Bike lanes are at the edge of the road. If you are a spandex warrior you should remember this and stop getting in the way of honest people on their way to work you spastic bunch of wannabe athletes…………………..
Oh the humanity of having to wait a few moments to pass…
poikilotherm said:
Oh the humanity of having to wait a few moments to pass…
that’s what it takes for a car to pass
a few moments
I hate Spandex!
you just wont to throw a heap of spandex at them
WEAR JEANS
poikilotherm said:
Oh the humanity of having to wait a few moments to pass…
Next time try actually finding out what happened. Driving through a roundabout some wank thought he could simply cut everyone else off and then carried on. These wankers are dangerous with their sense of entitlement.
CrazyNeutrino said:
I hate Spandex!you just wont to throw a heap of spandex at them
WEAR JEANS
or just normal casual/sports wear.
Postpocelipse said:
poikilotherm said:
Oh the humanity of having to wait a few moments to pass…
Next time try actually finding out what happened. Driving through a roundabout some wank thought he could simply cut everyone else off and then carried on. These wankers are dangerous with their sense of entitlement.
SO DID HE CUT CARS OFF TO HIS RIGHT?
what did he do?
I ride bikes also poikilotherm but I’ve never pretended that the people driving cars have lost the plot and I have genuine respect for other road users.
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:
poikilotherm said:
Oh the humanity of having to wait a few moments to pass…
Next time try actually finding out what happened. Driving through a roundabout some wank thought he could simply cut everyone else off and then carried on. These wankers are dangerous with their sense of entitlement.
SO DID HE CUT CARS OFF TO HIS RIGHT?
what did he do?
Postpocelipse said:
poikilotherm said:
Oh the humanity of having to wait a few moments to pass…
Next time try actually finding out what happened. Driving through a roundabout some wank thought he could simply cut everyone else off and then carried on. These wankers are dangerous with their sense of entitlement.
Warnie… Postpoc would like his handle back…
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:
poikilotherm said:
Oh the humanity of having to wait a few moments to pass…
Next time try actually finding out what happened. Driving through a roundabout some wank thought he could simply cut everyone else off and then carried on. These wankers are dangerous with their sense of entitlement.
SO DID HE CUT CARS OFF TO HIS RIGHT?
what did he do?
He tried to take the middle of the roundabout when there were already cars in the middle of the roundabout. He seemed to think he could bully his way wherever he wanted.
diddly-squat said:
Postpocelipse said:
poikilotherm said:
Oh the humanity of having to wait a few moments to pass…
Next time try actually finding out what happened. Driving through a roundabout some wank thought he could simply cut everyone else off and then carried on. These wankers are dangerous with their sense of entitlement.
Warnie… Postpoc would like his handle back…
what is the Warnie reference?
Postpocelipse said:
poikilotherm said:
Oh the humanity of having to wait a few moments to pass…
Next time try actually finding out what happened. Driving through a roundabout some wank thought he could simply cut everyone else off and then carried on. These wankers are dangerous with their sense of entitlement.
Oooh, an OP with only part of a story…tell me more…
Postpocelipse said:
diddly-squat said:
Postpocelipse said:Next time try actually finding out what happened. Driving through a roundabout some wank thought he could simply cut everyone else off and then carried on. These wankers are dangerous with their sense of entitlement.
Warnie… Postpoc would like his handle back…
what is the Warnie reference?
sure sure… don’t play all coy now
Postpocelipse said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:Next time try actually finding out what happened. Driving through a roundabout some wank thought he could simply cut everyone else off and then carried on. These wankers are dangerous with their sense of entitlement.
SO DID HE CUT CARS OFF TO HIS RIGHT?
what did he do?
He tried to take the middle of the roundabout when there were already cars in the middle of the roundabout. He seemed to think he could bully his way wherever he wanted.
no hang on
the middle of the roundabout usually has a garden in it
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:
CrazyNeutrino said:SO DID HE CUT CARS OFF TO HIS RIGHT?
what did he do?
He tried to take the middle of the roundabout when there were already cars in the middle of the roundabout. He seemed to think he could bully his way wherever he wanted.
no hang on
the middle of the roundabout usually has a garden in it
I am driving through the roundabout. Instead of sticking to the outside this guy nearly ran into the side of my car trying to take the middle of the road.
Postpocelipse said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:He tried to take the middle of the roundabout when there were already cars in the middle of the roundabout. He seemed to think he could bully his way wherever he wanted.
no hang on
the middle of the roundabout usually has a garden in it
I am driving through the roundabout. Instead of sticking to the outside this guy nearly ran into the side of my car trying to take the middle of the road.
was there one lane or two
was he if front of you?
which side did he nearly hit you?
