Comments on: Are there more stupid cyclists in good weather?

By: Thersites

Thersites — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:24:55 +0000

There are more inexperienced, part-time or untrained cyclists in good weather. Most of them may cycle where they aren’t supposed to but they usually do so as politely as possible- aware that they oughtn’t to do it and apologetic for their cowardice and giving way to pedestrians. The would-be kings of the pavement are not stupid or inexperienced but egotistical and arrogant. I suspect many of them aren’t allowed to drive motor vehicles as a result of using the same techniques in cars. I have found that a walking stick makes an excellent deterrent and a fine emergency brake. Just don’t use a good one.

By: Indigo Jo

Indigo Jo — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:31:26 +0000

Well, I’m not sure all stupid cyclists and inconsiderate people are the fruit of unions of the type you mention. General behaviour has been going downhill even among the products of two-parent families.

As for the cyclists in Richmond Park, personally I wonder what they’re doing on the roads there anyway as nearly all the roads have parallel cycle tracks. When I’m in that park myself, the only road I use is the one leading to Ham Gate, and even then, only when going downhill. To be honest, I find the 20mph speed limit a bigger nuisance than the cyclists when I’m driving (which I did pretty frequently when I used to work at Park Royal). Many of those roads, all of them on the edge of the park, are important thoroughfares and the park authorities should recognise it rather than grudgingly let us crawl along them.

By: Andromeda

Andromeda — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:55:22 +0000

I’m afraid there are more stupid people around, everywhere.

This is to do with the rapidly deteriorating quality of the national gene pool, and the fact that these single mothers will just have sex with anyone, even people who don’t have jobs, are criminals or are members of feral youth.

There is now a US sitcom about just this sort of thing, called ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE about a woman coming to the end of her childbearing years being impregnated by a jobless “babydaddy”, who keeps this fruit of their loins, “with hilarious results”.

It stars Jenna Elfman, so the clear intention is to glamourise this sort of thing so that impressionable schoolgirls will go forth and get knocked up.

Drivers I know say they feel quite murderous driving through Richmond Park, when they see inconsiderate cyclists cycling two abreast chatting oblivious to the car behind them trying to pass.

Instead of going beserk with a gun as they do in America, one day someone will just get into a car and run over all the cyclists they can find in Richmond Park.

Those of us who have been assaulted, abused and inconvenienced by inconsiderate and boorish cyclists may even receive this news with a grim satisfaction.