Cycling on the footpath

[DonkeyApple]

272BHP said:

I have a distinct memory as a kid in the passenger seat of a car shouting out 'Look out Dad there is someone on a bike on the road!'

An exciting day in Stevenage?

[DonkeyApple]

otolith said:

Pavements are for pedestrians. Roads are for bicycles.

But what about pedestrians who pay no tax?

[Liokault]

BGarside said:

Ask yourself if you would willingly opt to stop and give way at every side road while driving your car.

And let's not forget that the use of such paths is optional and that cyclists have every right to use the road...

So, as a pedestrian, with every right to walk in the road (I just googled that and it looks like there is every right) I can do so and avoid all that tedious stopping at side roads and giving way? Cool, who knew!

[Justin Cyder]

mikeveal said:

Really?

If people repeatedly see a minority misbehaving then yes, the perception of the majority will eventually and inevitably become tainted by the actions of the minority. Yes, this is prejudice, yes it's unfair. I'm aware of that. I stated once already, that I am not anti cyclist, but I am anti the minority.

You honestly don't think that it's human nature to remember the cyclist who was a pain to pass and to forget the one who made everyones life easy? (I'd say this is the very cause of the anti cyclist venom that we see in this forum.) Well, I guess that's your opinion and however niaeve it seems to me, I respect your right to hold it. Please afford me the same courtesy.

And with that aahm oout before we start going round in circles.

It's a bit rich to call me niaeve - did you mean naive? - and then ask me in the next breath to afford you a courtesy. Anyway, there's nothing naive in pointing out the folly in tarring an entire cohort with the sins of the few.

That kind of thinking has a name - prejudice.

[Liokault]

Justin Cyder said:

mikeveal said:

Really?

If people repeatedly see a minority misbehaving then yes, the perception of the majority will eventually and inevitably become tainted by the actions of the minority. Yes, this is prejudice, yes it's unfair. I'm aware of that. I stated once already, that I am not anti cyclist, but I am anti the minority.

You honestly don't think that it's human nature to remember the cyclist who was a pain to pass and to forget the one who made everyones life easy? (I'd say this is the very cause of the anti cyclist venom that we see in this forum.) Well, I guess that's your opinion and however niaeve it seems to me, I respect your right to hold it. Please afford me the same courtesy.

And with that aahm oout before we start going round in circles.

It's a bit rich to call me niaeve - did you mean naive? - and then ask me in the next breath to afford you a courtesy. Anyway, there's nothing naive in pointing out the folly in tarring an entire cohort with the sins of the few.

That kind of thinking has a name - prejudice.

I LOL at a thread that starts with a cyclist totally indefensibly hitting a group of pedestrians in a pedestrian only zone and gets to people being prejudiced against cyclists.

Like now black people are cool and homosexuals are accepted we need a new group to pick on.