A New Low - Cyclist Crashes and Blocks Yummy Mommy

Yarisbob

Hi Lads
I was at the fracture clinic yesterday with my brother-in-laws young fella who zapped his arm at football. A middle aged lady sits beside me with a broken collarbone and wrist so I chat to her. Really nice decent sort so here is her story !

She was riding her town bike down the Rahoon road hill when she struck a stone and this gave her a fright - She lost control and hit the footpath and ended up half on half off the footpath and road when it all came to a stop. Of course passers by were helping her when a Yummy Mommy in her Nissan Quasqai started to blow her horn as the road was semi blocked.

This to me is totally unacceptable behaviour - To blow your horn because your way is blocked while another human being lies helpless and injured is totally beyond me !

What was she thinking...? How would she feel about someone else doing this if it were her mother that was lying injured.

Some people just have no manners or breeding in fairness

cormacjones

Not really much to add, is there?

NeedMoreGears

Traffic came to a standstill today on the vital artery that is the Rahoon road following a reckless cyclists attack with a defenceless kerb. The cyclist, who could not find any other of her kind to help block the road, chose instead to attempt to destroy the road by ramming the kerb with her front wheel. Not content with chipping lumps out of public property, she then caused even more expense to the hard pressed tax payer by breaking some limbs and taking up valuable public health resources.

The real damage had been done earlier when Mary Wingnut, local driver, was unfortunately traumatised by the whole event. Mary, who cites latte among her interests, was delayed by over ninety seconds by a mob that had gathered at the scene. The mob claimed to be helping the so called cyclist. Ruffles, Mary's beloved poodle had to endure those ninety seconds of hell while waiting from his mistress at the groomers. The dog is expected to make a full recovery.

Tenzor07

You should work for "Waterford Whispers!"

porsche959

Nissan Quashqai drivers are, de facto, twats. Known fact.

fat bloke

Any pics?

How yommy was this Mummy?

Lumen

porsche959 wrote: »

Nissan Quashqai drivers are, de facto, twats. Known fact.

Isn't the Quashqai the biggest selling model in Ireland? That's a lot of twats.

Tenzor07

fat bloke wrote: »

Any pics?

How yommy was this Mummy?

This is a Dublin YM, drives a decent car!

NeedMoreGears

Ah sh-one-t!

We're thinking of buying a Qashkai to replace our ancient Galaxy. Twatdom beckons.

dub_skav

porsche959 wrote: »

Nissan Quashqai drivers are, de facto, twats. Known fact.

Ironic username

bazermc

porsche959 wrote: »

Nissan Quashqai drivers are, de facto, twats. Known fact.

I heard Porsche drivers have small willies.

fat bloke

bazermc wrote: »

I heard Porsche drivers have small willies.

Anyone driving a Porsche 959, male or female, has big, brass, manly, hairy balls

magicbastarder

and lots and lots of money too, i suspect.

Buchaill_Mor

fat bloke wrote: »

Anyone driving a Porsche 959, male or female, has big, brass, manly, hairy balls

Or they are either Bill Gates or Gerry Seinfeld.

letape

porsche959 wrote: »

Nissan Quashqai drivers are, de facto, twats. Known fact.

As for those wannabe Porsche drivers....

CramCycle

NeedMoreGears wrote: »

Ah sh-one-t!

We're thinking of buying a Qashkai to replace our ancient Galaxy. Twatdom beckons.

Brother in law has one, we were going to buy one until I realised how large the pillars are, blind spots are humongous, bonnet and seat are at odd heights to each other, so you have no view for a few metres in front of the car, in city traffic, it was a no no from me.

Very fuel efficient and reliable apparently but I couldn't stand rocking back and forth like a rocking horse just to be able to see some of the road.

rp

I'd always thought that the majority of Qashqai people were nomadic pastoralists?

rflynnr

Two years ago, cycling over to the RDS, I was hit by another cyclist, went over the handlebars, and fell in front of a line of traffic queuing to turn right onto Anglesea Road. I lay stunned for a moment, then began assessing my injuries (which ultimately proved minor). However the first person to my aid was the woman in front of whose car I'd fallen. She immediately got out, leaving her car blocking the traffic, and helped me get up. As the lights went green, the inevitable beeping began a few cars back. Then the driver of the car one back in the queue, got out and to my surprise headed not for me but sought the beeping car and roared at them: "Can you not see someone's fallen. Be patient and shut the fcuk up."

