magicbastarder wrote: » you mean helmet mounted cameras?
partyguinness wrote: » As I am now 40 I guess I can almost qualify as middle aged. I took up running when my football days came to an end. A good few of the crowd I run with do running, swimming and cycling and enter triathlons. Most seem to ditch running once they get into cycling. Here is a few points- I don't cycle as I just do not have the time. I run HM and marathons.Advantages to cycling over running 1. More sociable- you can cycle say 20 miles with a gang have lunch and a beer and cycle back. That ain't happening with running. 2. Yes it is easier on the joints 3. You can free wheel more if you are tired and still keep moving. 4. You can gels and fuel with you on the bike 5. A 20 mile cycle is helluva a lot easier than a 20 mile run 6. I may be wrong on this but when running and preparing for events a runner has to really watch eating and timing of meals leading up to an event. Cyclists I know don't have to watch this as much it seems. Now this is not a criticism or trolling but cycling is more forgiving than running on the body. Having said that I do not want to die under a HGV so I'll stick to running. Running seems (based on my own completely non-science or evidence backed research and observations) to help with weight lose more than cycling as I defo see more (ahem) tubby cyclists than runners but at least they are getting out there.
ewc78 wrote: » I read this first as 'their masterbation attracts bears'
Ellie Hallowed Acorn wrote: » No flies on you hai
PandaPoo wrote: » There's a loveky cafe in eniskerry that we go to every second weekend or so. We try get there early because around 11 or 12 a swarm of cyclists come in. Their bikes block the path and the exit, they stomp in with their noisy clompy shoes, take up the whole restaurant and outside. It's really annoying.
AndrewJRenko wrote: » In fairness, if your dogs are out cycling on the road, I think the responsibility for the startling is down to your good self. It's really quite funny when people complain about 'bikes blocking the path' while routinely ignoring the vast amounts of public space blocked up by parked cars, frequently illegally parked on paths. Have you considered not staring at men's crotches so closely as to notice their mickeys? I presume you similarly wonder about every driver in a €30k or €50k SUV doing the school run that could just as easily and safely be done in a 1995 Micra? So a 3-4 hour cycle burning up 3k to 4k calories does nothing for the beer belly? Interesting theory.... What messing round is this? Are the lads driving to their football match 'messing around on the roads'? And the coaches of supporters who dress up in tacky nylon jerseys and sing rebel songs, are they 'messing round on the roads'? Yeah, all aul lads, young lads and middle-aged wans for sure:https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/tribute-paid-to-cyclist-killed-in-co-kildare-crash-1.2973559 Tell me more about this 'holding up anyone on the roads and obey rules' please, in the context of 80% of motorists breaking speed limits, Irish drivers being 2nd worst in Europe for mobile phone abuse, and the huge traffic jams we see on the roads every day. So maybe you could try not looking at them? Do you have the same problem with all the middle-aged-mammies in lycra for the school run or their coffee dates with other middle-aged-mammies in lycra? Do they need to change to meet your sartorial standard? Yeah, it happens every day. I see that most mornings and most evenings. It's such a common and realistic scenario that no-one could think that you're exaggerating or anything. Yeah, but what about the bloody cyclists? I think you're starting to get to the grips of the issue now. It is indeed your problem, not their problem. The breathtaking arrogance is from the ones driving round with an empty armchair beside them and an empty couch behind them complaining about cyclists 'chatting' and taking up space.
meeeeh wrote: » I was not talking about the rules in Ireland, competitive cyclists doing group training are accompanied by a vehicle in Slovenia. As said unless you are overtaking or are part of before mentioned group cycling two abreast is frowned upon and I think illegal on main roads. I cycled in both countries and I know which I prefer.
magicbastarder wrote: » i've never seen a helmet mounted camera on a cyclist going for a leisure spin. i very rarely see them on commuter cyclists. yet it's one of the first things you mention which defines these cyclists you dislike. curious.
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murpho999 wrote: » You may think it's bollocks and bull **** but the truth is that if a cyclist breaks a red light, which I agree is totally wrong, they generally don't "barrel" through as you put it but generally do so with some caution. Either way, they will come the worst off in a collision in all cases. That's the way the law is in The Netherlands and it's quite logical if you think about it.
