@Lezzles
Definitely a police matter if they can be trusted to handle it discreetly. You don't want them lifted only for you to bump into them again.
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Ahem - my husband is a police officer.... :-)
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Hahaha! Excellent.
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@Lezzles
In that case get them rousted out of bed at 03h00 and held over the weekend on suspicion of onanism.
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@Lezzles - that is rubbish enough without kids, but with them in a trailer it's horrible. You have my sympathies. I have moaned to IWRATS many times that I have to show restraint the most when I am at my most viscerally protective. I hope your connections are strong enough to make the above suggestion a reality.
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Yesterday morning, the cyclist on a black bike with extravagant legs in Wiggle tights who creaked along the Restalrig path and up the slope, then shot away along Hawkhill Avenue without pressing the crossing button at the top.
This morning, someone trying to overtake me when I was waiting behind a slower cyclist heading south up the Leith Street tolerance zone. We were almost at the top, so it was fairly pointless. Slightly later, someone in a courier costume doing some silly racing-swerves around buses, then failing to stop at a red at which I, travelling ahead of them and moving more quickly, was quite able to stop at.
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Unimpressed by chap on specialised mountain bikewho turned right at king's junction while light was red (I was walkinbg my bike across) and then turned left through a group of primary school kids who were crossing Valleyfield on foot.
Posted 6 years ago # -
wrong section duh!
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The other day a man on a bike mounted the pavement at a reasonable lick and came within a few centimetres of my daughters - one of whom is currently nursing a broken arm. He went into the chippy on Marchmont Road and I told him that was not ok - he said he knew what he was doing and laughed. Charitably I'd say it was a bad judgement on his part - I do appreciate the need to find somewhere to dismount safely. Had he apologised I would not be writing this here.
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Not really rubbish but fairly inconsiderate. I was following a chap on a folding bike along the canal from Leamington Bridge until Harrison Park. I was going quite a bit faster than he was but it was too busy to overtake safely. The problem was that he was weaving into quite small gaps between pedestrians without using the bell. I did ring but very often the pedestrians would assume that the bell they'd heard was his and close ranks again without checking for me. Just past the Harrison Road bridge he almost got into a tangle with a dog owner who grumpily asked him if he didn't have a bell. I had just emerged from under the bridge to witness the scene when the understandably angry dog walker, who hadn't noticed me in the kerfuffle, gave me some choice opinion about my lack of consideration for not using my bell. He wasn't exactly wrong but I felt somewhat slighted.
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@piosad, always ring twice, once for guy in front. Once for you
Your strapline will then be
the piosad always rings twice
Posted 6 years ago # -
Guy cycling the wrong way up the cycle lane in the dark without lights at Appleton Tower. Probly a new student from elsewhere but got instructed to cease and desist in no uncertain terms. Said he was just turning up past the Pear Tree so it was cool I told him it wasn't cool.
Deadly stuff.
Posted 6 years ago # -
iDecided to go a way i never normally take to avoid the private hire fFriday night crazies... forgot just how bad the 'cycle lane' is at haymarket yards https://youtu.be/xQ2h1rA_EVA
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Hope you and your bike are all right?
Posted 6 years ago # -
@ragingbike
Impressive restraint on the language front. That bit really is a trap.
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It's an astoundingly bad bit of 'infrastructure', that. Hope you're ok.
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It's almost like someone thought "I know, lets have a tram line run parallel to the cycle lane, what's the worst that can happen?".
Not sure if this level of planning should do down as malice or stupidity but given it's CEC the latter seems most likely
Posted 6 years ago # -
Run parallel to the absurdly narrow cycle lane at that.
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Ive come off a lot harder on the tracks a few years back. That time the footage was used by the media with and without the ubiquitous loud expletive. This one hurt a lot more than it should....
Posted 6 years ago # -
Me, slipping on leaf slick on Myreside Road on way to Napier campus. Ow, mucky, ow. And then I got lost in Craiglockghart nature trail. Now very late and sweaty.
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WHOOSHTURNIP sweeping out of the Innocent tunnel-end bit of parkside onto the road without looking left. He proved he was capable of looking left later when he WHOOSHED onto St Leonard's Street from the segregatoway. He had a mirror on his right bar end, so perhaps forgets sometimes that he has shoulders to look over.
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Lady who turned right, abruptly and without signalling, forcing me to brake hard at the Viewforth/Gilmore Place crossroads.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Yesterday , actually, Aberdeen , king street, student type who reckoned it was ok to leave the cycle lane to overtake another slower student type without looking to see me, 45 foot long, 16 feet high ! Travelling slowly anyway, did kind of predict it but not even a look as my air brakes were applied! I was going to blast air horns but I think he was wearing modern music playing earmuffs !!
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My camera hasn't been recording over the past few trips, so no footage of the youth-oaf leaping off the footway outside the Omni, going up the wrong side of the coned road towards the Leith Street channel, then spitting three times in the course of his journey up through it whilst riding alongside his colleague. At the top, someone else came past me whilst I was hanging back waiting for pedestrians.
Posted 6 years ago # -
"student type" meaning ... ?
Not sure what a blast of the air horns would achieve there, other than to intimidate a more vulnerable road user in a situation you'd already managed.
Posted 6 years ago # -
blast of airhirns
a bit of a warning so that next time he carries out that manoeuvre he pays more attention. Might save his life. Next time driver may not be as aware or alert.Posted 6 years ago # -
Blasting your (any) horns at a cyclist in situation already under control isn't a "warning" its a punishment
A wholly unnecessary, very misguided punishment.
Undertaken by a white spesh road bike riding dafty at Roseburn this morning. If you really think undertaking is a good 9or the best) option, then just a wee shout ahead so its not a surprise, would be really helpful and appreciated.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Truth on both sides here. Any horn sounded other than a warning is not a good idea, and probably not in conformity with HC. But @splitshift didn't blast horn. And person on bike should have shoulder checked before moving out, and should not (imo) be wearing phones.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@aimc check rule 112 highway code. The horn is to be used as a warning for the current situation (which in this case was already under control). And that's it. Not as a warning against future misdemeanours.
@ih; @splitshift resisted the temptation to blast his horn, and that's good. If the cyclist didn't check, he was in the wrong, and I doubt anyone disagrees with that.
Posted 6 years ago # -
I do it once every three or four years and today was the day. Stopped at a green light for no reason. Only alerted by cars whizzing past my right elbow.
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