Take photos of bad cycling and send to your councillors..
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Some people need to get a life
https://twitter.com/vizzitnewforest/status/3049821...
Ironically the sportive is promoted on their website
http://www.vizzitnewforest.com/business_news/new_f...
Posters up in New Forest pubs about this too, cyclists are already unfairly restricted in the New Forest...
I'll make sure I smile
https://twitter.com/vizzitnewforest/status/3049821...
Ironically the sportive is promoted on their website
http://www.vizzitnewforest.com/business_news/new_f...
Posters up in New Forest pubs about this too, cyclists are already unfairly restricted in the New Forest...
I'll make sure I smile
It's a great place to ride, I do so several times a week. Just found this, made me chuckle
“Our New Forest agencies seem to be toothless tigers and powerless to stop this carnage."
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/10254953.Fe...
“Our New Forest agencies seem to be toothless tigers and powerless to stop this carnage."
http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/10254953.Fe...
NIMBYism at it's best. I'm inclined to find out where Anita Sibley lives, then do laps of her house until she gets dizzy.
Mrs Sibley added: “These huge events are putting local residents’ lives in danger.
Question:"How, for example, would an ambulance or fire engine reach a New Forest village in time if there were 4,000 cyclists blocking our roads?"
Answer: A damned site easier and quicker than it would in the Summer when tens of thousands of cars clog up the Forest roads, and areparked dumped badly at the side of roads and junctions.
"We need to ensure events are safe for pedestrians, livestock, drivers and cyclists."
Ooh! Think how much more dangerous it is to be run over by a reckless cyclist than by some RangeRover driving nut-job local, or Gladys the tourist, in her crappy Hyundai, who hasn't seen you because she's too busy staring at the f
king livestock!
“They also need to be adequately publicised and policed. Many local residents are frightened to drive while these events take place.”
Well, Well. How does it feel when the boot is on the other foot?
“Which one of them will have the creativity and tenacity to plug this dangerous but lucrative loophole and save us New Forest residents from being invaded once again by a group of Lycra-clad lemmings?”
Just a typical ignorant, uninformed, selfish arse, really. Cyclists using the public highway? How very terrible. What, I wonder, does she propose to do to legislate against individualcyclists road users just turning up out of the blue in her beloved forest? Stupid, Stupid, Stupid woman.
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Mrs Sibley added: “These huge events are putting local residents’ lives in danger.
Question:"How, for example, would an ambulance or fire engine reach a New Forest village in time if there were 4,000 cyclists blocking our roads?"
Answer: A damned site easier and quicker than it would in the Summer when tens of thousands of cars clog up the Forest roads, and are
"We need to ensure events are safe for pedestrians, livestock, drivers and cyclists."
Ooh! Think how much more dangerous it is to be run over by a reckless cyclist than by some RangeRover driving nut-job local, or Gladys the tourist, in her crappy Hyundai, who hasn't seen you because she's too busy staring at the f
king livestock!“They also need to be adequately publicised and policed. Many local residents are frightened to drive while these events take place.”
Well, Well. How does it feel when the boot is on the other foot?
“Which one of them will have the creativity and tenacity to plug this dangerous but lucrative loophole and save us New Forest residents from being invaded once again by a group of Lycra-clad lemmings?”
Just a typical ignorant, uninformed, selfish arse, really. Cyclists using the public highway? How very terrible. What, I wonder, does she propose to do to legislate against individual
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Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 20th March 16:17
Dear Anita,
I read with interest your recent editorial regarding the Wiggle sportive cycling events in the New Forest.
I am delighted to inform you that as a result of your editorial I will continue to holiday in Devon and Cornwall and I hope that many other cyclists choose not to visit the New Forest. Long may your hotels and tourist attractions suffer a decrease in takings.
Kind Regards,
Pablo
I read with interest your recent editorial regarding the Wiggle sportive cycling events in the New Forest.
I am delighted to inform you that as a result of your editorial I will continue to holiday in Devon and Cornwall and I hope that many other cyclists choose not to visit the New Forest. Long may your hotels and tourist attractions suffer a decrease in takings.
Kind Regards,
Pablo
Pfft - normal Daily Mail type pensioner rambling away to themself
'This part of the country should only be enjoyed in the way that I enjoy it as this least hinders my enjoyment. I am thinking up some paper thin excuses as to why other people trying to enjoy the forest in a way that differs from the way I do is dangerous. The reasons for this are twofold: firstly, I don't understand the attraction of it, and as such it is scary and morally reprehensible (the benchmark moral code for civilisation of course being my moral code); secondly, I have chosen to convince myself that the aforementioned paperthin excuses are valid reasons as it allows me to assuage the guilt of disrupting other peoples lives due to my selfish and ultimately incredibly childish whims.
