Bloody cyclists

[Wolf]

No threat - a simple request backed up with a statement of intent. As far as my opinion goes of this sort of cyclist, it was that event that caused me to form that opinion. Wouldn't surprise me if you were that complete dork. Yours is exactly the same type of attitude. Cock.

Now, now MSTRS, you're being unreasonable. We are supposed to accept someone's lack of respect for us and our property and show respect for them and their property in return.

Remember: as a cyclist, that bloke can DO NO WRONG and his blatant lack of respect for your property must be responded to with respect and politeness. Such ultimata as threatening to touch his sanctified Cannondale, let alone move it, could have injured his delicate psyche and to be angry with his actions is to demonise every cyclist on the planet, past, present and future.

Just remember: your possessions exist merely for the gratification and use of the Cyclist-Deities that grace our humble world with their presence; feel honoured that this deity chose your humble car as a resting place for his sacred Cannondale; hearken unto the wisdom of the Prophet-Priest Forkoil who hath revealed unto us that cyclists are the Way and the Law.

[yungatart]

Thank you for enlightening me, Wolf.
I must say it is nice to have it explained to us mere mortals in this simple fashion. It is also nice to realise that my experience with a cyclist last week, was actually not a negative one, but positive in the sense that it set out to teach me, a mere law abiding motorist, that the cyclist was in the right, and therefore I was in the wrong, when he pulled up on the inside of me at a red light. Even though my indicator was on, indicating my intention to turn left when the lights went green, I should have known that the cyclist was going to proceed straight through the intersection on my left. Of course, as I was turning, he had the right of way.... no need for me to be upset with his behaviour at all.
Well, I am off to fine tune my ESP skills and work on my anger management..after all, it stands to reason that, since I live with a man with an anger problem, I would have one too!

[SimJen]

If any wanker leans a bike on my car, they will get it thrown onto the ground.
If they have a problem with that, they can kiss my Hairy Ass.

[Wolf]

Well, I am off to fine tune my ESP skills

I was thinking about doing that, too - you must've read my mind..

[Wolf]

Had a great moment yesterday.

X intersection controlled by lights, one lane to handle left and right turns and straight through traffic but in this case there's more than enough room for them to split it into two lanes. There's a car turning left and a line of cars turning right and I approach, desiring to go straight ahead.

For once, all the right turning cars are hard up against the centre line (rather than scattered about the lane) and the left-turning car is hugging the curb.

I can see them clearly indicating as I approach and so I'm able to lanesplit harmlessly between them and almost reach the line as the lights change to green.

Excellent, one of the few times in this town when I could lane-split safely and legally and not worry that someone would get shitty with me for "obstructing" them.

We three vehicles in the front peeled away from the line and went our respective directions with no worry.

As I said before: I seldom lane-split but this was an ideal opportunity for a safe, legal lane split. The slight curve in the road approaching the intersection gave a great view of the left-hand cars' indicators and then I saw the gap and the bloke signalling right with enough space between the two cars to fit a Goldwing.

[MSTRS:Me]

Heresy, Wolf. Unless you were astride a treadlie, of course.

[Wolf]

If any wanker leans a bike on my car, they will get it thrown onto the ground.
If they have a problem with that, they can kiss my Hairy Ass.

The big trouble with your car being used as a bike stand is: if they gouge up your paintwork, you have no way of positively ID'ing the bugger responsible for the damage.

If someone clips your vehicle with their car/motorbike and you witness it, you've got their licence plate number even if they refuse to identify themselves but a cyclist can give any bullshit name they like - more than likely to after you've pointed out you want them to pay for your paint job to be touched up (standard gloss colours) or for the whole car to be repainted (metallic or colur-shift paints) - and you have no way of confirming it.

"So sorry, haven't got any ID on me..."

Of course, the answer is for us to all drive grungy pieces of shit with bulk-standard buy-a-touch-up-can-at-the-Warehouse colours so that the cyclists can lean their bikes against our vehicles without concern. It's only pure selfishness that prompts people to have nice-looking vehicles with beautiful metallic or custom paint jobs.

The real reason many cyclists are opposed to registering their pushbikes and having some kind of licence to ride on the road is because they trade on their anonymity when they do reckless or disrespectful things.

Make them display a prominent licence plate and carry a driver's licence (with photo) at all times and I'll warrant a lot of the complaints about arrogant and dangerous cyclists would disappear.

[Swoop]

It is also nice to realise that my experience with a cyclist last week... I was in the wrong, when he pulled up on the inside of me at a red light. Even though my indicator was on, indicating my intention to turn left when the lights went green, I should have known that the cyclist was going to proceed straight through the intersection on my left. Of course, as I was turning, he had the right of way.... no need for me to be upset with his behaviour at all.

You better have a kill painted on your door!

