Harry Potter Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Cyclists now want to be called People on bikes, aye whatever, whats folks thoughts on a name for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William H. Bonney Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 How about, ***** on bikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Brown Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunks Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 22 minutes ago, Harry Potter said: Cyclists now want to be called People on bikes, aye whatever, whats folks thoughts on a name for them. No they don't - stop making shit up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Not this cyclist; I would like to be known as "Phoenix Milan the Iron-thighed Man of the Bike" please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¼½¾ Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 What about People in Canals? https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-police-hunt-youths-who-pushed-cyclists-into-union-canal-1-4897544 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Placid Casual Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) [Double post] Edited March 29, 2019 by Placid Casual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Placid Casual Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Harry Potter said: Cyclists now want to be called People on bikes, aye whatever, whats folks thoughts on a name for them. No. No, they don’t. “Scientists in Australia have suggested the word 'cyclist' be replaced with 'people who ride bikes’...” https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/calls-word-cyclist-banned-because-14193887 Instead, let’s maybe think of a name for people who read someone’s opinion and applies to a whole f**kin' group of people? Edited March 29, 2019 by Placid Casual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Potter Posted March 29, 2019 Author Share Posted March 29, 2019 50 minutes ago, Dunks said: No they don't - stop making shit up. It was on Radio Forth 2 , why would i make it up, ☹️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunks Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 1 minute ago, Harry Potter said: It was on Radio Forth 2 , why would i make it up, ☹️ Stop believing made up shit on the radio. It's all bollocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusk_Till_Dawn Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Tommy Brown said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Gin Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Harry Potter said: Cyclists now want to be called People on bikes, aye whatever, whats folks thoughts on a name for them. Not true, I prefer the term Cyco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DETTY29 Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) There is nothing better than watching arsehole cyclists taking on arsehole drivers who drive for a living. Edited March 29, 2019 by DETTY29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manaliveits105 Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 This middle of the road thread should be read two abreast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Brown Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 17 minutes ago, manaliveits105 said: This middle of the road thread should be read two abreast On yir bike..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilnunb Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Arseholes who take their bikes onto busy trains and take up seats. Just **** off. ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Potter Posted March 29, 2019 Author Share Posted March 29, 2019 21 minutes ago, neilnunb said: Arseholes who take their bikes onto busy trains and take up seats. Just **** off. ?? used to have a wee carriage at the back for bikes, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 2 hours ago, I P Knightley said: Not this cyclist; I would like to be known as "Phoenix Milan the Iron-thighed Man of the Bike" please. Or I P ‘Eddie Merckx’ Knightley’? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SectionDJambo Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 I drive a car for convenience and go out cycling to try to keep fit. I see both sides of this cars v bikes infatuation. Driving in Edinburgh, I see quite a few cyclists who do little to prevent bad feeling from motorists towards them, by the way they behave. I also see far more motorists who behave badly, certainly not driving their cars the way they must have to pass their driving test. I would say that poor car drivers cause other car drivers far more inconvenience, and danger, than most cyclists do. Then there are pedestrians who step off pavements without looking, or just walk over the road, expecting motorists to avoid them, frequently whilst looking at their phones. To summarise, there are idiots in all forms of getting around. In a few years it won’t matter anyway, as Edinburgh council seem intent on banning cars everywhere they can. So it will become a cyclists v pedestrians infatuation instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¼½¾ Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 4 hours ago, neilnunb said: Arseholes who take their bikes onto busy trains and take up seats. Just **** off. ?? A guy tried to get one on a bus I was on last week. Tried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 4 hours ago, Morgan said: Or I P ‘Eddie Merckx’ Knightley’? That's just a bit too derivative and hardly befitting a man of my lycra stature. (I don't wear lycra. I'm 53 years old with a tiny bit of dignity remaining). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howdy Doody Jambo Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 People on bikes on the road should have registration plates and be accountable for road traffic offences like all other road users and as for the canal, it's like a racing ? track in the morning with them speeding well over 20mph, they forget it's a walkway first and foremost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