The sad thing is - these vocal minorities are so damn stubborn they tend to get their way as 'normal people' have other things to worry about - and society is ultimately ruled by this petty, officious 'elite'.
'This part of the country should only be enjoyed in the way that I enjoy it as this least hinders my enjoyment. I am thinking up some paper thin excuses as to why other people trying to enjoy the forest in a way that differs from the way I do is dangerous. The reasons for this are twofold: firstly, I don't understand the attraction of it, and as such it is scary and morally reprehensible (the benchmark moral code for civilisation of course being my moral code); secondly, I have chosen to convince myself that the aforementioned paperthin excuses are valid reasons as it allows me to assuage the guilt of disrupting other peoples lives due to my selfish and ultimately incredibly childish whims.
The sad thing is - these vocal minorities are so damn stubborn they tend to get their way as 'normal people' have other things to worry about - and society is ultimately ruled by this petty, officious 'elite'.
- Comments about Vocal Minorities refer to groups not specific individual. In no way should the above statements be interpreted as an admission of being petty, officious or in any way not normal.
What a total moron.
FWIW Did this last year, doing it again this year- lovely event through beautiful landscape.
Clearly the aforementioned plank didn't see the event as they'd have known its a staggered start, on any particular stretch of road you'd be lucky to see 50 cyclists, more likely 10-20 at a time.
FWIW Did this last year, doing it again this year- lovely event through beautiful landscape.
Clearly the aforementioned plank didn't see the event as they'd have known its a staggered start, on any particular stretch of road you'd be lucky to see 50 cyclists, more likely 10-20 at a time.
BliarOut said:
Makes me want to organise a cycling event down there 
make it off road if you really want to cause upset, you can ride your half tonne horse where you like but a 25lb bike... forget it! had a talking to from the warden tonight, first time in over two years. startling the livestock apparently.. Silver940 said:
BliarOut said:
Makes me want to organise a cycling event down there
make it off road if you really want to cause upset, you can ride your half tonne horse where you like but a 25lb bike... forget it! had a talking to from the warden tonight, first time in over two years. startling the livestock apparently.. BliarOut said:
Farmer told me to clap if the cattle get in the way when I ride through his field. Startle a cow, not very bloody likely from what I've seen
Clap or shout (or if need be, shove!) to move cattle out of the way when I'm out running.As others have said on the OP, this is a classic case of someone thinking their way of enjoying the local area is the only valid way to do so, and then making up spurious "safety" concerns to justify the blinkered viewpoint.
Silver940 said:
cheap publicity for her website maybe?
Here's what's going up around the forest in pubs etc
I notice the campaigners can't count... one says 4000, another 6000 when in fact its more like 1800-2000 per day at most, less if the weather crap and spread out in small groups.Here's what's going up around the forest in pubs etc
The pointlessness of complaining about a cycling event (that will pass almost silently and unobserved to the majority) is mind boggling, good thing they don't have Rally's or a Racetrack near her, she's probably explode!
Pah. Silly old cow. She lives in a village that barely existed until the 19th century, yet bangs on about 'damage' to the new Forest.
Does she live in a pretty thatched cottage that has been there since before records began? I hear you ask.
Why, no. She lives in an architecturally bankrupt BUNGALOW, on a cul-de-sac, in a post war estate that was, ironically, built on her beloved Forest. Height of hypocrisy if you ask me. The Forest is a constantly changing thing, which over the years has been used for everything from a Royal Hunting Ground to the site of 10 active airfields and a bomb testing range during the war. It has seen changes from re-forestation during the reign of William the Conqueror, to extensive tree-felling during WWII to support the war effort.
The poor woman would probably explode if she was transported back to the site of her home in June 1944. Tens of thousands of vehicles, hundreds of thousands of troops, all 'destroying' the forest while they waited to embark for Normandy. Add to that the active airfields to her East and West, both operating 'heavies' in support of the D-Day invasion.
She is a selfish NIMBY who couldn't smell her own hypocrisy if it took a dump on her top lip. She is as much part of the problem of 'too many people asking too much of too little infrastructure' as anyone else.
Sway, in 1872, had a population of <700 people living in 150 houses. Now it has 3311 (2001 census) and there are probably more than 150 houses on her stty little estate alone. What has she done to reduce the impact she, and her family have on the Forest? Why, I'll tell you shall I? She's ripped up a perfectly lovely front garden and covered it with gravel, on which she parks 3!!! cars. One of them is a 'gas-guzzling 4x4' (OK, it's just a Freelander, but she started first with the generalising/demonising).
