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Richard J. · October 10th 04, 11:02 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.rec.cycling

Monkey Hanger wrote:
(Nick Cooper) wrote in
:

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Alternatively, who can I complain to about all the ****s on bikes
who think that red lights - particularly those at pedestrian
crossing - somehow don't count for them?

You could try the police?

Especially annoying are the ones who think they're entitled to
shout
abuse at the pedestrians they have to swerve round them because
they're already half way across the road. Funny, that, isn't it?
Pedestrians having the temerity to cross a road when the lights
are in their favour, just because to knobend-in-lycra is too
impatient to obey the red and
wait a few seconds.

You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that
uk.rec.cycling exists to defend these idiots. It doesn't. Most
cyclists on this group deplore that kind of behaviour.

Maybe some of the denizens of uk.transport.london could comment on
whether or not they think this behaviour is defensible?

One point that came out of the previous discussion on this thread (which
I thought had quietly died) was the distinction between real cyclists
and the Persons on Bikes (POBs) who give cycling a bad name. I found it
encouraging that uk.rec.cycling denizens made that distinction. I think
most people on u.t.l would agree that the crass behaviour that Nick
Cooper described is not defensible.
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Richard J.
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