CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Stems from Elaine Paige Twitter comment about Road tax from. August 2019
Supposed error but
Autocation is normal people having an altercation they would not have normally because they are in a car.
I met farmer walking on road. Nice, normally drives a big red van straight at me on narrow road.
Nobody in my entire adult life has ever spontaneously suggested or threatened fisticuffs except from the driver's seat of a motorised vehicle.
Some of those people were so unsuited to combat that even I could have certainly defeated them.
I think I know the farmer you mean.
@iwrats
I was going to warn you as we cycled HIS road last week but was later in the day - he moves between the secret bramble spot and cockburnhill farm
A friendly farmer once drove directly at me as we passed one another on a single track country lane. I was coming downhill at speed and he came round a bend at speed which made it difficult for me to react quickly and keep control of the bike as I had to brake and swerve sharply. He also leaned over towards the window within the car as if to say get out of my lane you cyclist scum. Aggressive sneer all over his face.
@cocoshepherd some of them are on the moonshine, some more chilled.
My pal and I once got run off the road on Mull by a farmer who turned out to be Mad Eddie. Red pickup. My friend was Doctor Xerxes Captain. Mad Eddie meets Xerxes Captain is like Jamaican dance hall mashup.
I had a row from a farmer on Mull for walking on her field. Sheep grazing in distance.
We shot the breeze.
She changed the row to advice about snakes.
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For some road ragers, it’s a need for control, to counter other drivers whom they feel violate their proxemic space, or it's a need for possession of their lane or their part of the road. For others, it’s unchecked anger and aggression. It’s hormone-based, primitive, small-brain thinking, bringing a lack of emotional intelligence and the need to dominate someone else and their unsharable space. Add in unchecked egos, the need for superiority, narcissistic pride, and male genital one-upmanship (my vehicle is bigger than yours).
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-act-violence/201301/the-psychology-road-rage
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A catalyst of road rage is anonymity. Numerous studies show people exhibit more aggressive behavior when their identity is hidden. “You’re in a car, and it’s kind of a weapon, and you’re in a protected environment, and you think no one’s going to be able to get to you”
The only snake advice required in Scotland is how to find them. There are some quite fruity types on Mull it is a good place.
and you think no one’s going to be able to get to you
Until you realise you’re stopped in a queue at the lights, and that cyclist human on a bike you just screamed at is rapidly approaching...
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