Why do some cyclists, always, have to get to the front???

[Defy78]

I do that when going home, but then the train i am on carries several hundred people and a vast quantity of them are getting off at my stop. Don't get off near the front then you are waiting for ages to walk up the ramp and to get out of the turnstiles. Which can = missing your connection tram or bus which equates to an extra 10mins on your journey time. That matters when you are trying to get home to your family after a long day at work.

Not arguing with you just wondering, have you actually ever done that (I mean waited then been late home) or are you surmising what you think will happen? Has the worry of missing the connection meant you've always jumped up and qued to get off the train as soon as possible? I have to admit when I lived in London (few years back now) I always tried to avoid rush hour public transport, for fear of being trampled to death

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Or the cinema, people are in a massive rush to start queuing to get out when the credits start to roll. I just sit for a while and wait for it to clear; I'm not a fan of doing that slow shuffle...

Especially as you often miss the very end of the film that way.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Not arguing with you just wondering, have you actually ever done that (I mean waited then been late home) or are you surmising what you think will happen? Has the worry of missing the connection meant you've always jumped up and qued to get off the train as soon as possible? I have to admit when I lived in London (few years back now) I always tried to avoid rush hour public transport, for fear of being trampled to death

When I have a connection, yes I will get up early as the local train is only every 30 mins. But thats the only time as I have missed it in the past.

Actually I have a side issue on this > a lot of people on my local train get off at the 1st and 2nd stops. Yet they go and sit in the middle of the carriage and then complain when they cant get past someone who's travelling further Whats that all about

 

[XmisterIS]

I will filter to the front if it's safe to do so and I can sit to one side of the front car comfortably and I'm not obstructing traffic. Otherwise I filter as far forward as I can so that I can get through the lights on a single change (i.e. a few cars back).

Some cyclists can be very pushy gits though, last summer when I was on my motorbike I had filtered to the front of the traffic (no problem on a motorbike because I'm not holding anyone up!), and a group of three roadies all in club kit came up behind, squeezed between me and the car to my left (making contact with me and the car in the process) and then sat, three abreast in front of all the traffic, over the stop line (there was no ASL). I actually couldn't quite believe it.

 

[VamP]

I don't know, I just do! Allright?





As far as the airplane thing goes, if you travel on business, you often don't have any checked-in luggage, so you will try to minimize your travel time by:

a) checking in on-line to sit as close to the front of plane as possible
b) being ready (standing up and clutching carry-on and other belongings) to unboard as soon as door open
c) walking as fast as possible to passport control to not get stuck in a possible huge queue

Applying these principles I have in the past saved whole minutes!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I don't know, I just do! Allright?





As far as the airplane thing goes, if you travel on business, you often don't have any checked-in luggage, so you will try to minimize your travel time by:

a) checking in on-line to sit as close to the front of plane as possible
b) being ready (standing up and clutching carry-on and other belongings) to unboard as soon as door open
c) walking as fast as possible to passport control to not get stuck in a possible huge queue

Applying these principles I have in the past saved whole minutes!

Maybe it is those desperate for a fag!!!!

 

[Simba]

Maybe it is those desperate for a fag!!!!

I can relate to that.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I can relate to that.

I remember what it was like. I also remember the headrush of that first fag even after a short trip to Edinburgh from Heathrow.

 

[guitarpete247]

My dad was a sod for setting off early to avoid the rush. I remember going to the air display at RAF Finningley as a family when I was too young to go on my own. Dad would get us back to the car before the end of the display so he could get out onto the road home (We only lived 5 miles away) before the rush. I saw the Red Arrows from the back window for years.
When I was old enough to go on my own I biked it there and didn't leave till everything had finished. Even then I spent 1/2 hour going round the hangar displays that I couldn't get to see earlier now the crowds were leaving.

 

[gaz]

Not arguing with you just wondering, have you actually ever done that (I mean waited then been late home) or are you surmising what you think will happen? Has the worry of missing the connection meant you've always jumped up and qued to get off the train as soon as possible? I have to admit when I lived in London (few years back now) I always tried to avoid rush hour public transport, for fear of being trampled to death

I've missed connections plenty of times, and it is even more annoying when you see the tram / bus / train pulling away just as you are in sight of it.

 

[coffeejo]

I echo what XminsterIS says about getting through the lights before they change. If you skip to the front, you're not queue jumping as you don't hold any cars up, but you save yourself x many yards which can make all the difference at lights which don't stay on green for very long and/or spend a long time on red.

As for the trains, planes, cinemas thing, I get claustrophobic if I'm caught in the middle of a queue like that so I try to get to the front or stay at the back. It's the same out cycling in a group, I can't hack being in the middle when there's more than 5 or 6 other people. I worry that the others in the group think I'm arrogant but I'd rather a false impression than a panic attack on wheels!