Cyclists

[Meridian]

Oh, a farmer who thinks he owns the road.


And if that farmer ever gets involved in an accident, that post can be used as evidence against him for careless and dangerous driving.

Oh can it ?

And how prey tell will they track the author down ?

Someone has a zero sense of humour.

On your bike Wank

 

[jank]

How cyclists are turning UK roads into death traps

Competitive users of apps such as Strava are racing for their personal bests – and putting other road users at serious risk of injury

www.telegraph.co.uk

"Chelsea Embankment, 7am. On a summer morning there can’t be many nicer stretches of road to head down on your way into central London. The houseboats will just be stirring, the dog walkers taking advantage of the wide riverside pavements, strolling under the dappled shade of London planes. The speed limit is 20mph. Even the taxis have to maintain a sedate pace.
It would all be so civilised if it weren’t for the boy racers on two wheels rounding the bend at the yacht club, gearing up for one of the most hotly contested time trials in the capital.
A remarkable 52 miles per hour. That’s the record logged on Strava, the GPS fitness tracker, for a 0.63km stretch of road: a 20mph zone hugging the Thames. The leaderboard for the “Tite St to Chelsea Bridge” section of Chelsea Embankment shows it took the current reigning champion (or the “King of the Mountain”, as Strava record holders are known) just 27 seconds to complete on a Tuesday morning in July last year. Newly-crowned, he headed on, victorious, towards Millbank and over Vauxhall Bridge, stopping just past the Albert Embankment Gardens. You’d imagine he felt that was a commute well spent. The knowledge that cycling friends could log on and spot his morning achievements must have only added to the buzz.


I think they've got a point, the undeniable evidence from Strava GPS tracking is clear, cyclists are doing over 50mph/80kmph on the flat in central London.


Disgraceful.



Some "experts" claim that it's faster than elite Olympic athletes could achieve at their peak and it's almost certainly down to GPS glitches, but what would those espresso sipping, avocado munching, lycra lunatics know about that?

Yea, we should all listen to what is published in the "Torygraph"..

 

[jank]

Oh can it ?

And how prey tell will they track the author down ?

Someone has a zero sense of humour.

On your bike Wank

So the post by the farmer was a piece of fiction then?

Interesting that some have to resort to fairytales to continue their anti-cycling agenda.

 

[Meridian]

So, now you are talking about arm gestures because before you mentioned cyclists should cycle as close to the verge as possible, something that is dangerous.
You are all over the place. Too much racism on the mind perhaps.

Are you aware, with you being a cyclist, that there is an arm indication / position / signal that is recognised that the cyclist is cycling straight on past a turn off ?

Yes cyclist should keep themselves and those around them safe by staying into the side of the road and to allow faster moving vehicles to pass them easily, because cyclists are on obstruction on the open road.

 

[Meridian]

So the post by the farmer was a piece of fiction then?

Interesting that some have to resort to fairytales to continue their anti-cycling agenda.

Again, you said it can be used in court, so how are they going to track the author down ?

 

[jank]

Yes cyclist should keep themselves and those around them safe by staying into the side of the road and to allow faster moving vehicles to pass them easily, because cyclists are on obstruction on the open road.

And the image I shared directly addresses this point, and it turns out its more dangerous, hence why many cyclists practice defensive riding.

We don't do it to piss off drivers like yourself deliberately, we do it to keep ourselves safe.

 

[jank]

Again, you said it can be used in court, so how are they going to track the author down ?

You think the Internet is actually anonymous?
Have you heard of a thing called an IP Address, that your ISP stores?

 

[TheOutdoorThreadmill]

Hamster wheel ?
You moaned about tractors on country roads.
I said that is a suitable environment for them, rather than on the likes of the N40.

What I would regard a valid point.

Then you ridicule my response ?

Strange that.

No need for the anger spacing, why would tractors be on the N40 and if the were and diving slowly, they can be overtaken quite easy.
I didn't moan about tractors being on country roads, I pointed out the irony of a farmer complaining about cyclists on country roads when they themselves are a bigger hinderance and obstacle to travellers on these roads.

 

[hemlock666]

You think the Internet is actually anonymous?
Have you heard of a thing called an IP Address, that your ISP stores?

You'll need a court order to get IP details from a service provider, and I don't think the judge will grant one based on online comments that may be incriminating in the event the author commits a related offence in the future.

You're confusing reality with the plot of Minority Report.

By the way, do you drive a car?

 

[hemlock666]

Most cyclists also drive...yawn ?

Do you drive a car?