more rights for cyclists

[dracken1]

BOLLACKS

i usually go to work which is a 7 mile jorney along a coastal road before aberystwyth. on an 850 tdm, it's light and agile. but as i had bought in a 1500 goldwing to sell. i took it home after servicing it. and took it back to the shop next morning. now 1500 wing is not light and not agile. it's 900 lb plus rider.
i was coming up to a pedestrian crossing next to a mini roundabout. nothing in front of me and a few cars behind me. checking that there are no pedestrians near the crossing i carried on.
now i had seen the cyclist on his mountain bike coming towards me on the pavement. i was not however expecting him to cross the pedestrian crossing whilst still riding it.
i caught his back wheel with my front wheel. and run over his back wheel with my back wheel.
said cyclist goes ballistic. asks me if i'm blind. i said "yes" have been for 3 years.
police arrive and tell me to sod off and they will pop into the shop later to see me.
they not turned up yet.
someone tell me i was not the one in the wrong. i mean a pedestrian crossing means just that doesn't it. plus he was riding on the pavement.

oh yes he grazed his hand and his knee. but the wing was unscathed
:D

[cxdemon]

Na your right, twat should have been on foot not using the pedestrian crossing, (hint the name is a bit of a clue there) so if he was on the pavement he should have been on foot or on the road .
fecking cyclists get up my nose with there attitudes sometimes :mad:

[lowrider]

The law is that cyclist should dismount when using crossing so screw them.
Bunch of wankers most of them

[John Hopkins]

The law is that cyclist should dismount when using crossing so screw them.
Bunch of wankers most of them

Yes but it is also dodgy that you are supposed to drive within stopping distance...really it's down to the police and who's side they take....you might have a chance to counterclaim that he 'through riding on the pavement and swerving in front of you onto the crossing, caused expensive damage to your vehicle, and that you are still suffering from shock and depression'...maybe the best defence is a good offence...John

[Bassman]

shame you didn't hit him about a foot more towards the front of the bike mate... :D
anyway.. the 10 points for a cyclist will be in the post... plus an extra 5 if he was wearing lycra.. :p

[Shifty]

Fuckin menace they are. I was in the car this morning and came up behind a group of the twats strung out all across the road. Was awkward getting past without knocking em off (yeah, I know, tempting). Then got caught behind 2 at the Give Way, fuck me if the bunch I'd just passed didn't then squeeze in with their mates in front of me. I then had to wait fúckin ages while they waited for a gap big enough for all 6 of them to go, with more crowding round the car all the time.

Bloody hazard they are, wouldn't be so bad if the twats paid some tax, insurance or (gods forbid) have to actually do some kind of competency test

[rob]

should've killed the wanker. i fekkin' HATE cyclists. i always drive as close to 'em as i dare in the car/trike/bike when overtaking them, (unless its kids), and swerve in right in front of 'em. they should be banned from anywhere except cycle lanes.

[ChopperFXR]

Cyclists are a fecking menace to society. No tax, no insurance, no training, think they own the fucking road. Run them all over and let Halfords sort the mess out. Fuck 'em all.

Chopper.

[John Hopkins]

I've gotta be careful what I say here...some of my granchildren are cyclists...but I can see the day..not to far in the future...when cyclists will have to pay road tax, insurance, and have to wear helmets and sit a test before being allowed on the road...and the purpose..not as you might think, to make the roads safer..but to raise more money for the government in fines and taxes...sorry I am not in favour of more restrictions on our freedom....John

[Shifty]

...sorry I am not in favour of more restrictions on our freedom....John

Me neither usually, but I can't count the number of times some twat of a cyclist has nearly had me off. If it ever does happen it'd make it so much easier to get some kind of recompense if they were traceable and had insurance.

[brandersnatch]

And then they let this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7009034.stm happen! :mad:

[lowrider]

Not going to look,if i do i know i will explode. :(

[Shifty]

Not going to look,if i do i know i will explode. :(

Standing well back just in case

[ChopperFXR]

And then they let this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7009034.stm happen! :mad:

Yet another fuckwit idea brought to fruition by those that are unelected, unwanted and serve no useful purpose.

Chopper.

[gothtec]

Your in the right, so you shouldn't have any legal problems.

If the path was just perdestrian path then he was breaking the law and should have the book thrown at him. He is lergaly obliged to dismount before using any crossing even if part of the cycle path. As a cyclist I cant stand people using paths when its safer, easier and legal to stay on the road as part of the traffic...

Any damage to your bike?

I recon anyone who doesn't use the green cross code as set out in the highway code should be fined and get points for dangerous walking/cycling...

[gothtec]

And then they let this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7009034.stm happen! :mad:

Others could say the same about the Kill spills, brum demo and unity ride!

[wurzel]

I had a mate knocked off on Reading Uni grounds about 15 years ago when we were coming back from a uni bike club meeting. He was on a gpz1000rx with quite loud pipes and wasn't hooning around, going down the main drag through the uni playing fields went to pass a cyclist (no lights 11pm drunk) who decided as he passed to turn right as wanted to use a footpath opposite him. mate slid down road, gpz hit high curb flipped over it and ended up scraping down footpath and the cyclist was carted off with a bad arm.

Next thing he knew was an insurance claim against him for a £600 mountain bike plus personal injuries. As it was private land the police wanted nothing to do with it and uni security were as useful as a chocolate teapot (in another incident they saw another uni bike club members rg250 being scrambles around the rugby pitches and called him top say they had chased the kids on it off and he could get his bike back - when he got it everything that could be broken was including the pipes but they had no description of who was on it, they thought getting it back should be good enough for him and they wanted to claim against his insurance for the damage to the pitches)

[Shifty]

Your in the right, so you shouldn't have any legal problems.

Except that if they choose to do a runner (which they probably will if they're not too badly injured) there's no way of tracing them cos they're unregistered.

[brandersnatch]

Others could say the same about the Kill spills, brum demo and unity ride!
Others contribute through tax insurance etc. :mad:

[John Hopkins]

Here you are dracken1...same thing happens to other people

http://www.break.com/index/bus-side-swipes-and-drags-biker.html

if you have any problems you can always show this...John

[teltwosheds]

the guy was breaking the law!! tough **** :rolleyes: I know cos it happend to me years ago......I got hit by a car :o