Dave 123
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cambridgeshire alps
Flashing on the helmet... no wonder she's upset
Don't you get fed up with negative comments at work sometimes.
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Titan yer tummy
No meatings b4 dinner!
- Location
- Beckenham, SE London
It can work both ways you know. I have already bored you to death with my recent hernia operation which has kept be off the bike. Last week I got a tummy ache and thinking the op might be the problem went to casualty and was a admitted back into hosp.
When the. Consultant came to see me she said that she was sure everything was alright and it was just a bit of gastro enteritis or constipation and I should go home. I then told her I was a cyclist and asked her when I would be OK to get back on the bike. " Ah!" Says she "this could be part of the problem. Your body could be reacting to NOT DOING ENOUGH CYCLING; the movement is good for the tummy to keep everything working properly. Go home and get on yer bike."
Yee haa!!
When the. Consultant came to see me she said that she was sure everything was alright and it was just a bit of gastro enteritis or constipation and I should go home. I then told her I was a cyclist and asked her when I would be OK to get back on the bike. " Ah!" Says she "this could be part of the problem. Your body could be reacting to NOT DOING ENOUGH CYCLING; the movement is good for the tummy to keep everything working properly. Go home and get on yer bike."
Yee haa!!
mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
- Location
- Egremont, Cumbria
I'm usually lucky in that the only comments I get are about being 'mad cycling in this weather'.
I have been known to email certain people relevant sections of the highway code "for their information" when people have stated rubbish before now though
I have been known to email certain people relevant sections of the highway code "for their information" when people have stated rubbish before now though
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
I have never had a single negative comment about cycling (the odd grumble about the stupid actions of a cyclist), but there are too many who cycle to make cyclists an out group.
downfader
extimus uero philosophus
- Location
- 'ampsheeeer
Hah!
To the OP, read this: http://www.ctc.org.uk/desktopdefault.aspx?tabid=4071 It provides you with the legal knowledge you need.
Also for future reference - no they do not cause epilepsy in otherwise healthy people, or trigger an attack when flashing on someone who does suffer from the condition. There are people who suffer from a form of photo-epilepsy (iirc) and these represent about 4% of all epileptics. Typically they're not allowed to drive. That's if memory serves correctly. I know how idiots like to use that little myth now and again.
bicyclos
Part time Anorak
- Location
- West Yorkshire
The person in question is probably a frigid and frustrated person
Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't....What if you had no light's at all or a very dim on? I get called druggy cyclist at work as I take a number of suppliments through the day at break and lunch time. They love it when a cyclist tests positive as I get some stick. I do tell them to Google drugs in football and sport to shut their mouth's because it does not come up smelling of roses....
Regards
Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't....What if you had no light's at all or a very dim on? I get called druggy cyclist at work as I take a number of suppliments through the day at break and lunch time. They love it when a cyclist tests positive as I get some stick. I do tell them to Google drugs in football and sport to shut their mouth's because it does not come up smelling of roses....
Regards
MissTillyFlop
Evil communist dictator, lover of gerbils & Pope.
To be honest, I wouldn't bother even with having a conversation with this women, she's sounds borderline retarded.
Maybe she doesn't like motorists being able to see you because it stops her from getting work...
Maybe she doesn't like motorists being able to see you because it stops her from getting work...
downfader
extimus uero philosophus
- Location
- 'ampsheeeer
The person in question is probably a frigid and frustrated person
Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't....What if you had no light's at all or a very dim on? I get called druggy cyclist at work as I take a number of suppliments through the day at break and lunch time. They love it when a cyclist tests positive as I get some stick. I do tell them to Google drugs in football and sport to shut their mouth's because it does not come up smelling of roses....
Regards
Nothing like a coked up Premiership footballer getting arrested for some horrible sex offence. How many times has that happened now? 6..?
I've told the story before on here.. one of the guys at work liked to take the piss. We're all getting dressed after work in the changing room, I'm just putting my arms under the bibshort straps and I get the "fat wrestler" remark. He poo'd his pants when I ran at him and like I was to wrestle him.
No wonder she was flustered and distracted if you were flashing your helmet at her.
I never have my front light/lights on 'flash' mode, simply because when I'm driving I find them slightly distracting (not in a helpful way).
I often put one rear light on 'flash' because as a motorist I find that helpful in spotting cyclists in a long stream of tail lights.
But I have absolutely no problemm with people using 'flash' at the front. Many, many things are distracting to all road users and flashing front lights on a bicycle hardly register in the sum of all distractions.
Unless you had a massive battery of flashing lights, this matron might want to ask herself why she mistook you for an approaching ambulance. Even a bicycle with what the rider thinks is a really cool array of off-road eye-burners tilted up to eye level looks and behaves nothing like a motor vehicle. She sounds slightly silly to me, which isn't a crime. Slightly hectoring too, which is unhelpul but not a hanging offence.
In her defence, she does seem to be aware of the presence of other road users. Silly but observant.
I'd let it go.
I often put one rear light on 'flash' because as a motorist I find that helpful in spotting cyclists in a long stream of tail lights.
But I have absolutely no problemm with people using 'flash' at the front. Many, many things are distracting to all road users and flashing front lights on a bicycle hardly register in the sum of all distractions.
Unless you had a massive battery of flashing lights, this matron might want to ask herself why she mistook you for an approaching ambulance. Even a bicycle with what the rider thinks is a really cool array of off-road eye-burners tilted up to eye level looks and behaves nothing like a motor vehicle. She sounds slightly silly to me, which isn't a crime. Slightly hectoring too, which is unhelpul but not a hanging offence.
In her defence, she does seem to be aware of the presence of other road users. Silly but observant.
I'd let it go.
marafi
Rolling down the hills with the bike.
- Location
- univeristy is my home for now. lol
We have loads of cyclists in Univeristy. Wish someone did a society im tempted too. Im a part timer at work so it is only me. Any negatives comments i just say 'Try cycling and you will see alot of improvement in your life. ' Sometimes it works and others sadly not.
Though Gaz, that is not very good to use that kind of phase. Because it will make them realize they are not listening to you. Though, i have done that with my lecturers works like a charm.
Though Gaz, that is not very good to use that kind of phase. Because it will make them realize they are not listening to you. Though, i have done that with my lecturers works like a charm.