Silence ensued. Faith in humanity restored.

Bloggsie

fat bloke wrote: »

Anyone driving a Porsche 959, male or female, has big, brass, manly, hairy balls

espically the females

RV

Tenzor07 wrote: »

This is a Dublin YM, drives a decent car!

Would fall off my bike for her, any day. Would also get up on my bike, but not in a suggestive or lewd way.

CramCycle

RV wrote: »

Would fall off my bike for her, any day. Would also get up on my bike, but not in a suggestive or lewd way.

I would get off my bike and point out the idiocy of her parking, between the blocking a line of site by parking on a corner, parking on a double yellow line, blocking a cycle lane, making a foot pad to narrow for a typical wheelchair to get past, not to mention wearing sunglasses on what is clearly a fairly grey/overcast day.

I'd fall of my bike at the sheer ignorance, nothing else.

yop

That was a FHITP moment in fairness. Bet the yummy mummy has never rode a bike the strap!

Halfbaker

CramCycle wrote: »

I would get off my bike and point out the idiocy of her parking, between the blocking a line of site by parking on a corner, parking on a double yellow line, blocking a cycle lane, making a foot pad to narrow for a typical wheelchair to get past, not to mention wearing sunglasses on what is clearly a fairly grey/overcast day.

I'd fall of my bike at the sheer ignorance, nothing else.

Now you are simply jumping to conclusions there. How do you know she didn't have the hazards on, eh?

RV

CramCycle wrote: »

I

I'd fall of my bike at the sheer ignorance, nothing else.

Get a life, would ya. She only popped into the Vet with a sick puppy she had rescued, hence the double park. No chance to put on a bit of make up or anything, hence the shades. Cut the girl a bit of slack, I say.

daUbiq

bazermc wrote: »

I heard Porsche drivers have small willies.

I think you mean SUV drivers...

CramCycle

Halfbaker wrote: »

Now you are simply jumping to conclusions there. How do you know she didn't have the hazards on, eh?

Well, your right, if she has/had hazards on, all of those things are OK, I mean, I see people do it at my local shops all the time but I only ever point out the stupidity of those dangerously blocking the road if they forget their hazards because hazards make it perfectly safe.

RV

daUbiq wrote: »

I think you mean SUV drivers...

That should read small WELLIES

QueensGael

CramCycle wrote: »

I would get off my bike and point out the idiocy of her parking, between the blocking a line of site by parking on a corner, parking on a double yellow line, blocking a cycle lane, making a foot pad to narrow for a typical wheelchair to get past, not to mention wearing sunglasses on what is clearly a fairly grey/overcast day.

I'd fall of my bike at the sheer ignorance, nothing else.

Ah now, will nobody think of the childers!
http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/09/30/mom-on-school-run-to-park-wherever-the-****-she-likes/

Ole Rodrigo

Can I just take this opportunity to say I hate SUVs, with their tiny occupants and inappropriate sizing.

They are no more engaged in sports than the track suit wearing junkies of North Earl Street.

JMcL

fat bloke wrote: »

Anyone driving a Porsche 959, male or female, has big, brass, manly, hairy balls

Any recommendations for a bike rack that'd fit on one?

Hi Ho

porsche959 wrote: »

Nissan Quashqai drivers are, de facto, twats. Known fact.

I'm married to one so. I think anyone who makes assumptions about a person from the car (or bike, or shoes) they use is a twat.

buffalo

JMcL wrote: »

Any recommendations for a bike rack that'd fit on one?

On just the one big, brass, manly, hairy ball? Surely you'd want to attach to both for stability?

sh1tstirrer

Anyone who associates a type of person by the type of car they drive clearly have a lot of growing up to do.

daUbiq

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

Anyone who associates a type of person by the type of car they drive clearly have a lot of growing up to do.

Yes, that's it you tell us... do you drive an SUV perhaps?

07Lapierre

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

Anyone who associates a type of person by the type of car they drive clearly have a lot of growing up to do.

