On Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 8:16:25 PM UTC+1, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Simon Jester wrote:
On Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 1:14:38 PM UTC+1, TMS320 wrote:
On 09/06/18 11:16, Simon Jester wrote:
On Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 10:37:07 AM UTC+1, TMS320 wrote:
On 08/06/18 10:12, MrCheerful wrote:

Can you point out where 'all society's ills' are blamed on
cyclists?

Most of your links describe criminal activities that have nothing
to with riding a bike.

I believe cars are responsible for a lot of society's ills. In a car
you are your own little world and other people are just in the way.

In a car, I feel hemmed in and constrained. A bike gives a very
different view of the world. I believe I transfer some of the
feeling of vulnerability, the spatial and defensive skills learned
on a bike into driving.

As I have said before, safe driving is more about attitude than
machine control.


In the past when people walked, cycled and used the bus they had to
cooperate with their fellow man. Just look at the way drivers push
into queues, behaviour that would not have been tolerated in the
past.
Now we see the same ME FIRST attitude everywhere.

There is a massive level of hypocrisy amongst people that only see
the the world through the windscreen and mutter about various
perceived faults of a person they see riding a bike.

We've had an example recently. Nugent was berating
me about a lack of respect for pedestrians (I am a cyclist,
therefore I can't have any) and then went on to mention "silly
pedestrians" getting in the way of him in his car.

Nugent has some serious mental health issues.

He does not ride a pedal cycle in the ****ing down rain, the snow and the
high winds. He does not need to dodge pot holes in the road as he will not
fall out of his car as you may fall off your silly little bicycle.
He does not arrive to the workplace stinking of sweat and needing to have a
shower and to change his clothes before he does a days work.
Now, who has mental health issues, bollock brains?

You.