I'm ready...Dragster1 wrote:LOL! see this all the time normally with the head phones on also and they crap themselves when you fly pass and your shadow hits them. I've felt like giving them a quick flick on the backside with my foot but with the laws these days bad idea.Bah77 wrote:Okay you want to walk on the cycle path, great, oh you also want to walk directly in the center?
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Postby jasonc » Fri Aug 23, 2013 7:40 am
airzound is made for these situations.Mulger bill wrote:I'm ready...Dragster1 wrote:LOL! see this all the time normally with the head phones on also and they crap themselves when you fly pass and your shadow hits them. I've felt like giving them a quick flick on the backside with my foot but with the laws these days bad idea.Bah77 wrote:Okay you want to walk on the cycle path, great, oh you also want to walk directly in the center?
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I think I might need 2 airzounds in case one isn't loud enoughjasonc wrote:
airzound is made for these situations.
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Postby jasonc » Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:11 pm
you realise I'm encourageable. so stop it.Dragster1 wrote:I think I might need 2 airzounds in case one isn't loud enoughjasonc wrote:
airzound is made for these situations.
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Postby Boognoss » Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:39 pm
It only takes one Air Zound and a well timed toot.....jasonc wrote:you realise I'm encourageable. so stop it.Dragster1 wrote:I think I might need 2 airzounds in case one isn't loud enoughjasonc wrote:
airzound is made for these situations.
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Postby citywomble » Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:27 am
Sounds like a complete D***head to me.CXCommuter wrote:
Dibs to the guy along West Coast Highway PSP on his Tribars watching a video on his Dumbphone/tablet whilst cruising at 30km/h.
This is not a PSP (Principal Shared Path) but a lower speed recreational Shared Path. OK alongside West Coast Highway there are places with very few pedestrians but further north, alongside West Coast Drive, then this is too fast, too stupid and just plain reckless.
Shared Paths are for slower cycling, max 20kph, and ready to give way/stop at any time. Tribars or any distractions are not in order. This guy should be on moron motorists as an honorary member as he seems to be as well qualified.
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Postby ColinOldnCranky » Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:45 am
Just curious - what is the problem with tri-bars (which I used to use when I was still riding).citywomble wrote:Sounds like a complete D***head to me.CXCommuter wrote:
Dibs to the guy along West Coast Highway PSP on his Tribars watching a video on his Dumbphone/tablet whilst cruising at 30km/h.
This is not a PSP (Principal Shared Path) but a lower speed recreational Shared Path. OK alongside West Coast Highway there are places with very few pedestrians but further north, alongside West Coast Drive, then this is too fast, too stupid and just plain reckless.
Shared Paths are for slower cycling, max 20kph, and ready to give way/stop at any time. Tribars or any distractions are not in order. This guy should be on moron motorists as an honorary member as he seems to be as well qualified.
Actually tri-bars seem to me to be a bit less common than they used to be.
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Postby Percrime » Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:47 pm
It appears I should have completely left the path to allow those people to use it in its entirety as "bicycles must give way to pedestrians' and they were walking alongside each other over the middle of the path and that was their utter right.
Self entitled plonkers.
I suggested to the male that if he was so keen on a fight I was fine with it and the woman suggested I was picking on an old man. Pah.. bigger age difference between my brother and me.
Seriously... its a long while since I have met bigger wastes of oxygen. I,m going to start jogging that bit of path and I wont be moving over an inch for anyone going the other way.
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Postby Mulger bill » Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:59 pm
Told him if he wanted to hang around for 20 odd minutes I'd be back with a print of the appropriate state and local laws stating the blindingly obvious, ill mannered dill just turned his back...
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Postby trailgumby » Sat Aug 24, 2013 11:08 pm
Legally they're right. And still plonkers. Probably just as self-entitled and incapable of courtesy when behind the wheel of a car. Scary thought.Percrime wrote:Self entitled plonkers.
