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Old April 6th 17, 09:09 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Bod[_5_]
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I have never seen or been passed by, a car coming toward me or from
behind me while I am walking on the pavement,nor have I seen a car
driving along a pavement, or using a Zebra crossing. I have never had
to leap out of the way of a pavement driven car either (unlike the
dangerously ridden pavement bicycles that I frequently see and have
encountered)


Not happening to Mr Cheerful means it doesn't happen? Is the video made
up? The lower frequency is likely in large part due physical constraints
giving drivers fewer opportunities (perhaps you haven't noticed that
many pavements have streetlamps that restict the width?), rather than
from a lack of will.

Oh, I have seen cars drive on the pavement as part of a longer journey.

Certainly cars do sometimes mount pavements and park there, sometimes
they use a bit of pavement to avoid a temporary obstruction, but they do
not make their entire or significant parts of their journeys on
pavements, not even the cars being driven by cyclists, although I do
suspect that the worst driven cars probably have a cyclist at the wheel.


You're slipping. Where is your usual "please sweep it under the carpet
because this is a cycling newsgroup"?


I brought the OP back on topic for the group.

You mean that you've brought it back to your sad repetitive obsessive
posts dissing cyclists.
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Old April 6th 17, 09:56 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Peter Keller[_3_]
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On 06.04.2017 08:37, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

Prick.


Thanks greatly for your excellent compliment.

It really is a very great compliment to be called a prick by YOU.
Especially by YOU.
And I have no ****ing interest in looking good in YOUR eyes.
After all I ride a ****ing bicycle.
And we all know what YOU think of bicyclists. You think they are the
****witted pits of humanity.
And because it is YOU who think that, that is an extremely great
compliment.
We must be doing something right.

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Old April 6th 17, 10:02 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
James Wilkinson Sword[_4_]
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On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 09:09:00 +0100, Bod wrote:


I have never seen or been passed by, a car coming toward me or from
behind me while I am walking on the pavement,nor have I seen a car
driving along a pavement, or using a Zebra crossing. I have never had
to leap out of the way of a pavement driven car either (unlike the
dangerously ridden pavement bicycles that I frequently see and have
encountered)

Not happening to Mr Cheerful means it doesn't happen? Is the video made
up? The lower frequency is likely in large part due physical constraints
giving drivers fewer opportunities (perhaps you haven't noticed that
many pavements have streetlamps that restict the width?), rather than
from a lack of will.

Oh, I have seen cars drive on the pavement as part of a longer journey.

Certainly cars do sometimes mount pavements and park there, sometimes
they use a bit of pavement to avoid a temporary obstruction, but they do
not make their entire or significant parts of their journeys on
pavements, not even the cars being driven by cyclists, although I do
suspect that the worst driven cars probably have a cyclist at the wheel.

You're slipping. Where is your usual "please sweep it under the carpet
because this is a cycling newsgroup"?


I brought the OP back on topic for the group.

You mean that you've brought it back to your sad repetitive obsessive
posts dissing cyclists.


Dunno who wrote it up there, but this reply is for him: cyclists SHOULD be on pavements out of the way of cars.

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Old April 6th 17, 08:47 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Mr Pounder Esquire
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Bod wrote:
On 05/04/2017 17:22, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
TMS320 wrote:
Well, it can't be motorists because we have often been told that
they never do this.

http://www.roadhawk.co.uk/blog/impat...-on-pavements/


Like a cyclist would not jump from the road to the footpath if the
wagon was blocking the road.
BTW, the driving in the video was appalling, but I suspect unusual.


Unusual? Only if you consider "3,000 incidents of reckless driving
per month" unusual.


Yes, unusual.
Unless of course you have witnessed driving as in the video.
Well, have you??
................................................
Thought not ...........


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Old April 7th 17, 08:41 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Mr Pounder Esquire
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wrote:
On Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 9:37:38 PM UTC+1, Mr Pounder Esquire
wrote:
wrote:
On Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 7:49:39 AM UTC+1, MrCheerful wrote:
On 04/04/2017 21:58, TMS320 wrote:
Well, it can't be motorists because we have often been told that
they never do this.

http://www.roadhawk.co.uk/blog/impat...-on-pavements/



I see and directly encounter cyclists riding on pavements every
day,

So do I, does that exempt motorists from the law?

very few of them even slow down while negotiating/passing
pedestrians.

Yet you are still 200 times more likely to be killed by a car on the
pavement than a bicycle\

I also see and encounter cyclists riding across Zebra crossings.

Not illegal


I have never seen or been passed by, a car coming toward me or from
behind me while I am walking on the pavement,

I have.

nor have I seen a car
driving along a pavement

I have

, or using a Zebra crossing

I have

. I have never had
to leap out of the way of a pavement driven car either

I have

unlike the
dangerously ridden pavement bicycles that I frequently see and have
encountered)

Certainly cars do sometimes mount pavements and park there

and that's OK?


, sometimes
they use a bit of pavement to avoid a temporary obstruction

And that's OK?

, but they do
not make their entire or significant parts of their journeys on
pavements

What percentage of your journey are allowed to make on the pavement?

, not even the cars being driven by cyclists, although I do
suspect that the worst driven cars probably have a cyclist at the
wheel.

Because that is the only way you can justify your childish
prejudice?


Prick.


Reasoned argument, logically presented.


Prick.


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Old April 7th 17, 08:41 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling
Mr Pounder Esquire
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Peter Keller wrote:
On 06.04.2017 08:37, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

Prick.


Thanks greatly for your excellent compliment.

?It really is a very great compliment to be called a prick by YOU.
Especially by YOU.
And I have no ****ing interest in looking good in YOUR eyes.
After all I ride a ****ing bicycle.
And we all know what YOU think of bicyclists. You think they are the
****witted pits of humanity.
And because it is YOU who think that, that is an extremely great
compliment.
We must be doing something right.


Prick.


 




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