Some cyclists are real jerks – and the rest of us pay for it | OPINION
“Pushbike riders,” he said. Not with an exclamation mark, or any particular punctuation at all: not even a passive-aggressive ellipsis … He said it matter-of-factly, as a statement of the bleeding obvious.
He had wandered absent-mindedly onto the path and been given a gentle ding-ding by the young woman cyclist he was about to absent-mindedly wander into. “Don’t!” I thought. Every “f--kwit!” by an angry bloke in Lycra takes 10 random acts of cycling politeness to cancel out the karma.Before you reach for the pitchforks, let me say that I have been riding bikes in this city for more than 30 years.And, yes, cyclists are vulnerable and drivers can be distracted, careless and inattentive – but only rarely malicious. So I get it.
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