teaboy

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• Motorcycles in your bus lane

  in General • 13 years, 2 months

  

  If youve never had problems like that youre part of a tiny minority.
  On the main road from clapham south to elephant and castle im cut up by moped riders and to a lesser degree motorbikes everytime without exception.

  Its an absolute menace when, in some cases you need to maintain a high speed to stay clear of buses and vans then you suddenly get some complete cock appear from static traffic and tear up infront of you on the bus lane with no warning.

  1. Driving illegaly in a designated bus/cycle lane.
     
  2. Undertaking. (they invariably have to rejoin the traffic to the right of them at some point)
     
  3. Endangering cyclists lives.
     
  4. Did I mention driving in a lane theyre explicitly forbidden to drive in?
     
     

  Where the hell are the fines and clamping down on this?

  I live in Balham and use the same road as you. If you look at the the timings on the bus lane boards you'll see that before 0700, between 1000 and 1600 and after 1900hrs, anybody can drive in the bus lane, making your points 1. and 4. invalid.

• Motorcycles in your bus lane

  in General • 13 years, 3 months

  

  On the rare occasion that I take my motorcycle to work, the main reason that I spend a lot of the journey in bus lanes is that at 30mph, the legal speed limit, I'm the slowest vehicle on the road. Staying out in traffic is a pain in the arse because there's always an idiot dangerously close to your rear wheel. When I'm cycling, I've never yet had a problem with motorcyclists in the bus lane.

• Cycling tattoo collection

  in General • 13 years, 11 months

  

  And these are the emblems of Polish Highlanders Corps who actually fought nazis.
  I've never seen anybody with a Polish Highlanders Corps tattoo in Omagh, but I'll be sure to keep an eye out for them now that I know what they look like.

• Cycling tattoo collection

  in General • 13 years, 11 months

  

  Red hand and some celtic looking text around it, if I seen someone with this tattooed on them, or even on their t shirt, I'd be giving them a wide berth.

  Should I?
  Probably not.

  Do I know any better or care to learn?
  Nope.

  Not my original point. I was originally replying to the poster who suggested that you shouldn't 'flash about' a tattoo depicting a red hand in Northern Ireland. I'm suggesting that the people of Northern Ireland, amongst whom I number myself, recognise badges for what they represent. This has nothing to do with what other people think.

• Cycling tattoo collection

  in General • 13 years, 11 months

  

  Again. It's an UDA's symbol and will be seen as one by most people.

  This is my home county's badge, which I can guarantee would not be seen as a UDA symbol

• Cycling tattoo collection

  in General • 13 years, 11 months

  

  Ha Ha. Funny man.

• Cycling tattoo collection

  in General • 13 years, 11 months

  

  To my understanding, Ulster is a bit like, to Ireland/Northern Ireland, as Ossetia was to Russia and Georgia. I think that's more than enough controversy for one day!

  Good for you. Except that I am from Northern Ireland and I know what I'm talking about. It's always annoying to have somebody try to paint a picture of your own country as some sort of violent backwater, without in a lot of cases, ever having been there.

• Cycling tattoo collection

  in General • 13 years, 11 months

  

  • I wouldn't flash it about in Northern Ireland though*...I've seen the original photo that the image is derived from - I think this is the Red Hand of Ulster. Proper can of worms territory.
    
    

  Why not? The red hand is on the provincial flag of Ulster and on the badge of the Co. Tyrone Gaelic Athletic Association. It's non denominational.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hand_of_Ulster

• New TfL's HGV's can't see you for s*** poster

  in General • 14 years, 5 months

  

  I've got a foot in both camps. I've been cycling in London for the last 13 years, 10 of them as a courier. I still cycle every day, but during work hours I'm a HGV driver. I have absolutely no problem seeing or being aware of cyclists on my inside; and I don't have extra mirrors. It's simply a case of road awareness. No different to what you do on a bicycle. You know instinctively who's around you and who poses you a threat or needs extra attention.

  The only people I have nearly run down and killed (and there have been a couple) are the mugs who have seen you indicating 100+ metres further down the road from them and decide that they can't be bothered to wait for you even though you're already half-way around the corner. They inevitably pull up in front of the cab and point at their eyes with forked fingers, shouting "Are you fucking blind or something?" I'm not. They're just fucking stupid

• The Cycle Show 2009

  in General • 15 years, 2 months

  

  Paying to walk around and look at adverts in the flesh was my thoughts. Free tickets this year so giving it another bash
  It was good when it was at the Excel centre. There were so many ways of getting in for nothing. I always find it an anticlimax and an expensive one.