Cycling is depressing

peter simons wrote:

Is it too difficult to take the empty crisp packet. can or coffee cup
home ?

Obviously. Idiots.

"Vivian" typed


You think that's bad????? Get this. Some ******* threw a banana peel ON A
CYCLING LANE!!!! This was done on purpose, I'm sure! It was on Southwark
Bridge.

Cycle lanes seem to accumulate much deliberately thrown glass too. Much
worse IMHO.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

Vivian wrote:
You think that's bad????? Get this. Some ******* threw a banana peel ON A
CYCLING LANE!!!! This was done on purpose, I'm sure! It was on Southwark
Bridge.


Good job you were wearing your helmet then ;-)

Tony

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 00:32:37 +0100, "Vivian"
wrote:

"peter simons" wrote in message
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Not the cycling all the fly tipping and rubbish left by other road users.

Is it too difficult to take the empty crisp packet. can or coffee cup home?

You think that's bad????? Get this. Some ******* threw a banana peel ON A
CYCLING LANE!!!! This was done on purpose, I'm sure! It was on Southwark
Bridge.


Hi Vivian

Last summer, when riding along a cycle lane at the edge of a dual
carrageway, I cycled towards what I thought was a discarded ice cream
cone. As there was both a car and a train of roadies approaching from
behind I chose not to move into the main part of the road.

As soon as I hit it I realized that what I had thought was a discarded
summer snack was in fact a dead small mammal.

The cycle lane in question is in fact a wide enough tarmaced area, a
part of the actual road to the left of a white line. It's not a cycle
lane as such - I wouldn't be seen dead in one of those. The same
cannot (could not) be said of the ex-mammal.

James

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 17:36:52 +0000 (UTC), ExGuardianReader
wrote:

Not the cycling all the fly tipping and rubbish left by other road users.

Is it too difficult to take the empty crisp packet. can or coffee cup
home ?

I've seen this phenomenon while out, and thought about it for a while.
This is obviously "motorists".

How about we launch a campaign against the constant littering of Britain
by "motorists"?

They talk about fools on bikes who zoom through ped shopping zones as
"cyclists". The person who vandalized car tyres was a "cyclist". OK
then, all these people used cars to transport their **** out there and
dump it are "motorists".

Hi Ex-G-reader

This is not quite as silly as I first thought. After all, how many
cyclists chuck litter into the road when they're riding along. Riders
have the opportunity to litter when they stop but seldom otherwise.

Most other road users are able to throw their trash whenever and where
ever they wish.

James

In message , James Hodson
writes

Most other road users are able to throw their trash whenever and where
ever they wish.

I've seen drivers take the opportunity to empty their brimming ashtrays
all over the floor in parking lots, rather than walk a few yards to the
bin.

--
congokid
Good restaurants in London? Number one on Google
http://congokid.com

In message , Helen Deborah
Vecht writes
"Vivian" typed

You think that's bad????? Get this. Some ******* threw a banana peel ON A
CYCLING LANE!!!! This was done on purpose, I'm sure! It was on Southwark
Bridge.

Cycle lanes seem to accumulate much deliberately thrown glass too. Much
worse IMHO.

On many mornings cycling up the King's Road I pass a street sweeper (the
motorised kind) - but wondered why it didn't seem to do the parts of
cycle lane outside the local pubs which are often covered with broken
beer bottles and glasses - and more so after televised international
rugby.

I suspect it's because the pubs are beyond the boundary between
Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham boroughs, and they have
different street sweeping contractors.

Just noticed this on the lbhf website about wearing helmets:
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/index3.htm

--
congokid
Good restaurants in London? Number one on Google
http://congokid.com

congokid wrote:

Just noticed this on the lbhf website about wearing helmets:
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/index3.htm

Couldn't spot anything on that link

Tony

In message , Tony Raven
writes
congokid wrote:

Just noticed this on the lbhf website about wearing helmets:
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/index3.htm

Couldn't spot anything on that link

Sorry - didn't realise they've got all their pages to show the link for
the front page - it's on the cycling 'quick link' on the left navigation
bar.

--
congokid
Good restaurants in London? Number one on Google
http://congokid.com

"Tony Raven" wrote in message
...
congokid wrote:

Just noticed this on the lbhf website about wearing helmets:
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/index3.htm

Couldn't spot anything on that link


Hey! I work in lbhf. I presume he means the 'Cycling' link - they trot out
the usual
"3. Wear bright-coloured clothes and a cycle safety helmet -it could help to
save your life. "

Nothing surprising there then.

Rich