Cycling PIGS

[Hennie VR]

I have switched someone who swore at me during an argument about him dropping his wrapper. Not hard enough to send him flying, just tapped his bars with my saddle to give him a scare and make him stop.

 

Uncleat.................Aim..................Kick bars. And whist he is down he can sommer pick up his sticky wrapper and use it as plaster

 

The above method is so much more satisfying if the person responded to your request to pick up his litter with a F@ck You.

[davem]

In a running race, water points are generally 3km apart. The water point instructions require the water point staff to walk to the next water point and pick up all the rubbish dropped by the runners. Have picked up many thousands of sachets at races including Comrades. Thats how they get the route clean.

 

Unfortunately cycling water points are just too far apart for that.

 

In addition, running races do go a lot through residential areas thus creating greater pressure on organisers. Cycle races are where no one really inspects their own verge there no angry residents blasting race organisers.

 

IMHO only way is to change behaviour by education and severe punishment (Disqualification). And if the organisers don't bother, DQ the race from the calendar.

[Cellar]

All this anger and advocating violence. For what? Why not have a word, and if the bloke is a pratt, pick up the wrapper yourself and carry on. Life's too short, and chances are, when the pratt reflects on it, your actions in picking his crap up will have a much better effect on him than fisty-cuffs would. Unless he's a royal pratt, then you just let karma catch him.

[Cellar]

And if the organisers don't bother, DQ the race from the calendar.

 

You mean like official sanction from CSA? That's a joke, right?

[droo]

we are our own worst enemy.

 

Almost. A (hopefully) small faction of bell-ends among us are our worst enemies.

 

Shoot them on sight I say.

 

However, if you think this is bad, try 20 000 middle class kids at a music festival - Rocking the Daisies comes to mind. The amount of crap left lying about by a supposedly environmentally aware segment of society will blow what remains of your mind after a weekend like that.

 

And I'm not even going to start on the volume of rubbish that blows in through the front door of my shop in Obs...

[milky4130]

Oh boy then you need to go check the CWC SLAMMER XCO track after the Wp race held there in March, also counted over 50sachets.

[jimmycool]

Perhaps race organisers should come up with a method of marking race numbers on gel packets and when they do the clean up after the race just charge R50 per wrapper to the cyclist it belongs to.

It probably would never work but it would be interesting to try it out.

[E1A104]

Not only cyclists that litter. We did the Constantia Valley trail run and the amount of blue packets left on the trail is disgusting. IMO the pig person that litters on the trail will also litter on a bike ride and will also toss rubbish out his car window.

[(Deon)]

I've always had the notion that suppliers of said litter should be responsible to educate.. of course I am talking about the segment who have the ability to care about litter and its side effects.

GU should be advertising social responsibility in order to keep our business. Same for KFC, McShit, Wimpy, all the big offenders. Call it green tax..

 

Actually, add Stans, Slime, etc and the all inner tube manufacturers too..

[Mojoman]

Its not just at races though, over the long weekend we saw a lot of cyclists around town and on our rides we picked up a good number of USN energy bar wrappers, ener-jelly-babies packets (or whatever those things are!) and other 'cyclist' related trash (inner tube and an abandoned puncture repair kit!).

[Cellar]

IMO the pig person that litters on the trail will also litter on a bike ride and will also toss rubbish out his car window.

 

Same as the cyclist who doesn't stop at red lights will also be a motorists that breaks the law.

[GBguy]

Uncleat.................Aim..................Kick bars. And whist he is down he can sommer pick up his sticky wrapper and use it as plaster

 

The above method is so much more satisfying if the person responded to your request to pick up his litter with a F@ck You.

 

If you're joking, then I hope all the (young and?) impressionable members don't take you seriously.

 

If you're not joking, jeez man, it's very uncool to use violence to resolve anything. All you do is open the door to more violence. Have we learned nothing?

[madbradd]

I stopped and picked up 2 tubes on day 1 of panorama this weekend. Gave them to one of the rangers. Not too many gel wrappers though.

[Bateleur1]

I stopped and picked up 2 tubes on day 1 of panorama this weekend. Gave them to one of the rangers. Not too many gel wrappers though.

 

I find it quite amasing that someone can cart around one or two spare tubes for hundreds of kilometers on the bicycle but the day they have a puncture they cannot carry the replaced tube back home.

[Cellar]

I find it quite amasing that someone can cart around one or two spare tubes for hundreds of kilometers on the bicycle but the day they have a puncture they cannot carry the replaced tube back home.

 

I flatted out training yesterday. Left the diseased tube with a petrol pump attendant at the Caltex where I changed tubes.

[Bateleur1]

I flatted out training yesterday. Left the diseased tube with a petrol pump attendant at the Caltex where I changed tubes.

 

My garden engineer also gets all my old tubes. I don't leave them next to the road though.