CrazyNeutrino said:
which side did he nearly hit you?
my bad side…….
cars don’t get to change lanes will-nilly without signalling so why should cyclists?
Postpocelipse said:
cars don’t get to change lanes will-nilly without signalling
I thought you lived in Queensland
Yeah good thing no one driving a car ever did anything dangerous.
Postpocelipse said:
CrazyNeutrino said:which side did he nearly hit you?
my bad side…….
cars don’t get to change lanes will-nilly without signalling so why should cyclists?
your bad side?
but ok if the cyclist is changing lanes without signalling then that is bad
I still hate spandex
Willy nilly is pretty much compulsory up here
dv said:
Yeah good thing no one driving a car ever did anything dangerous.
yeah, cars don’t kill people
dv said:
Yeah good thing no one driving a car ever did anything dangerous.
Yeah and I’m always seeing cars driving side by side so they can chat AND hold traffic up. Like I said, I ride bikes myself but don’t get around thinking spandex gives me special priveledge to be a roadhog…..
People
People who kill people
Are the freedomest people in the world
Postpocelipse said:
Bike lanes are at the edge of the road. If you are a spandex warrior you should remember this and stop getting in the way of honest people on their way to work you spastic bunch of wannabe athletes…………………..
Spastic? Some people cannot get away with calling other able bodied people without outrage buses being hailed.
SSSF may have invented the term “selfie” but I’m much more proud of “outrage bus”
Dropbear said:
SSSF may have invented the term “selfie” but I’m much more proud of “outrage bus”
I am going to claim that one.
Dropbear said:
SSSF may have invented the term “selfie” but I’m much more proud of “outrage bus”
I use ‘outrage bus’ all the time to describe the twin’s meltdowns
CrazyNeutrino said:
that sign says 60
AwesomeO said:
Postpocelipse said:
Bike lanes are at the edge of the road. If you are a spandex warrior you should remember this and stop getting in the way of honest people on their way to work you spastic bunch of wannabe athletes…………………..
Spastic? Some people cannot get away with calling other able bodied people without outrage buses being hailed.
See Louis C.K. I have never called someone a ‘faggot’ intending to paint them as gay. If someone is acting like a faggot then that is the word that comes to mind. The spandex warrior crowd are spastics cause at least faggot takes a level of effort to achieve……
I used it in polite conversation once and got a blank look.
Yeah I had a polite conversation once, it’s no great shakes.
CrazyNeutrino said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
that scorecard says 60
fixed (tic)
Dropbear said:
I used it in polite conversation once and got a blank look.
This did not so much start as polite conversation but I take your point……
Postpocelipse said:
AwesomeO said:
Postpocelipse said:
Bike lanes are at the edge of the road. If you are a spandex warrior you should remember this and stop getting in the way of honest people on their way to work you spastic bunch of wannabe athletes…………………..
Spastic? Some people cannot get away with calling other able bodied people without outrage buses being hailed.
See Louis C.K. I have never called someone a ‘faggot’ intending to paint them as gay. If someone is acting like a faggot then that is the word that comes to mind. The spandex warrior crowd are spastics cause at least faggot takes a level of effort to achieve……
well they wear the spandex as an aerodynamic function. air over a form in space
but I hate the look of it
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:
AwesomeO said:Spastic? Some people cannot get away with calling other able bodied people without outrage buses being hailed.
See Louis C.K. I have never called someone a ‘faggot’ intending to paint them as gay. If someone is acting like a faggot then that is the word that comes to mind. The spandex warrior crowd are spastics cause at least faggot takes a level of effort to achieve……
well they wear the spandex as an aerodynamic function. air over a form in space
but I hate the look of it
Don’t forget the chaffing…
poikilotherm said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:See Louis C.K. I have never called someone a ‘faggot’ intending to paint them as gay. If someone is acting like a faggot then that is the word that comes to mind. The spandex warrior crowd are spastics cause at least faggot takes a level of effort to achieve……
well they wear the spandex as an aerodynamic function. air over a form in space
but I hate the look of it
Don’t forget the chaffing…
That’s their problem
hope they get lots of it
I hate spandex
CrazyNeutrino said:
poikilotherm said:
CrazyNeutrino said:well they wear the spandex as an aerodynamic function. air over a form in space
but I hate the look of it
Don’t forget the chaffing…
That’s their problem
hope they get lots of it
I hate spandex
When I ride a bike, I dont wear fucking spandex
imagine bikies on Harley Davidson’s wearing spandex
CrazyNeutrino said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
poikilotherm said:Don’t forget the chaffing…
That’s their problem
hope they get lots of it
I hate spandex
When I ride a bike, I dont wear fucking spandex
imagine bikies on Harley Davidson’s wearing spandex
Sydney Mardi Gras ensures imagination is not required….
