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Poseur cyclists who won't use designated cycle lanes

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    #32
    Streetwalker
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    The idiots who dress up like Sean Kelly climbing up the Alps need to removed from the road. They are a danger to themselves and other road users.


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    #33
    Ally Dick
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    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Is there "less and less room for cyclists on the road now"? :confused: When did this happen?

    There are more cars than ever on the roads now. Anyone can see it. It's too dangerous for cyclists now, and they can also cause huge tailbacks when they do go out. They don't even obey cycle lanes !


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    #34
    obriendj
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    the evasion_kid wrote: »
    Driving through the city centre there last week and came up to a set of lights,cyclist comes up on the inside of me,stops and proceeds to push my passenger mirror in so he could move up another two foot...light turns green and I say fcuk this and take off after him and pull the van in at a angle in front of him,roll down the window and literally roar at him to fix the mirror back to the way it was....some absolute tits on bicycles going around the city!

    I was cycling along week before last in a (solid line) cycle lane, a 6 person taxi along side me, decides to pull in and smack my with his mirror but stay on my bike....some absolute tits driving cars around the city.


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    #35
    desertcircus
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    Streetwalker wrote: »
    The idiots who dress up like Sean Kelly climbing up the Alps need to removed from the road. They are a danger to themselves and other road users.

    You hear that, kids? No more 1980s kit, apparently it's dangerous to other people.


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    #36
    the evasion_kid
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    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    Some absolute tits using various forms of transport going around the city.

    Yeah them cyclists....should do a course in basic manners as well as one on how to use the roads


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    #37
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,500 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    Road tax. Just getting that out of the way early.
    There's not such thing as wheel tax.


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    #38
    _davidsmith_
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    Ha from this thread it seems the op loves winding up cyclists, and cyclists are very easily wound up.


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    #39
    [Deleted User]
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    the evasion_kid wrote: »
    Driving through the city centre there last week and came up to a set of lights,cyclist comes up on the inside of me,stops and proceeds to push my passenger mirror in so he could move up another two foot...light turns green and I say fcuk this and take off after him and pull the van in at a angle in front of him,roll down the window and literally roar at him to fix the mirror back to the way it was....some absolute tits on bicycles going around the city!

    I'm not saying the cyclist is in any way correct but I think you need to address your anger issues.


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    #40
    Mesrine65
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    I suspect Ally Dick is really Liam Phelan's contrary alter-ego :pac::pac::pac:


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    #41
    the evasion_kid
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    ronoc wrote: »
    I'm not saying the cyclist is in any way correct but I think you need to address your anger issues.

    Driving in the city on a daily basis I see some dangerous scenarios with cyclists,no anger issues I just don't suffer fools gladly....might make him think in future


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    #42
    tritium
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    Ally Dick wrote: »
    There are more cars than ever on the roads now. Anyone can see it. It's too dangerous for cyclists now, and they can also cause huge tailbacks when they do go out. They don't even obey cycle lanes !

    Nor do they have to, as you have been told many many times


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    #43
    desertcircus
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    the evasion_kid wrote: »
    Driving in the city on a daily basis I see some dangerous scenarios with cyclists,no anger issues I just don't suffer fools gladly....might make him think in future

    If you use a three-ton vehicle as a weapon to force someone to stop so you can yell at them, then you have anger issues.


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    #44
    ebbsy
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    Cyclists are flies on wheels.


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    #45
    _davidsmith_
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    Also cyclists you do have to use lanes sometimes

    "Cyclists are only required to use cycle lanes in pedestrianised areas or where a contra-flow cycle track is provided"


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    #46
    tritium
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    desertcircus wrote: »
    If you use a three-ton vehicle as a weapon to force someone to stop so you can yell at them, then you have anger issues.

    It would also be illegal given its dangerous driving, which makes the original post a bit, well, hypocritical.....