been here before Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Old Castle Rock said: People on bikes on the road should have registration plates and be accountable for road traffic offences like all other road users and as for the canal, it's like a racing ? track in the morning with them speeding well over 20mph, they forget it's a walkway first and foremost Is it? Theres nothing I can see on the Scottish canal website that says that. Edited March 29, 2019 by been here before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howdy Doody Jambo Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 9 minutes ago, been here before said: Is it? Theres nothing I can see on the Scottish canal website that says that. Well you could include a horse's track also that towed the barges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
been here before Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Just now, Old Castle Rock said: Well you could include a horse's track also that towed the barges Indeed. The path is for everyone who choses to use it and isnt for anyone 'first and foremost'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Better call Saul Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 7 hours ago, Lemongrab said: What about People in Canals? https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-police-hunt-youths-who-pushed-cyclists-into-union-canal-1-4897544 I have to admit it's not a part of Edinburgh I would fancy taking my expensive barge through ( if i had one)..it would be like that scene in still game when their on the dingy going through park mill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Findlay Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 I love those hardcore cyclists. Had a guy at Waverley station yesterday. Can I quickly put my bike here I'm getting off at Haymarket. I enquired why he just didn't ride his bike there. Afterall a straight flat road. Mate I'm knackered I've cycled 6 miles already. I walk double that when on shift. Seriously alot of then the bike is just for show. Hey look at me I'm helping to save the planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
been here before Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 (edited) 42 minutes ago, John Findlay said: I love those hardcore cyclists. Had a guy at Waverley station yesterday. Can I quickly put my bike here I'm getting off at Haymarket. I enquired why he just didn't ride his bike there. Afterall a straight flat road. Mate I'm knackered I've cycled 6 miles already. I walk double that when on shift. Seriously alot of then the bike is just for show. Hey look at me I'm helping to save the planet. Good story. What made him a "hardcore cyclist" though? Sounds like you might be a bit of a hardcore walker. Edited March 30, 2019 by been here before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gorgie Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Rats of the road. Fair play to the ones that stop at red lights but they are few and far between. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Findlay Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 1 hour ago, been here before said: Good story. What made him a "hardcore cyclist" though? Sounds like you might be a bit of a hardcore walker. That was sarcasm on my part. I walk that as part of my job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamboelite Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 I have no problem with “people on bikes” who follow the rules of the road. Its the ****s that want to be a car, a pedestrain and a cyclist all when it suits them that can **** off. And those not suitably attired but instead dress like a ninja at night time and wonder why they almost get killed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjcc Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Merge with leggings thread please, mods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, gjcc said: Merge with leggings thread please, mods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costanza Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 I cycle to work (with a no visible lycra rule) and my experience is that most drivers and cyclists are fine. You do get a few drivers who are impatient arseholes and hate being stuck behind a cyclist adding about 10 seconds to their journey but most overtake with plenty space. Cyclists who jump red lights or cycle on pavements grind my gears but generally a minority bar the glorious moment a year or so back at Queen Charlotte Street, where a cyclist overtook me on my bike and then a police car in the line of traffic and went through a temporary red light and promptly got pulled over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Weathers Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 4 hours ago, Costanza said: I cycle to work (with a no visible lycra rule) and my experience is that most drivers and cyclists are fine. You do get a few drivers who are impatient arseholes and hate being stuck behind a cyclist adding about 10 seconds to their journey but most overtake with plenty space. Cyclists who jump red lights or cycle on pavements grind my gears but generally a minority bar the glorious moment a year or so back at Queen Charlotte Street, where a cyclist overtook me on my bike and then a police car in the line of traffic and went through a temporary red light and promptly got pulled over. I agree with this. I'm both a motorist and a cyclist and haven't had any real problems. I cycle because allows me to explore the countryside whilst getting fitter. Great for the body and mind. I'd recommend it to anyone. I am always curious to know why so many people hate cyclists. I'm just a normal person who enjoys cycling now and again. Not an ecowarrior do gooder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjambo Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 6 hours ago, gjcc said: Merge with leggings thread please, mods. In anticipation of the mods granting your request. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjcc Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, redjambo said: In anticipation of the mods granting your request. Good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphonseCapone Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 7 hours ago, gjcc said: Merge with leggings thread please, mods. No!! The leggings thread is decent. 57 minutes ago, gjcc said: Good idea. That is why they should not be merged haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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