Thats it i cant believe how stupid people are its bad enough i had a pedestrian run into me last year now in the last 2 days Ive had on two separate occasions mums pushing their buggies straight into the middle of the road without looking!!!
i come from the major road turning onto the minor road the lights for me are green yet they just walk out without a care in the world they didnt have ipods on nor was it noisy until i was revving my engine at them being mid corner when this happen but still they ignore me which makes no sense because if i was pushing my kid along id look everywhere including over my shoulder as i wouldnāt want my baby hurt
Clapham has a special breed of woman that likes to run in front of bikes too. nearly lost the front last time it happened. she still had the cheek to tell me to **** off when i looked at her disbelievinglyā¦
I got all the cuss words under the sun the other week when one did it to me the other week.
itās a shame there isnāt a way to check that people are going to be that reckless with their children, then they could be sterilized. That way they wouldnāt have their baby flattened by an innocent road user.
Take care, they are the future of this great nation, maybe the 20 mph speed limit is a reasonable suggestion. Riding fast is a privilage that we cannot afford to abuse.Maybe you should just take some time out and think about your responsibilities.
Had something similar happen to me yesterday. Riding along and a buggy suddenly appeared from in front of a parked lorry! Really sh **** it me up. It always reminds me of a Dave Allen observation about children being this precious little bundle that you put all your love and care into, yet whatās the first thing you push out into busy traffic?! :w00t:
I was suprised last weekend to be confronted by a large lady reversing across a pelican crossing with a buggy in tow. clearly her priorities were in place but unfortunately contact with her prodruding and unmarked glutimus maximus almost pushed me and my totally ill clad 3 yr old pillion into the path of another buggy crossing in the opposite direction.
These people should be sectioned, their detrimental effect upon an otherwise progressive and educational ride was substantial.
People pushing buggies out into traffic without looking really pisses me off, happens to me several times a week, always very tempted to pull over and give them a right bollocking.
Iām not a parent, but iād imagine if you were youād do anything to protect your child, thats what i donāt understand about these imbeciles. I regularly see people stopping to let someone cross with a buggy and they just stroll out not even looking in the other direction, often from behind buses/vans etc with total disregard for the safety of their kid.
And I thought it was just Woolwich that had moronic buggy drivers. Up to now, Iāve put it down to loads of them only being 16 (?) but perhaps Iām wrong.
Does pushing a buggy have the same effect on female brains as giving a decent motorcycle does to a lot of young males?
nope its not just simple minded young mums its even the well off in their 30ās that do it with their 3 wheel fashionable buggies wearing ugg boots and huge fly looking sun glasses!!
my baby is due in oct and you wont see me putting my kid at risk like that. i get doughnuts crossing my path everyday when i try to turn off the high road onto my road where they donāt look before crossing but this was at a traffic lights
Its prob happened to a lot of us at some stage or otherā¦it never fails to amaze me, its happened to me on a few occasions and enough now, so that i purposely look out for these brainless, tshirt and leggins āmumsā who have a death wish for their siblingsā¦
They dont give a toss how we feel when that happensā¦how shocked it makes us to think we couldve killed a child and damaged ourselves physically and mentally if that were to have happenedā¦its not funny.
Its like when out on the bike, why is it we always come across some pondlife in a souped up car, with the loud exhaust etcā¦overtaking you and speeding up the motorway like a person on fireā¦? i mean WHY???
Do they really believe they can outrun you? doh !!! :w00t:
Its a good thing we are road wise to all this crapā¦and for those that are new to riding, take heedā¦things like this ARE going to happen to you in one way or anotherā¦humans are moronsā¦yeh, us includedā¦im a right div myselfā¦tho i wouldnt push a child into the road buggy tied or not !!!
I see this all the time, regardless of if Iām walking, on two wheels or in four. People blatentley putting their kids in danger! Yet if anything should happen, your the one thatāll get the blame, not the cretin pushing the thing!
I thought I was just getting old(er), but no body seems to have any common sence or thought for their actions anymore.
When my sprogs were little and the only wheeled transport I had was a pushchair, when crossing a road I used to push the buggy out so that it was beside me, not in front of me, and always looked out first. Gave myself a fright a few times but rather that than the ankle-biters being squished by vee-hick-yules.
