear! All those cars running red lights in Leicester must also have been hi-jacked by the Cyclistic Jihad who, of course, being cyclists are genetically unable to respond to red lights. Their Achilles heel methinks, much like the giveaway mutated fourth finger of the aliens in "The invaders".
I expect the poor owner is bound and gagged with Lycra in the boot.
That is not to suggest that, having committed a Crime against Motoring "Humanity", I will switch to riding a conventional Bicycle for a few days until the Thoughtless Motor-ist returns to its usual State of Amnesia. No Sir!
Sadly not an option for moi, at least not on my commute back from work. A postie on a Streetmachine GT is probably *far* too memorable! :-(
That is not to suggest that, having committed a Crime against Motoring "Humanity", I will switch to riding a conventional Bicycle for a few days until the Thoughtless Motor-ist returns to its usual State of Amnesia. No Sir!
Sadly not an option for moi, at least not on my commute back from work. A postie on a Streetmachine GT is probably *far* too memorable! :-(
