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and rather than blame his own crippling inadequacies, he instead focused his feelings of shame and resentment on the bike.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:03, Reply)

being self righteous pricks, Al, nast lycra clothing, being in the way etc etc etc
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:03, Reply)

( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:04, Reply)

I AM MOST IMPORTANT
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:06, Reply)

( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:06, Reply)

I know this opens me up to ridicule, but I would like to clarify that I USED to be able to until I tore several muscles in my back. And now the position of bike riding is pretty much agony.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:08, Reply)

Groups of the cunts cycling three or four abreast etc.
I understand that having my snarling beast of a car behind you is a terrifying experience but just stay in a straight line and I will find a way around you. Weave around or cycle in a gang and it's just easier for me to run you all into a ditch.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:08, Reply)

If they kept their distance and didn't try and sneak down the inside they'd be fine. They kill themselves cyclists
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:11, Reply)

They can just skip out of the way like a mountain goat, you know.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:16, Reply)

15 points if they're wobbling all over the place, 10 points if they're being pricks, 2 points if they're over on one side and polite, 1 point if they're part of a big group!
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:14, Reply)

and you can plough right through the middle. I got a strike, once!
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:18, Reply)

I know very few cyclist who jump red lights as most of us don't want to get squished. On my commute to work the vast majority of cyclists follow the rules of the road. Labelling all cyclicts self righteous pricks is rubbish too - how is that? Have you interviewed every cyclist ever? There are certainly a percentage of cyclists who are pricks, there must be - but there are an awful lot of car drivers who are pricks too - pricks who seem to think they own the road, who seem to think that if they knock cyclists over it somehow won't hurt. The roads are a public space, and no-one should have to feel afraid of using it because drivers like you seem to asusme that all cyclists are somehow sub-human.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:12, Reply)

and of course it's not every cyclist, but to say cyclists don't jump reds is ridiculous and you know it, I see many every single day
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:13, Reply)

Lets say all car drivers are self righteous pricks
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:15, Reply)

In my experience of it, most cyclists obey traffic lights and are embarrassed by those that don't - it gives us all a bad name.
Fair point, you didn't mention drivers - but that does appear to be where most anger towards cyclists comes from, as if we're unfairly encroaching on 'their' domain.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:16, Reply)

just to make them screech to a halt, they inevitably get very angry
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:17, Reply)

Number one pet hate at the moment - car drivers who won't wait and overtake cyclists on blind bends, thus meeting me head on coming the other way. Nearly every fucking day.
The proportion of selfish cunts is growing, especially on the roads.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:16, Reply)

mybe if you cycled quicker then you wouldn't be in the way
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:18, Reply)

I don't have a problem with anyone if they obey the rules of the road, but so many people don't. Cyclists and car drivers both.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:21, Reply)

My commute has no red lights, I never pull out on car for fear of dying, I never cycle on the pavement, I have never clipped a wing mirror. I never weave all over the road. I do it because I don't drive and need to get to and from work, I don't believe I am saving the world.
I am a self righteous prick though but then so are you.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:13, Reply)

35 minutes on the bike, 40 minute drive. There's always long tail backs on one particular road.
( , Mon 23 Jul 2012, 11:16, Reply)
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