The worst of all her crimes is her feckin' website. Despite all the extra wear and tear caused to her precious narrow lanes, which, by the way, are entirely unsuitable for large volumes of traffic, she actively encourages droves ofmuppets
grockles tourists to trek there by car, choking up the roads, and driving so close to the edges of the surfaced road that the tarmac crumbles away. These evil holidaymakers drive at speed around the lanes, mowing down pedestrians and livestock left, right, and centre. And she is worried about the presence of a couple of thousand emissions-free lightweight bicycles for a few days a year? She is a joke.
Still. One good thing has come of this. I've checked googlemaps, and there are no parking restrictions or charges in force outside the house and it's in prime curtain-twitcher territory, so my car will be safe when I leave it parked there to go cycling in the New Forest come the summer. I wonder how she might react to seeing me haul my bike out of the boot of the car, right outside her crappy (and land-hungry) bungalow. Hell, I might even wear my tightest, thinnest, most 'anatomically obvious' Lycra, just for a giggle.
So, Anita Sibley/Anita Gresham-Hale, or whatever you currently call yourself. Take your Hypocrisy, put it in a biscuit tin, then shove it where the sun will never find it.
Does she live in a pretty thatched cottage that has been there since before records began? I hear you ask.
Why, no. She lives in an architecturally bankrupt BUNGALOW, on a cul-de-sac, in a post war estate that was, ironically, built on her beloved Forest. Height of hypocrisy if you ask me. The Forest is a constantly changing thing, which over the years has been used for everything from a Royal Hunting Ground to the site of 10 active airfields and a bomb testing range during the war. It has seen changes from re-forestation during the reign of William the Conqueror, to extensive tree-felling during WWII to support the war effort.
The poor woman would probably explode if she was transported back to the site of her home in June 1944. Tens of thousands of vehicles, hundreds of thousands of troops, all 'destroying' the forest while they waited to embark for Normandy. Add to that the active airfields to her East and West, both operating 'heavies' in support of the D-Day invasion.
She is a selfish NIMBY who couldn't smell her own hypocrisy if it took a dump on her top lip. She is as much part of the problem of 'too many people asking too much of too little infrastructure' as anyone else.
Sway, in 1872, had a population of <700 people living in 150 houses. Now it has 3311 (2001 census) and there are probably more than 150 houses on her s
tty little estate alone. What has she done to reduce the impact she, and her family have on the Forest? Why, I'll tell you shall I? She's ripped up a perfectly lovely front garden and covered it with gravel, on which she parks 3!!! cars. One of them is a 'gas-guzzling 4x4' (OK, it's just a Freelander, but she started first with the generalising/demonising). The worst of all her crimes is her feckin' website. Despite all the extra wear and tear caused to her precious narrow lanes, which, by the way, are entirely unsuitable for large volumes of traffic, she actively encourages droves of
Still. One good thing has come of this. I've checked googlemaps, and there are no parking restrictions or charges in force outside the house and it's in prime curtain-twitcher territory, so my car will be safe when I leave it parked there to go cycling in the New Forest come the summer. I wonder how she might react to seeing me haul my bike out of the boot of the car, right outside her crappy (and land-hungry) bungalow. Hell, I might even wear my tightest, thinnest, most 'anatomically obvious' Lycra, just for a giggle.
So, Anita Sibley/Anita Gresham-Hale, or whatever you currently call yourself. Take your Hypocrisy, put it in a biscuit tin, then shove it where the sun will never find it.
Silver940 said:
cheap publicity for her website maybe?
Here's what's going up around the forest in pubs etc
What exactly do they mean by "AT SPEED" ???Here's what's going up around the forest in pubs etc
If they mean 'well below the speed limit posted for Motor Traffic upon the public highway' I don't see what the problem is. As far as I was aware the speed limit on the bulk of the roads within the New Forest National Park is 40mph. In villages and towns it is 30mph, much as it would be anywhere else. With the speeds of sportive Cyclists being in the region of 14 to 26mph for the most part, there would appear to be no conflict at all. It would seem to be all in her mind.
yellowjack said:
Pah. Silly old cow. She lives in a village that barely existed until the 19th century, yet bangs on about 'damage' to the new Forest.
Does she live in a pretty thatched cottage that has been there since before records began? I hear you ask.
Why, no. She lives in an architecturally bankrupt BUNGALOW, on a cul-de-sac, in a post war estate that was, ironically, built on her beloved Forest. Height of hypocrisy if you ask me. The Forest is a constantly changing thing, which over the years has been used for everything from a Royal Hunting Ground to the site of 10 active airfields and a bomb testing range during the war. It has seen changes from re-forestation during the reign of William the Conqueror, to extensive tree-felling during WWII to support the war effort.
