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People crossing the road without looking. Nightmare when you're cycling. Maybe it's an urban thing - people so attuned to road noise they think they can tell when something's coming without looking - but bikes are nearly silent. Atlantic Road in Brixton is particularly bad, almost as if some people think there's a pedestrian zone between the two parts of the market. Yesterday someone walked off the pavement BACKWARDS in front of me.

Loz Wrote:

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> KalamityKel Wrote:

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> > "Don't tell the bride"

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> What annoys you about that one, KK? I kinda like

> it if there is nothing else on.


The bride mostly ;-)

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> People crossing the road without looking.


Afraid to say I've been guilty of this one in the past. Quickly scanning the road and not noticing an approaching cyclist. But I think (hopefully) I've learned my lesson... before both me and an unsuspecting cyclist end up in a heap on the road...

There was a lady walking down the middle of the road this morning, reading her phone messages and seemingly oblivious of where she was. I slowed down and cycled past, giving her a wide birth and she looked up and 'tsked' me!


Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> People crossing the road without looking.

> Nightmare when you're cycling. Maybe it's an urban

> thing - people so attuned to road noise they think

> they can tell when something's coming without

> looking - but bikes are nearly silent. Atlantic

> Road in Brixton is particularly bad, almost as if

> some people think there's a pedestrian zone

> between the two parts of the market. Yesterday

> someone walked off the pavement BACKWARDS in front

> of me.

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