Riding on the pavement to avoid lights

[lordloveaduck]

It's not the pavement riding to avoid lights that I do but something else I do that produces apoplexy in the car drivers offended by my actions.

When there are those temporary lights, I see no reason whatsoever to stop if it's clear there's nothing coming the other way. Even if something should come at you, our bikes are so narrow as to easily evade them by going the other side of the cones. But drivers who sit patiently most of the time are doing so simply because the light is on red! When it's blatantly obvious the road on the other side of the lights is clear for hundreds of metres, they still sit there, programmed to obey, simply because they have been told to. I've been screamed at, driven at, roared past by boy-racers simply because I took the sensible option of not being over-regulated when there was no reason to do so.

Hate to break it to you. Traffic rules apply to you as well.

 

[theclaud]

Great, thats your opinion and you are entitled to express it.I however abide by the signs, lights whatever - my choice , I ride a MTB on and off road. If somebody rides the pavement , thats their choice..horses for courses here....

If that's all there is to say, why are we all having a discussion about it for four pages (and counting)?

 

[PaulB]

Hate to break it to you. Traffic rules apply to you as well.

No you don't; I get the feeling you enjoyed portraying Mr. Sensible. Common sense overrules petty-minded compliance with stupidity.

 

[lordloveaduck]

No you don't; I get the feeling you enjoyed portraying Mr. Sensible. Common sense overrules petty-minded compliance with stupidity.

No, i enjoy cake, walks on the beach, the feel of jelly between my toes and a wet nose in the morning.
PS

Hate to break it to you. Traffic rules apply to you as well.

One more thing. I also enjoy Columbo ( i would enjoy it more if you bought me the box set)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Columbo-Season-1-7-DVD/dp/B000VA3IX0

 

[PaulB]

No, i enjoy cake, walks on the beach, the feel of jelly between my toes and a wet nose in the morning.
PS


One more thing. I also enjoy Columbo ( i would enjoy it more if you bought me the box set)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Columbo-Season-1-7-DVD/dp/B000VA3IX0

And quoting yourself. You missed that bit. I won't be buying you the box set.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Sorry PaulB but your wrong, and thats why you have been "screamed at, driven at, roared past by boy-racers simply because I took the SELFISH option"

 

[Francesca]

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If that's all there is to say, why are we all having a discussion about it for four pages (and counting)?

I dont know! I didnt start the dam thing did I ??DUH

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I sit in my office on the High Street and watch a lot of grown men on scruffy mtbs ride along the pavement to and from the station all day

Is that your job?

 

[Dan B]

Sorry PaulB but your wrong, and thats why you have been "screamed at, driven at, roared past by boy-racers simply because I took the SELFISH option"

Selfish how exactly?

 

[Dan B]

yes ...they are different, but if you are on a road on whatever "mode" of transport - you adhere to the signs , for your own safety and everybody elses..not embarrasssing to write this.

What do you do if you are on a road and pushing a pram? I believe this is in law a "carriage" and therefore subject to all the same signs etc as vehicles are

 

[theclaud]

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I dont know! I didnt start the dam thing did I ??DUH

But you felt obliged to post in it because...

 

[theclaud]

And looking silly is wrong because?

You sound slightly defensive. I think there are pics...

 

[Pat "5mph"]

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I dont know! I didnt start the dam thing did I ??DUH

But you felt obliged to post in it because...

Because ... it's a forum! On the free for all to post interweb! In the free speach for all UK!
(I'm an "almost always" too, BTW, but I strongly disapprove of myself)

 

[HLaB]

Bless me father I have sinned; there's some temporary lights on my current commute and a sign saying cyclists use path but it doesn't say cyclists dismount the bits at the end are shared and clearly marked but the bit in the middle is a bit narrow but still doesn't say dismount

 

[Francesca]

But you felt obliged to post in it because...

Its a forum and I shall post my views just like you and everybody else !! ok??