@Angel 562268 wrote:
Old people coming out of the bus with their zimmerframes are most likely to get hurt, and some busdrivers warn the people getting out if he sees a bike. I don’t like bikeriders in the big cities in Denmark. They have no respect for anybody else.
The same occurs in all large cities; the people doing it often commit the same or worse traffic offences in cars and often get involved in other crimes such as fighting/hooliganism.
I’ve often suspected the reason the Dutch bikes are made big, heavy and slow (although reliable) is deliberate, as I can read their 112 news website and they seem to crash anything that has wheels.
When I grew up in SE England there was this policeman who always rode about on his bike (he preferred it to going double crewed in a patrol car), he was around when I was high schook and only retired when I was in my 30s. In my late teens/20s we hung around in a sort of gang (it wasn’t a very bad gang, some mischief and drug taking but no real crime or violence).
There was ths field just by the river, where we would hide in a corner and smoke whatever hash/weed we could get. And he would often be there and every one of us on bicycles would be pulled (as it is a communal field shared for everyone and you should only wheel your bike down the river bank; it is forbiden to ride it down the hill. If my mates did that or had defect brakes, missing lights they’d get a telling off and it would get them more likely to be searched by other officers. But if your bike was in good order, you got left alone.
He was smart; he knew that all of us were going to smoke cannabis and possibly take other drugs, but that wasn’t as harmful as one of us crashing our bikes into another person in the park leading to one or both going into a deep, cold river (the Thames) than many people drown in (about 130 per year, 80 in metpol and 50 in TVP regions). So he concentrated on what was the real danger.
