chuck Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 I think what also happens sometimes and i've seen it first hand! People don't expect a cyclist and they're driving very close to the edge of the road and then when they look up from their cell phone/radio' date=' there you are and then they swerve unnecesarily![/quote'] Also 100% correct. I was taken out few years ago while riding about 1.5m inside a yellow line. Spend 3 months in ICU, back to work 1 year later. Never went back to road cycling. On the MTB I'm responsible for my own destruction
zeepee Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 correct chuck' date=' but like i've said 10 times. LOOK, BE SENSIBLE AND USE YOUR COMMON SENCE!!! I only skip red lights when there is REALLY nobody around and then i look extra carefully because early on saturday mornings there are so many people around that are still pissed from the night before!! I will never ride irresponsible when there are lots of cars around!! [/quote']What exactly is common sense? What other laws are you ok with breaking, if, according to you, no-one else gets harmed? smoking a bifta, its a victimless crime.....
Grapkas Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Laws/rules i like to break:To sometimes drive 80 in a 60 zone.To not stop dead at a stop street and check all my 100 blind spots when nobody is arounddrinking wine the night before a big race...Things like that.And the amazing thing is:I have never had a personal run in with a car/driver whilst riding on my ownI haven't received a single speeding fine or other kind of fine (i think this is because my car is just simply *** and too slow!) COMMON SENCE: If you land under a car, you = dead. So ride/drive in a safe way. IT IS NOT UNSAVE TO SKIP A RED LIGHT WHEN THERE ARE NO OTHER CARS AROUNDIT IS UNSAVE TO SKIP A RED LIGHT WHEN THERE ARE A LOT OF TRAFFIC.Simple really
Cliffhanger Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 I think what also happens sometimes and i've seen it first hand! People don't expect a cyclist and they're driving very close to the edge of the road and then when they look up from their cell phone/radio' date=' there you are and then they swerve unnecesarily![/quote']Also 100% correct. I was taken out few years ago while riding about 1.5m inside a yellow line. Spend 3 months in ICU, back to work 1 year later. Never went back to road cycling. On the MTB I'm responsible for my own destruction So where does the real problem lie, with the cyclist in the yellow lane or the motomoaner on his cellphone?
TNT1 Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 correct chuck' date=' but like i've said 10 times. LOOK, BE SENSIBLE AND USE YOUR COMMON SENCE!!! I only skip red lights when there is REALLY nobody around and then i look extra carefully because early on saturday mornings there are so many people around that are still pissed from the night before!! I will never ride irresponsible when there are lots of cars around!! [/quote'] What exactly is common sense? What other laws are you ok with breaking, if, according to you, no-one else gets harmed? smoking a bifta, its a victimless crime..... I think you will find there are many victims up and down the illegal drug supply chain.
AndreZA Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 If you ride like a d@@s and get run over, please don't let you friends come on here and ask for donations for your medical bills.
Cliffhanger Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Laws/rules i like to break: To sometimes drive 80 in a 60 zone. To not stop dead at a stop street and check all my 100 blind spots when nobody is around drinking wine the night before a big race... Things like that. And the amazing thing is: I have never had a personal run in with a car/driver whilst riding on my own I haven't received a single speeding?fine or other kind of?fine?(i think this is because my car is just simply *** and too slow!) ? COMMON SENCE: If you land under a car' date=' you = dead.? So ride/drive in a safe way.? IT IS NOT UNSAVE TO SKIP A RED LIGHT WHEN THERE ARE NO OTHER CARS AROUND IT IS UNSAVE TO SKIP A RED LIGHT WHEN THERE ARE A LOT OF TRAFFIC. Simple really[/quote']
TNT1 Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Laws/rules i like to break:To sometimes drive 80 in a 60 zone.To not stop dead at a stop street and check all my 100 blind spots when nobody is aroundI haven't received a single speeding fine or other kind of fine (i think this is because my car is just simply *** and too slow!) Oh. So you get away with breaking the law, so that makes it ok? Right.
Gasping Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Is riding like a d@@s the 3 year old skill that Vuilgoed was talking about?
Grapkas Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 O Yeah, Grapkas the lawbreaker!!!!!!!! Sounds good to me.. In the old west you'd be the old hag spurring everybody on to hang me because i didn't park my horse right in front of the Bar.
Cliffhanger Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 If you ride like a d@@s and get run over' date=' please don't let you friends come on here and ask for donations for your medical bills.[/quote'] Mamps, I think that it is safe to say that ALL the accidents I have heard of the cyclist was NOT riding like D@@s. Or do you have some examples where someone rode like a d--- and posted here that he deserved it???
TNT1 Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 O Yeah' date=' Grapkas the lawbreaker!!!!!!!! [/quote'] Um, well, you are. Just because you have justified both the law and the reason you broke it away in your own mind, doesn't change the fact that you are in fact undertaking criminal acitivity. But hey, don't worry. You can choose to be part of the problem, or part of the solution. Guess you made your choice.
AndreZA Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Mamps' date=' I think that it is safe to say that ALL the accidents I have heard of the cyclist was NOT riding like D@@s. Or do you have some examples where someone rode like a d--- and posted here that he deserved it???[/quote'] well, my GF ride through Greenside in the mornings and she gets held up by cyclist taking up the whole road. She knows how to drive when cyclist are around but they just make her blood boils.
Grapkas Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 Watch out people, Grapkas the Lawbreaker may be at a redlight near you soon!!!! Watch your back!
Grapkas Posted June 25, 2009 Posted June 25, 2009 TNT, if you can tell me that you have gone through your whole life without ONCE:skipping a stop street/red lightgetting a speeding finehanded your tax return in latelied to your wife/girlfriend Then you can point a fingerAt least i'm honest so i'm not a BIG OLD FAT HYPOCRITE!!!Look out for all the glass coming down when you throw stones out of your house hey!!!
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