TGM v Cyclopaths

TGM has called for bicycles to be registered and be required to have number plates...This was after a cyclopath held on to TGMs car to get a free ride and then thumped the bonnet of TGM's car...his point is that a number plate would have enabled him to report the cyclo to the rozzers.

It is not only on the roads that there is trouble. Melbourne's footpaths and parks are increasingly used by the cyclos. Other cyclos have formed the opinion that red lights at pedestrian crossings are not for them - they just sail through...I have been hit twice by cyclopaths (but unhurt) and know others who have also been hit (with a couple of busted bones)...last month a cyclist hospitalised a woman alighting from a tram...

last year I did a count of cyclists going through a pedestrian crossing near where I live...25% go through the red light...

Kudos to TGM...he started the debate via a tweet yesterday...has got a lot of traction this morning on the radio....expect a major campaign to commence

Sorry but I cannot stand cyclists.

They break the rules. They don't indicate.

They don't make room for you move around them.

I love to know if they drive the same way as they cycle?

Seriously they don't care for holding up traffic. They cycle on the line and never look up. Fark move over so the traffice can flow.

And what is the point of weaving in and out of cars to get to the front of the queue at a red light? You just hold everyone else up. Stay at the back and wait your turn in line in a fair way like everyone else.

I bet you these cyclists tail gate and intimidate slow car drivers when they are behind the wheel. Farkin cockroaches.

I can see you are ready to sign up to the campaign....by paying rego they could contribute fairly to 3rd party insurance

They expect cars to keep their distance when overtaking. Fair enough.

What about cyclists doing their bit and move over a bit too? They don't because it stuffs up their flow. Farkin selfish qunts.

Their behaviour is worse on footpaths...I have not managed to make friends with any of these cyclos - prolly not helped by me loudly suggesting to the offenders "Get on the road you coward"

Agreed with h and Ponts. Every frikkin morning at a particular spot on my one hour journey I lock horns with cyclists. They appear to be wannabe Tour de Francers, in a numerous largish pelotons of between 10 and 30 riders. Do you think these farkers will ever ride in single file??!! Not on your nelly. They hog the road and get very abusive if I attempt to squeeze by. Many middle fingers have been exchanged between myself and these varied groups. Fortch it's relatively close to work so I don't have to put up with them for miles, but they are ignorant and arrogant sh!ts.

I pick a colleague (who lives up the coast) up from my local station at 5.30 each morning so I have no latitude to avoid these qunts. Each morning he urges me to get to this particular road early to beat the pricks but we can never seem to do it. I await news of Warnie running these pricks over.

The chip breed appear to dress up in their garish gear, annoy motorists and then sit drinking coffee in Milton in said garish gear going look at me, look at me. Then ride home

Qlders are so festive (apart from Billy Mc-non-Softee)

As some know, I like to peruse www.damnlol.com for a laff. Here's a very appropriate pic from today's latest additions.

Jetskis for landlubbers....

What annoys me are the cyclists who go through pedestrian crossings with impunity.

They also bug me on shared cyclist/ped footways where they think if they ring their gay little bells that the red sea has to part to let them through at their beckoning.

I like the fact that they lessen pollution but hate the arrogance of some.

G.Wood wrote:The chip breed appear to dress up in their garish gear, annoy motorists and then sit drinking coffee in Milton in said garish gear going look at me, look at me. Then ride home

Qlders are so festive (apart from Billy Mc-non-Softee)

It's not confined to Queensland. The lycra and the latte seem to be almost as welded on as the Trek.

A young lady I had previously thought to be very mild-mannered surprised me a few months ago by announcing, as we entered a cyclist-infested coffee shop, both afflicted by a serious caffeine deprivation syndrome, 'these farking cyclists think they own the farking place, why don't they all just fark off'. She hadn't bothered to keep the remark quiet, and there followed a few awkward quiet moments.

lardbucket wrote:

G.Wood wrote:The chip breed appear to dress up in their garish gear, annoy motorists and then sit drinking coffee in Milton in said garish gear going look at me, look at me. Then ride home

Qlders are so festive (apart from Billy Mc-non-Softee)

It's not confined to Queensland. The lycra and the latte seem to be almost as welded on as the Trek.

A young lady I had previously thought to be very mild-mannered surprised me a few months ago by announcing, as we entered a cyclist-infested coffee shop, both afflicted by a serious caffeine deprivation syndrome, 'these farking cyclists think they own the farking place, why don't they all just fark off'. She hadn't bothered to keep the remark quiet, and there followed a few awkward quiet moments.

I've visited a coffee shop just as the peleton was leaving, it didn't arf stink.

skully wrote:

I pick a colleague (who lives up the coast) up from my local station at 5.30 each morning so I have no latitude to avoid these qunts.

Tell the soft, anally over-extended spiv to get on his bike.

Can't help but think TGM's 'incident' was pre-planned, or more his fault than his tweets suggest. He'd been going on about cyclists on the weekend, even saying (wrongly) that cyclists have to ride in single file on the roads. Then, lo and behold, he has a run in with a cyclist just days later...

Too much of a coincidence for mine.

And proof that the stoopid should sometimes STFU.