Truck in lane 3, just past M62 Junction 10 today

AndrewR wrote:
chris harrison wrote:

AndrewR wrote:

Just today I was waiting behind another car to pull out onto a main
road. The main road was clear of traffic apart from a cyclist and
the car in front of my sat and waited for the cyclist to get past
the junction before pulling out!

Road users in being polite to each other shocka!


Polite? You think it's polite for that person to make _me_ wait to pull
out - me who pays proper road tax and everything - just so that some
free-loading git on a bike doesn't have to use their brakes?

So you're advocating one road user to just pull out, forcing another
road user to take evasive action in order to accomodate them?

Which particular edition of the highway code are you citing as evidence?

chris harrison wrote:
AndrewR wrote:
chris harrison wrote:

AndrewR wrote:

Just today I was waiting behind another car to pull out onto a main
road. The main road was clear of traffic apart from a cyclist and
the car in front of my sat and waited for the cyclist to get past
the junction before pulling out!

Road users in being polite to each other shocka!


Polite? You think it's polite for that person to make _me_ wait to
pull out - me who pays proper road tax and everything - just so that
some free-loading git on a bike doesn't have to use their brakes?

So you're advocating one road user to just pull out, forcing another
road user to take evasive action in order to accomodate them?

Which particular edition of the highway code are you citing as
evidence?

You just haven't quite got the tongue-in-cheek nature of this thread, have
you?

Actually I wonder if you can help me. I've just started cycling regularly
(being one of the aforementioned 30-somethings who's worried about getting a
bit fat) and I wonder if you can give me any idea of how long it will be
before I become an utterly humourless git.

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AndrewR wrote:

Actually I wonder if you can help me. I've just started cycling regularly
(being one of the aforementioned 30-somethings who's worried about getting a
bit fat) and I wonder if you can give me any idea of how long it will be
before I become an utterly humourless git.

It depends on the cycle. Unicyclists and 'bent riders seem to spend
their whole lives grinning inanely, I don't think they eve lose that.
Folder riders usually have a smirk on their faces, though it's usually
of smug satisfaction rather than humour. Tandem stokers find life pretty
funny.

Colin

AndrewR wrote:


Actually I wonder if you can help me. I've just started cycling regularly
(being one of the aforementioned 30-somethings who's worried about getting a
bit fat) and I wonder if you can give me any idea of how long it will be
before I become an utterly humourless git.

About 5 ******s pulling out in front of you/cutting you up/chucking
something at you as they pass.

Maybe a month?

James
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http://www.ne.jp/asahi/julesandjames/home/
http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/

AndrewR wrote:
chris harrison wrote:

AndrewR wrote:

chris harrison wrote:
Road users in being polite to each other shocka!


Polite? You think it's polite for that person to make _me_ wait to
pull out - me who pays proper road tax and everything - just so that
some free-loading git on a bike doesn't have to use their brakes?

So you're advocating one road user to just pull out, forcing another
road user to take evasive action in order to accomodate them?

Which particular edition of the highway code are you citing as
evidence?


You just haven't quite got the tongue-in-cheek nature of this thread, have
you?

Actually I wonder if you can help me. I've just started cycling regularly
(being one of the aforementioned 30-somethings who's worried about getting a
bit fat) and I wonder if you can give me any idea of how long it will be
before I become an utterly humourless git.


Looks like you're already there ... seeing as how you reacted to my
previous post

Colin Blackburn wrote:
AndrewR wrote:

Actually I wonder if you can help me. I've just started cycling
regularly (being one of the aforementioned 30-somethings who's worried
about getting a bit fat) and I wonder if you can give me any idea of
how long it will be before I become an utterly humourless git.


It depends on the cycle. Unicyclists and 'bent riders seem to spend
their whole lives grinning inanely, I don't think they eve lose that.
Folder riders usually have a smirk on their faces, though it's usually
of smug satisfaction rather than humour. Tandem stokers find life pretty
funny.

Depends whether you keep reading uk.tosspot as believe the view of the
world as propagated from there ...

On 06/17/2005 10:11:47 "AndrewR" wrote:

Actually I wonder if you can help me. I've just started cycling regularly
(being one of the aforementioned 30-somethings who's worried about getting
a bit fat) and I wonder if you can give me any idea of how long it will be
before I become an utterly humourless git.

About two weeks if you keep reading these posts.

--

Buck

I would rather be out on my Catrike

http://www.catrike.co.uk

AndrewR wrote:
chris harrison wrote:

AndrewR wrote:

chris harrison wrote:


AndrewR wrote:


Just today I was waiting behind another car to pull out onto a main
road. The main road was clear of traffic apart from a cyclist and
the car in front of my sat and waited for the cyclist to get past
the junction before pulling out!

Road users in being polite to each other shocka!


Polite? You think it's polite for that person to make _me_ wait to
pull out - me who pays proper road tax and everything - just so that
some free-loading git on a bike doesn't have to use their brakes?

So you're advocating one road user to just pull out, forcing another
road user to take evasive action in order to accomodate them?

Which particular edition of the highway code are you citing as
evidence?


You just haven't quite got the tongue-in-cheek nature of this thread, have
you?

Actually I wonder if you can help me. I've just started cycling regularly
(being one of the aforementioned 30-somethings who's worried about getting a
bit fat) and I wonder if you can give me any idea of how long it will be
before I become an utterly humourless git.


As soon as your backside hits that saddle you're there...

Halmyre

In message , James Annan
writes
About 5 ******s pulling out in front of you/cutting you up/chucking
something at you as they pass.

Maybe a month?
Is that all? I would have thought your average biker to be worse than
that.
--
Clive

Clive wrote:

In message , James Annan
writes

About 5 ******s pulling out in front of you/cutting you up/chucking
something at you as they pass.

Maybe a month?

Is that all? I would have thought your average biker to be worse than
that.

But you are just a clueless plonker, so your opinions are worse than
useless.

--
James Annan
see web pages for email
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/julesandjames/home/
http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/