Another pointless anti cycling rant...

[BBJSportGuy]

http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/Pesky-Cyclists-20120516

 

"God, how they make my blood boil! How many times have I been tempted to nudge one of them off his silly little spinning machine and into a bush? Goodness knows how many cyclists have had their lives spared thanks to my magnanimous restraint. Quite frankly, I don’t know how far my benevolence can be stretched. . ."

 

Go have a read...

[Eldron]

It is time to tax cycling. And I don’t mean some small disk that gets strapped to the handlebars, I am talking full on vehicle number plates, front and back. That way we can police these road criminals in a way that adds to the national fiscus.

Surely, if you want to use our tax-funded roads, then you should pay for them like everybody else?

The rot, of course, started with Lance Armstrong. Suddenly everyone thought they could become a testosterone-fueled cannon ball in a yellow jersey. Pre-Armstrong, cyclists were a simple but friendly folk, few and far between. They were amiable Sunday riders who knew their place, and it wasn’t three abreast down Lakeside Main Road.

Post-Armstrong their psyche changed overnight. God, how they make my blood boil! How many times have I been tempted to nudge one of them off his silly little spinning machine and into a bush? Goodness knows how many cyclists have had their lives spared thanks to my magnanimous restraint. Quite frankly, I don’t know how far my benevolence can be stretched. . .

Of course those peninsula cycling races only make things worse by encouraging the scourge. Try driving down the M3 freeway two weeks before a race and spot the crazies riding alongside motor vehicles traveling at 120 km. Are you now Evel Knievel?

I am not saying bicycles don’t have their place, its just that the best place for them is the playground. I can safely assume that most cyclists suffer from a stunted childhood because I’ve spotted them riding 120km long races on one of those funny clown bikes. Or pedaling strange machines with their arms. Or wearing a Barney suit and ringing a bell. I suppose its cute to play in the traffic?

And I don’t buy that mountain bike ruse. Soil erosion in Tokai Forest is now reaching epidemic proportions thanks to the cycle tracks carved into our national parks. And if you are wondering why troops of baboons are desperately roaming the suburbs its because they have been scared out of their natural habitat by those two wheeled fiends.

But its air pollution I am truly worried about. It takes just two cyclists riding abreast to hold up a whole snake of cars, forcing them to burn more fuel while driving in a lower gear.

It is this type of thoughtless, selfish behaviour that leads me to think that cyclists need have their wings clipped.

 

 

Thank you BergieSean for that pointless rant...still not sure if it was a real rant that turned into a fun posting halfway through or the weed kicked in after 3 sentences...

 

My take is that motorists complain about cyclist because they're the only road users they can pick on - taxis are too scary, other motorists are too scary, trucks are too scary so they pick on the only road user they are bigger than. Chickens.

[BlinkFan]

Misinformed idiot...

 

When I read an article where the "author" (I used air-quotes because the spelling/grammar/logic is useless in the article) has to exaggerate every detail just to get his point across I can't take them seriously.

[capeofstorms]

He may have a point

[SwissVan]

Hey the guy(?) is quite funny, had to laugh at the baboons been scared away...

 

I recall being quite scared (all tho i tried to appear brave at the time) by a herd of baboons at Tokai who were meandering their way across the CE Prolog route, of course it was on an uphill (= slow speed) single track section...

[Wyatt Earp]

He may have a point

He may, but it appears that most beeyaatch slapping and rants comes from the gay town of Magenta.

[Sandro]

Someone needs to get laid.

[EZRider]

He may, but it appears that most beeyaatch slapping and rants comes from the gay town of Magenta.

 

And support for those rants ...

[RiderX]

Hope this guy realises he sounds like an old stuckup lady who has nothing else to do but complain! At least the article could have been funny, which it is not and in the end just a poor attempt at trolling.

[Tumbleweed]

Topics merged.

[EZRider]

Someone needs to get laid.

 

No one with the word bergie in their nick ever gets laid without paying.

[splat]

I can't take anything he says in there seriously. Its actually mildy amusing.

[Wyatt Earp]

No one with the word bergie in their nick ever gets laid without paying.

And in the gay town of LeCap they don't get laid either, they chase tail.

So I reckon bergie needs to get that Pink and White Citi Golf of his with makulu exhaust pipes down to the next cycle race, he might just find enough eye candy being the type of jerk off he comes across as.

[Wyatt Earp]

I can't take anything he says in there seriously. Its actually mildy amusing.

 

I quite chuckled at the Barney suit scenario

[Akon]

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http://www.news24.co...clists-20120516

[capeofstorms]

There ia another thread about this!!!