The poor woman would probably explode if she was transported back to the site of her home in June 1944. Tens of thousands of vehicles, hundreds of thousands of troops, all 'destroying' the forest while they waited to embark for Normandy. Add to that the active airfields to her East and West, both operating 'heavies' in support of the D-Day invasion.
She is a selfish NIMBY who couldn't smell her own hypocrisy if it took a dump on her top lip. She is as much part of the problem of 'too many people asking too much of too little infrastructure' as anyone else.
Sway, in 1872, had a population of <700 people living in 150 houses. Now it has 3311 (2001 census) and there are probably more than 150 houses on her stty little estate alone. What has she done to reduce the impact she, and her family have on the Forest? Why, I'll tell you shall I? She's ripped up a perfectly lovely front garden and covered it with gravel, on which she parks 3!!! cars. One of them is a 'gas-guzzling 4x4' (OK, it's just a Freelander, but she started first with the generalising/demonising).
The worst of all her crimes is her feckin' website. Despite all the extra wear and tear caused to her precious narrow lanes, which, by the way, are entirely unsuitable for large volumes of traffic, she actively encourages droves ofmuppets
grockles tourists to trek there by car, choking up the roads, and driving so close to the edges of the surfaced road that the tarmac crumbles away. These evil holidaymakers drive at speed around the lanes, mowing down pedestrians and livestock left, right, and centre. And she is worried about the presence of a couple of thousand emissions-free lightweight bicycles for a few days a year? She is a joke.
Still. One good thing has come of this. I've checked googlemaps, and there are no parking restrictions or charges in force outside the house and it's in prime curtain-twitcher territory, so my car will be safe when I leave it parked there to go cycling in the New Forest come the summer. I wonder how she might react to seeing me haul my bike out of the boot of the car, right outside her crappy (and land-hungry) bungalow. Hell, I might even wear my tightest, thinnest, most 'anatomically obvious' Lycra, just for a giggle.
So, Anita Sibley/Anita Gresham-Hale, or whatever you currently call yourself. Take your Hypocrisy, put it in a biscuit tin, then shove it where the sun will never find it.
Does she live in a pretty thatched cottage that has been there since before records began? I hear you ask.
Why, no. She lives in an architecturally bankrupt BUNGALOW, on a cul-de-sac, in a post war estate that was, ironically, built on her beloved Forest. Height of hypocrisy if you ask me. The Forest is a constantly changing thing, which over the years has been used for everything from a Royal Hunting Ground to the site of 10 active airfields and a bomb testing range during the war. It has seen changes from re-forestation during the reign of William the Conqueror, to extensive tree-felling during WWII to support the war effort.
The poor woman would probably explode if she was transported back to the site of her home in June 1944. Tens of thousands of vehicles, hundreds of thousands of troops, all 'destroying' the forest while they waited to embark for Normandy. Add to that the active airfields to her East and West, both operating 'heavies' in support of the D-Day invasion.
She is a selfish NIMBY who couldn't smell her own hypocrisy if it took a dump on her top lip. She is as much part of the problem of 'too many people asking too much of too little infrastructure' as anyone else.
Sway, in 1872, had a population of <700 people living in 150 houses. Now it has 3311 (2001 census) and there are probably more than 150 houses on her s
tty little estate alone. What has she done to reduce the impact she, and her family have on the Forest? Why, I'll tell you shall I? She's ripped up a perfectly lovely front garden and covered it with gravel, on which she parks 3!!! cars. One of them is a 'gas-guzzling 4x4' (OK, it's just a Freelander, but she started first with the generalising/demonising). The worst of all her crimes is her feckin' website. Despite all the extra wear and tear caused to her precious narrow lanes, which, by the way, are entirely unsuitable for large volumes of traffic, she actively encourages droves of
Still. One good thing has come of this. I've checked googlemaps, and there are no parking restrictions or charges in force outside the house and it's in prime curtain-twitcher territory, so my car will be safe when I leave it parked there to go cycling in the New Forest come the summer. I wonder how she might react to seeing me haul my bike out of the boot of the car, right outside her crappy (and land-hungry) bungalow. Hell, I might even wear my tightest, thinnest, most 'anatomically obvious' Lycra, just for a giggle.
So, Anita Sibley/Anita Gresham-Hale, or whatever you currently call yourself. Take your Hypocrisy, put it in a biscuit tin, then shove it where the sun will never find it.
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