She has some of my sympathy. I am sick and tired of seeing perfectly capable (I think!) and adult (I think!) cyclists, fully kitted up, bowling along the pavement alongside a quiet residential street with barely a car in sight. Do they
really imagine that moving those two or three yards to the right, down the kerb and onto the carriageway, is tantamount to leaping off Beachy Head?
But:
Mrs Coles, of Devon Avenue, said: "Twice recently I've nearly been knocked over by people riding on the pavement outside my house. I have a dog and sometimes his lead stretches across the path, and if a cyclist comes along they say 'get that dog out of the way'.
just for the record, I had a close encounter with a dog on a long expanding lead today. This was
on the road of course, a quiet country lane, not a pavement, and, like in the lady's account, the lead was strung right across the road. I had no option but to drop anchor and utter a polite but firm "EXCUSE ME!"
(I most certainly did not shout "get out of the way") Of course I got a muttered apology from the owner as he reined in his animal. But apologies often come too late...
