No, it is not a cycle path or a shared use path. It is a footpath and part of the Dales Way. And anyway, where did you expect me to go with a double pushchair? Off the metalled path and into the muddy verge so you could stay on the footpath yourself and not muddy the wheels of your everso new bike?
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To the cyclist on the path at the Pine Woods, Harrogate
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Ohh. Sombody's got out of the wrong side of the bed today.
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Well I have been up half the night with the girls and I was desperately trying to get them to sleep yesterday too when this idiot decided to ride at the pushchair because he felt I should move for him.
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Time to fit guns to the pushchair.
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And I really wish he had come back for a 'discussion' because I know all the paths and bridleways like the back of my hand around there and I know there are bridleways that run through the woods further up towards Otley Road (although no shared use footpaths) and would have relished the opportunity to educate him.
At the end of the day I have no problem with people riding there (a guy and his daughter had just ridden past), but this guy was expecting me to pull out of the way for him.
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We took Sam and our neighbour's 6 month old out in the trailer yesterday and we did sneak one footpath but all the walkers hearts were suitably softened by two bundles of joy being towed along behind.
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Ones things for sure, he certainly won't do it again now that you've complained about it on the internet.
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Ones things for sure, he certainly won't do it again now that you've complained about it on the internet.
Well I was kinda hoping that this sack of monkey piss might just be a visitor to this site. As I said, it wasn't his use of the path that bothered me, it was his attitude that someone with a pushchair should give way to him. And that, coupled with his ignorance of the status of the RoW pissed me off.Posted 2 years ago # -
has the OP never ridden on a footpath?
still i agree discurtesy of the rider in question is unforgivable
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And I really wish he had come back for a 'discussion' because I know all the paths and bridleways like the back of my hand around there and I know there are bridleways that run through the woods further up towards Otley Road (although no shared use footpaths) and would have relished the opportunity to educate him
What would this education consist of, bearing in mind that it's not against the law to ride on footpaths?
And didn't you have a hissy fit in the past when you were cycling down a 'footpath' and got pushed off it by a walker?Posted 2 years ago # -
What would this education consist of, bearing in mind that it's not against the law to ride on footpaths?
Ian - please read the thread before replying...
At the end of the day I have no problem with people riding there (a guy and his daughter had just ridden past), but this guy was expecting me to pull out of the way for him.
As I said, it wasn't his use of the path that bothered me, it was his attitude that someone with a pushchair should give way to him
And to answer this...
And didn't you have a hissy fit in the past when you were cycling down a 'footpath' and got pushed off it by a walker?
Yes I did, but I was riding courteously and had pulled right to the side and was riding at a dead slow pace so the walker could walk by without hindrance but he deliberately side-stepped and shoulder barged me off at the last minute.Does that clear things up for you?
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it was his attitude that someone with a pushchair should give way to him. And that, coupled with his ignorance of the status of the RoW pissed me off.
middle class new parents are way funnier than they ever realise!
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it was his attitude that someone with a pushchair should give way to him
Heaven forfend. There's just nobody as self-righteous as a parent shoving their kids about in a buggy, is there?
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Mastiles is on fine form this morning! Leave the thread alone and have a cup of coffee. They may sleep through tonight.
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Well there you go Ian - the original post I made about my riding on a footpath backs up what I just said above about that incident.
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Some of you don't have kids. Ergo, you'll just never understand.
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They may sleep through tonight.
Who knows? Both with bacterial and viral infections, one just finished a third course of antibiotics, the other on her second course. One just spent a night in hospital due to worries over her breathing.Perhaps Sunday afternoon wasn't a good time to come across Cock Central on his new bike.
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Some of you don't have kids. Ergo, you'll just never understand.
I don't really think the kids thing is actually all that important - what would he have done if he came up to someone in a wheelchair? Or a horse rider? Or a 7ft rugby player with a pack of Alsations? It was just his attitude that bugged me - he *thought* it was a cycle path so seemed to be under the impression that it meant that I should have given way to him on his bike.Posted 2 years ago # -
Was he dressed in the archetypal weekend warroir attire of black Endura riding his 3k 6inch travel bling thing to show off to the normal folk?
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Was he dressed in the archetypal weekend warroir attire of black Endura riding his 3k 6inch travel bling thing to show off to the normal folk?
Sort of - all nice new kit and a new cross bike. Perhaps if he had a 6 inch travel bike he could have risked dropping off the metalled path and onto the grassy/muddy verge if he really had to. Although the guy who came by seconds before with his daughter (who had clearly only just mastered riding) managed to stay on the path as there was ample room. And I had done exactly the same for them - slowed down slightly, pulled as far to one side as I could without dropping the pram off the side (didn't want to wake the girls obviously) and kept to my line so the rider knew what I was doing. But for some reason that wasn't good enough for this guy - he wanted to go where I was. Really quite bizarre behaviour.Posted 2 years ago # -
The Pine Woods is wikkid awsum.
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He must have known it was you.
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You want it both ways - priority when you are walking on a footpath but people to give way to you when you are cycling?
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I don't have kids. I'll never understand.
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People with double pushcahirs really annoy me. Ok so you've got TWO kids. Whoopdidoo. Get over it and stop showing off
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You want it both ways - priority when you are walking on a footpath but people to give way to you when you are cycling?
Err no. I haven't said that have I?Posted 2 years ago # -
Just another case of someone thinking that the world should accomodate their every need as they have kids. Get over yourself!
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When yo cycle on a footpath you want the walkers to make space for you. When youare walking you get cross with a cyclist doing exactly what you have done on the earlier thread.
You cannot have it both ways
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When yo cycle on a footpath you want the walkers to make space for you.
But I didn't say that did I? Have a read.Posted 2 years ago # -
Your dead right in my opinion Mastilles, I've been cycling for 35 years now and I've always held to the view that cars give way to cyclists and that cyclists give way to pedestrians. And I'm not some latter day luddite, I drive a big 4wd truck at work and it's my belief that the bigger and faster you are the more essential it is to drive (or cycle) courteously
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I have read it MF and clearly you want your cake and to eat it.
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Jeremy - to help clear things up for you seeing as you clearly haven't read either thread properly. When I ride on footpaths I slow, move over and let walkers past. On Sunday I also slowed, moved over and tried to let the cyclist past (and as said above, the little girl who had only just mastered cycling managed to get past us without problem).
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I have read it MF and clearly you want your cake and to eat it.
So where have I said that I expect walkers to give way to me when I ride a bike on a footpath then?Posted 2 years ago #
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