Appropriate username!

sh1tstirrer

07Lapierre wrote: »

Appropriate username!

Is that you best answer :rolleyes:

magicbastarder

ror_74 wrote: »

Can I just take this opportunity to say I hate SUVs, with their tiny occupants and inappropriate sizing.

an oldie but a goodie. however, note that he is discussing the american market, and SUVs there are usually flatbed trucks badly converted.:

http://gladwell.com/big-and-bad/

sh1tstirrer

daUbiq wrote: »

Yes, that's it you tell us... do you drive an SUV perhaps?

No I don't

ROK ON

I used to hate large SUV type vehicles. Now my wife drives a non-SUV large car.
We didn't prior to kids.

A reason these large vehicles have become more prevalent on our roads is partly down to health and safety regulations about in car child seats.

When I was a kid you bundled kids into the back seat - no seatbelts. Then seatbelts were introduced, so now a max of three kids per back seat of car.

Now you need child seats for kids up to 11 years (IIRC).
If you have three kids then you cannot fit 3 child seats in the rear of a normal sized car. I used to drive a gold and now I drive a Skoda Fabia - three child seats don't fit. Hence the need for larger vehicles. Particularly true when you have kids in buggies.

Now before anyone says that people driving large cars should simply cycle - then my response is to shove it up your a$$.
Yeah, some people do this but not everyone likes cycling nor is it always practical (weather, country roads, distance from school, need to get to work in a short windows after dropping kids to school etc).

I don't like large cars - but as a family we unfortunately need one. When kids are older we won't.

I do agree that the need for half of these vehicles to be 4 wheel drive jeep type cars is nuts. How I laughed during the snow watching folks behind the wheel of a four wheel drive jeep with no idea how to drive it or get the most out of it.

magicbastarder

ROK ON wrote: »

Now you need child seats for kids up to 11 years (IIRC).

i think it was in freakonomics that they examined the benefit of booster seats for kids - and found no benefit. and the lab which did the testing for them did it on strict anonymity terms. they didn't want to lose business.

ROK ON

magicbastarder wrote: »

i think it was in freakonomics that they examined the benefit of booster seats for kids - and found no benefit. and the lab which did the testing for them did it on strict anonymity terms. they didn't want to lose business.

All that is entirely irrelevant when they are required by law. There are lots of silly laws.

RobertFoster

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

Anyone who associates a type of person by the type of car they drive clearly have a lot of growing up to do.

You're absolutely right. This is the cycling forum. We should be judging people on the type of bike they ride instead.

Lusk_Doyle

ROK ON wrote: »

I used to hate large SUV type vehicles. Now my wife drives a non-SUV large car.
We didn't prior to kids.

A reason these large vehicles have become more prevalent on our roads is partly down to health and safety regulations about in car child seats.

When I was a kid you bundled kids into the back seat - no seatbelts. Then seatbelts were introduced, so now a max of three kids per back seat of car.

Now you need child seats for kids up to 11 years (IIRC).
If you have three kids then you cannot fit 3 child seats in the rear of a normal sized car. I used to drive a gold and now I drive a Skoda Fabia - three child seats don't fit. Hence the need for larger vehicles. Particularly true when you have kids in buggies.

Now before anyone says that people driving large cars should simply cycle - then my response is to shove it up your a$$.
Yeah, some people do this but not everyone likes cycling nor is it always practical (weather, country roads, distance from school, need to get to work in a short windows after dropping kids to school etc).

I don't like large cars - but as a family we unfortunately need one. When kids are older we won't.

I do agree that the need for half of these vehicles to be 4 wheel drive jeep type cars is nuts. How I laughed during the snow watching folks behind the wheel of a four wheel drive jeep with no idea how to drive it or get the most out of it.

Another solution is to use condoms!

Disclaimer: I am a parent!

tomasrojo

ROK ON wrote: »

Now you need child seats for kids up to 11 years (IIRC).
If you have three kids then you cannot fit 3 child seats in the rear of a normal sized car.

There is this. I have not tried it.

Multimac (multimac.co.uk) is a bench-like removable ­system of either three or four child seats, bolted into the car, with five-point harnesses and all the requisite safety approval.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/27/mishal-husain-cars-multimac

tomasrojo

magicbastarder wrote: »

i think it was in freakonomics that they examined the benefit of booster seats for kids - and found no benefit. and the lab which did the testing for them did it on strict anonymity terms. they didn't want to lose business.

