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Group Memberships => UND Cycling => Topic started by: curlingDave on August 31, 2009, 12:17:53 PM
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What are people's opinions on what to say to people who ride on the sidewalk on campus or ride in the bikelane on the wrong side of the road? Nicely tell them where they should be, with a pretty please? ;D Tell them sternly where they should be? :angry2: Call 'em out and get the posse? :mario: :mob: ;)
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Well, supposedly I yelled at doublefist before I knew who he was about riding on the wrong side of the street. I don't know if it was effective.
It's a tough call, but I'm trying to be nicer and strike up conversations with people who do things that are bad for cyclists (before I suggest they change). Salmoning is a problem just because you don't get much opportunity unless you want to turn around and set a bad example yourself.
Riding on sidewalks and paths on campus is legal. I won't ride on sidewalks (next to streets) but I will ride on paths (that cross campus between streets), nor will I ride the wrong way down streets on campus (or anywhere, but some people do). I suggest that anyone who rides on campus become comfortable saying "on your left" or getting a bell, but as far as convincing some people that they are scaring the crap out of people, I don't know what to do.
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I didn't mean to quell any further discussion.
If you want to talk about oblivious to the world around you, check out this post from Copenhagen Cycle Chic, where it doesn't matter if you can see the traffic as long as you look good: http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com/2009/08/niceness.html
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AAAAHHHHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! :lol:
Did you guys see the signs that UND put on the grass next to the bike lanes, they are facing the wrong direction so the cyclists going the WRONG WAY can read them and they basically say "Ah, you F*&$@#% are breaking the law, ride with traffic" in paraphrase of coarse...... that's the UND I want to go to school in!!!
FINALLY!! :violent1:
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Hahahah :lol: Finally. But I think they could add an endorsement from Mr T. "I pity da foo!" :nono:
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Well, supposedly I yelled at doublefist before I knew who he was about riding on the wrong side of the street. I don't know if it was effective.
it was effective in me think you were a d-bag for a while.... but now i realize that is not the fact! i actually thought about chasing you down and brawling..
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Are u talking in the 3rd person? Or fake internet quoting beek? lulz.
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i just copy pasted what beak wrote.... then added my 2 cents
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Well, supposedly I yelled at doublefist before I knew who he was about riding on the wrong side of the street. I don't know if it was effective.
it was effective in me think you were a d-bag for a while.... but now i realize that is not the fact! i actually thought about chasing you down and brawling..
That would have been quite interesting!
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indeed
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You guys are chatting! :lol:
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...it was effective in me...
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...it was effective in me think(ing) that...
Si, senor?
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I mean, i was looking for more of a "thaaaaat's what she said" but...yeah.
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Aaaaah... my mind wasn't in the "that's what she said" mode :evil6:
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I saw a kid riding this morning, no handle bars in the wrong bike lane, talking on his cell phone and passing about 3 or 4 bikers!! :violent1:
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no hands? or no handlebars?
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no hands!
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OK!
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Just a heads up, if you happen to see a guy on the sidewalk on one of those tricycle recumbent things, you might give him a pass because he's blind (and a professor, actually).
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Just a heads up, if you happen to see a guy on the sidewalk on one of those tricycle recumbent things, you might give him a pass because he's blind (and a professor, actually).
Noted. That's some skill.
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Just a heads up, if you happen to see a guy on the sidewalk on one of those tricycle recumbent things, you might give him a pass because he's blind (and a professor, actually).
Noted. That's some skill.
He can see, just not so well that he's not legally blind.
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Maybe she doesn't know how much it cost? Maybe she doesn't know about the cycling club? Maybe she's intimidated?
Guys, I know everyone likes to vent (I'm guilty of it myself), but keep in mind this is a public board and potentially the first thing people will find when they search for "und cycling club." If we trash everyone who rides a nice bike but doesn't conform to our standards (or trash people who ride not-so-nice bikes), we're automatically shutting out a whole segment of the student body (who may not even know what they're missing).
Our mission statement is "to promote cycling and the cycling lifestyle at UND and in the Grand Forks area," which I read as including everyone who likes to ride, regardless of what they can afford.
As far as getting on people's cases about their total disregard for traffic laws and common courtesy, I'm totally there--but again, there are a lot of clueless people in the world who would probably take honest advice better than empassioned shouting in the street. Yes, we all know I'm a hypocrite, but compare me now with myself a couple years ago and I'm most definitely calmer on the bike than I used to be.
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I don't think I was trying to insinuate anything. More of a look for the bike and get a card in the spokes. oi.
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PRO. FESSIONALISM.
That's all I was saying. I don't want to get a bad reputation for the club like we're too elitist.