Pedestrians...

MyKeyG

Ricky91t wrote: »

Alright, so this is a bit of a rant and a bit of a question.

I'm a student in Cork and constantly have an issue with pedestrians walking out in front of me, and either giving me near misses with them, or kerbs if I try to go on the inside of them. I know that can't hear me on my bike, but if they see me when they're on the road they make no attempt to quickly move.

A few minutes later I'll be cyclng through campus at a quick enough pace( A speed where I know can either brake or avoid people/cars/animals etc) and someone will notice me and litterally run out of my way as if I was trying to run them down. Fair enough sometimes I'm on the pedestrianised area of campus but other times I'll be on the roads through it, where I'm correctly using the road and they're not. It doesn't bother me a whole lot cause I'm gone, but I'm concerned about what could happen If this happens a lot ( with other cyclists too ) and people complain.

I like cycling quick, I find I'm worn out after it which will eventually improve my fitness. But I don't want to get into any trouble. Has anybody else had issues like this, what have you done to resolve it?

Thanks!

I can't believe a cyclist has the nerve to complain about people being a nuisance on the roads.

AssaultedPeanut

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm more than capable.

It's great how everyone just assumes I'm running people over and hopping out in front of moving cars because I don't follow the rules of the road. :rolleyes:

It's great how you haven't properly read peoples comments on your appalling cycling habits.

So you haven't (yet) run anyone over, doesn't mean that you're right.
If you were driving and you were speeding and not obeying the rotr, but hadn't (yet) hit anyone, you'd still be seen as a major hazard by other motorists/peds/cyclists.

The fact is you're just cycling in a manner that suits you. It's very annoying for others, illegal, selfish & potentially very dangerous

....but as long as you're happy eh?

niceonetom

MyKeyG wrote: »

I can't believe a cyclist has the nerve to complain about people being a nuisance on the roads.

Deleted User wrote: »

I completely ignore the rules of the road.

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It's great how everyone just assumes I'm running people over and hopping out in front of moving cars because I don't follow the rules of the road.

And there we have it.

I'm not assuming that KKV is running people over - I'm assuming that people who see him casually breaking the law come to the lazy-minded conclusion that all cyclists break the law.

I'm actually glad that MyKeyG posted made than awesomely inane comment - it serves as a great little illustration of the consequences of KKV style riding creates. Idiocy creates idiocy.

Every time I go out and ride in a totally law abiding fashion I'm confronted by muppets in cars who feel that, based on their blanket assumption that all cyclists are lawless eejits, they have the right to cut me off, skim me, ignore me or generally treat me as a second class road user. Now where would they get that impression?

Thanks, KKV. Keep making more MyKeyGs. You should also keep wondering why other cyclists remain un-bloody-grateful to you for your road behaviour.

MyKeyG

niceonetom wrote: »

I'm actually glad that MyKeyG posted made than awesomely inane comment - it serves as a great little illustration of the consequences of KKV style riding creates. Idiocy creates idiocy.

You should really try to understand peoples points before you jump to the wrong conclusion. My point was intended to be an ironic take on the OP's generalisation about pedestrians. You refuse to acknowledge my reply was to the OP and not KKV, that in my book is contrivance.

It may serve you better in future to be a bit more intuitive and a little less rude.

tomasrojo

I have to say that I thought you were being sarcastic about cyclists. And English, I speak her quite good.

Captain Havoc

MyKeyG wrote: »

My point was intended to be an ironic take on the OP's generalisation about pedestrians. You refuse to acknowledge my reply was to the OP and not KKV, that in my book is contrivance.

It may serve you better in future to be a bit more intuitive and a little less rude.

In fairness to niceonetom you didn't use any smileys to show you were being ironic, nor did your post have a "@OP" to indicate that you were aiming it at the OP.

MyKeyG

tomasrojo wrote: »

I have to say that I thought you were being sarcastic about cyclists. And English, I speak her quite good.

Well I wasn't. I found the OP's comment remarkably generalist and attempted a facetious response to make a point.

MyKeyG

Captain Havoc wrote: »

In fairness to niceonetom you didn't use any smileys to show you were being ironic, nor did your post have a "@OP" to indicate that you were aiming it at the OP.

Excuse me but with all due respect I quoted the entire OP. Are you suggesting that this is insufficient in confirming it was the OP I was replying to?

Captain Havoc

MyKeyG wrote: »

Excuse me but with all due respect I quoted the entire OP. Are you suggesting that this is insufficient in confirming it was the OP I was replying to?

Sorry, my bad.

Squidgy Black

In all fairness, I too thought you were being sarcastic.

I don't think he was using your post for 'rudeness', I think he was just showing how lack of respect for the rules of the road and safety of others can give cyclists a bad reputation. He took your post out of context, as did most others here.

Captain Havoc

I know I'm as responsible as anyone but can we get back to the subject of pedestrians

Squidgy Black

Anyways,

I'm quite sick of pedestrians, especially kids, messing around on the paths and pushing each other into the cycling lane, I've had a few close calls from idiots falling out in front of me or kicking/throwing stuff my way.

Captain Havoc

There's a part of Kilkenny where a particular indigenous minority group abide and they regularly just stroll out onto the road, even when I'm driving my car, out in front of me, one day one of them is going to get run over.

niceonetom

MyKeyG wrote: »

I can't believe a cyclist has the nerve to complain about people being a nuisance on the roads.

This is intended as irony?

That is some subtle bloody irony. And not so much as a winky face to let us know that by saying exactly the same kind of rubbish that idiots say, you are actually making a point about idiots and not being one at all. Well done, I guess.

And sorry for taking you wrongly (though I think I'd need more than intuition to take that post an other way - I'd need to be psychic really). I was only being rude because I thought you deserved it.

Anyway, the fact that you were being arch doesn't really invalidate my point. The fact is that a lot of people express that sentiment with no irony whatsoever, and they do so because of cyclists like KKV (dear god, I hope he doesn't take the irony defence now).

As for pedestrians, well, they're a law unto themselves. *


*see? how hard is that?