road.cc live blog: Team Sky bike build, motorist documents crap cycling with dashcam + more

J886atv wrote:

It does surprise me the number of people who have crap / no lights.

The last clip was a 'yoof' in a hoody - a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we're all tarred with one brush!

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cyclist

cyclist ​(or cycler) [sahy-klist]
 
noun 1. a person who rides or travels by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
 
Origin of cyclist
First recorded in 1880-85; cycle + -ist

​If there's a more narrow definition, then please do expand on it - does it depend on particular clothing, or particular type of bicycle, or is it just on whether the person is doing something you approve of?  
 

brooksby wrote:

J886atv wrote:

It does surprise me the number of people who have crap / no lights.

The last clip was a 'yoof' in a hoody - a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we're all tarred with one brush!

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cyclist

cyclist ​(or cycler) [sahy-klist]
 
noun 1. a person who rides or travels by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
 
Origin of cyclist
First recorded in 1880-85; cycle + -ist

​If there's a more narrow definition, then please do expand on it - does it depend on particular clothing, or particular type of bicycle, or is it just on whether the person is doing something you approve of?  
 

Exactly, how many comments here on sh#t drivers & driving, when not all of them are terrible?

Many sporting cyclist also don't like to stop for red traffic lights, & if they do, will stop past the cycle box etc. So maybe it's just anybody slower than them at the time?

I love my bike wrote:

brooksby wrote:

J886atv wrote:

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The last clip was a 'yoof' in a hoody - a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we're all tarred with one brush!

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cyclist

cyclist ​(or cycler) [sahy-klist]

 

noun 1. a person who rides or travels by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.

 

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​If there's a more narrow definition, then please do expand on it - does it depend on particular clothing, or particular type of bicycle, or is it just on whether the person is doing something you approve of?  

 

Exactly, how many comments here on sh#t drivers & driving, when not all of them are terrible?

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What's this? Fellows denying the fundamentalist Blighters' right to stereotype others on the basis of one  example of the lowest demeanour!!? One feels that such denialists of this Basic Freedom To Be An Intolerant And Unthinking British Pillock should be reported to The Daily Mail, so that the denialist too can be villified with a handy Mail Hate-Them label.

Everyone knows that all teenagers, cyclists, motorists and women are Very Bad Indeed, as my Great Uncle Barmpot pointed out years ago, just before he had his apoplexy. He had other lists of Vey Bad Types, which included Those Who Begin At Calais, People From Not-Here & Anyone Disagreeing With Me. Also Wives, Neighbours and even Cats & Dogs (and Horses).

If Uncle Barmpot was alive today, he would be pleased to see that his notion is gaining ascendency, perhaps stimulating him to poop his horn gleefully whilst running over a child, a cyclist and a horse all on the same day, as that would teach them.

Cugel, sterotypically compromised in several fashions.

Cugel wrote:

as my Great Uncle Barmpot pointed out years ago, just before he had his apoplexy. He had other lists of Vey Bad Types, which included Those Who Begin At Calais, People From Not-Here & Anyone Disagreeing With Me. Also Wives, Neighbours and even Cats & Dogs (and Horses).

If Uncle Barmpot was alive today,

Are you sure he's actually dead, he may just be hiding in a garden shed commenting on road cc under then name Valbrona...

brooksby wrote:

J886atv wrote:

It does surprise me the number of people who have crap / no lights.

The last clip was a 'yoof' in a hoody - a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we're all tarred with one brush!

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cyclist

cyclist ​(or cycler) [sahy-klist]
 
noun 1. a person who rides or travels by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
 
Origin of cyclist
First recorded in 1880-85; cycle + -ist

​If there's a more narrow definition, then please do expand on it - does it depend on particular clothing, or particular type of bicycle, or is it just on whether the person is doing something you approve of?  
 

Yes, I guess by definition, an irresponsible twat on a bike is still a cyclist. Just as a drunk car thief, high on drugs, driving the wrong way on a one-way street is still a motorist.

I'm just hopeful that the above descriptions do not apply to the vast majority of RoadCC readers!

J886atv wrote:

The last clip was a 'yoof' in a hoody - a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we're all tarred with one brush!

I assume by your comment that in your oppinion a cyclist is only a cyclist when they wear racing type lycra? Why have you not pulled up the articles classification of the person capturing the video as a "motorist" as he is unlikely to be wearing motor racing type gear?

J886atv wrote:

It does surprise me the number of people who have crap / no lights.

The last clip was a 'yoof' in a hoody - a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we're all tarred with one brush!

When you ride with bicycle lights you are just making drivers complacent and it makes it less safe for everyone else.

For greater safety of the cycling population you should ride without lights, in dark clothing and preferably doing a wheelie for 50% of the journey (at least)