pedestrians - get out of my way!

[kamikaze]

every afternoon, be it on the outskirts of joburg or on the braamfontein spruit, i encounter people (or people with dogs on long tangly leashes) who are oblivious to the fact that i'm bearing down on them from behind at 30+ km/h.

 

(i dont know why, but they always seem to have their backs facing me)

 

 

 

now, on the one hand i am greatful to these pedestrians as it is the soles of their feet which have treaded out the single track that i am so eagerly enjoying, but on the other hand i dont want to have a collision with them either.

 

 

 

what do i do?

 

 

 

a friend has suggested i bark like a rabid rotweiler.

 

this is VERY effective (i mean people literally dive headlong into the bushes and out of the way), but my throat gets sore after the 3rd bark.

 

 

 

 

 

BARK! BARK!

 

kamikaze2009-11-12 02:23:36

[JT24]

Kry vir jou n fkn klokkie.JT242009-11-12 04:09:19

[Captain Slow]

It's called brakes!!! Try using them and common courtesy goes a long way!! Don't spoil it for others!!

[splat]

Dude, I hope you are joking.

 

Slow down, get a bell and don't be a menace.

[nyathi]

It's called brakes!!! Try using them and common courtesy goes a long way!! Don't spoil it for others!!

 

   

 

Well said!

[kamikaze]

It's called brakes!!! Try using them

 

 

 

what! and break my momentum and speed?

[American Flyers]

Get a big hooter !!

[IanJ]

It's called brakes!!! Try using them

what! and break my momentum and speed?

 

 

 

Go ride on the Cradle Route (but keep it single file).

 

 

 

[dirtrider]

I really think you should use your pepper spray on them !!!

[tabasco]

I really think you should use your pepper spray on them !!!

 

Lets use pepper spray on evryone, drivers, pedestrians, unruly dogs and their owners and don't forget the unruly cyclists who think the own the road/trail, lets save a little for them too.

[Thug]

The Spruit isn't a racetrack, find somewhere else to race !

[splat]

What about cattle prods? They seem fairly popular as well.

[Myra]

Do you have to ride so fast because there are spiders chasing you?

[kamikaze]

The Spruit isn't a racetrack' date=' find somewhere else to race ![/quote']

 

 

 

so that must be you then who's arse i whipped riding the spruit the other day?

[Napalm]

 

every afternoon' date=' be it on the outskirts of joburg or on the braamfontein spruit, i encounter people (or people with dogs on long tangly leashes) who are oblivious to the fact that i'm bearing down on them from behind at 30+ km/h.

 

[/quote']

 

That's strange... you would think a gigantic jackass on a bicycle would be fairly visible.

 

[Captain Slow]

this laatjie is going to get mountain bikers banned from the Spruit!!