But if you get off your bike and start walking and hold your line, you turn the tables on them.
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Postby trailgumby » Sat Aug 24, 2013 11:13 pm
Darwin Award!CXCommuter wrote:He was holding the phone in both hands leaning forward on the tri bars
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Postby trailgumby » Sat Aug 24, 2013 11:27 pm
Brakes. Try getting to them in an emergency when you're on the tri-bars, and see what happens.ColinOldnCranky wrote:Just curious - what is the problem with tri-bars (which I used to use when I was still riding).
Actually tri-bars seem to me to be a bit less common than they used to be.
It's not unlike like driving a car with brake pedal in the passenger side footwell.
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Postby Percrime » Sun Aug 25, 2013 4:49 am
I,ll do exactly that. Running while pushing the bike. Anytime I see em. Cyclecross practice. And I,ll be using all my side of the path thank you. And I should imagine they are as self entitled and incapable of courtesy in every single thing they do.trailgumby wrote:Legally they're right. And still plonkers. Probably just as self-entitled and incapable of courtesy when behind the wheel of a car. Scary thought.Percrime wrote:Self entitled plonkers.
But if you get off your bike and start walking and hold your line, you turn the tables on them.
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Postby jules21 » Sun Aug 25, 2013 6:49 pm
dismount and wait with your bike next to you for them to pass, taking up the whole pathPercrime wrote:It appears I should have completely left the path to allow those people to use it in its entirety as "bicycles must give way to pedestrians' and they were walking alongside each other over the middle of the path and that was their utter right.
i have very few issues with pedestrians on shared paths (dog walkers aside, who are often terrible), but every now and then you'll find someone..
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Postby g-boaf » Sun Aug 25, 2013 7:30 pm
They are right - you have to give way to them as they are vulnerable users of the path.Percrime wrote:Very unpleasant woman and hubby... both apparently 65 on the Centennial trail today. I passed them going the other way at marginally over jogging pace... (I could tell cos the joggers I had passed back before burke rd were still in sight behind) on my side.. and completely on my side and a foot or so clear. I passed.. they yelled abuse. I returned to enquire.
It appears I should have completely left the path to allow those people to use it in its entirety as "bicycles must give way to pedestrians' and they were walking alongside each other over the middle of the path and that was their utter right.
Self entitled plonkers.
I suggested to the male that if he was so keen on a fight I was fine with it and the woman suggested I was picking on an old man. Pah.. bigger age difference between my brother and me.
Seriously... its a long while since I have met bigger wastes of oxygen. I,m going to start jogging that bit of path and I wont be moving over an inch for anyone going the other way.
You should even dismount and walk past them.
Haven't you learned anything from the numerous lectures on BNA with the pedestrians in disguise on here saying all the above?
When I come up against those people I go very slowly past them at no more than their speed and wait until they move to give me enough room.
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Too many angry people around these days.
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Postby CXCommuter » Mon Aug 26, 2013 3:10 pm
Exactly, excellent for long flat sections of road with no one around, on a Shared path they are dangerous but the biggest concern in this case was using them as a resting pad for his arms holding a mobile entertainment device.trailgumby wrote:Brakes. Try getting to them in an emergency when you're on the tri-bars, and see what happens.ColinOldnCranky wrote:Just curious - what is the problem with tri-bars (which I used to use when I was still riding).
Actually tri-bars seem to me to be a bit less common than they used to be.
It's not unlike like driving a car with brake pedal in the passenger side footwell.
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Postby zero » Mon Aug 26, 2013 3:27 pm
We've never said that. In the case of people who won't share part of the path at all (which is a far less frequently observable event than poor driving imo), I just stop and make them go round, which forces them to make the space anyway.g-boaf wrote: Haven't you learned anything from the numerous lectures on BNA with the pedestrians in disguise on here saying all the above?
If you must say anything to them, tell them its a very bad idea to try make a kid cyclist leave and reenter a path at a shallow angle.
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