Bad luck - I think I've done that myself there.... Hope the injuries aren't too bad and you recover quickly.
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Yesterday on South Bridge heading north towards the High Street, rather than wait in the queue or try to negotiate the tangle of parked cars and busses in the bus lane, I was taking advantage of the empty south bound lane to make rapid progress. Another cyclist further along, who had been foiled by the tangle, decided to try the same thing, but although he looked north, he did not look south, and pulled out right in front of me. I skipped round him, no words passed or gesture made (fellow cyclist, and all). In any case, I had done just the same thing a week or two ago (on which occasion the cyclist I had popped out in front of had not been as restrained with his words).
Not a biggie, but a lesson to all. Always look back for a fellow cyclist before overtaking a queue on the right.
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Am I the only one that when he see's a new post on this thread thinks 'I wonder if it's about me'?
It's almost like that thing where the Police are in your presence and you immediately start thinking about what you may have done.
(not that I have a guilty conscious or anything. ahem.)
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I somehow never see anybody that I know from this forum In Real Life, and I'm worried that the first mention of me will be in Today's Rubbish Cycling and not Spotted.
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@dougal exactly!
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ditto!
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Could be worse - Today's rubbish driving...
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@dougal I'm glad that's not just me!
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I was on Forrest Road yesterday walking with small people, and a man on a bicycle cycled past us very close - I objected to this. At the same time another man objected and began a tirade of abuse about cyclists and how they are all the same. Our initial camaraderie bought me about 30 seconds to disabuse him of many of his hateful prejudices before he decided to go back and hide in the EEN comments section.
His parting comment was to ask if I cycled with my kids on the bike, and if so (insinuated) I should be ashamed of being so irresponsible.
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The pair of twits who rode in tandem through the red lights this morning on Argyle Street heading towards Anderston. Shot past me (waiting at a red) then jumped the next red light, parting to go either side of a taxi.
Posted 8 years ago # -
In fairness would it not only be the captain who was a twit?
The rear admiral is a hostage to the captain's whim.
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@wee folding bike: In tandem, not a tandem
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That's a relief: Given they parted to go either side of a taxi :-)
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Ahhhh… that makes a difference.
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Coming East along the tow path this evening when an Antipodean MGIF tried to squeeze past on my right when I was slowing to pass a ped on my left and to allow for the other cyclist in front. Much squeaking of brakes. We exchanged polite-ish remarks. Shortly after I signalled to turn right up to Harrison Park and lo and behold here he is trying the same manoeuvre again. Less polite exchange ensued. Harrumph.
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Two selfish twernips going east on the Ferry Road path, two abreast and with more space between them than they gave others coming towards them.
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Particular thanks to the man on a small silver and blue Specialized bike heading West along the Broomhouse-Stenhouse-Gyle cycle path this morning. The cat and mouse he instigated because of his inconsistent speed and impatient moves with pedestrians on the shared path I could deal with - the first part and parcel of commuting, the second requiring me to move to mitigate the conflicts.
The snotball he hit me with and the other he narrowly missed me with not so much.
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@MeepMeep
SERIOUSLY?
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You ALWAYS fire it down past the inside of your elbow.
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Grim
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In years of running, playing tennis and now cycling I've never felt the need to howk out snot. Am I doing things wrong?
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Is it another one of these things like spitting that people see sport-people doing and copy because THEY ARE SPORT-PEOPLE TOO and because they're running so hard they can't possibly interrupt their important sport-person breathing to deal with their mucus internally? Perhaps they just don't have enough pockets. As a lifelong carrier of handkerchiefs I always have the facility to deal with snot politely.
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@wingpig - I think I saw your two cyclists yesterday heading towards me on the NPN. One in red and one in blue with a white gilet?
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I blow snot-rockets. If you are going hard, then it isn't always possible to faff around with a handkerchief. (And yes, some of us do train and do race and do want to get faster. I'm not saying that everyone must be like me, don't tell me what I should or should not do.) But hitting someone else with one is just grim (though I did read a story somewhere of a cyclist who did it to a driver who cut him out on a roundabout...)
The alternative is to wipe your nose on the bits of your cycling gloves that are made nice and soft for the purpose of wiping your nose on.
(I did once have a complete brain failure and blew a snot rocket on Livingston North station platform, while in full woman-in-a-suit mode. That should probably go in the "Confessions of a Cycle Commuter" thread.)
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I snot-rocket too (not 'howking' up snot, I seem physically incapable of doing that, and I'd call that 'gobbing' in any event, but rather just covering one nostril and exhaling violently through the other - downwards, inside elbow, as has been stated).
A few reasons (given there appears to have been an immediate people-who-do-this-are-clearly-sport-wannabes-and-disgusting response...). I'd love to be able to delicately use a handkerchief, ah for the pleasure of producing so little snot that I could carry a pocket square of fabric that would not, after one blow, be rendered gloriously and soakingly icky. Maybe it's nose size, maybe it's an overactive mucus gland. I also personally find it a bit 'eeeuw' to empty the contents of my nose into something that I then carry on my person. I always look around before ejecting, and make sure there's no one about (not even to see me). I always aim for into the undergrowth. I never do it in built-up urban.
Of course howking down my troos and peeing off to the side while riding is something I do entirely because I want to emulate the Tour stars.
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@Fimm - that made me laugh like a loon
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"...given there appears to have been an immediate people-who-do-this-are-clearly-sport-wannabes-and-disgusting response..."
I often see people snot-rocketing who are moving at the same speed or slightly slower than me, often lugging fewer overstuffed panniers, so they can't be training particularly hard. It still takes one hand to plug the non-exit nostril, so it's not as if it's a massive effort-saver or allows complete control-retention.
If you have a cold or other source of over-abundant mucus, carry more handkerchiefs. The large pockets at the rear of Humvees are ideal for this.
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As a lifelong carrier of handkerchiefs I always have the facility to deal with snot politely
For some values of polite... Other cultures view carrying around one's bodily waste as inherently disgusting and the polite option is to sniff when in public.
I wasn't aware of this until recently, and it suddenly became obvious during some cultural awareness training!
Robert
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"...the polite option is to sniff when in public..."
Depends how loud or prolonged the sniffing is. A few department-moves ago we were in range of someone who would make those snggheerrrrrking gurgling snuffling-back noises for hours at a time.
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"I often see people snot-rocketing who are moving at the same speed or slightly slower than me, often lugging fewer overstuffed panniers, so they can't be training particularly hard"
Depends on how fit they are - put it this way, you're quite a bit above average.
"If you have a cold or other source of over-abundant mucus, carry more handkerchiefs. The large pockets at the rear of Humvees are ideal for this"
Pants full of snot *boak*
"the polite option is to sniff when in public."
I get told off soooooooooooo much for sniffing at home. But indeed, in other cultures all sorts of things we wouldn't see as an issue at all could inadvertently cause offence (slightly connected, I once headed off a diplomatic incident over a general usage v. strict definition of the word 'bumf')
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