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Posted 7 years ago #
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@jdanuielp
Yes go on, say Dear former friend you sound like you have taken up reading the Daily Mail (this goes down well always). Esteemed former pal the test is a red herring. 63% of drivers admitted to jumping red lights in the past week and 100% of drivers confirmed they had recently seen other drivers jumping red lights. We are all good and bad at thwe same time (apart from The Virgin Mary - all gopod - see Billy Connolly joke a hout the Stoning).
Dear ex-chum, if a driver makes a mistake and drives through a red they have a huge potential to cause carnage. Cyclists, however annoying we all are at times rarely cause many fatalities or casualties.
Dear old former buddy I have contacted the eminent Freudian analyst Doctor Professor Gembo who says your ranting about cyclists is a displacement activity for other bad things in your life or maybe just frustration at having to drive now instead of enjoying the WOL path commute now dry for a few hours like what Mister Doctor Gembo did this morning.
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@jdanielp - I would continue but be very polite. I also engage occasionally in the politest possible way and have to endure being called a 2-wheeled warrior/lycra-clad etc.. etc... but it's best to just remain factful and linguistically calm I reckon. I agree with our eminent Freudian analyst Professor friend.
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Thanks Dr Professor Algo
any opportunity to dredge up the Mel Brooks film High Anxiety and the Professor therein
everyone calls him Professor Little Old MAn and he gets quite upset (not as upset as JDP's rabid anticyclist frother friend). He says angrily IT IS PROFESSOR LIL ULLMAN
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@gembo
The story of Loki, Höðr, Baldr and the mistletoe dart still saddens me and I read it when I was eleven. Perhaps in some way anti-cyclist rhetoric is also a mistletoe dart thrown by a blind man?
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Luckily somebody else weighed in with the following:
"I'm both and the percentage of both that give the others in that group a bad name is high. Did my cycle proficiency at school and always did my life saver check as a motorcyclist and as both had respect that cars are faster, heavier and take up more room. As a car driver I don't scream up behind bikes, I pass on the other side of the road and don't cut in. Too many cyclists think they're bombproof or don't give a rats and more worryingly too many drivers are impatient and angry. Neither helps themselves or each other."
I liked that comment and replied with:
"agreed - 'us vs them' mindsets unfortunately don't help"
which was liked in return. My friend conceded that:
"Cycling proficiency is carried out in high school and if everyone who completed this continued to observe what they learned then I wouldn't have cause to be annoyed or complain."
I think I will leave it there for the time being...
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How many tests did yesterday's lorry driver on the Forth Road Bridge pass?
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@HankChief
At least three and probably four. Excellent point.
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some legend in what I can only describe as a two-piece kilt suit on a fat bike on the NEPN.
must surely be a CCEer.
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@Iain McR
Top post. Joyous.
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@Iain McR reminding me that I spotted a cyclist in a kilt heading towards me along the towpath on the way home the other evening. That was the only time that I have seen a cyclist wearing a kilt outside of Pedals on Parliament.
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I spot the kilt wearing fat biker quite regularly on the path between Silverknowes and Craigleith. He's also regularly spotted around Haymarket and George Street.
He is ALWAYS wearing his kilt.
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If a cyclist is a dangerous road user and as a result is hit by a diligent and careful driver it's not the cyclists fault.
So the cyclist is dangerous for being hit by a car
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And the driver is diligent and careful for hitting a cyclist
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What a world we live in.
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The kilt wearing fat biker not only spotted but often heard with on-bike tunes.
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Kilt wearing fat biker is Howie who owns 21st Century Kilts - quite the famous kilts maker.
http://21stcenturykilts.com/section/3/1/kilts
He's a top bloke. Made the kilt get up I wore at my wedding.
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"He is ALWAYS wearing his kilt."
But if the Kilt Wearing Fat Biker wasn't wearing his kilt, how would you know that he's the Kilt Wearing Fat Biker?
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Would he even BE the Kilt Wearing Fat Biker?
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bike does not look fat in that picture?
Posted 7 years ago # -
Clearly he is too poor* to own a car
<EEN mentality>
*I'm sure he can afford any bike he wants and probably has a stable of several
Posted 7 years ago # -
Nice little chat with Mini-acsimpson tonight as our routes coincided. Very inquisitive about where my passengers were and why I was wearing shorts & a T shirt. I did wonder myself...
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Gembo hailed me as I was walking along with micro-srd being quizzed on my strengths as a sprinter or climber. took me a few minutes to recognize 'srd' in what had sounded ike 'sardinia' and to identify the dapper rapha-clad cyclists as gembo.
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I keep meaning to say that I was overtaken by @jdanielp on the towpath last night. I nursed a quiet hope that he might suddenly shout "KINGFISHER!", but he didn't.
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@Greenroofer I was meaning to post my spot of you on your 'new' bicycle on which you were moving at quite some pace despite its chunkiness. A little later, I spotted and high fived gembo in the vicinity of Polwarth.
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Just had a chat with Big John for the first time in maybe a couple of months. Apparently he is selling up in Balerno and will be moving to Eyemouth with his family quite soon.
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@Hankchief, I suppose if you hadn't been held up by my huffing and puffing up the hill you might have been able to go at a reasonable pace to work a sweat up on the big rig even in shorts and t-shirt. I wasn't overheating in my big jacket though so I wouldn't describe conditions as mild.
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Had to drive along St John's Rd/Glasgow Rd this morning. It wasn't until I got to Maybury that I realised the real cause of all the congestion: HankChief cycling alongside someone else. If it wasn't for them then all the single occupancy cars would have been flowing freely.
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@Stickman - I think you'll find it was you in your motor car causing the congestion. Bl**dy cyclists driving their cars (sometimes) delaying the rest of us...
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@HankChief - I do hope you know my tongue was firmly in my cheek with that comment!
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As was mine
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