Re: Cyclist hit and runs - what is the answer?

Simon Brooke wrote:


Nobody in this discussion has defended cycling on the pavement. 

I will!

Nobody in
this discussion has equivocated, dissembled or deflected.


I will! Well actually, I'll simply disagree.

Cycling on the
pavement is wrong, and people who do it, as others on this thread have
already pointed out, are 'pillocks' and 'twunts', and generally
irresponsible louts.

So you say. It may be true in general, in some countries. It's not true in Japan.

I cycle short distances on the pavement when it is more convenient and safe than the alternative road. That excludes pavements with lots of pedestrians on, although I occasionally ride past one or two. In practive it means I take a couple of shortcuts round nasty junctions on my regular commute, and roll along the pavement a short way to and from a parking spot in town. My behaviour would be no more dangerous if I were to do it in the UK.

I simply don't see what the fuss is about. It seems less offensive than whistling tunelessly or showing a builder's crack. You don't get Japanese people doing those things. You don't find them ramming you with shopping trolleys either. What is the answer to the "rising tide" of shopping trolley injuries in the UK? Let's have licenses for shopping! More bobbies in the aisles! Is no-one going to think of the children? Something Must Be Done!


James
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Cyclist hit and runs - what is the answer?
    ... People who equivocate, ... > dissemble and deflect while failing to condemn are pillocks too. ... Nobody in this discussion has defended cycling on the pavement. ...
    (uk.rec.cycling)
  • Re: Cyclist hit and runs - what is the answer?
    ... cars shouldn't be on the pavement either. ... >> pedestrians on the pavement than cyclists do. ... >and deflect while failing to condemn are pillocks too. ...
    (uk.rec.cycling)
  • Re: Cyclist hit and runs - what is the answer?
    ... cars shouldn't be on the pavement either. ... I suspect that cars on pavements killing people do not intend to be there: ... Cyclists on pavements do intend to be there. ... People who cycle on pavements are pillocks. ...
    (uk.rec.cycling)