Probably just perception then.
What like car drivers do when thier car has p*** poor or non-existant DRL. Try driving a vehical with no rear view mirror in the rain on a motorway and tits in grey cars dont put thier lights on.
They dont drive inches from it either and have 4inch wide wheels to absorb driving over drains, cars are more stable, remain in a straight line more easily, do not get buffted by cross wind passing vehicals or have rotaing parts sticking 8 inches out from the side that can catch kerbs
Far more car drivers on the road the cyclists and far more drivers think they own the road and they have priority and rights than other users.
Not alot you can do about pedestrians unless we impose jaywalking laws like they have in America, but there is a means to catch and try to deter the errant drivers and motorbike riders. But with nothing to catch or deter the errant cyclists, so they figure it is ok to do as they please.
I don't know what you are replying to as I have one member on Ignore. (Only person ever that I've ignored in 20 years of being on forums on the internet!) but I imagine it is to do with your post about staying close to the kerb, and other issues where cyclists annoy petrol heads.
I don't know what you are replying to as I have one member on Ignore. (Only person ever that I've ignored in 20 years of being on forums on the internet!) but I imagine it is to do with your post about staying close to the kerb, and other issues where cyclists annoy petrol heads.
We are in an unprecedented time. Climate Change is here, and will get worse. The only way to deal with it is to change our lifestyles. Electric Vehicles won't do it, they simply fool us into thinking we can carry on as we are.
Making the change successfully will be painful but mean that our children and hopefully grandchildren will have a chance. Right now, if we have grandchildren, they are going to be fighting for the remaining land that is habitable. We have to make a change. Now.
Human powered vehicles make a massive difference.
Whenever you hear someone saying that they need a car to commute to their job, ask them to consider how important that job is to the planet, rather than to that individual. Choose jobs that are good for the future of humanity, rather than a selfish short-term personal future.
Whenever you hear a car driver complaining about someone who is human powered, ask them which is sustainable. There is only one answer. (Walking!, although cycling is a very efficient method of travel)
I know that WFH is a privileged class option, but compare how it was viewed a year ago, with how it is viewed now. Things can change very fast if we want them to.
Things can change. We should do it and not leave the mess to our children and grandchildren.
E-scooters? BRING THEM ON!
Yes. Indeed.
You take very wrong.
This probably won't get a reply as I suspect I am the one on ignore.
Most peoples lifestyles are sustainable, it's the outliers than create the problems, having far too many kids. Obviously you can't account for multiple births, but is more than two really necessary.
Everybody's lifestyle relies on "cheap dino fuel". Even the people that don't own cars, don't drive all rely on people who do need to own a car and drive.
You were doing alright until you mentioned meat eaters.
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I know, and it seems to me that you're something of an expert at it in this thread!
Always easy to take a personal situation and extrapolate it as if it applies to everyone.
By the end of this year humans have built as much stuff as there are lifeforms on the planet. For every person in the world, more than their body weight in stuff is now being produced each week.
That is pretty scary. It cannot continue - you cannot have limitless growth.
Human-made objects to outweigh living things
The mass of human-made objects will for the first time likely exceed that of living things in 2020.
And restrict what they buy their spoilt, fat, little kids too! All that plastic tat that ends up going to landfill or an incinerator just a few months after little Timmy has got bored with it or broken it doesn't bear thinking about! We need to end the throw-away society before we choke to death on our own garbage!
No one is saying such a personal example applies to everyone, but you'd have to be blind to not recognise that it is applicable to a very high majority.
No one did any such thing. All that has been pointed out are the reasons why cyclists should be regulated in the same way as motorists. Whether the bike is adorned with a registration plate or the rider wears a high vis with the registration number and pays £10 or £20 for insurance, and take a test, won't endanger their personal freedom, just as it doesn't any motorist, but it does help to hold those that break the law accountable and make the place easier and happier to live in.
No idea if in place in other countries, but on the whole it works for motorcyclists and motorists, so why not cyclists.
At least with a normal scooter, one leg was getting exercise.