Ellie Hallowed Acorn wrote: » Yes and if the person being a dick has two bikes attached to their car and after several miles of speeding and attempting to overtake dangerously on bendy country roads, that person gets out id the car and starts removing the bikes while talking loudly about how thank God they made it in time for the bike race, I actually feel pretty ok about saying "that cyclist was driving like a prick". Ditto if someone attaches a bike to a car after one of said races, gets in the car and takes off driving aggressively. Edit: and also if they have the same face and voice as the guy who's been ****eing on in the pub all weekend about the race and personal bests and sure amn't I mad. Slightly less firm ground in that one maybe, it could be his evil motorist twin I suppose.
Ellie Hallowed Acorn wrote: » If cycling infrastructure was better i'd imagine cycling behaviour would be better. I'm a non-motorist and occasional cyclist and cyclists are my least favourite group with whom to share the road (or footpath, or wherever they feel like being at any given moment) in an urban setting, more evenly split when I'm home up the country. Like another poster above I come from an area which attracts a lot of weekend cyclists and races. A few years ago it'd gotten completely out of hand, the area had managed with a mix of local, agricultural and tourist traffic for decades and the cyclists made sh1t of the situation over about two years. Now these weren't "people who cycle a bike" these were very much cyclists. Head cams. Probably get Christmas presents of mugs that awkwardly try to crowbar the words "dad" "cycling" and "coffee" into the same pun. Probably post on cycling forums. Middle aged, middle class, male and obnoxious. The amount of dangerous and aggressive driving I saw from them before and after races was crazy too. Anyways, the local councils sorted it out eventually. And like I say I cycle myself, don't want to tar everyone with the same brush. The multi-quoting, "well ackshully", wagon circling defensiveness from cyclists here doesn't do a huge amount to win people over btw.
amcalester wrote: » You have it the wrong way round, it was a motorist driving like a prick. You wouldn't say someone who walked to his car and then started driving like a prick was a pedestrian driving like a prick, makes no sense. Were you speeding too or how do you know he was speeding for several miles while also being able to hear him speak once he got to his destination? Seems unlikely.
Ellie Hallowed Acorn wrote: » I got out of the car to fcuk him out of it. It was a cyclist driving like a prick. Gway with the semantics, if I'm acting the maggot over on holidays in Tenerife am I am unruly Spaniard?. I bet if he was asked ten words to describe himself motorist wouldn't feature.
noun a person who drives or travels in a privately owned automobile.
Ellie Hallowed Acorn wrote: » I got out of the car to fcuk him out of it. EDIT: I wasn't speeding, I ended up behind him several times over a ten mile journey because the west of Ireland roads and traffic would repeatedly mean he was unable, despite manic efforts, to go over the limit and overtake. That was the beauty of it, for all his effort, I got there while he was still unpacking the bikes It was a cyclist driving like a prick. Gway with the semantics, if I'm acting the maggot over on holidays in Tenerife am I am unruly Spaniard?. I bet if he was asked ten words to describe himself motorist wouldn't feature.
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » Is it wagon circling cyclists or male wagon circling cyclist you hate? This post just reads like misandry to me. but hey ho
RobbieTheRobber wrote: » Yeah funny that. However with half the population of Ireland and the same number of cycling deaths it seems Slovenia is a much more dangerous place to cycle!https://www.policija.si/eng/index.php/component/content/article/11/140-bicycle-safety
P_1 wrote: » It was a prick driving like a prick. Pricks gonna prick irrespective of their mode of transportation
Baron de Charlus wrote: » If there's one thing these cyclist vs motorist threads makes me realise, it's that there's a lot of seriously angry people out there. Life's too short folks.
Ellie Hallowed Acorn wrote: » Yeah, and this prick happened to be a cyclist, whose driving behaviour in that instance was directly related to his being a cyclist. It was more the irony of the fact of the amount of complaints you hear from cyclists (quite rightly a lot of the time) about motorist behaviour and responsibility, and then this guy, very into cycling, driving like a fcuking maniac to be in time for his cycle.
Boom_Bap wrote: » I'd like to see at least one cyclist and one motorist learn something new from each of these threads and admit it
mikemac2 wrote: » Read the first few pages yesterday and there were short witty comments Come back today and it’s a few posters writing books and full of rage while most others moved onto something else Like most debates on boards
amcalester wrote: » Because he's probably just a prick, not because he's a cyclist or a motorist.
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