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What really grinds your gears?

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Nov 2017
11:30pm, 23 Nov 2017
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Badger
Weird thing round here is that there are a lot of shared-use pavements that are very narrow, and pedestrian-only ones which are much wider; transition from one to the other is sometimes only indicated by there no longer being painted cycles every 30m or so. Anyone might think they were designed for the convenience of cars rather than cyclists. So I'm usually fairly relaxed about cyclists on wider pavements. I don't get out of the way of cyclists who are riding on a footway when there's a perfectly good cycle lane on a reasonably quiet road next to it - as in, I wouldn't try to block the whole path, but I'm not going over to the other side to make space for somebody who definitely hasn't been intimidated onto the pavement; quite often, it's just because they want to go against the flow of traffic.
Nov 2017
11:39pm, 23 Nov 2017
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McGoohan
There's a 'shared-use' cycle path in Redhill that is only marked by small silver discs bearing an engraving of a cycle plugged in the ground. I have had to point out to pedestrians that 'No, I *am* entitled to cycle here. Look, here's the very tiny cycle path sign.'

Some pillock at the council probably thought it was stylish or something.
Nov 2017
7:12am, 24 Nov 2017
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purps
WS I combat the leg thing by swapping legs every so often.
Nov 2017
8:51am, 24 Nov 2017
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Velociraptor
[I want a scooter now.]

People who enter races then splatter themselves around the internet going, "Ooh, ooh, what have I gone and done, look at me, I must be mad, LOOK AT ME ME ME ME ME." Shut up and train, or shut up and write off the entry fee.
Nov 2017
9:05am, 24 Nov 2017
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mrs shanksi
Totally agree v'rap, quite a few of that type in the ultra scene.
Nov 2017
10:53am, 24 Nov 2017
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Fierce and Fearless Fleecy
I’m on a train with my scooter. A very normal looking 30ish chap got off at the last stop with his scooter (we are in suburban Surrey, not London). I had to stop myself from demanding why he didn’t have a beard :)
Nov 2017
11:12am, 24 Nov 2017
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McGoohan
He'd forgotten his skateboard? ;-)
Nov 2017
11:22am, 24 Nov 2017
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Fierce and Fearless Fleecy
There was a very sweet teen on the train the other day wearing rollerblades, with a longboard strapped to his back, I commended him for covering all his transport options :)
Right now my gears are being ground by GWR and their inability to run a fucking train on time...
Nov 2017
12:08pm, 24 Nov 2017
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CharlieP
British people who refer to a dinner jacket as a 'tux'.
Nov 2017
3:29pm, 24 Nov 2017
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Wriggling Snake
That's the trouble Fleecy it probably isn't GWR's fault, it is probably network rail, ot whoever owns the tracks these days.

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