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the loon:
Was coming home from work driving through Newcastle and stop at some traffic lights on a crossroads.
Light turns green to turn right so light coming towards where on red.
Some prat in a wool suit with a beard on a folding bike wearing what looks like a cavers helmet goes through the light straight into junction and stops in path of traffic crossing road to turn.
then to cap it all he starts giving drivers abuse about no respect for other road users and sees me in the 90 and begins the whole green bit about urban 4x4.
needles to say the taxi driver infront of me got out walked towards him and he seemed to get the urge to be somewhere else as pedeled off rather sharpish when the taxi driver started to pull his sleaves up

 :-k

EvilEd:
Sounds about par.... We have then running races on a dual carriageway near us.... and doing a U-turn on the roundabout... except that they seem to want to go all the way round the outside..... so anything trying to pull off the roundabout ends up with a puchbike on the outside of them...

They get very upset when they are forced to exit the roundabout at the wrong point too... had a shouting match with a whole load of them and their marshalls one morning...

I swear the Highway code states no racing... I'm sure if we did it in cars we'd get a ticking off.... We are talking the head down not look where we're going type.

Other half thinks it's weird as where I have lived in a village all my life, I slow right down for Horses, families on bikes and even the oldies walking beside the road, but I have no time for these guys.

hobbit:
The best one I saw was in London a few years ago when I was doing a delivery, a cyclist in the full spandex setup came up the outside of the standing traffic on a red light, as he drew level with a bollard by the lights he nonchantly leaned on it so he didn't have to let go if his pedals, and slowly and surely found out that the bollard was new and was not bolted down,,,,,,   TIMBERRR!!!, tilt and fall rider+bike+bollard, I was gone, I couldn't stop laughing, he had a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp

the loon:

--- Quote from: "hobbit" ---The best one I saw was in London a few years ago when I was doing a delivery, a cyclist in the full spandex setup came up the outside of the standing traffic on a red light, as he drew level with a bollard by the lights he nonchantly leaned on it so he didn't have to let go if his pedals, and slowly and surely found out that the bollard was new and was not bolted down,,,,,,   TIMBERRR!!!, tilt and fall rider+bike+bollard, I was gone, I couldn't stop laughing, he had a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
--- End quote ---


I can picture it now
I'll lean here ahh,thats bet ARRRRRRRRRRRRR......look cool,look cool, I ment to to that.

 :wink:  :lol:  :wink:  :lol:  :wink:

Bishops Finger:
Once saw a pile of them stop at a T junction ready to turn right one toppled over and took the whole lot with him - really funny I thought

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