In all honesty it is likely I was being impatient. A level of contempt may also have entered because I make a specific effort to account for traffic when I ride a bike.
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:
AwesomeO said:Spastic? Some people cannot get away with calling other able bodied people without outrage buses being hailed.
See Louis C.K. I have never called someone a ‘faggot’ intending to paint them as gay. If someone is acting like a faggot then that is the word that comes to mind. The spandex warrior crowd are spastics cause at least faggot takes a level of effort to achieve……
well they wear the spandex as an aerodynamic function. air over a form in space
but I hate the look of it
Spandex should be restricted to glam rock bands
Cymek said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:See Louis C.K. I have never called someone a ‘faggot’ intending to paint them as gay. If someone is acting like a faggot then that is the word that comes to mind. The spandex warrior crowd are spastics cause at least faggot takes a level of effort to achieve……
well they wear the spandex as an aerodynamic function. air over a form in space
but I hate the look of it
Spandex should be restricted to glam rock bands
Yeah, it should be restricted
Cymek said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:See Louis C.K. I have never called someone a ‘faggot’ intending to paint them as gay. If someone is acting like a faggot then that is the word that comes to mind. The spandex warrior crowd are spastics cause at least faggot takes a level of effort to achieve……
well they wear the spandex as an aerodynamic function. air over a form in space
but I hate the look of it
Spandex should be restricted to glam rock bands
Which are already mostly restricted to the 80’s. All nice and safe like it should be……….
Postpocelipse said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
CrazyNeutrino said:That’s their problem
hope they get lots of it
I hate spandex
When I ride a bike, I dont wear fucking spandex
imagine bikies on Harley Davidson’s wearing spandex
Sydney Mardi Gras ensures imagination is not required….
Real Bikies wear jeans
Postpocelipse said:
Cymek said:
CrazyNeutrino said:well they wear the spandex as an aerodynamic function. air over a form in space
but I hate the look of it
Spandex should be restricted to glam rock bands
Which are already mostly restricted to the 80’s. All nice and safe like it should be……….
exactly
some women look nice in spandex
Hang on Im being sexist, I better shut up
Postpocelipse said:
Cymek said:
CrazyNeutrino said:well they wear the spandex as an aerodynamic function. air over a form in space
but I hate the look of it
Spandex should be restricted to glam rock bands
Which are already mostly restricted to the 80’s. All nice and safe like it should be……….
Until they get time travel
Cymek said:
Postpocelipse said:
Cymek said:Spandex should be restricted to glam rock bands
Which are already mostly restricted to the 80’s. All nice and safe like it should be……….
Until they get time travel
Bill and Ted wouldn’t bother bringing anyone to this decade so I’m still not worried……
Cymek said:
Postpocelipse said:
Cymek said:Spandex should be restricted to glam rock bands
Which are already mostly restricted to the 80’s. All nice and safe like it should be……….
Until they get time travel
Good I’ll go back and hit the inventor of spandex on his/her head before he/her invented it
I don’t understand people wearing next to nothing whilst exercising. If the intent is to work out then why make it easy on yourself?
I will attempt to remember to take another route rather than tempt further incidents.
CrazyNeutrino said:
the spandex has nothing to do with the nobness of someone on a bike. But those who operate in large groups three or four fold on the road and make cars change lanes to pass them are dangerous and making it dangerous for the car users. They are relying on the fact that we don’t want to hurt them for their safety. They also often break road rules Like going through red lights early etc.. which is great until one of them gets cleaned up by someone trying to run an orange..
though I did read about a group of cyclist who got pulled over for just that http://www.bu.edu/today/2010/crackdown-nabs-100-cyclists/
About 100 bicyclists crossing the intersection of Comm Ave and the BU Bridge got an unwelcome surprise yesterday: a $20 fine for running a red light.
Four Boston Police Department motorcycle policemen spent eight-plus hours on the sunny September day waving startled cyclists to the shoulder of the I-90 overpass. Officers told the scofflaws that the enforcement effort, the second in that spot since spring, followed the recent deaths of cyclists in Brighton and Jamaica Plain.
“As we work to make Boston more bike-friendly, one of the key components is getting everyone on the roads to respect each other,” says Nicole Freedman, director of Boston Bikes, a safety program run out of City Hall. “For cyclists, that’s following the rules of the road.” Freedman says Commonwealth Avenue lags behind only Massachusetts Avenue as Boston’s most bike-accident-plagued road.
What Arts said.
Also – Have some informed opinion to inform your opinion: http://road.cc/content/news/134661-video-tells-driving-instructors-why-cyclists-ride-primary-position
Is it worth reading this thread?
party_pants said:
Is it worth reading this thread?
Do you need more hate in your life?
party_pants said:
Is it worth reading this thread?
