So I'm calmly making my way home amidst a frantic dayglow and skinny jean peloton on the 'hipster highway' (theobolds>clerkenwell>old street) and I couldn't help but notice the despicable behaviour of a lot of my fellow cyclists. Yes, I know, a courier; scornful of people breaking the rules. But this wasn't just utilitarian 'red light, nothing coming, why stop?' behaviour or even 'he's gone through so I'll be ok, OH SHIT!' behaviour, it was an utter lack of respect for human life. In particular, I was the only person who stopped for a group of people clearly waiting to use a zebra crossing, a group of people including children, some of who had started to cross seeing as the last of the motorists who hadn't stopped for them had passed and us nasty cyclists were some way behind. There was swerving and shouting and raised fists from angry mothers as about ten commuters went through the crossing at full speed (the one just after the Du...Clerk and Well). Not all those guilty were 'fixie' riding haircut types, several were generic commuters, all panniers and reflective details. Is it just me or are 'normal' cyclists getting worse? I'm no saint on the road by anyone's standards and I never thought the day would come when I'd be standing up for the highway code but what I saw today was just disgusting.
I'm guessing you are new to this forum. I think you will find any ridiculously stupid breaches of your new found love, the highway code, was in fact committed by a commuter. There is of course messengers out there doing stupid things but they soon learn. I can assure your worried arse that no experienced messenger would run a busy pedestrian crossing. And as you are new, get ready for an avalanche of shit.
Avalanche of shit? More like verbal diaoreha...did I spell that right? "no experienced messenger would run a busy pedestrian crossing" - what about the (such as yourself, Mike) inexperienced messenger? Here it comes.....bucket loads, come on, less av it!!
Bahaha, bring it on billy goats! Been on the road and reading this for over a year but not really been inclined to contribute seeing as it's mostly bum and willy jokes. Hyvä iltä Toivonen, met you a few times, there's a prize if you guess who. Commuters doing everything they can to prove the theory of evolution by eradicating their DNA from the gene pool is nothing new to me, in fact I encourage it because as a species we are weak, stupid and better off without them. That's why I dummy-jump red lights to send the sheep into oncoming traffic...
I saw something funny at the St john st junction with Skinner st this morning.Two cylists or "nodders" were both jumping the lights opposite each other,one was angling to do right while the other one was aiming to go straight on when WALLOP! head on collision,legs up in the air,clatter of metal etc.Hahahahaha I roared,it made my morning ride in worth it. By the way,I was waitng for the green.
I'm on 'your' site because I've been a courier for over a year. I'm such a posh public schoolboy that I even grew up in a tiny 3 bed semi, single mum, sister was on heroin and my education was all free. Sometimes I even eat out of bins because I'm so posh. Ben fucking Fogle indeed, from now on il rite lik dis jus 2 blend in init
Thatcher isn't actually completely dead yet but I'll be lining up to shit on her grave when she goes...
I'm guessing that pint will be from the "Blue Posts" so no thanks.Throw it over yourself and save me the trouble of going all the way to Newman street.
And that is supposed to have a meaning. I thought you were a bit of a cock before and you just confirmed it. Nobody on here dances to anybody's tune (unless it is Sleepy on the decks). So, a year on the road somehow qualifies you? There's people still using artbags that know more than you ever will. And "concrete pig" works in the context whereas "obnoxious potato" fails.