My walk to work takes me past one of the main arterial routes into the shitty.
It's pretty staggering how many folk I see without seatbelts on. Mind you, there's also a silly number of 'adults' cycling on the pavements in the pitch black with no lights on their bike, so maybe it's something in the water.
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I do like how the behaviour of a few London twats on fixies, and anecdotes from MPs who have encountered them, directs government policy towards all cycling nationwide.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 13:16,
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I'm all for more accountability for cyclists.
License plates might be taking it a bit far, but I definitely think there should be some kind of licensing scheme introduced, and Police really need to be more proactive when it comes to fuckwits jumping red lights/cycling on the pavement/riding without lights. Don't get me started on those wheely cunts.
(, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 13:32, Reply)
I don't think that
license plates or some other way to identify bad cyclists on a dashcam would be taking it too far.
Only just far enough IMO
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 14:12,
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My only issue with numberplates really is how they'd be implemented.
Having a great big square acting as an airbrake isn't so much of an issue when you've got an engine propelling you forwards (and arguably not really an issue for the trundlers popping along to the local supermarket), but it'd be an absolute nightmare if you're commuting 20+ miles a day and trying to maintain speeds northwards of 14mph. Can't imagine the club cyclists would be overly fond of the idea, either.
If they could introduce some method that doesn't overly fuck with aerodynamics, I'd totally support the idea, though.
(, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 14:30, Reply)
How's this?
Then you could get their number as they shoot off the pavement across the front of your car, narrowly avoiding death or when they illegally run a red light, and you nearly sideswipe them.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 15:37,
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Only if
you make it from the same material as a knife.
If you make it from some sort of flexible material, not so much.
Now that the plate is aerodynamic and made from stuff so soft it won't cause lethal head injuries, is it OK?
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 4 Dec 2022, 12:25,
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99% of cyclists in London are totally cool considering the amout of bullshit they have to put up with
1% are complete cunts, much like some people on here...
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claptonista ,the idiot boy.........., Sat 3 Dec 2022, 15:17,
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Exactly the same proportion as car drivers.
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 19:43,
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The inverse, in fact.
Knowingly poisoning people and corrupting the environment of the only planet we have is extremely fucking far from totally cool.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 4 Dec 2022, 20:40,
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if an observant cyclist runs a red light
and all the lights are red, with no one moving and no pedestrians, who is the cyclist endangering?
(, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 15:53, Reply)
So, breaking the law in a limited and specific way?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 17:00,
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Did you know that
cycling on the pavement carries a £500 fine, and 'cycling furiously' on the pavement carries a £1000 fine? Cyclists are also required to have lights on at night, and to obey all traffic signs and lights on the road.
Of course, good luck getting any police to enforce that. It would be much easier if they had to have some sort of number plate like literally every other road vehicle.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 14:10,
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Did you know that
bicycles don't burn dinosaur juice to threaten the existence of life on Earth?
Fuck cars, fuck car ownership.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 15:32,
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#NotAllCars
Also, the power unit for cycles puts out carbon dioxide too, you know.
Sometimes methane as well.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 15:38,
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I'd wager that the power unit for driving the car emits just as much CO2 and Methane as the power units propelling the bike.
Speshally as there are significantly more fat fucks driving cars than there are riding bikes.
(, Sat 3 Dec 2022, 18:46, Reply)
I can smash this argument with the power of thermodynamics
Actually, can't be arsed because I'd have to explain Orders of magnitude first and then basic arithmetic's.
Lets do this simple:
1600kg of car with a fatty driving needs mucha more powa to go to 20mph than 80kg of cyclist going through red lights..
(, Sun 4 Dec 2022, 15:45, Reply)
By 'power unit for driving the car', I meant the driver itself.
Not the 'power unit for propelling the car', which would be the engine.
The point I was making is that the morbidly obese fart machine behind the wheel probably emits just as much CO2 through the physical act of driving a car as a relatively fit person would emit cycling a bike at a moderate pace.
I'm glad you didn't waste all that time mansplaining, though.
(, Sun 4 Dec 2022, 20:57, Reply)
And the point I was making
was not that cyclists put out more CO2 than cars, just that they put out some, in response to the claim that they don't put out any at all.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 5 Dec 2022, 18:53,
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I love having a big fart when cycling and imagining that it is giving me a Knight Rider style turbo boost...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Mon 5 Dec 2022, 19:30,
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brb - "bicycles don't burn dinosaur juice to threaten the existence of life on Earth?"
Simply being alive at the moment burns dinosaur juice, washing your hair with most shampoos, eating vegetarian food that is fed with oil derived fertiliser, having the lights on in your house etc
Because of this, the power unit for the cycle also burns some dinosaur juice to keep it working. Nowhere near as much of course, but some. No matter how 'green' you are.
Sure, some people grow their own food organically etc and so don't contribute much at all, but then some cars run off solar power. I suspect a similar proportion of the larger number for each.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 7 Dec 2022, 13:28,
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