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Originally posted by SteveBannister Yes, it gives us motorists something to laugh at in traffic jams!! Steve :D |
Originally posted by jimmyz Hiddenpaw - great response to the ignorant rubbish from Stevie and Welshboy. steve - bit insecure about people wearing lycra are we? - that's your issue mate - probably a childhood thing. If you're capable of thinking about it for a second or two it might occur to that lycra is quite a functional material for road cyclists. on yer bike :rolleyes: |
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Originally posted by SteveBannister Yes, it gives us motorists something to laugh at in traffic jams!! Steve |
Originally posted by SteveBannister Come on, tell me that this isn't a funny sight..... |
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Originally posted by janeyray When I drove to Margaret River a few months ago I was driving along the road when a few cars suddenly started flashing at me!? My parents were with me at the time and I even stopped and got out the car to have a look, I thought something was wrong with the car! I was a few hundred yards up the road that I noticed a hidden speed camera!! How kind of the drivers to warn me in advance! Got flashed at again today, and further up the road was a hidden speed camera. Truly sporting I feel!:D I guess it's just standard. Here they don't do it I think. Here they flash when your headlights broken or something. |
Originally posted by SteveBannister Come on, tell me that this isn't a funny sight..... |
Re: Getting flashed at!!
Originally posted by SteveBannister For years I've struggled to find the page in the Highway Code that allows cyclists to scratch the side of a car as the weave in and out to get to the front of a queue, or allows them to creep through red lights, or to cut straight across mini roundabouts, or to hold up a queue of traffic at the lights because they've gathered 'en masse' at the front and can't pull away at a decent speed because they're all bumping in to each other! And there is definitely no page that says you have to wear those stupid lycra shorts and shirts. GET OFF AND WALK!!! Steve. (Rant over) Or how about when they come charging across zebra or pelican crossings when you are half way across with your kids. |
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Originally posted by renth Or how about when they come charging across zebra or pelican crossings when you are half way across with your kids. |
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Originally posted by jimmyz is that a good or bad thing? I mean speeding cameras are partly designed to reduce the incidence of speeding and accidents. If drivers forewarn other drivers of speeding cameras I think that tends to encourage some drivers to continue to speed. As an avid cyclist living in australia there is already too many reckless petrol heads in this country as is. I dont see how someone flashing at you can encourage you to speed, getting flashed at should make you slow down and keep a look out, as you dont know the reason for the flash in the first place. One of the main reasons for flashing/getting flashed where I live (small country lanes) is that there is a horse and rider round the next blind bend. I had a flame war with many people on this forum when I admitted to having a radar detector in my car (legal in UK), if you have one of these you would never speed as they are constantly going off for traffic lights, automatic doors and sometimes for speed cameras. Statistics show that radar detectors reduce accidents by slowing people down. (I got rid of it as it will be illegal in Aus btw I dont speed) People flashing you also slow you down, so the speed camera has done its job in a roundabout fashion. Keep flashing.:D Phil. |
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Originally posted by HiddenPaw Yes, it's most frightening when a car does that! Steve :D |
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Originally posted by renth Well said Steve. Or how about when they come charging across zebra or pelican crossings when you are half way across with your kids. Or those drivers who happily park in the cycle lane as if it's not part of the road?? You can't knock cyclists until you've tried it and realised how close they come to death on a daily basis - at the hands of automobiles and pedestrians! |
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Originally posted by jandjuk or how about those pedesatrians who come charging across the road, stepping right out in front of you, as if the cycle lane is an extension of the footpath?? Or those drivers who happily park in the cycle lane as if it's not part of the road?? You can't knock cyclists until you've tried it and realised how close they come to death on a daily basis - at the hands of automobiles and pedestrians! Steve :D |
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Originally posted by SteveBannister Bus lanes, cycle lanes, pavements and footpaths.......how much more of the road do you lot want! If a car is 6 times wider than a bike and we can carry 6 times the number of passengers, then it's obvious that we need 6 times the room! If you want to play with your bike, go to the park! Steve :D I don't condone any cyclist who rides the footpath. What I will say, however, it is hardly surprising that some cyclists do choose the footpath given the way motorists treat them when they use the road. If you widened your narrow view point, you might actually see that cyclists who choose to make their journey without the use of the car are actually helping to make the environment a better place for you and your children to enjoy. What you also obviously don't realise is that one more cyclist often means one less car on the road - and less traffic congestion for you. Half the journeys you make by car are probably completely uneccesary, and I really don't believe you always carry 6 passengers with you. And besides, what makes you think your journey by car is more improtant than someone else's journey by bike? Cyclists have a right to get from A to B just like motorists do. Your comments come across as suggesting that a motorist is a superior human being to a cyclist. Why is that? You really should get out more and do some exercise. |
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Originally posted by SteveBannister Listen, mate, we follow the road signs! I've seen how you lot read signs............ Steve :D :) |
Re: Getting flashed at!!
Originally posted by janeyray When I drove to Margaret River a few months ago I was driving along the road when a few cars suddenly started flashing at me!? My parents were with me at the time and I even stopped and got out the car to have a look, I thought something was wrong with the car! I was a few hundred yards up the road that I noticed a hidden speed camera!! How kind of the drivers to warn me in advance! Got flashed at again today, and further up the road was a hidden speed camera. Truly sporting I feel!:D |
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