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    #47
    the evasion_kid
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    desertcircus wrote: »
    If you use a three-ton vehicle as a weapon to force someone to stop so you can yell at them, then you have anger issues.

    As a weapon ?!?He shouldn't have done it in the first place or at least had the decency to put the mirror back the way it was after....no excuse for that kind of rudeness


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    #48
    JazzyJ
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    Ally Dick wrote: »
    There are more cars than ever on the roads now.

    Something must be done to reduce the number of cars on the road. They're constantly causing tailbacks on my commute into work and increasing the amount of time it takes me to get in. There's too many of them.

    :pac::pac::pac:


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    #49
    Tarzana2
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    the evasion_kid wrote: »
    Yeah them cyclists....should do a course in basic manners as well as one on how to use the roads

    As should any rude person incorrectly using the road. :)


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    #50
    the evasion_kid
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    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    As should any rude person incorrectly using the road. :)

    Or maybe they shouldn't be on the road in the first place :)


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    #51
    Chips Lovell
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    The Nazis used bikes. I think that tells us all we need to know about cyclists.


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    #52
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    Stranger Danger wrote: »
    It's really strange that we have this 18th century anachronistic form of transport allowed on our modern highways.
    I think you mean 19th century invention, just like the motor car.


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    #53
    TallGlass
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    Gotta love these threads as both a motorist and a cyclist. I am on both sides of the fence see both sides.

    Cycle lanes are sometimes unsafe and most importantly unclear at times.

    As a motorist, some cyclists can be outright a danger to other road users including other cyclists.

    Just as there as many people that can't drive there's the people who don't know how to ride a bike safely.


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    #54
    ThisRegard
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    Oh look, a cyclist thread, started by Ally Dick.

    Are you under some sort of contractual obligation ?


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    #55
    endacl
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    Ally Dick wrote: »
    There are more cars than ever on the roads now, and they can also cause huge tailbacks when they do go out!
    Minor adjustment. And your post now makes sense.

    :D


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    #56
    ThisRegard
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    endacl wrote: »
    You know the site has a search function, OP? You could have used it to find out that your stupid, pointless topic has been done to death umpteen times before. If you need to vent, open a window and let a roar at the world.

    :rolleyes:

    But maybe, just maybe, this might be the thread in which someone posts something new on this topic?


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    #57
    ThisRegard
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    Ally Dick wrote: »
    Thanks for the patronising comment. I'm aware of other cycling threads. We need to keep getting the message out there so that cyclists change their ways, or give up

    I vote you give up. Where's the poll?


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    #58
    Maximus Alexander
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    Ally Dick wrote: »
    These people drive me bananas. Where I live, there are decent cycle lanes...however there's a class of cyclist out there who dresses in all of the gear, who refuses to use them, and would instead prefer to hold up the traffic. This really has to stop. As I have said before, there is less and less room for cyclists on the road now, so they need to consider cutting down on it, and at least using cycle lanes where they exist

    If the cyclists leave the bikes at home, what mode of transport do you imagine they'll use instead? If you replace all of these bikes with cars, do you imagine that thereally will be more room on the road, or less?

    If the problem you're having is that there I 'less room on the road', then I would suggest you encourage more motorists to take up cycling.


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    #59
    granturismo
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    But maybe, just maybe, this might be the thread in which someone posts something new on this topic?

    This discussion would be locked immediately in the cycling forum but a similar discussion on a particular type of driver would not be locked in the motors forum.

    TallGlass wrote: »
    ....
    As a motorist, some cyclists can be outright a danger to other road users including other cyclists.

    Just as there as many people that can't drive....

    I agree.


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    #60
    CatFromHue
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    I think we can all agree though that it's the motorbikers who are the real annoying ones!


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    #61
    Boom_Bap
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    CatFromHue wrote: »
    I think we can all agree though that it's the motorbikers who are the real annoying ones!

    It's not, it's the pigeons. They take up too much space in a particularly crumby side of road.


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