Myths and Rebuttals

Please go back under your bridge/rock. You cant possibly believe that speeding is ok, when it's a factor in most road collisions involving a death. The speed limit is just that, a limit, not a target.

+1

I suppose he might believe speeding is OK, but that would make him a James Blunt. And of course it's complete rubbish that hardly any motorvehicles jump red lights. On my commute, I see more doing it than cyclists. Fine all of them as far as I'm concerned.

"Oi Baldy","get off the road".
Answer- "This is not a bald head,it's a Solar Panel for a sex machine".
Mike.

that is a myth

'Debating' with a friends husband at a BBQ about bikes/cyclists...

Him "You should only ride on cycle paths"
Me "How do I turn right then?"

Him "You don't pay road tax"
Me "Neither do you"
Him "Yes I do"
Me "No you don't - Google it"

Him "Well, you don't have insurance"
Me "Actualy, I do"

The conversation then turned to enviromental issues, he claimed that his car was 'green' as....
Him "My car does 40+mpg"
Me *slaps legs* "These babies can double that, on a litre of H2O"

He then raised the helmet/HiVis should be legal requirement, At this point his wife told him to stop being a pompous arse & STFU!

Myth: "You don't pay road tax so..."

Rebuttal: "If you want to avoid tax too, take up cycling. Oh, you prefer paying tax?"

i like " beauty fades, dumb is forever" judge judy sheindlin .

Did his wife take his shovel off of him and help him out that hole?

and funnymummy its not fair to pick on those less fortunate than yourself


Driver - Get off the F'ing road
Myself - This is a Road Bike it belong on roads what your in is a car which belong in a scrapyard!

He was not ammused but I took on this idiot at the traffic lights next to the police station in town! rule one of warfare pick your battlefield

Class,Pure Class.

Overweight apoplectic purply-faced-man. "Get out of the middle of the road!"

Me "Give my regards to St Peter."

I'm waiting for a woman to have a go at me to use this one:

Least this is something I can ride with my legs shut!

Oh no it isn't!

Fat driver "You should be on the cycle path"

Me "You should be on an exercise bike"

This isn't one I can claim personally myself but did read it on another forum, excellent response IMHO to one of those "classic" heckles:

Driver: "Your wheel is going round"

Rider: "So's your wife/missus/girlfriend"

IIRC the story as told originally had the heckler in the car with mates so thought he was being rather clever until he got shot down in flames, much to the amusement of his mates :-)

I had some lass shout that at me the other day... the 'your wheels going round' part

My initial reaction was literally just ... WTF?? Did someone seriously just heckle that at me... possibly the worst heckle ever, wish I had that response written above

My disk brakes are squealing like cr*p at the mo and on my Thursday commute a group of teen schoolkids were blocking the cycle-path. "Scuse me" I shouts to be just let through.Just through and one lad shouts "your brakes are crap mate".
I responded " yup - modelled on your face" to the amusements of his mates.
Usually I only manage a mumbled Feck Orf!

Comment: Your right to the road won't mean much if a lorry is bearing down on you.

Rebuttal: The same applies to you.

The comment assumes that motorists are invincible, whereas studies show that in practice they are no safer than cyclists on the road. In fact, the data suggests that over a lifetime, cycling is nearly twice as safe as driving.

I would reply "you should be in the Netherlands" - where it is indeed law to use the cycle lane if there is one, and where indeed there is no need to consider doing otherwise!

citation needed...