The Dumb Cyclists and Pedestrians thread...
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Postby find_bruce » Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:05 am
Biffidus wrote:'Woah' doesn't work on them newfangled iron horses. Clearly they are a menace and should be registered!
Technically it did stop a bike, just not HIS bike. Thanks for the laughs guys - helps to let off steamoutnabike wrote:Hi Bruce, Are you seriously saying. "woah woah woah" wont stop a bike?
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Postby jasonc » Mon Sep 15, 2014 12:26 pm
almost, but not quite.lobstermash wrote:Campy freehub's almost as effective as an Airzound for a warning device
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Postby lobstermash » Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:29 pm
Just for the record, I'm not going to post in this thread for the next two months for the sake of not spamming it up. But I'll say one word that makes all Canberran cyclists that commute to Civic shudder... Floriade. 'Nuff said.
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Postby westab » Wed Sep 17, 2014 10:32 am
Tuesday night at about 6:20pm there was a "Time trialing wonder boy" on the M7C shared pathway; nearly all black team kit, aero bars, black bike, black shoe covers, black helmet. Heading towards the M2 - in the tuck position on my side of the path as he wooshed past some peds. My right elbow brushed his handlebar. In the brief second that I saw him it looked like an expensive bike and kit with a serious rider. Why not invest in a front and rear blinky light - consider it an insurance policy.
I don't know if it is just me but are others finding that there seem to be more bike ninjas on nice bikes that don't need to use lights this goose is my second for the week?
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Postby g-boaf » Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:00 am
Most people I see on the M7 have their lights going - especially those with the expensive bikes. There is a portion of the M7 cycleway that has no lighting at night (for a while), might have bean near Eastern Road (iirc), but generally it is so well lit that it is easy to see other riders ahead, even ones that don't have the lights going.westab wrote:TO the wonder boy who has eaten lots of carrots and can see in the dark - please put on some lights so us mortals can see you.
Tuesday night at about 6:20pm there was a "Time trialing wonder boy" on the M7C shared pathway; nearly all black team kit, aero bars, black bike, black shoe covers, black helmet. Heading towards the M2 - in the tuck position on my side of the path as he wooshed past some peds. My right elbow brushed his handlebar. In the brief second that I saw him it looked like an expensive bike and kit with a serious rider. Why not invest in a front and rear blinky light - consider it an insurance policy.
I don't know if it is just me but are others finding that there seem to be more bike ninjas on nice bikes that don't need to use lights this goose is my second for the week?
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Postby westab » Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:12 am
g-boaf agree that it is usually easy to see, I usually turn the helmet light off and the handlebar light to blink so I can be seen. This guy bombed out from just behind the peds near the waste treatment plant, with his hands still on the aero bars - only really half in control (at best).g-boaf wrote:Most people I see on the M7 have their lights going - especially those with the expensive bikes. There is a portion of the M7 cycleway that has no lighting at night (for a while), might have bean near Eastern Road (iirc), but generally it is so well lit that it is easy to see other riders ahead, even ones that don't have the lights going.westab wrote:TO the wonder boy who has eaten lots of carrots and can see in the dark - please put on some lights so us mortals can see you.
Tuesday night at about 6:20pm there was a "Time trialing wonder boy" on the M7C shared pathway; nearly all black team kit, aero bars, black bike, black shoe covers, black helmet. Heading towards the M2 - in the tuck position on my side of the path as he wooshed past some peds. My right elbow brushed his handlebar. In the brief second that I saw him it looked like an expensive bike and kit with a serious rider. Why not invest in a front and rear blinky light - consider it an insurance policy.
I don't know if it is just me but are others finding that there seem to be more bike ninjas on nice bikes that don't need to use lights this goose is my second for the week?
It must just have been me this week - just seeing two; hope that's all till daylight saving starts and I am going home when it is light.
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Postby lobstermash » Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:15 am
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Postby jasonc » Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:50 am
you know the fix for that?lobstermash wrote:Lady playing fetch with her dog along the Athllon Drive shared path, using one of those tennis ball launcher sticks to get extra distance... Not a good idea any time of the day around a shared path. Even less so at 8:20am.
a bike is quicker than a dog. get the ball and take it with you. the dog will follow
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Postby g-boaf » Wed Sep 17, 2014 12:32 pm
I've seen that happen myself, guy near Prestons in Sydney doing the same thing on the M7 cycleway. You can't do much about it, it's shared use, and I suppose throwing balls for a dog is part of that definition.jasonc wrote:you know the fix for that?lobstermash wrote:Lady playing fetch with her dog along the Athllon Drive shared path, using one of those tennis ball launcher sticks to get extra distance... Not a good idea any time of the day around a shared path. Even less so at 8:20am.
a bike is quicker than a dog. get the ball and take it with you. the dog will follow
I've had some friendly looking dogs start chasing me after their owner commanded them to stay. I sprinted and left them behind. I should have just done 30km/h and kept them chasing, far away from the owner.
