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@the Canuck running in the road in the direction of travel, also quite daft. See also motorbikes trundling down cycle lane in threads passim
@the Canuck, deliveroo/uber eats get called to a delivery then mugged as apparently not all transactions electronic!? This M.O. Was happening around Xmas in Gorgie. However you might be right in that this was random given the area was apparently busy?
Deliveroo often get tips in cash. Food always paid for online.
If they were after a delivery guy's tips they can descend one bowge in hell.
@iwrats, yep, we think the deliveroo guys and gals are wild in their bad cycling but the kids who mug the deliveroo deliverers are Feral. Society has disintegrated at the margins
Me, this morning, proceeding in a westerly direction along Dalry Road and walking straight in to a signpost while staring in to the window of Cash Generators (thus doubling the embarrassment). Classic Norman Wisdom stuff. There's a CCTV camera outside the ScotMid but it was pointing the wrong way at the time so the operator missed grabbing some prime footage...
early morning on the shared use path from dalgety bay,
5 dogs
3 on leads
2 not
1 owner
ZERO RESPONSE TO HER COMMANDS
dead stop for me for a good few mins while she tried to get them out of the way, but without success - instead i ended up having to slowly ride through them, one chased for a second
dont mind dogs - dont mind lots of dogs, but if your a DOG OWNER who cannot command the dogs, then your a bloody numpty.
TBH, I'd rather they didn't command their dogs over just as you cycle past.
Let them continue to forage in the bushes for turds, or whatever it is that they do, out of harms way
Triple whammy this morning: the pedestrian aspect was the person coming from Tarvit Street looking to cross Brougham Place who appeared to look to the right and see me heading towards them indicating that I was about to turn left into Tarvit Street, but who then continued walking, very nearly walking into the side of my bike as I tried to turn left. No contact was made by virtue of my increasing the radius of my cornering and their stopping walking just in time...
I hate people. Only takes one idiot to ruin one's calm.
Me: riding past ped with dog slowly on the other side of the path at the Murrayfield training pitches (not narrow)
Ped: (barely in earshot with the wind) have you no got a bell
Me: (slowing further) no
Ped: well you should
Me: why?
Ped: <rule 2>
I don't understand the mentality of seeking out confrontation in that manner. Would they have to been happier if I'd shot up behind them and rung my bell and sneaked past their elbow and dug? Would they have been happier if I was a nut bag, got off and lamped them?
I hate people.
Ped: (barely in earshot with the wind) have you no got a bell?
i like wingpig's rejoinder, but haven't got the accent to pull it off.
a few weeks ago, three ppl from a family were walking across the entire shared path. i slowed and made some bike noise,s they saw me and moved. as i passed, the father commented just loud enough or me to hear, 'a bell would be handy in this situation.'
i shouted back that it was broken. but what i really wanted to say was, "also helpful would be remembering that this is a shared path and not blocking it completely." also, would they prefer a shocking loud noise, or the gentle whirr of freewheeling?
quick wit.
worse, i've since bought a lovely bell, but it will not fit anywhere on my handle bars without seriously tinkering. damned gear display is in the way.
I was thanked for the heads up on the WoL path last night by the man with the two small Rottweilers. He had looked right at me but from a distance so I rang my bell anyway.
I find the majority of people are pro-bell. I strive to ring it in a way that suggests Hello, please excuse me.
Occasionally people think Who the hell does he think he is ringing his bell.
Even more occasionally someone will say, have you not got a bell. I have been ringing but maybe the wind has Carried the sound away or they have been very deep in conversation. I know all the deafer dog walkers of the WoL. Path. I follow up a couple of tings with talking to the peds/dog Walkers letting them know I will be passing left or right. I always thank those who move over, even if just a fraction.
People in Edinburgh always seem to be one notch below boiling point and I strive to click the thermostat down another notch but it always seems to default to close to boiling.
People in Edinburgh always seem to be one notch below boiling point and I strive to click the thermostat down another notch
Yes. What is wrong with us, brother gembo?
Haha Wingpig :D
I fear had I stopped to engage I'd have proven Gembo quite correct.
Rubbish cycling rather than walking but as it's topical I'll tell the tail. I had a cyclist come up behind me on the pavement of Maybury Road and ring their bell 5 times before they came past.
I have no objections to cyclists using the pavement there (I do it myself when kiddy carrying) but if you are in such a rush to warrant pinging your bell so many times then why are you not riding on the road, which as is often the case was full of stationary cars.
