Grrrrr...olympics
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deckster

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9,631 posts

284 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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No, I don't have a problem with the games lanes (empty though they are). And it appears that people have heeded all the warnings, as there are far fewer cars on the commute than normal. What really gets my goat is the forty bazillion fair-weather cyclists who have popped up from nowhere, wobbling about and getting in my way. All of them without a clue about the rules of cycling in London...bloody amateurs. Added to which, there's now a queue for the showers at work. I just hope they all go back to the tube once the Olympics are over as it's my bloody road and my bloody shower. It's enough to make a chap quite narked.

Plus, is it just me or have they changed the phasing of all the lights so the red-red-red phases are much, much longer now? I'm really in quite severe danger of losing my natural cheerful demeanour, I tell you.

louiebaby

10,954 posts

220 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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A good proportion of the fair weather cyclists are female. Some are quite tidy. So dangerous by their distracting nature...

Rolls

1,502 posts

206 months

Friday 27th July 2012
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Yeah... It's quite nice slowing down and enjoying the view at times!

Kermit power

29,622 posts

242 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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I suspect young Mr Wiggins had more to do with this phenomenon (does anyone else automatically sing the next couple of bars of the Muppets theme to themselves whenever they write that word, btw?) than the Olympics.

I'd agree, however, that they've been messing with the traffic lights.

IroningMan

10,598 posts

275 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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Kermit power said:
...phenomenon (does anyone else automatically sing the next couple of bars of the Muppets theme to themselves whenever they write that word, btw?)...
Just you, I reckon.

Can't imagine why.

smegma

38 posts

179 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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Kermit power said:
does anyone else automatically sing the next couple of bars of the Muppets theme to themselves whenever they write that word, btw?
Every time.

jagracer

8,248 posts

265 months

Saturday 28th July 2012
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deckster said:
d.

Plus, is it just me or have they changed the phasing of all the lights so the red-red-red phases are much, much longer now? I'm really in quite severe danger of losing my natural cheerful demeanour, I tell you.
Yes lots of lights have been re-phased but since when did cyclists bother about red lights? Don't get me wrong, I'm all for cyclists going through red lights (safely) as they are out of the way when I pull away in my truck.