Yeah all good just a bit of bark off. I busted the rear derallieur hanger and put plenty of new scratches on the bike but that's about it.Summernight wrote:Ouch Postieboy. Are you (and the bike) okay?
Lesson learnt.
Postby Postieboy » Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:38 pm
Yeah all good just a bit of bark off. I busted the rear derallieur hanger and put plenty of new scratches on the bike but that's about it.Summernight wrote:Ouch Postieboy. Are you (and the bike) okay?
Postby g-boaf » Tue Apr 16, 2013 9:06 pm
I watched that earlier today, ouch that looked bad. I always give painted lines and metal covers a lot of respect. Mend quickly.Postieboy wrote:Yeah all good just a bit of bark off. I busted the rear derallieur hanger and put plenty of new scratches on the bike but that's about it.Summernight wrote:Ouch Postieboy. Are you (and the bike) okay?
Lesson learnt.
Postby Saturnstarzz » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:03 pm
Postby trailgumby » Wed Apr 17, 2013 12:56 pm
Yeah, ouch. Any kind of dampness and white roadmarking paint DO NOT mix. Man, I winced when I saw your brake hoods dragging on the pavement for so long. How's your skin?Postieboy wrote:Yeah all good just a bit of bark off. I busted the rear derallieur hanger and put plenty of new scratches on the bike but that's about it.Summernight wrote:Ouch Postieboy. Are you (and the bike) okay?
Lesson learnt.
Postby Marto » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:11 pm
Postby malnar » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:32 pm
Postby birdbrain » Wed Apr 17, 2013 4:54 pm
Man you were flyingPostieboy wrote:
Dumb cyclists was me on thismornings commute.
Touched the white line, and down I went.
Postby jules21 » Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:03 pm
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Thu Apr 18, 2013 12:23 am
Bugger Postieboy. It's the bike we are worried about.Summernight wrote:Ouch Postieboy. Are you (and the bike) okay?
Postby BigBadWOLF » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:45 am
Postby Myrtone » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:16 am
Postby m@ » Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:19 am
Postby Summernight » Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:51 am
Postby Big_Red » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:25 pm
+1 to that! Excellent summation I thought, couldn't have said better myselfSummernight wrote: I was going to comment on his purple polka dot top. Is that the 'King of the Red Light Running' jersey? Or the 'King of the Push in Front' jersey? Also known as a Knob.
Postby Ranga Tang » Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:53 pm
Postby Summernight » Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:11 pm
Postby biker jk » Thu Apr 18, 2013 4:50 pm
What does wearing Lycra have to do with stupid behaviour on a bike? I see plenty of stupid riding by non-Lycra wearing cyclists. Please drop the stereotypes.Ranga Tang wrote:Riding along the cycle way (Fairy Meadow) today with the two kids (5 and 9), both in front, me taking rearguard position to look for other cyclists, to make sure they kids don't impede too many people's progress.
Here comes Lycra clad toss bag from behind doing at least 40kph, blazes past me, just clipping my arm and the almost drafting my daughter off her bike. No warning.
Called out to the tosser, doesn't stop but does the same to the next group way up.
I'm just hate these people. He's probably lucky I had the kids with me otherwise we would have had a spoke removal party with his bike.
Why,why,why.....you...yes you....you know who you are.....
Postby Ranga Tang » Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:26 pm
Yeah. Had to go to one of those once when I was on rollerblades and was body slammed from behind. I rode/skated home..... not a story proud of though, long, long time agoSummernight wrote:Oooo. I've never been to a spoke removal party. Sounds like fun.
Postby Walst » Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:51 pm
Postby Myrtone » Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:05 pm
You cannot rationally base your decisions on those of a group independently minded road users, what if you are in the Northern Territory and 3000 vehicles (some in front of you and some beside you) run a red light, can the police rationally accept that excuse. You and all other road users need to base any evasie action you take at a given intersection on the rules that apply there and the signs signals and markings there. I never said that being an amateuir driver is an excuse (per se). The point is that proffesional drivers need to pass a lot more and stricter tests, are because of that, and the stricter vision and medical standards they must meet, they are less likely to make such mistakes. Also if a proffesional driver, even a taxi driver or limosene chauffer brakes a road rule like the one you menition, than the consequences are much bigger (such as getting into trouble with your employer or even your employer being charged with not ensuring that you follow the rules) that if they were driving on a private class of license, and note vehicles licenced to carry up 15 passengers may be driven on a private class of licence provided that use is not commerical and the passengers are not paying for the ride (directly or indirectly).Summernight wrote:To each their own, Myrtone. Personally I would have said that if the guy is colour blind or deficient in some respect then he should take MORE cues from the 10 cyclists in front of him who were stopping for the light. There is usually a reason why a bunch of sheeples (or in this case independently minded cyclists ) are stopping. Not being a professional is never an excuse for a car and nor should it be for a cyclist.
More (politically) correctly, peolpe vary in the specific areas in which they are gifted.Summernight wrote:And some people are just plain stupid, even if they are intelligent in other aspects.
If you let people ride/drive, the rules and tools need to be suit their abilities, no license is required to ride a bike so cyclists cannot rationally be requried to pass colour vision tests*, or any other tests, therefore traffic lights should requrie no colour vision to understand. Have you ever noticed that the traffic lights are always stacked in the same order*&? Here are some ideas, bicycle only traffic signals often have biycle logos embossed on the lens, one idea would be to make the red one upside-down, another would be a non-illumintaed bicycle logo on a red illuminated background.Summernight wrote:Until the law is changed, running reds is illegal, no matter what you think of it and when people run them they are making a conscious choice to do so. If someone cannot read the cues of traffic or cannot see the colour of the lights then they really shouldn't be riding/driving or whatever without serious training to mitigate the problem (if possible).
Postby Percrime » Thu Apr 18, 2013 8:50 pm
Postby BigBadWOLF » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:13 pm
Postby Myrtone » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:40 pm
Postby bychosis » Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:14 am
Assumeing good faith... This rider still definately did a stupid thing. Some might say there are no stupid people only stupid actions.Myrtone wrote:Have you seriously not heard of the concept of assuming good faith. Isn't it best to assume that the other road users care as much as anyone else about behaving unharmfully? I saw no claim that the light was cyclist shaped. I'm not disputing that they were riding in a harmful manner, but it's not an excuse to caim they are "stupid." Please assume good faith, you may find it hard to accept, becasue what I'm telling you strikes you as counter-intuative. And you're in New South Wales so you're unlikely to cycle near me anyway.
Postby twizzle » Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:49 am
There is a subtle purpose to this thread - stress relief. I do not wish to see any more stress generation via trolling.twizzle wrote: This thread is for posts about observed incidents and discussions of those incidents. Going off-topic to discuss things such as the unfairness of red lights, bicycle helmets or "rights" should be carried out elsewhere.
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