[yungatart]

You better have a kill painted on your door!

Working on it...is that your car?

[Swoop]

...is that your car?

Unfortunately not...
Mine would have an additional "kill" area for corgis...

[Mr Skid]

The big trouble with your car being used as a bike stand is: if they gouge up your paintwork, you have no way of positively ID'ing the bugger responsible for the damage.

Make them display a prominent licence plate and carry a driver's licence (with photo) at all times and I'll warrant a lot of the complaints about arrogant and dangerous cyclists would disappear.

What about pedestrians that might scratch your car?
They wouldn't have anything large enough to attach a number plate to (apart from jsg's mum), and they might not hold a drivers license.

The only feasible solution is a mandatory national identity card.

You'd sign up, wouldn't you?

[Wolf]

The only feasible solution is a mandatory national identity card.

You'd sign up, wouldn't you?

Ach, why the fuck not? I've already got a motor vehicle licence with my picture on it and a firearms licence with a far more identifiable picture on it (and I've carried that for longer than anyone who merely has a vehicle licence) so what's one more fucking photo ID? (Too much to hope that they'd be intelligent enough to base it on a unique registry like, for example, your hospital/health system number and tie it in to vehicle and firearms licences so you only need the one card and number...)

Besides, if all the National Party supporters, or at least the Anti-Labour mob, get their way we'll have a national identity card soon enough - National Party hankers for US government cock... got a taste for it when they were in charge, been screaming for it ever since. Once those tossers get in we'll have a card compliant with the USA's criteria within months - all in the interests of "closer [sexual] relations with the USA."

[Alice]

What about pedestrians that might scratch your car?
They wouldn't have anything large enough to attach a number plate to (apart from jsg's mum), and they might not hold a drivers license.

The only feasible solution is a mandatory national identity card.

You'd sign up, wouldn't you?

Yeeer, lets stick it to pedestrians, inconsiderate twats.

Couldn't resist, just back at work after been on holiday and had to look up this thread to see if its still going after my earlier imput, and fuck me, ( no not literally ) yu still going on about it.

Just before I went away I started typing a response to one dick who obviously has the intelligence of a worm, but the moderators did not like it cause the type turned a funny red colour and when I tryed to post the rant it disappeared, probably just as well really.

You'll always find examples of the type of behaviour you do not approve of, sometimes things turn a bit petty and this is going down that path from some respondents, live and let live, get over it.

As a cyclist we get hassled by motorists that obviously don't like us. I"ve lost count of the number of times that cars and trucks intentionally drive as close as they can, its amusing to watch them come really close, then as they drive away and approch a parked car they pull into the middle of their lane. I could tell you of incidence after incidence of unreasonable behaviour towards us. Do I hate cars, know. As for cyclists having to pedal with flags sticking out the side to show how much space we need, well I think thats ridiculous, it shows how these people feel intimidated by traffic if they are doing this. I saw some people cycle touring down South with the flag thing going on, a family with a kid in toe. If you need that to judge how much space to give us then you probably should be riding a mobility scooter where the only thing you might hit is a lampost on the edge of the footpath or a pedestrian, and since I think we should start dishing it to pedestrians them that would be a good thing. (now someone tell me I'm being ridiculous)

Every group of road users has people disobeying the law, and motorcyclists are just of guilty, maybe someone should start a thread on that one, that would get hostile real quick.

Now someone reply and we can all go round and round in circles again, cause we are never all going to see eye to eye, ... on lots of things, the beauty of being human.

[MSTRS:Me]

.... (now someone tell me I'm being ridiculous) .....

Ok. You're being ridiculous.

[jrandom]

already got a motor vehicle licence with my picture on it and a firearms licence with a far more identifiable picture on it... Once those tossers get in we'll have a card compliant with the USA's criteria within months...

You know, the REAL ID Act is running into a few snags in the implementation. It's federally-mandated, but supposed to be state-funded, and a lot of states are kicking up a fuss. Good on them, too. Big Brother hasn't won yet; a few people in Washington are starting to figure out that you can't just randomly legislate something like that without We The People (tm) making a noise.

Anyway, mandatory national ID cards don't do anything for anybody. You think criminals and terrrr-rists don't have IDs? Of course they do. Doesn't stop them. The 9/11 hijackers all had valid passports and credit cards and whatnot, some of them based on forged documents. A national ID card would have done nothing to prevent the events of that day.

What were we talking about, again? Bicycles? I bet most terrorists ride bicycles. Fucking terrorists. The Gubmint should ban bicycles. Why aren't they DOING something about this obvious problem? Think of the children!

fuck me, ( no not literally )

Into a bit of the old cyber-sex then, are we, luv? Jolly good, jolly good. I do fancy a bit of virtual-cyclist booty. Peel off that lycra nice and slow, now...