I believe they found no benefit when compared with using an adult seat belt (and cushion? I don't know). They were definitely better than using nothing at all, which is what the standard test in the USA and elsewhere compares.

Pinch Flat

Same happened to me a coupe of years back - heading through castleknock when a guy in front of me moved left to undertake a car - I had to stop unexpectedly, almost hit my so served to avoid. Been clipped in, it all happened very fast and I spilled into the road, landing on my side heavily.

Fair play to the kn0b behind me though - his instant reaction was to beep, then drive around me while still sprawled on the on the road, into ongoing traffic, narrowly missing me in the process. I'm sure the dominos pizza he was rushing him to enjoy, or whatever sense of faux-urgency, justified his actions.

galwaycyclist

tomasrojo wrote: »

I believe they found no benefit when compared with using an adult seat belt (and cushion? I don't know). They were definitely better than using nothing at all, which is what the standard test in the USA and elsewhere compares.

Hmmm. On phone now so I cant dig it out. But when the UK brought in legislation requiring child passengers to wear the standard seatbelts - this was accompanied by something like a 10% increase in deaths among this group.

Looking at the numbers seems to suggest that people of a certain size may actually be better off not wearing seatbelts.

tomasrojo

galwaycyclist wrote: »

Hmmm. On phone now so I cant dig it out. But when the UK brought in legislation requiring child passengers to wear the standard seatbelts - this was accompanied by something like a 10% increase in deaths among this group.

Looking at the numbers seems to suggest that people of a certain size may actually be better off not wearing seatbelts.

Ah yeah, I think you posted about it here before.

But the Freakonomics people were definitely comparing child restraints with adult-style restraints (as I understand "lap and shoulder belts" to mean):

When we wrote about child car seats, a lot of people responded angrily to our assertion that the seats do not provide much benefit, if any, over lap and shoulder belts for children over two years of age.

When we wrote the above-linked article on car seats, I had a really hard time finding a crash-test lab that would let me come in and run our own basic tests. All I wanted to do was to submit a child crash-test dummy to one frontal crash in a car seat and one frontal crash in a lap-and-shoulder belt. I got the feeling that the labs knew full well that the seats don’t perform anywhere near as well as they’re supposed to.

http://freakonomics.com/2007/01/05/we-are-not-the-only-ones-who-think-child-car-seats-dont-work-well/


And the standard USA tests do seem to claim that child restraints result in a better outcome than no restraint:

Perhaps the single most compelling statistic about car seats in the NHTSA manual was this one: ''They are 54 percent effective in reducing deaths for children ages 1 to 4 in passenger cars.'' But 54 percent effective compared with what ? The answer, it turns out, is this: Compared with a child's riding completely unrestrained. There is another mode of restraint, meanwhile, that doesn't cost $200 or require a four - day course to master: seat belts.

http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/SeatBeltSolution.pdf

(The tests may not model real-world crashes accurately -- I have no idea -- but the Freakonomics people were using the standard tests to show that child restraints fail even by that limited definition of efficacy.)

Yarisbob

JMcL wrote: »

Any recommendations for a bike rack that'd fit on one?

Totally Off Topic but back to the Porsche 959

I saw one sold at Bonhams Auction at Cirencester in 2011 - Went for £212k .. !

As far as a rack for one is concerned there isnt one available from Porsche but if you happen to have an 80's 911 there is a roof rack system from the Porsche Tequipment Catalog

Part No 928 801 093 02 for a race bike
928 801 095 02 for a standard bike
928 801 019 02 for a surf board
928 801 017 02 for a canoe

The rain channels are different on a 959 compared to a 911 - I can tell you that for a fact so the chances of getting a 911 rack to fit a 959 are slim.

However a 924/944/968 will take 2 bikes in the boot with the seats down with room for gear as well. Only issues are the high rear end which you have to lift the bike over and they are not real Porsches.!!!

RV

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Another solution is to use condoms!

Disclaimer: I am a parent!

We used withdrawal. Didn't really get the hang of it until after the fourth child unfortunately.

Lumen

TMI!