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Top Gear bike advert
Don't think this has been posted here before:
http://youtu.be/Q5ZuvmyQ_p4 A work colleague sent it to me. I'm not sure he meant it as a PSA. |
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Could be applied equally to cyclists, drivers and pedestrians. Cyclists just an easy target because we wear spandex.
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Cyclists are an easy target because so many completely ignore red lights. I commute into Denver and watch cyclist blow through almost every red light while I'm stopped waiting for it to turn green. The ratio of bikes to cars blowing through red lights is at least 10 to 1. |
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Taken in context with the rest of their 'PSAs' in the last show, it was actually pretty farging funny.
There're more of em. Don't know if they've been posted separately, but if you DL the latest episode, you'll see what I mean M |
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Talk about being an easy target...
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-car drivers are unhappy with us already, running red lights doesn't help. -car divers vote and when a cycling friendly measure comes up on the ballot, don't expect pissed off car drivers to vote for it..because of above. -and a lot of us know what the response is when cyclists mentions to another cyclist to please not run red lights, it's never, 'good idea, thanks for that'... And for Gummee, below, I know, but I still try..I guess I'm insane, ya know, do the same thing and expect different results.
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Its like bashing your head against a wall as much good as it seems to do. M |
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And people tell me racism is dead...
Like most things some people will pick and choose what they see to reinforce their own negative/positive stereotypes. Choose to pay them no mind Quote:
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I got run into from behind by another cyclist while stopped for a light. He offered no apology, just swore at me a lot and gestured with one finger. Once in a while the Cambridge police crack down on cyclists for a few hours at one or two busy intersections. Each time they do there's this huge outcry because it's so unfair. There's also a huge outcry when a cyclist gets killed. Somehow nobody puts the two together...
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Another reason why I love living on this side of what the Brits like to call the pond. In France in general red lights in the thinking of cyclists just mean slow down and look to see if a car is coming, then go. From time to time apparently in cities a cop has been known to stop a cyclist for running a light and even known to give the cyclist a ticket. Probably only on a day that the cop had an attitude for whatever reason. Where I ride stop lights are pretty rare actually. Down in the valley there are a couple of rides I do that at the end on returning to the car I have to go through a light and lots of times that's when there's a small traffic jam, people going home at the end of the day. I ride the center paint, pass them all, get to the light, check out if anyone's coming, if no one's coming, I go. Never seen a driver get upset. Life is different here. And probably, no certainly, even more different in Italy, Peter, where rules are made with the bends already built-in.
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Winter home in Sicily....summer home further north up the boot...Maybe around Lovorno/Pisa....
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In the context of Top Gear, that's pretty funny.
In the real world, I can easily understand motorists being frustrated. On my commutes, I regularly encounter other cyclists ignoring traffic laws and being a general nuisance on the road. I do my best to show that not all of us do this, but who knows if it gets through to anyone. Negative encounters weigh a lot more heavily in memory than positive ones. |
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