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if you had something like that crossing the road, you would certainly stop at a red light

if people didn't cheat we wouldn't need the police :)

and at the last count, 3,654 words to insult les zenglish

je suis un rock star

should be unE rock star. I guess is because etoile (star) in french is feminine.
Johnny Halliday est une rock star.

Poulet in that context probably means the police. You say pigs, we say chicken

Do you mean "nique ta mère"? Nique means screw. It's a classic and normally used by north african kids (go and screw your mum).
(morts is dead people, which you probably don't want to screw unless you are VERY sick indeed).
Nique la police is also a classic .

I forgot "va te faire mettre"! Excellent!

The french language is full of flowers :)

@ VeeVee... yeah that'd be cool! As I said before... we can terrorize ASL-violating motorists together!

Great! I go to an evening class before the drinks but summer term starts after 28 July so I'll be able to go straight from work to the drinks from 4 August.

pajamas! where have you been? haven't you read any of cg's threads? They're excellent. If you had you would know that SHE is not the new boy in town.

CG, you should come to South drinks one day. I work in Victoria so we could ride there together. Just PM me. It'd be nice to meet you.

have you noticed that it blinks too? I love it!

I totally agree, there are lots of paths on the common and none of them are marked with a no-cycling sign a. The official paths have bikes painted on them and are adjacent to the pedestrians path.

Have a look tonight and try it. I am pretty sure there is a sign pointing to it when you come from North and join the small road.

@ Skullhead
"Of course users should Write That Letter too. But Police I hope have an obligation/right to question what they're being asked to do when it may be an operation that seems unjustified or knee-jerk. "

Also things that may not seem worthwhile to you are to other people. It is impossible to judge any situation without knowing the background.

Using the example of cyclists using the path on the Common: The cyclist will be on the path for say a couple of minutes, someone walking the same direction as the cyclist will be on the path 5 mn or longer and might have 5 or more cyclists passing by (when none should have been there). Completely different perspective.

and enormous glasses to read it.

HIPSTER!!

Just get a TfL cycling map, it's all on there :)

cool, will be nice to meet you but I must have done before?
Anyway the Evening Standard is running a story on drivers using mobile phones whilst driving, couldn't read much had to give paper to boss. There was the obvious cyclist pic holding a mobile with comment "rule does not apply to cyclists"..

if it's illegal to ride on the pavement it should be illegal to walk in a cycle lane. so frustrating having to avoid peds because they dont know.

Some cycle lanes are shared with peds if that's the case they have priority.

@ vee vee - obviously you're right, but it is ridiculous that there isn't a path all the way across the common, only through half of it.

I use the non-legal bit every day, both ways, and always treat it like a shared path & give priority to the peds or go round them on the grass. In fact I don't think I've ever seen any incidents between cyclists & peds along there, unlike most other bits - everyone seems to take it easy.

I'd prefer they stopped a few drivers using mobiles is all.

Yes as a cyclist we would prefer drivers to have full attention and pedestrians would prefer if cyclists didn't ride on the pavements etc..

There is a further cycle lane. If you come from Cedars Road, take the cycle path on the Common, at the road turn left and the path is on your right. It takes you to the main road, there is also a light for cyclists (a bit slow).

I am sure you take care and most cyclists do on that path but some cyclists don't and people can feel very intimidated specially as most of them do not have any cycling experience.

In the winter I saw a cyclist down (not far from the Cedars Road entrance), 2 police cars and an ambulance in the middle of the common. The guy was lying on the grass on his back and looked out of it, it was at a path junction. That shook me a bit.

Where do you travel to? We might have seen. I travel Tooting Bec-St James Park (with Jaygee my husband, not my son ;)

Thanks BoBoB ;)

It's the same on clapham common, there aren't many signs except at the entrance by clapham south, so to be fair there is a good argument there BUT if you commute that way everyday you can't pretend you don't know. I talked to a cyclist on Friday and told him where the cycling path was when I was walking on the path and his answer was "I don't care!" so if he was fined this morning I couldn't care less.

A lot of people are on the Common in the summer and a lot of parents walk their kids that way so a little bit of respect all round would be nice.

Villa-ru, if cyclists didn't take the lane for pedestrians only the cops wouldn't be there in the first place and could spend time elsewhere.....

There is a cycle lane further along the Common. I take it every morning and night. There is no space on the cycle lane Clapham South entrance for cyclists and peds so I am not surprised if there were complaints. If I walk home, I take the path. A cyclist almost went into me on Friday evening, I can't say I liked it.

And to be fair the police was also reminding people that there is a speed limit (I saw a cyclist down in the middle of the common, probably avoided someone and went flying).

Just letting everyone know that there are some people out there who really fucking hate cyclists. And my friend is one of them

And they just wait for you to get through the green ped light just to prove their points and continue their hatred campaign so if you prove them wrong, their silly arguments fall apart.

you guys are soooooo boring.

Sorry to hear that :(

Has to be yellow helmet, it will match the blue of your bike and the brown of your clothes.

Failing that, white is superb.

it will be even funnier when you post a pic of your freshly waxed armpits. :P

you are right PJ, violent statements are not cool.

so watch out for HGVs at the end of August/early September, big deliveries!

on the other hand, would you like to hear all the horror stories? Funny on how we like to feed on horror stories.

Today I would like to thank all the drivers that made my journey safe and looked out for me and all the lights for being green, the peds that looked before crossing. Not so happy with so much sun in my eyes though, my new Oakleys don't really do the job :( but it is so much more fun than the tube!

yes I'm with everyone on that one. Pedestrians have priority. There are hardly any crossings so if you go through them you are intimidating people (and give other cyclists a bad name). They say thank you as well when you stop or slow down for them.

Besides it's Growup's job to protect his children. You should put this on spotted Growup.