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"Cycling slang you need to know" (allegedly)
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Riiiiight....
Some of those responses, particularly trying to justify "salmoning" i.e. ignoring the law and riding the wrong way up a one way street...!
"I got a ticket for salmoning. Saved a couple minutes and avoided a dangerous intersection. When I queried the officer he suggested a route that added 10 minutes to the commute and 8 speed bumps. So now I go the more dangerous way as it’s the marked cycle route. So far, only been hit by one motorbike. "
It clearly didn't save you a couple of minutes if you got stopped! Lucky you were stopped by a police officer and not a 10 tonne truck. Idiot.Posted 11 years ago # -
Riiiiight....
Some of those responses, particularly trying to justify "salmoning" i.e. ignoring the law and riding the wrong way up a one way street...!
"I apparently “salmon” for about 1 minute and it does save me 10 minutes .. traffic lights, very heavy traffic and pedestrians all avoided. Also, the one way street in question hardly ever has a car coming in the correct direction."
Just wait till "hardly ever" becomes "actually did"."I got a ticket for salmoning. Saved a couple minutes and avoided a dangerous intersection. When I queried the officer he suggested a route that added 10 minutes to the commute and 8 speed bumps. So now I go the more dangerous way as it’s the marked cycle route. So far, only been hit by one motorbike. "
It clearly didn't save you a couple of minutes if you got stopped! Lucky you were stopped by a police officer and not a 10 tonne truck. Idiot."Um if I’m not mistaken in England maybe only london if on a push bike you are alowed to contravene one way systems could sine look in to the legality s of this?"
O...k...
(Yes, there's a response that contra-flow cycling is permitted in some streets but that wouldn't be the definition of "salmoning" then, would it?)"Poser’s – someone ... grabbing poles and such so they dont have to click out of their pedals, for no apparent reason."
Love the redundant apostrophe there! Just why is there no reason to stay clipped in? The mind boggles.A few worthy candidates for the Darwin Awards on that site. I picture a lot of fixie-riding, baggy short-wearing, dreadlocked riders with courier bags posting on that site. Nice spelling too ;-)
(If you're a fixie-riding, baggy short-wearing, dreadlocked rider with a courier bag and don't share their views, my apologies!)
Posted 11 years ago # -
Accepted, although I don't have dreadlocks.
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