Interesting viewpoint

I don't disagree, but if I have the misfortune to collect one whilst
they are jumping a red light of similar, it is really going to put a
hole in my day / life. This is why they piss me off.

I try to be as inconspicuous as possible.
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--
Dan L

http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

That's not really an excuse - I've been commuting to the client's office
on a bike even during the recent monsoon season.

Get yerself some decent clothing.

 

I quite liked it.

The callous disregard of other peoples' rights of way
The riding on the wrong side of the road for extended periods
The forcing of pedestrians out of the way
etc.
etc.

It would almost be enough to encourage me to commute to work by bicycle;
if my commute wasn't almost 120 miles each day.

In reality that kind of riding is what switched me onto motorbikes in
the first place.

Top marks.

 

And decent storage.

I commute to an airport most weeks, change into my suit at the bike
park, lock my kit away on the bike, take the wheely bag off the seat and
that's it really. Much quicker than a car even if I allow 10 minutes
for getting dressed at either end.

 

Busted.

 

<AOL>

This is where the K1100LT *really* comes into its own.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in
message

I tend to use the K75RT for that (mainly), but it's the same bike in
that respect really. The BMW luggage is really v.good especially with a
decent givi top box or similar.

 

Yeah, it's on my "ought to do" list.

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Dan L

http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Uh, so that's what it is then.

Check your mirrors



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Dan L

http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

You'd prolly be going fast enough to catch me.

--
Dan L

http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Go you

--
Dan L

http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6/7)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Not that I'm defending the couriers, but if you did pass one riding
responsibly you probably

(a) wouldn't notice him at all, or
(b) wouldn't identify him as a courier.

 

I used to do the same with the Sprint ST. Leave the office at 1645 on
a Friday, get to the aitport at 1655, quick change (OK, so I wasn't
wearing a suit), store the gear in the panniers, then check in by 1705
and leave on the 1725 flight to London City.

Any other form of transport would have needed at least half an hour
more, and been much more expensive, either from bus/taxi fares or for
car parking. Of course, I could have cycled, but it's a good ten miles
from the office, so time would have been even more of a factor, and
I'd have had to carry my cycling kit back home with me. Secure locking
panniers aren't exactly realistic on a push-bike.

 

Interesting, but not in any way surprising findings. I presume that
this was a UK-only study? I've always felt that this sort of behaviour
is almost inverted over here (France & Switzerland, where I live),
where I often get flashed in a car for the most mundane of reasons,
like overtaking on a white line, but when cycling am always accorded
the most respect, and when motorcycling am not condemned even for
blatant misdemenours like overtaking a whole line of traffic at 150mph
on the wrong side of white lines.

I've always put this down to the fact that nearly every French and
Swiss person is, or has been, a cyclist as well, and that very many
(especially the French) have also been, at the very least, moped
riders in their youth. Once you're used to being on 'the other side'
you no longer feel this 'out-group' thing so strongly.

 

That didn't bother me.

That was fine.

Those were the actions of utter cunts and, as a poster has said,
deserved a bloody good kicking. The particular segment I'm thinking of,
the riders take to a pavement already heavily populated with peds who
have just crossed the road, forcing a few to leap out of the way.

Cyclists, quite rightly, voice concern and opinion about how vulnerable
they are on the busy streets of London and other cities, but those
particular arseholes in that vid don't extend the same concern for the
vulnerabilities of pedestrian road and pavement users.

The final shout of 'Wanker' came from a discombobulated taxi driver, for
whom I have no particular sympathy on general principle; but I found
that deliciously ironic.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

JHC you are a double hard bastard Harry.
I'm vaguely considering something that would be 60 miles 3 days per week and
not liking it.

 

Perceptual Set. You get the same thing when you buy a particular model
of car/bike. Suddenly you see all the others on the road that were
previously just part of the mass.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

I got used to it when I worked in field service in the 80s and went to
London and the SE at least three days a week. Then in the 90s I started
working in Aldermaston and since then I've had a commute of at least 55
miles each way. You get used to it. It does, however, take a lot of
your private time.

 

Ayup.

 

Hog banged the rocks together and they said :

I do the same per day. After 1.5 years its starting to wear me down
slightly.