Rule 303 said:
party_pants said:
Is it worth reading this thread?
Do you need more hate in your life?
If it can be scientifically proved that spandex lowers the IQ then this is a public safety thread……..
I rode a bike in regularly in traffic until my late twenties when I finally joined the motorised world. As a motorist, I don’t have a problem with bikes. I usually treat them like I would an old bloke wearing a hat or a drunk backhoe driver. Give them plenty of room and expect them to do something random.
I have a lot of respect for the tradies and other early morning cycle commuters I encounter going to work. They ride well in traffic and are usually easy to deal with.I even don’t mind the Japanese and Korean students who all seem to delight in riding on the wrong side of the road at night with no lights, black clothes and their helmet on backwards.
Then there’s the spandex clad wankers who insist on riding busy, steep, narrow, windy roads with no shoulder and multiple blind corners like the Kurranda range or Captain Cook Highway. All the concentrated energy bars and lattes must have destroyed their brains. These roads are simply unsuitable for safe bicycle travel.They are deliberately putting themselves into a harm’s way with little regard for themselves or for the unlucky bugger who will eventually collect one of these clowns in their grille.
Dickheads.
Teleost said:
Dickheads.
Oo..don’t get me started on their dreadful behaviour on the trains up to the Blue Mountains on Sunday mornings and on the platform at Woodford. Fucking bastards. Rude, caught up in their own little fantasy world of Tour de france greatness. Thank goodness I don’t have to deal with thse selfish gits any more.
Postpocelipse said:
Bike lanes are at the edge of the road. If you are a spandex warrior you should remember this and stop getting in the way of honest people on their way to work you spastic bunch of wannabe athletes…………………..
That worried me first time I struck it. Particularly around Port Phillip Bay. But when I came to cycle (slowly) in the bike lane there I was awfully glad that I didn’t have literally hundreds of fast bikes crashing into me at high speed. The fast bikes were on the road, thank goodness.
Present bike lanes are far too narrow for bikes to pass one another safely.
A horde of bikes travelling at 50 km/hr can do a lot of damage to a cyclist who can only manage 10 km/hr.
As for “honest people”, don’t make me laugh.
Now…
See this as a people-moving problem. A single road lane can carry more than four times the traffic volume in bicycles as it can in cars with one driver. Especially when traffic is chockers. So improve traffic flow by getting out of your car and donning the spandex. Every “greenie” should.
Council here are putting in a lot of new bike lanes. They’re hoping to encourage people to ride to the new train station instead of driving. The bike lanes don’t worry me unless the riders are three or more abreast, in which case there’s no room to pass them.
Obviously the answer is to not be in such a rush to get to work in the morning
Divine Angel said:
Council here are putting in a lot of new bike lanes. They’re hoping to encourage people to ride to the new train station instead of driving. The bike lanes don’t worry me unless the riders are three or more abreast, in which case there’s no room to pass them.
Given it’s illegal to ride 3 abreast you’re within your rights to plow them down
Dropbear said:
Divine Angel said:
Council here are putting in a lot of new bike lanes. They’re hoping to encourage people to ride to the new train station instead of driving. The bike lanes don’t worry me unless the riders are three or more abreast, in which case there’s no room to pass them.
Given it’s illegal to ride 3 abreast you’re within your rights to plow them down
Warnie is everywhere in this thread…
diddly-squat said:
Dropbear said:
Divine Angel said:
Council here are putting in a lot of new bike lanes. They’re hoping to encourage people to ride to the new train station instead of driving. The bike lanes don’t worry me unless the riders are three or more abreast, in which case there’s no room to pass them.
Given it’s illegal to ride 3 abreast you’re within your rights to plow them down
Warnie is everywhere in this thread…
Shane?
Dropbear said:
diddly-squat said:
Dropbear said:Given it’s illegal to ride 3 abreast you’re within your rights to plow them down
Warnie is everywhere in this thread…
Shane?
yes…
a few years back he had a rant on twitter about how cyclists should have to pay registration
I ride my bike only for village shopping and for longer rides down Truelands Road, a very long country road with virtually no traffic. The only point on my shopping circuit where heavy traffic can seem dangerous is when crossing the old convict bridge, which is quite narrow and can be daunting when there’s a giant truck looming up behind you. Quite often on the run in I’ll take the footbridge when the highway traffic is too dense.
Bubblecar said:
I ride my bike only for village shopping and for longer rides down Truelands Road, a very long country road with virtually no traffic. The only point on my shopping circuit where heavy traffic can seem dangerous is when crossing the old convict bridge, which is quite narrow and can be daunting when there’s a giant truck looming up behind you. Quite often on the run in I’ll take the footbridge when the highway traffic is too dense.
Considering you’re 9/10ths cut when you ride, no traffic is probably wise