Rider Litter Louts

[screenman]

I always stick any wrappers in my back pocket. I do not drop any rubbish whether cycling working walking or anything!! Those energy gel thingies are a placebo in my opinion.

I have never found the need for a gel, bit old school me. But how do you work out the placebo bit?

 

[TheJDog]

On my ride last night I pulled up alongside a young woman in a car. She opened her door, and just threw a load of litter onto the road. I gave her a massive dirty look, and she would the window down and said "you got a problem?", so I said "are you going to pick that up?", she wasn't, so I picked it up and stuffed it into her windscreen vents. She said she was just going to throw it all away in a minute, anyway. Tried appealing to her sense of respect for the area she lived in but it appeared she had none.

 

[lutonloony]

Would love to see the gendarmes on the TDF stopping the cyclists and fining them for littering

 

[slowmotion]

In all the years of watching Jr football it's very rare you see kids spitting, if at all. If anything the kids copy the goal scoring celebrations from the professionals.

You probably live in a nicer neighbourhood than me. Round here, some of the kids seem to have raised their gobbing skills to an almost professional level.

 

[BrynCP]

All rubbish goes back in my pocket. If I take a banana, I wait until I see a bin and eat it there to dispose of skin.

A few years ago there was some running event that crossed the Humber Bridge and the day after the paths were full of energy gel wrappers and it just looked awful.

 

[Karlt]

I like those rubbish net bins you get on the cycle routes in Holland and Belgium.

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Brushed up on my netball skills whilst touring using these.

I wouldn't have a cat's chance in hell of hitting one of those things with my rubbish. I'd still have to get off to put it in!

 

[Karlt]

When I first saw those, I expected there to be a fair few near misses close by but they really do work well.

Probably because people with my levels of co-ordination don't try to use them. You have to bear in mind I'm the sort of person who can't hit balls with bats and can't understand how it's even possible to score in basketball except by pure luck.

 

[Misusawa]

No excuse for littering. Whoever it is should be ashamed.