The one ways on Valleyfield Street and Tarvit Street appear to be too much for a few studenty type girls on rattly old basket bikes to get the hang of in recent days. Resorted to giving one a bit of a yell at today who came wrong way down Valleyfield and then through the red light and riding with no care or attention though two sets of pedestrian crossings with people using them narrowly avoiding running into some of them. Including me, who was off the bike pushing it through the pedestrian phase of the silly light sequence.
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 12 years ago #
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This morning approaching slowly, along Q'Ferry road shared pavement keeping to my left, about to turn up Clermiston Drive, Cyclist appears on my left!
We should all try and keep to our left, then all good.
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The arsehole barging through the gate at the top of the Innocent tunnel, forcing the woman going uphill through it to stop. Happily the gentleman after him did the right thing in the way that 95% of other cyclists seem to manage and stopped for me going through after her.
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Oh, I hate those bargy downhill arseholes.
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Actually nearly everyday's bad cycling on MMW...
Why is it almost every day I encounter cyclists coming down Middle Meadow Walk who seem to think that the faster and louder they ring their bell, or the faster they are going, that this somehow gives them right of way at the junction at North Meadow Walk? If I am already on the junction then I have right of way!
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Yesterday's bad cycling; the idiot who came out Chambers Street and turned right into George IV Bridge while not looking at me in the outside lane; a big shout of whoa and a very near miss, commented on by a couple of pedestrians. Would have been painful as I was going quite fast in approach to lights.
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mgj - that's signed as "no right turn" from Chambers St, isn't it? So not looking AND a road traffic offence, presumably?
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It is no right turn except buses, taxis, cycles.
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Hmm wonder if we can fabricate some sort of dog catcher thing like a cow catcher on a train. Pushes dogs humanly out of the way and also doubles as a surface for dozy cyclists to be repelled by when they make wrong turns without looking? Dave ???
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"It is no right turn except buses, taxis, cycles."
Has the restriction for cars not recently been removed?
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YEsterday chap cycling along Nicolson south away from tesco, I started my overtake and was fairly clear when he just upped and swerved out to the right as part of his "looking over the shoulder" movement, which meant that he was rather shocked to see me and "tsk'd" rather loudly. I was in position for ages and was very clear of him. It was no punishment pass. He needs to learn to not turn his handlebars when he's having a decco over his shoulder!
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[+] Embed the video | Video Download Get the Flash Video "You stupid donkey" is now the appropriate term of "advice" for the next rubbish cycling you all spot.
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The filmer says you stupid donkey so calmly. However, the donkey is unfazed, just keeps turning right into oncoming traffic
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With the rear camera footage I fully expected to see a cyclist (or is that a person on a bike) embedded in the radiator of the Range Rover.
Kudos to the driver that they didn't resort to their horn - I certainly would have!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Is that in Edinburgh? ('Gaz' is in London.)
Motorists do that sort of thing too, of course, push into a gap that is only there because the oncoming traffic will have to brake. I'm not saying it is right, but if some of us drive like we are cycling, I guess others cycle like they drive...
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.....was apparently me, according to the lovely chap walking to Edin Park station as I made my way home along the broomhouse path.
After walking in my way, as I passed, he said "loadsay room on the road and you shouldnae be on the pavement, pr*ck"
Naturally I bit, explaining that it was a shared use path, and that while I may be a pr*ck, at least I wasnt a fat pr*ck - which had his mate in fits of giggles.
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Nelly very good heckle
Posted 12 years ago # -
@fimm, Mikey commutes 20+ miles each way in London. I've met him a couple of times, really nice guy.
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@Arellcat, that makes sense. (I'm on the CycleChat forums too, same pseudonym, and know of the headcammers from there.)
Posted 12 years ago # -
Was me....fog, poor eyes, and misted glasses made for all sorts of fun on the way home tonight.
First was the almost RLJ at Roseburn, well actually it technically was a RLJ, light turns, didn't see it till late, brakes on, stopped way past the junction :( but not far enough out to impede traffic.
Next up Chorstophine roundabout, straight out in front of the motorbike, didn't see him despite looking straight at him, good job he was looking at the twat on the bike, and slowed enough for me to cross safely.
Should have got the train, or taken the c*r.
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The guy who was cycling up the pavement on Comiston Road, while talking on his phone, who then without warning (and presumably to make it easier to cross Riselaw) steered onto the road. Right in front of me, even as I watched him do it. He also had a dark brown bag, black trousers, black coat and no lights, and didn't even glance over his shoulder.
I pinged my bell but it was full of fog and went 'tink' instead.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I am not wishing to suggest it is all students out pootling without lights in heavy fog but term has well and truly kicked off
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Definitely, gembo. I saw two other cyclists this fine evening riding without lights. I had three headlights and two tail.
Actually, I think we need a "Today's rubbish walking" thread, too.
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Wanna-gangsta pavement cruiser that I've seen most mornings this week, cycling a ridiculous looking downhill buckaroo-type mountain bike along the pavement from direction of Tollcross along Brougham Street towards Melville Drive.
Big Dr Dre sorta headphones, chunky trainers, baggy shorts, basketball top and designer hoody. Was so engrossed in his iphone/pod that he was holding in his left hand he didn't see Tarvit Street coming up and just bounced straight into the road and came very close to T-boning me as I turned into the street. (I had made the mistake of assuming he would have bothered to stop and check before he made the crossing.) He managed to put the brakes on with one hand and do a comedy wobble around me. I don't think he could hear what I called him by virtue of the size of his headphones.
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Stupid donkey presumably?
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'Stupid bison' might be more appropriate to a Dr Dre-styled fashionista. Mind you, the grizzly bear is still depicted on the Flag of California.
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RLJ cyclist who, while 6 of us waited at Nicolson St at a red light, just cycled passed and did a left/right look before cycling straight on... Ejit!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Whilst I have no objection to planet leveling laser lights in principle I do wish people would learn to angle them correctly. Horizontal is not the correct angle!
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Was me yesterday somehow failing to realise that if I'm at a roundabout signalling to turn right that gives me priority over the people at the entrance to my left...
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Well apparently last nights...
Work colleague today moaning about how he was stopped last hight by the 'bike cops', and given a fixed penalty notice (£30) for cycling the wrong way down a one way street, and how they were hassling him cos he never had a rear light (in fairness he does usually have a rear light, his has been stolen), bloody Gestapo etc etc.
He didn't seem to be impressed by my "Aye, they'll do you for that" non sympathetic approach to his plight, hey ho.
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