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Stamp out these arrogant Forest cyclists

by David9694
Thu, May 07, 2020 14:33
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Nice headline, btw guys, several cyclists a year get “stamped out” as you so kindly put it.
https://www.advertiserandtimes.co.uk/letter-forest-cyclists

Also:
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18377486.dorset-police-discover-a...
The story itself is fun - the picture really does save 1,000 words (come on, letter writers, where are you: “drivers always running red lights and carrying comically unsafe loads”) but lurking in the comments section is the view - one we can’t afford to see take hold - that your car is a germ-proof cocoon offering guaranteed social distancing. As always, great for the occupants and a pile of crap for everyone else, e.g. trying to thread your way from my house to the village shop along busy pavements (variable width/continuous on one side, on and off on the other), hampered by Pavement parked cars and endangered by moving cars as you criss and cross to maintain social distancing: “he was in the middle of the road!!!”.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18433525.driver-surrenders-licenc...
A 91-YEAR-OLD man who drove the wrong way down the fast lane of a dual carriageway has surrendered his licence.

I was going to make a point about drivers at this age hanging on to their cars because if you give up driving, especially in this rural neck of the woods, what’s left to fall back on public transport-wise. I just hope the Google car will be working safely by the time it’s my turn.
After you re-apply at 70 for a licence, it’s a three-yearly self-declaration of fit to drive, and no other special controls.
I was going to try and find some way of either of sarcastically suggesting that had this been the deed of a cyclist, we’d never have heard the last of it, or that somehow this was a cyclist’s fault. (I assume he’s just pulled out of one of the side roads?)
But someone in the comments has beaten me to it!! “Crazed” cyclists at that!
“This is easily done with the current road layout.” says another, so that’s all right then.

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Gary's bike channel | 4 years ago
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my contribution, but still, ive had beeps and been told to use the cycle lane since this time.       https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/16610340.watch-silly-cycle-lanes-...

ignore the commenters. Its quite obvious on there that aside from rapid rob, who posts common sense and seems to be a retired rider himself, all the other people are unemployed and have nothing better to do. You can tell that. Watch the next article mentioning roads, congestion or cyclists, within ten minutes, they've all blasted their opinions onto it. They wouldnt be able to do that so fast if they were at work. Proves they dont have jobs, thus their opinion is not relevant.  On the subject of traffic and creating more cycle lanes creates congestion for motorists, i ask it to be explained, 3 and a half minutes onwards in this video. This is back when the spur road got worked on, and some lady wrote in saying she was crying because of all the traffic. Meanwhile i kept cycling or riding my motorbikes past it all, as shown in the video.   So... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH6g9R47Gho           people cycling in the forest or on the road dont cause a problem to anyone, apart from those who can't drive in the first place. 

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Hirsute | 4 years ago
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It's amazing that a few people will defend carrying a unsecured load on the roof of a car.

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Judge dreadful | 4 years ago
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I spend a lot of time riding around the New Forest. The majority of people are fine with it. It's a moronic minority of shouty, nine toed, web fingered retards, that get the arse with it. Ninja rocks are the answer to those fuckwits ( if they do anything silly in their mobile metal shit boxes ). The vast majority of folk down there don't cause any issues, and that's fine by me.

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hawkinspeter | 4 years ago
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In your first link (the "Stamp out" letter), I chuckled at this sentence:

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They ride at excessive speeds on the grass and prohibited footpaths where they can come across cattle, ponies and, of course, decent people out for a walk in the country.

It was the implication that cyclist are not decent people.

Also interesting that it was a call for tougher enforcement etc BEFORE the inevitable accident rather than actually seeing what the problems are.

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mdavidford replied to hawkinspeter | 4 years ago
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Better still is the comment underneath that "Some cyclists are Very argonaut".

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David9694 replied to mdavidford | 4 years ago
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The not so predictable predictive text? 
 

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pockstone replied to mdavidford | 4 years ago
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Jason and his gang, at it again!

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hawkinspeter replied to pockstone | 4 years ago
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Maybe it was a mythtake

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