Ha ha
Reminds me of when I was cycling along (not in London) and stopped at a pedestrian crossing. A BMW pulled up alongside, the window went down and the dick in the driver's seat started shouting "I'm sick of your lot doing X, Y and Z... etc."

'My lot' clearly being cyclists. As the lights turned to amber, I called to him:

"Don't worry mate, I'll bring it up at the next meeting and ask them to leave you alone." For a fleeting half second he looked satisfied, before scowling and roaring off.

The moral: some people are arrogant cunts, and some of these ride bikes. But not everyone on a bike is an arrogant cunt.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 14:11, 2 replies)

I agree wholeheartedly.
I observe the red lights (ok, 90% of them - pedestrian crossings where the button presser has already gone, I normally ignore). Not all cyclists do.

This morning on Clapham Common, a stout looking lady walking with her child stepped out into my path (part of the road - doubt she'd treat an HGV with such disdain), before stepping back in and scowling and muttering something about "you lot". She was about 20 metres from a pedestrian crossing in either direction, which, had she felt the 20 metres was worth walking, would have been a better choice for everyone.

We can't win, you know.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 14:18, closed)

Not if you ignore red lights - pedestrians or not - no.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 14:20, closed)

My nice legal alternative to stopping:
Slow slightly, hop off your bike(while moving)before the lights, and run along pushing your bike through the crossing, before hopping back on afterwards.
Obviously don't go running into people walking across - if people are crossing slow to a halt.

first you're a vehicle, then you're a pedestrian, then you're a vehicle again! you can pretend you are a more mundane transformer (adding sound effects if you like..)
(Frottage cheese, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 17:07, closed)

BMW Driver
= cunt?


yes
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 14:56, closed)

I took a stupendous amount of pleasure in berating a BMW driver this weekend
He was "parked" in an empty bay big enough for two cars cut out of the pavement:

           _________
          / BigWideBay \
-------                     ----------
ROAD
-------------------------------

Except he wasn't "in" it - his front wheels were up on the curb and his arse was half out in to the road and his window wide open, allowing me the opportunity to tell him it was the most superb piece of parking I had ever seen, before cycling off in to the sunset.

That dun made my day.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 15:42, closed)

haha
I like little things like this.

Once asked someone at work buying a new beemer if he was getting it fitted with indicators, he didnt get it but someone overheard and later gave me a high 5!
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:22, closed)