Ive happened upon a few walkers whilst riding the red at Whinlatter. Pointing out they are in fact on a bike route and that it is quite dangerous for both walker and biker.
Came across a old couple walking up the last section of Y Wal. Stopped and tried to say to them that they're going to meet bikers coming down at speed and not expecting to meet walkers, and the old woman was very much in the spirit of "I've lived here all my life I can walk where I want" I genuinely hope no one got hurt. Same thing at Brecfha with a chap and his son. They at least realised and turned around
i was taking a short cut through the local graveyard
'Oi!! get off that f*cking bike you big thundering arsehole'
me: 'Morning, vicar'
^ yeah, right ...
When will there be thread about cyclists behaving like arses ??
^ yeah, right …
was a joke princess
On the Penine Way ( footpath) yesterday where it crosses Snake Pass. Farmer to me:
" Aah awesome work, good man"
Was quite a refreshing change. I had just dismounted and negotiated a huge Peat bog of doom in order to open the big gate for him to drive through on his quad bike, to save his feet getting wet.
He then told me his hands were freezing and I did consider donating my spare gloves, but concluded that would be too expensive a way of improving biker/farmer relations.
Farmers aren't al bad. The one who lives on the Rumney Ridgeway outside Cardiff looks like a grumpy GOML but is actually a decent bloke always up for a chat with bikers on the popular BW that crosses his land. Him and his mates were outside the cowshed chatting and stopped to watch me attempt the steep slippery bit with shouts of encouragement. I failed!
More bell-endery:
I was cycling along a fairly wide canal towpath, approaching a pair walking in the same direction. I gave a few pings of my bell, to which one of the chaps clutched his ears in a manner the local am-dram society would be proud of and shouted "The bells, the bells!" Looking back it was a fairly amusing response, but I'm afraid I just called him a tw*t.
Not from a walker....
I was hurtling down the hill leading from Dunstable Downs on my mtb. I was peddling like mad. Got to the bottom of the hill and turned right at the roundabout. A car then pulls beside me with the window wound down.
"Do you know how fast you were going? You were doing 35mph."
He then sped off and I had no idea if he was telling me off for breaking the speed limit or was just concerned!
You're never going to sell much at that speed.
Ive happened upon a few walkers whilst riding the red at Whinlatter. Pointing out they are in fact on a bike route and that it is quite dangerous for both walker and biker.
Had this when I was marshalling a CX race. Taped off areas and some dog walker going right down the middle of the track.
"Would you mind walking outside the tapes please, there's a bike race going on".
Cue a tirade about how he walks his dog there every morning and nothing will stop him doing this and if a cyclist hits him, he'll sue and...and...and...
Did he jump out of the way when the riders came through or did he get flattened?
You’re never going to sell much at that speed.
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I love the response "I'll sue" if a bad and quite predictable thing should come pass. Sue for what?
You’re never going to sell much at that speed.
Morcambe and Wise
Morcambe and Wise
Tell people how old you are without telling them how old you are
Cue a tirade about how he walks his dog there every morning and nothing will stop him doing this and if a cyclist hits him, he’ll sue and…and…and…
good lord. I hope that if I ever get to the leavel of old and boring that I do the same dog walking loop every day of my life, I'd like to think that I would still enjoy the fact that there was something new and interesting to stop and look at on occasion.
Cue a tirade about how he walks his dog there every morning and nothing will stop him doing this and if a cyclist hits him, he’ll sue and…and…and…
Imagine marshalling a club hill climb. On the towns main shopping street. On Boxing Day. 🤯