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  • Wally's walking in middle of road – what would you have done?
  • cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    OK, picture the scene. Widow on stealth weapon descending quickly on tarmac into pretty little chalkstream hamlet. Three wally's – early 20's, tight white t-shirts, I'm so cool – strutting in road 3 abreast and made no attempt to let me through/move aside.

    One then had the audacity to make a smart-ar$e comment, I duly replied. Probably not what he wanted to hear.

    So … I came very close to riding into one of them. Could have been painful … for him.

    What would you have done?

    druidh
    Free Member

    Don't run into people who are clearly visible?

    You bluddy cyclists think you own the road.

    neilsonwheels
    Free Member

    As close as you can get to them and at full chat. Sh!t'em right up. Soon cures the hard man image thing.

    allthepies
    Free Member

    Flash 'em your tats and let them know you mean business ?

    TheSouthernYeti
    Free Member

    They weren't Wally he wears a red and white stripy jumper with a matching bobble hat.

    Look there he is, behind the telephone box.

    westkipper
    Free Member

    If you really have to run folk down in the road, dont, whatever you do, do it on a bike, do it in a car.
    That way you just say "oh!, there was nothing I could do, I didn't see them" and you'll get away with it 😉

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    Tricky. No point causing an accident and I suspect some loons would give you some aggro (to a male at least) or more – in fact I was assaulted recently in similar circumstances.

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    Well, it wasn't obvious I was a woman. No Kylie shorts for me today, just head-to-toe black with full body cover.

    I could have been a bloke, I could have decked them. Apparently mountain bikers have been known to thump people.

    Jeez, they were no hard men. Probably couldn't get the skin off a rice pudding. 🙄

    soobalias
    Free Member

    you were riding a mountain bike on the road

    🙁

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    Thanks for replies, it's good to have a chuckle. 😉

    OK, I'll 'fess up. I was in the zone, heading for some fun singletrack. 8)

    My language was shocking. 😳

    Garry_Lager
    Full Member

    Tricky. No point causing an accident and I suspect some loons would give you some aggro (to a male at least) or more – in fact I was assaulted recently in similar circumstances.

    Was that in Edinburgh Al? Whereabouts?

    james
    Free Member

    Maybe start sprinting out the saddle toward them?

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    Jocks Lofge Garry. Actually a few years ago and nothing serious just a few stitches…

    sc-xc
    Full Member

    Garry_Lager
    Full Member

    Don't know that area too well. I got done on the North Edinburgh cycle path a while back, through Drylaw. Got away without anything serious happening. There's some Neds about, for sure.

    genghispod
    Free Member

    Shout 'DING DING' and then aim full pelt at the middle one! If you're good with your feet you could take out the other two on the way past.

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    Aye have heard of a few there. I avoid cyclepaths…no escape routes

    Talkemada
    Free Member

    Captive bolt gun. Have you seen 'No Country For Old Men'?

    PenrodPooch
    Free Member

    Sounds like all 4 egos involved need to be brought down a peg or two

    chewkw
    Free Member

    If you drive a big foot 4×4 then just squash them like pate. 😈

    Pembo
    Free Member

    Another Sunday, another walkers are w@nkers post. Except of course for the 2 scottish ladies who held the gate open for me going up vomit hill yesterday and engaged in some good banter as I was struggling along.

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    They thought they were being "clever/cool" by continuing to amble in the road thereby making it awkward for me to get through. As mentioned, I had been descending at speed and was looking forward to some singletrack.

    It could have been nasty …

    Penrod Pooch – there were 3 of them so 3 egos.

    PenrodPooch
    Free Member

    woosh

    TandemJeremy
    Free Member

    cynic-al – Member

    Aye have heard of a few there. I avoid cyclepaths…no escape routes

    Grow a pair FFS – I use them all the time and no troubles. North edinburgh cycle path is fine

    eldridge
    Free Member

    Widow on stealth weapon

    You are solipsistically romanticising yourself

    You are not a widow

    Your bicycle is not a stealth weapon

    You are a person wearing black clothes riding a bicycle

    And you have to share public roads, bridleays and byways with other people

    samuri
    Free Member

    "I'm coming through!" seems to work well. People who don't move get hurt, they learn quite quickly I've found.

    ernie_lynch
    Free Member

    You are a person wearing black clothes riding a bicycle

    Yeah……….who just happens to look like The Black Widow on her stealth weapon.
    I don't see the need for the "you are solipsistically romanticising" bollox

    Mind you, I'm not sure about the "I could have been a bloke" comment
    ……..I've never seen a geezer with hair like C_G 😕

    💡 Have you had it cut ?

    Kevevs
    Free Member

    get over yourself, use yer brakes, carry on. no big deal is it?

    eldridge
    Free Member

    What "Black Widow" on what "Stealth Weapon"? Is this some Vin Diesel-style low budget sci-fi I've somehow missed? Or some NightWish Scandinavian Norse-rock bollox that no-one has heard of?

    Solipsistic means assuming your are the only person who matters in the world

    Romanticising means making yourself sound more important than you are

    Calling some bird on a bike wearing black clothes who wants other people to get out of her way a "widow on a stealth weapon" is true bollx

    ernie_lynch
    Free Member

    OK agreed………….The Widow Maker out on her stealth weapon, would probably have sounded better.

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    eldridge – have we met? You have summed me up beautifully except … my habit of self-deprecation. 😉

    Gus – yep, still have the untamed hair and, no, it's not been cut. 8)

    I can only dream of being a riding goddess. 🙄

    Nick
    Full Member

    people are dick-heads shocker

    PeterPoddy
    Free Member

    I would have just screamed, clicked into top gear, got out of the saddle and gunned it – AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    But then I'm big and ugly and do this on a regualr basis anyway. 🙂

    FuzzyWuzzy
    Full Member

    Not much you can do really apart from move over, winds me up to. Was on the road bike Saturday and people 3 abreast coming towards me didn't move so I had the option of braking or moving to the wrong side of the road approaching a blind bend. I chose the latter in the knowledge I'd have haunted the f**kers if a car had squished me. To be fair most of the others I met in similar circumstances made a token effort to move over, some even smiled.

    joolsburger
    Free Member

    Just shout no brakes, never fails!

    J

    DezB
    Free Member

    Happened to me once on a lunchtime roadie spin. Going past a college, bunch of about 10 students (in student mode) walked out into the road, I shouted "I'm not stopping!" (might've been "I'm not F*&ING stopping!" can't remember). I almost did stop, but only when the doziest one was putting his hands out to protect himself from my on-coming handlebars. He did have a jolly surprised look on his face, despite my shout. The rest of them just laughed at him. Those that had actually noticed something occurring anyway.

    [Paul Calf] F&(*ing students [/Paul Calf]

    Talkemada
    Free Member

    DezB, earlier:

    'Kin students; using a chequebook to buy a kebab…

    TerryWrist
    Free Member

    "move because I'm not stopping"Great idea.

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    I shouted "pi** off". Ladylike huh? 🙄

    Loving the tags, who's numbers 1 and 2 then?

    Guess I gotta try harder? 😉

    myheadsashed
    Full Member

    No Kylie shorts for me today, just head-to-toe black with full body cover……………………………mmmmmmmcatwoman 😯

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