God, I love watching cyclists collide

Twatty One decided that he'd sail through the red light at the
crossing, junction of Clapham Road and Union Road.

Twatty Two was zooming along the pavement (presumably to avoid the
traffic) and decided to rejoin the road at the crossing.

BANG!

Two cyclists sprawled on the tarmac berating each other. Trouble is,
one day, one of these Twattys is going to skittle me... Still, hope it
hurt. Shame they weren't going faster, really.

Actually, I've noticed Plod nicking a fair few of these suicide
jockeys recently, both south of the river and in the City. Excellent.

Hmf. Should have x-posted this to the pedal-pushers ng. Oh well.

 

Niiiice. I had one run into the back of the trike last year. "I thought you
were going on through the light" says he. This was the light which was
_well_ red by the time I got there. Pity he wasn't going much quicker.

Do they actually get charged with something which affects their driving
licence? Bloody ought to.

Don't fret. Someone will probably do it for you.

JB

 

I had the dubious privilige of seeing two couriers collide when I was
despatching. Both nipped out from behind cars to filter and hit each other
more or less head on. Luckily it was at low speed but they did fall in an
undignified heap.

 

Heh. Trouble is, uk.rec.cycling is even more full of trolls and their
bait[1] than ever, and urcm doesn't allow x-posts.

[1] Waht am I saying? Fill yer boots, old man.

 

TRolls you say?

 

I posted onto aus.moto a little while back when I had a cycle jock
nearly skittle me when I was crossing the road in Sydney CBD. He
yelled at me then continued fucking flat out into the intersection
about 100m up the road and knocked himself and two pedestrians to the
ground. Stupid twat was going too fast for the conditions. I had a
clear road when I decided to cross mid-block and it was not a SMIDSY.
He was totally out of order as the two other people found a few
seconds later...

 

The obvious rejoinder to this is, "I'm not a cyclist."