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Postby jasonc » Wed Sep 17, 2014 12:53 pm
A fiver says a shared use area is not a designated off-leash area.g-boaf wrote:You can't do much about it, it's shared use, and I suppose throwing balls for a dog is part of that definition.
i.e. no ball chasing by dogs allowed.
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Postby ironhanglider » Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:01 pm
There are very few off-leash areas in the ACT and the ones I know about all have fences around them.jasonc wrote:A fiver says a shared use area is not a designated off-leash area.g-boaf wrote:You can't do much about it, it's shared use, and I suppose throwing balls for a dog is part of that definition.
i.e. no ball chasing by dogs allowed.
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Postby lobstermash » Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:07 pm
It's OK, the only thing more rare than off-leash areas in the ACT are rangers.ironhanglider wrote:There are very few off-leash areas in the ACT and the ones I know about all have fences around them.jasonc wrote:A fiver says a shared use area is not a designated off-leash area.g-boaf wrote:You can't do much about it, it's shared use, and I suppose throwing balls for a dog is part of that definition.
i.e. no ball chasing by dogs allowed.
Cheers,
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Postby g-boaf » Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:11 pm
Good luck finding anyone to enforce it - which I guess is what I was getting at, hence the emoticon.jasonc wrote:A fiver says a shared use area is not a designated off-leash area.g-boaf wrote:You can't do much about it, it's shared use, and I suppose throwing balls for a dog is part of that definition.
i.e. no ball chasing by dogs allowed.
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Postby jules21 » Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:16 pm
my greyhound would disagree! although i don't play fetch with her, i can't take her off the lead at alljasonc wrote:a bike is quicker than a dog. get the ball and take it with you. the dog will follow
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Postby jasonc » Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:19 pm
jules21 wrote:my greyhound would disagree! although i don't play fetch with her, i can't take her off the lead at alljasonc wrote:a bike is quicker than a dog. get the ball and take it with you. the dog will follow
I should have had an asterix for greyhounds
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Postby Gordonhooker » Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:30 pm
Yikes that sounds like my ex-wife....lobstermash wrote:I've come across a few kelpies that'd be pretty hard to outrun. They've kept pace with the car at ~50km/h for a km or two, legs flopping all over the place and tongue hanging out.
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Postby jasonc » Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:43 pm
Gordonhooker wrote:Yikes that sounds like my ex-wife....lobstermash wrote:I've come across a few kelpies that'd be pretty hard to outrun. They've kept pace with the car at ~50km/h for a km or two, legs flopping all over the place and tongue hanging out.
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Postby Boognoss » Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:45 pm
From the M7 website: "It is a legal requirement that while on the shared path dogs must be kept on a leash, for the safety of all."jasonc wrote:A fiver says a shared use area is not a designated off-leash area.g-boaf wrote:You can't do much about it, it's shared use, and I suppose throwing balls for a dog is part of that definition.
i.e. no ball chasing by dogs allowed.
Here you go
Perhaps a ranger could be enticed with the fiver to do something about it......
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Postby Gordonhooker » Wed Sep 17, 2014 1:57 pm
No thank Godjasonc wrote:Gordonhooker wrote:Yikes that sounds like my ex-wife....lobstermash wrote:I've come across a few kelpies that'd be pretty hard to outrun. They've kept pace with the car at ~50km/h for a km or two, legs flopping all over the place and tongue hanging out.is there a video?
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Postby cp123 » Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:41 pm
lobstermash wrote:Floriade. 'Nuff said.
Gold! Absolutely true. I go in in the morning via the main road and London circuit but in the afternoon usually end up on the path between capital towers, over the pedestrian bridge and back around to CW bridge.
It's only been 2 days and the zombie ped apocalypse has arrived. groups of 20 abreast - folk running left to right to get photos and mumma swans protecting their babies so they come at you hissing and wings flapping.
It's better than any ride at any amusement park....
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