Ekul Namsob said:Brian Robert so n [email protected] said:Ekul Namsob said:Brian Robert so n <brianro@[nospam].com> wrote:
> Budstaff wrote:
>> "Brian Robert so n" <brianro@[nospam].com> wrote in message
>> news:[email hidden]...
>>> I've recently been defending my habit of riding on pavements
>>> occasionally to avoid problems with cycle lanes. Well, now I have no
>>> excuse to not report the problem and to get something done about it!
>> If the only reason you're riding on the pavement is to avoid potholes
>> in the cycle path, might I recommend the road as a perfectly
>> acceptable alternative?
>>
>>
> Thanks. Might I recommend that you STFU?
Was there any need for that? As has been pointed out here regularly, the
road is generally safer than the pavement. As someone who cycled around
Manchester for several years and never once used the pavement, I can
recommend the roads.
Quoted message said:Well, what a shame that we can't all be perfect, like you.
You can be just as imperfect as me. I just obey laws: that does not, in
any way, make me perfect. Perhaps if you open your mind to what others
on this group, most a lot more experienced than I, have to say then you
will learn something. If you don't want to learn something then feel
free to tell others to 'STFU' as you put it. You will find yourself in a
lot of killfiles in no time and then wasting your time by posting here.
Ta ra,
Luke
I have no intention of learning anything from people who refuse to
debate and who have a blinkered world vision! Nor have I any intention
of learning anything from people who chase a topic from thread to
thread, like dogs with their teeth into something.
If you want to killfile me then please do so. I have nothing but
contempt for those on usenet who seem to think that the whole internet
revolves around their contribution and that others will be completely
unable to function without their support.
I will run through this once more for your benefit. On my regular cycle
ride to and from work I crash certain red lights and ride on certain
bits of pavement. I crash certain lights only when I am extremely
familiar with them and only because it is my considered opinion that I
am improving my safety whilst not making one jot of difference to the
safety of others. I ride on pavements when they are free of pedestrians
and where, once again, my safety is improved without compromising the
safety of others. Nothing would induce me to cycle on a busy pavement,
NOTHING! I don't even like to push my bike on a busy pavement due to the
risk of catching people with the peddles.
At all times I give way to any animal or person who is more vulnerable
than I am. My speed whenever I am around pedestrians is such that I can
stop on a sixpence and have successfully done so on many occasions when
pedestrians have wandered out in front of me on the road.
I can confidently say that, despite my breaches of the letter of the
law, the only places that I am likely to come into collision with a
pedestrian are on the cycle lanes where I am perfectly entitled to be. I
can also say with absolute honesty that, in almost all cases, I ride to
the letter of the law and heed every bit of advice that I can get my
hands on as regards my personal safety. Under normal circumstances I am
a stickler for laws, even minor ones.
On the flip side of my TERRIBLE illegal cycling, we have motorists
trying to mow us down, cycle lanes that are overgrown, green cycle boxes
at lights that motorists ignore, traffic lights that bikes don't
operate, temporary lights that are not timed for bikes, and cycle lanes
on pavements that have blurred the issue to a ridicules degree, just to
name a few of the hazards that we all encounter everyday.
Brian.
