Cycling in London there's no shortage of idiots on bicycles, every day I encounter two wheeled idiots determined to injure themselves and others and I thought I'd seen just about every variant of muppetry and fuckwitedness that humanity could devise, but this morning I met one who was so far off the stupid scale that to call him a moron would be an insult to morons worldwide.
I was on my way to work and going along Lombard Road in Battersea about
here.
At the traffic lights ahead the path from the river comes out on the left (which is why the lights are there). Just behind me on the left the path goes back to the river. Lazy/stupid (ie pretty much most of them) cyclists used to come out at the lights and cycle along the pavement, despite the no cycling signs. But at the moment the pavement isn't there as the site on the left is being redeveloped*
As I was about where the camera is in the streetview link, a cyclist comes out from the path on the left at the lights into the road (on the wrong side) and cycles towards me, so I moved out to avoid him, then to add to the fun his dog appeared behind him. Not on a lead, Mr. muppet wasn't even looking to see what his dog was doing, it was just running behind him. Seeing me the dog just ran out into the centre of the lane, and my worry was that the cars behind having seen me swerve to avoid the idiot wouldn't spot the dog and would run it over. Fortunately they did and no animals were injured.
The world is full of these idiots - and most of them probably drive cars as well.
* Because the pavement isn't there the developers have added a temporary traffic light (and someone to operate it) to allow pedestrians to cross, go along the other side and cross back at the lights, most don't, but that's ok because there are enough people in high vis and hard hats in the road to shield them.