To make me an even grumpier pedestrian a motorcyclist going down the wrong side of the road then honked at another pedestrian who had the audacity to try and cross the road.
The same way that heavy rain seems to make drivers taking risks more noticeable, yesterday's high winds seemed to bring about an increase in the volumes of pedestrians stepping out into the road without looking, sometimes wearing drawstring-strung hoods pulled tight over their ears and blocking their peripheral vision.
Two youths brazenly spraying graffiti onto the canal bridge under Gogar Station Road this evening. I cycled out of reach and then called it in on 999 (second time in my life I have called that number) given that a crime was in progress. The police didn't promise they would attend.
This morning on Kilgraston Road, two runners proceeding side by side northbound on the west footway. All well and good, until they encountered a person of somewhat enhanced girth and obvious mobility challenges coming the other way*. The man just sort of tucked in a bit against his partner as they passed, forcing the other plucky active traveller against the wall.
What is it with people not being able to hesitate for one step and drop in behind their companion, when someone is coming the other way on a path of restricted width?
* No, not me: I was merely an observer disappointed at witnessing another example of a casual lack of courtesy.
Two pedestrians heading east along the WoL towards Newhaven Road (yester-eve, so I was going the same way). Two abreast and speaking to each other, but the one on the right was just leaving some space for the oncoming pedestrian, so I waited well back from them (at least 10m) at their speed until the oncoming one was past me. I then started to slowly speed up (shopping rattling and tyres crunching all the while) with the intention of going past them to their right where the other pedestrian had just been let through, with the immediate response of the rightmost pedestrian to clearly and deliberately move right over to their right in a blatant block. It was clear what they were doing as they then turned round and asked "do you have a bell?" in a challenging uppity tone whilst I was still well clear of them and barely going any faster then them. Fortunately, in turning round to harangue me they had left a gap in their middle, through which I slowly and carefully wended as I explained about how I did have a bell, thank you, but as some people get really irked by what they perceive as peremptory tinging I usually just go slowly (as demonstrated) and say "excuse me" if I am not spotted or heard and that I never barge through or swerve round (though understand they may have encountered those who do) and I was still going slowly and making clear crunchy tyre noises and that any problems with me here today were their own creation if they were going to hear and notice an approaching cyclist but then deliberately get in the way rather than keep to their current course and leave the current person-admitting gap to their right clear, though by that time I was possibly out of their immediate earshot.
Yesterday morning - a squirrel, on foot, demonstrating that it wasn't a member of the Tufty Club as it dashed in front of me on the Meadows without looking. It escaped unharmed - just.
A guide dog with a man in tow stepped out right in front of me on Minto Street downhill. Jings and actual crivens.
@unhurt, recipe for a squirrel dish in the i on Tuesday, so in case of future fatal bike/squirrel collisions, you have options.
rabbit dishes can also work for squirrel.
The elderly woman walking down the cycle lane outside Haymarket Station with her back to me yesterday evening, ignoring my three increasingly loud calls of "Excuse me" before I gave up and squeezed past.
Nasty
Was toying with rubbish peds or driving when deciding where to post..the fact there's no obvious indication from the article that the driver wasn't taking care (red man etc) so decided on here. May interest some anyway :)
Yes I am going with poor driver worried about leith ped who ends up battered by radge gadgie
I seem to spend more time walking than riding these days, and I don't know if I'm just now at an age where everything annoys me, but I simply don't understand how humans mange to interact with each other on a daily basis.
Why is it when walking down an obviously busy street people are so disruptive, and can't just pick a side of the pavement to walk on, rather than weaving around getting in everyone's way.
Why also at crossings, can people not have the foresight to manage themselves to the side of the crossing which is the same side they will be travelling on at the other side, instead of trying to trip me, and everyone else up as they cross diagonally directly in front of us getting to the side of the path they need to be on. Do we really need painted lanes at crossings?
It's no surprise that when these people are promoted to 2 or 4 wheels they wreak havoc, when they can't walk in straight line down a pavement...
@Baldcyclist
quite - and also how can a single person with two shopping bags weaving down the centre of a 3m cycle path while looking at their phone with headphones on manage to block the entire lane for everyone else...
I sound like a ranting car driver...
If I'm walking down e.g. Princes Street, and there's a line of 5 people all walking towards me in a line, I will gladly walk in a straight straight between two of them, shoulder barging my way past.
The trick is to choose two people who aren't going to fall over (E.g. elderly people or children), and to angle your shoulder to push them to the side rather than backwards.
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