The benefits of cycling

Commotion Ocean

• It's free
• You can weave in and out of queues of traffic, if you clip someone's wing mirror, you don't have to stop. It's the drivers fault somehow and THEY have to pay for it themselves.
• Traffic lights don't apply to you, they are only a suggestion. If you break a red light and collide with a motorist going through a green, it's somehow the motorists fault.
• For those who are forced to stop in traffic or at level crossings, you can use another persons car to rest your hands on.
• You will not be held responsible nor will you have to stop if you scrape a person's car or van
• You can undertake parked buses and if you hit a disembarking passenger, it's the passenger's fault
• One way streets and signs saying no right turn or no left turn don't apply to you
• You can cycle against the flow of traffic, if you hit a car, it's the car driver's fault.
• You don't have to indicate or use any hand signals
• You can cycle down footpaths and pedestrians have to yield to you.

The Hill Billy

As this is clearly being done in a wildly-sweeping-generalisation manner - you have just described the benefits of motoring too.

Commotion Ocean

The Hill Billy wrote: »

As this is clearly being done in a wildly-sweeping-generalisation manner - you have just described the benefits of motoring too.

Motorists may break red lights too, but a greater percentage of cyclists do it. You can't deny this.

I frequently drive in the city centre and a good portion of cyclists sail merrily through reds. I have seen them sailing through reds on front of motorcycle Gardaí and the Gards just sit there not giving a shit.

How often do you see a motorist driving the wrong way down a road?

BuffyBot

If you want to perform amateur comedy, I'd suggest an open mic night, not this forum.

When you're looking for an actual discussion that isn't composed a great big inflated soufflé of generalisations, come back