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BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:17 pm

I usually find most car drivers are happy to wave me over the road, rather than having to break my rhythm, the runners instinct is always to go a bit quicker rather than slow down for the pesky cars that get in our way!

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:12 pm

You get nice runners and doyle runners. Same goes for drivers, cyclists, bus drivers etc.

I hope one thing we all agree on is that you rarely meet a nice traffic warden.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37582

The Fat Man wrote:

Snowy wrote:

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Someone I know went Amsterdam and when he came back to work was amazed by the number of bikes outside the station...... but not a single mountain bike!!!!!!!
I tried to explain they use them to get about the city and their bikes are practical for that purpose and why they're so popular. He couldn't understand.

And the other big difference on the continent; no lycra, no high vis, and no helmets.

Never have and never wil understand the need to dress up like a court jester to enjoy riding a bike. I think it's the need to turn it into a competetive experience and dress accordingly.

Monkeybutt · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:22 pm **Posts:** 2428

bresslaw wrote:

I agree with Elvis. My first marathon experience was at aged 53. I'm still smiling.

They are called snickers now but I get your drift, cracking combo I feel and if it had nougat in it we would be on a different topic.

Monkeybutt · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:22 pm **Posts:** 2428

ElvisC wrote:

I'm struggling to think of a better feeling than completing a Marathon. I'm running it next year, will try not to get on your train.

Monkeybutt · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:22 pm **Posts:** 2428

ElvisC wrote:

I'm struggling to think of a better feeling than completing a Marathon. I'm running it next year, will try not to get on your train.

BJ

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

Monkeybutt wrote:

ElvisC wrote:

I'm struggling to think of a better feeling than completing a Marathon. I'm running it next year, will try not to get on your train.

BJ

ElvisC said he doesn't like the taste.

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 4198

born toulouse wrote:

I use a coach with a team of six horses for journeys to collect my barleycorn measured footwear. Nothing old-fashioned about it.

If there's one thing I hate more than a car with 4 headlights its a posh git in a coach and six.

Poncy pommaded porkers!

Sussex UK · **Joined:** Wed Dec 28, 2016 10:34 pm **Posts:** 3572

Them bastad cyclist's riding 2 abreast irritate me most and even if it's easy too pass..And i hope that twat caught cycling on our Promenade the other day caught sight of me grinning over the shoulders of the bobbies who pulled him.

kevin pooles gloves · **Joined:** Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:28 pm **Posts:** 9643

Me n Mutley never ride 2 abreast.
The fucka is always well in front of me.
Must be them speed drugs he gets off Bradley Wiggins.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2018 9:22 am

Drivers here are amazingly cooperative with cyclists, even stopping at zebra crossings to let you leave or enter the cycle path. It's the pedestrians who aren't cooperative. If it was legal to mow them down, the path would be littered with bodies after I pass.
The lycra bods, and there a LOT of them, stick to the road. But they are actually bona-fide cycling teams. This is Spain after all.

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37582

phil wrote:

It is safer to ride to abreast, and safer for the person to overtake. Personally, anything that makes it safer for cyclists is wonderful in my books, God knows too many of them are dying on our roads as it is.

No it isn't. From experience it's safer to ride in echelon, with the front wheel of the outside cycle level with the pedal of the inside bike. Very handy when taking a child out on the road.

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father wrote:

born toulouse wrote:

I use a coach with a team of six horses for journeys to collect my barleycorn measured footwear. Nothing old-fashioned about it.

If there's one thing I hate more than a car with 4 headlights its a posh git in a coach and six.

Poncy pommaded porkers!

On the subject of headlights etc how come im seeing so many cars on the roads now with headlights on but no rear lights on? They dont look like fog lights and I dont believe there is that many with the rear bulbs blown?

Every car iv owned has the front and rears come on together, are they now independant from each other?

Monkeybutt · **Joined:** Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:22 pm **Posts:** 2428

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father wrote:

born toulouse wrote:

I use a coach with a team of six horses for journeys to collect my barleycorn measured footwear. Nothing old-fashioned about it.

If there's one thing I hate more than a car with 4 headlights its a posh git in a coach and six.

Poncy pommaded porkers!

On the subject of headlights etc how come im seeing so many cars on the roads now with headlights on but no rear lights on? They dont look like fog lights and I dont believe there is that many with the rear bulbs blown?

Every car iv owned has the front and rears come on together, are they now independant from each other?

Happened to me coming home on Monday, he flew past me on the A1 and it was a new big thing with no back lights on, flashed him a few times and he didn`t even notice my new overcoat :shifty:

born toulouse · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:55 am

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father wrote:

born toulouse wrote:

I use a coach with a team of six horses for journeys to collect my barleycorn measured footwear. Nothing old-fashioned about it.

If there's one thing I hate more than a car with 4 headlights its a posh git in a coach and six.

Poncy pommaded porkers!

How did you know about my liking for pomade? Wreaks havoc on the in-coach antimacassars but I'm a Dapper Dan man.

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 4198

Car coming towards me the other night had 6 headlights! I know there are total knobs who will drive these things but are they even legal? Was it a customised job or are there now car manufacturers pandering to this nonsense?

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

The Fat Man wrote:

Blah, blah blah

So we're in agreement? Bikes shouldn't be on the road?

yloop · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:46 pm

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father wrote:

born toulouse wrote:

I use a coach with a team of six horses for journeys to collect my barleycorn measured footwear. Nothing old-fashioned about it.

If there's one thing I hate more than a car with 4 headlights its a posh git in a coach and six.

Poncy pommaded porkers!

On the subject of headlights etc how come im seeing so many cars on the roads now with headlights on but no rear lights on? They dont look like fog lights and I dont believe there is that many with the rear bulbs blown?

Every car iv owned has the front and rears come on together, are they now independant from each other?

DRL's

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER · **Joined:** Sat May 19, 2007 11:00 am **Posts:** 20758

yloop wrote:

DRL's

and that means?

yloop · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:52 pm

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6476

tREE_wiTH_hAMStER wrote:

yloop wrote:

DRL's

and that means?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytime_running_lamp

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37582

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father wrote:

Car coming towards me the other night had 6 headlights! I know there are total knobs who will drive these things but are they even legal? Was it a customised job or are there now car manufacturers pandering to this nonsense?

I saw one in Lancaster, a banger pretending to be a rally car, there were 8 lights including two on the roof. I imagined him flashing someone out and the battery just melting like a blob of chocolate on a griddle.

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