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barriedalenick

barriedalenick

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That is exactly why I have them. I have more control of my bike when I am attached to it esp when pulling away. Your feet don't slip or move on the pedals allowing me to get out of the way of traffic as quickly as possible.

I generally use brakes to stop.

I have pedals that are SPD on one side and flat on the other so makes life easier I guess but SPDs are so easy to click in and out of that I barely notice myself doing it..

JohnL

JohnL

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jimbo1964 Wrote:

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> Where in ED were those taken? The second blur

> particularly impressive.


It's Smithfields meat market.


Lots of issues around Holborn - it's very dangerous for everyone

so I bet the cyclists try and avoid it.

a fish

a fish

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JohnL Wrote:

> It's Smithfields meat market.


One of them is. The other - the blur - is, appropriately enough, on the pavement outside Bart's hospital. Yes, it's a wide pavement, but there's also quite a lot of pedestrian traffic on it, it's a good cut through from St Paul's/Holborn to Clerkenwell, plus there's an entrance to the hospital there. However, King Edward St is one way, so you regularly get idiots cycling on the pavement. A friend of mine who works nearby was hit quite badly last year on the precise spot that photo was taken, and called a c*nt for his trouble.

a fish

a fish

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Another blur this morning. Just past the guy with the trolley is the Lycra Lout who actually clipped my elbow as he shot past from behind. I yelled at him to cycle on the road, his answer was "Well don't walk in the middle of the fcuking pavement then". So now we have to give way to the selfish w4nkers? At 6:30am when the road is near-empty? Lovely.
showboat

showboat

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This is the point that Lady D and others ignore (and I speak as a cyclist who has a young child who else cycles).


Pedastrians have priority on the pavement. It's common sense that dictates this, as well as the law, and any cyclist who goes on the pavement must respect that.


Cyclists who behave like a fish describes give all the rest a bad name, but think it's ok because of the massive chip they have in their shoulder. I agree totally with Lady D about the need to have much better provision for cyclists, but until then pedastrians get priority on the pavements.


I used to work on St Johns st, just north of the market, and totally back up a fish's description of cyclists around there. What really annoys me about incidents like he/she has is the way the cyclists never stop to discuss what happens, just swear at us and ride off. Cowards.

Earl Aelfheah

Earl Aelfheah

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I've lived in this area a long time and I can honestly say that I have not seen people cycling along the pavement in ED. If they have been, then they have clearly been doing so carefully enough that I have not had reason to notice them. Whilst I agree that no one should be cycling along the pavement, I'm genuinely amazed that it is such a regular problem for some people on here.
kenand

kenand

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titch juicy Wrote:

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> Cyclist and bus had a coming together outside

> peckham rye station this morning apparently. Only

> details I know are that he wasn't wearing a helmet

> and there was a crowd of paramedics present.


He was wearing a helmet and looked in a bad way

titch juicy

titch juicy

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kenand Wrote:

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> titch juicy Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Cyclist and bus had a coming together outside

> > peckham rye station this morning apparently.

> Only

> > details I know are that he wasn't wearing a

> helmet

> > and there was a crowd of paramedics present.

>

> He was wearing a helmet and looked in a bad way


apologies- typo on my part, meant to write he WAS wearing a helmet and it probably saved his life


this is very much anecdotal though

mynamehere

mynamehere

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On one occasion I had a No. 12 driver race and over take me down the south 1/2 of Peckham Rye. Very purposefully he gunned around me slammed in front braked hard and stopped at his next pick-up. Poor him (and long suffering you lot) he didn't kill me or knock me off my bike. His job unfortunately made me the "winner" of his lethal game. In a city, a cyclist enjoying the fresh air and great outdoors, more often than not leaves a driver with many horses beneath his bonnet in the dust.
JohnL

JohnL

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Glad to hear that he's alive - I thought he was under it


All the buses had stopped and everyone from the shops was on the street as I walked up.


titch juicy Wrote:

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> kenand Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > titch juicy Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > > Cyclist and bus had a coming together outside

> > > peckham rye station this morning apparently.

> > Only

> > > details I know are that he wasn't wearing a

> > helmet

> > > and there was a crowd of paramedics present.

> >

> > He was wearing a helmet and looked in a bad way

>

> apologies- typo on my part, meant to write he WAS

> wearing a helmet and it probably saved his life

>

> this is very much anecdotal though

a fish

a fish

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Townleygreen Wrote:

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> my old Dad used to always ask pavement cyclists if

> they did it because their Mum wouldn't let them

> cycle on the road.


I do that sometimes, in fact I did it a few days ago. I think he told me to 'buck off front' though I may have misheard him.

Andredivic

Andredivic

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kenand Wrote:

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> He was wearing a helmet and looked in a bad way


He did have a helmet, my sympathies to the guy, hope he's okay now - he was in a lot of pain.


As far as I could see (was also cycling, but a lot further up the road) he came off near a slow moving or stationary bus, but I don't think that caused the accident. It looked like he either collided with the bin lorry flanking the bus, or possibly a person stepped out in front of him. I heard the noise before looking so missed the split second of the collision.

jonsuissy

jonsuissy

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a fish Wrote:

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> Today's @$$holes. Number 2 nearly clipped me, and

> is cycling past a sign saying 'cyclists dismount'.


Nobody around - seems safe enough to me.


I do think this thread has been going on long enough, surely these pictures are a sign we need to stop.


On to more interesting topics I think.


Now, how is that M&S coming on at Iceland site????

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