I had a lovely cycle round the quiet lanes of Mid-Norfolk on my Boardman today, though some prick in a Discovery did try to run me off the road!
It's going quite well, especially now I'm not being lectured about my grammar or being told off for having an opinion
Nowt wrong with that. I was wearing my figure hugging cycle shorts (you know what I'm saying, ladies), and my 'I conquered the Norfolk mountains' T-shirt.
Whilst enjoying a stroll through the Norfolk countryside earlier, my family and I were nearly ran over by an out of control cyclist. Clad in ill-fitting green and yellow lycra, the lunatic was obviously blind drunk (as well as colour blind), and was carrying an unfinished bottle of red in one hand. Obviously I called the police, as much for his own safety as others.
I wonder how they would like it if i drove my car down the cycle lane, i would probably quite rightly get banged up, so why should the ****ers ride on the road.
Im of the opinion that when a cyclist is on the road when there's a cycle path next to them cars should just be allows to run them over, if they shouldn't be there traffic should bellowed to act like they aren't. I also never step aside and let a bike through on the pavement, employing pretty much the same principle (little kids excepted). I was driving around Cambridge the other day and it was horrible, its not just cyclist but pedestrians walking out in to the middle of the road, i get that its supposed to be a city where cycling a walking is encouraged but a bit of common sense should show that if i hit you with my car your still likely to die, whether the city is "bike friendly or not" and to that end act like responsible road users.
Here's a conundrum I've never been able to figure out - if a cyclist scoots across a pedestrian crossing (as I have seen may times) on his/her bike, technically they are not a "pedestrian" as they are not crossing by foot so is it perfectly acceptable not to stop for them in such a circumstance as they are in the wrong ? I've never got my head around that one.....
Here's a conundrum I've never been able to figure out - if a cyclist scoots across a pedestrian crossing (as I have seen may times) on his/her bike, technically they are not a "pedestrian" as they are not crossing by foot so is it perfectly acceptable not to stop for them in such a circumstance as they are in the wrong ? I've never got my head around that one.....
Even I wouldn't go that far - would I? I am sure that we are talking here about the rights of the majority of cyclists who continually break laws that the mere motorist has to obey. Drive down, say, Hall Road in Norwich. On the pavement are pedestrians trying to avoid cyclists using the pavement as if it were a cycle lane. If the pedestrian stops to cross a pedestrian crossing I have to stop or I will be breaking the law. What if one of the cyclists stops on the pavement to cross the zebra crossing to cause carnage on the opposite pavement? Do I have to stop and let him across? I refuse to but most motorists stop. Am I breaking the law? One of the funniest things I ever saw happened in such an incident. 2 cars in front of me were stopped to let a cyclist ( crossing from their right ) and a pedestrian ( crossing from the left ) cross. Another cyclist came up inside us and seeing the pedestrian cross the front of the first car speeded up to get in front of the cars and smashed into the cyclist crossing from his right. They both got up and after a short violent argument started fighting - brilliant!!
