Cyclist slagging - the other side

I’ve got big thanks to a cyclist on Barry drive when my car overheated in the right hand lane and was full peak hour traffic and I had to pull over in the middle median strip and I had no water and no mobile phone credit and no cars were slowing down to see if I needed help, I ended up yelling out to a man on a cycle pushing slow up the hill to ask if he had a mobile I could ring my man to help me and he did no worries, eventually that is, when I was able to cross the road.

niftydog said :

After all the cyclist slagging that I read here on RA I was a bit suprised.

Zoiks. My worst fears realised, people actually believe everything they read on RiotACT!

Hyperbole? On RiotACT? About cyclists? Naaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!

I am loathe to admit this but, as I do no exercise and venture nowhere near cycle paths or those lovely Canberra green tracts, I have never had a cyclist experience on the cycle paths that some people on RA love to bitch about.

As I was standing on the cycle path (yes, baking hot ;), I was slightly afraid of these rabid Canberra cyclists who I have only ever heard about on RA. So I thought I would give them a “Well Done” post. They were all lovely. Sweaty and stuff, but lovely.

58 km/h on Adelaide Avenue (where the Embassy Hotel is) – a slight downhill, but I’ll take the speed where I can get it! Aiming to crack 60 soon…

TheScientist said :

G-Fresh said :

Not only are they a wild and competitive creature, they are also tremendously fit and capable of commuting to speeds of up to 50km/h. Diving and swerving, hither and tither on their way to work and various other daily activities.

pfff. i reached 54.9 the other day along northbourne. would’ve popped 55 if i hadn’t had to slow down for a bus pulling in!

it’s kinds fun riding the same speed as traffic 🙂 (in the bike lane though)

I’ve peaked out at 64km/h on the downhill stretch of Barry Drive, though I suppose downhill is cheating 😛

there was an accident involving a cyclist on Barry Dr just near Marcus Clarke this morning. I drove past to see him sitting in the middle of the road, blood all over his face, being treated by the firies and ambos.

I heard rumours that he attempted to make it across Barry Dr in front of a firetruck and came off second best. Would certainly account for his location (the middle lane)

As much as I hate it, I have to agree with Jakez…again! 😉

G-Fresh said :

Not only are they a wild and competitive creature, they are also tremendously fit and capable of commuting to speeds of up to 50km/h. Diving and swerving, hither and tither on their way to work and various other daily activities.

pfff. i reached 54.9 the other day along northbourne. would’ve popped 55 if i hadn’t had to slow down for a bus pulling in!

it’s kinds fun riding the same speed as traffic 🙂 (in the bike lane though)

Depech Mode had it nailed in the 80’s

People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully

I presumed.
Based on
– drinks chardonney (although, so do I).
– 5 ft nothing (without meaning to be sexist, odds are female there)

The Brad said :

I was standing on the cycling path in the only available shade (baking hot)

Cyclists like to help out hot females.

Is MWF female? I had assumed male, but I have no idea why; there’s no evidence either way in the post.