This was filmed Rue Gabriel Perri, near Maison Kouts
It’s poorly designed infrastructure. Don’t blame the people (at least not entirely). The true fault lies with the city planners.
Yeah, I can defo see it. It has barely no space for walking, no place for people to sit and no trees for shade
If anyone in that area has seen my good friend, Gavin, please let me know, I’m worried sick about him.
Its called living in a city. People sit where they want to sit. You are not better than them. You are a monkey on a bike. They are a monkey who needs to rest. Complaining about people sitting down when you are on a bike is literally inventing a problem. Welcome to living among other humans. You arent in a car, you are going slow enough to move out of the way of a person. If it were a pregnant woman or woman with infant child or elderly person you would be the asshole here.
tl:dr Fuck you, asshole, adapt or die. Complain to your city managers who don’t provide benches. Fuck you. These people are just walking on their legs. You choose otherwise. Fuck you. Pedestrians will always have the right of way no matter what. Fuck off. I hate entitled assholes with technology beating off on people who don’t use their preferred technology. They are just using their legs. You choose to use a bike. Your opinion is invalid.
did you watch the clip? People put chairs in the bike lane, not just sitting on the curb. Those particular people are assholes. The curb-sitters were not actually in the way.
They lack benches. Like I said, blame city managers, not the monkeys that need rest
While I generally like the argument there was also generally sidewalk room. If you watch the video, I was struck there were cycle/scooter people walking their vehicle on the sidewalk, past the obstructions in the bike lane. No reason those obstructions couldn’t have been on the sidewalk.
But the OP is also wrong. You do have to deal with the reality you face and there were too many pedestrians in the way. Like it or not he should have been walking his bike past those assholes
Would have been a better argument if there wasn’t a park with benches and all just 50 meter down the road… But there is.
I bet there’s a designated place to park those scooters too.
You must be popular at parties.
Where’s your dring-dring?
This is the most polite behaviour I’ve seen towards people blocking bike paths in Paris
Polite as a word doesn’t sit right when someone is encroaching and you are quiet instead of politely asserting.
I’d be knocking over those motorcycles
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Give them a squirt from your water bottle.
I think a squirt of somethong else would be more effective wink wink
Squirt is already “something else”
That’s maybe a bridge too far for me but I might yell at them.
This isn’t mildly infuriating. It’s just regular infuriating
What would happen if you knocked over all the unattended bikes on “accident”
Probably the same thing that would happen if you did it by accident.
You’ve been downvoted, but you are correct. Saying ‘on accident’ is jarring and meaningless.
The people who say it are like the idiots who say they ‘could care less’.
And they can, FUCK. OFF.Well, that escalated quickly.
My guess is he’s getting downvoted for the snark, not for the factual content. English isn’t most people’s native language.
True, but I’m fairly sure “on accident” doesn’t come from non-native speakers.
I did that shit by “purpose”
I know it’s incorrect to say “on accident”, but sometimes I do anyway, just to be wrong by purpose.
You ok bro?
OP is showing incredible restraint here not to just kick those parked scooters over.
I would have yelled them to F Off or use the bell aggressively.
I wonder how hard it would be to mount a truck’s airhorn on a bike.
That wouldn’t work on the bikes that have been left unattended, though, hence the kicking.
You could probably get a ton of mileage out of an aerosol air horn, if those are available in your area.
Years ago I did have an air-powered horn for my bike that you could pump up with a regular bike pump. It was pretty loud. The thing with bike horns, though, is that the times you’d want to use them are also the times when you need to be grabbing both brakes. I find just shouting works as well.
Wire the horn to the brakes, then.
Yeah, that wouldn’t work. Brakes aren’t only for emergencies. In fact, they rarely are.
Hmmm. Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that. So maybe there’s a need for a bike horn that’s super loud and that you can trigger with a finger while you’re braking.
They really aren’t, if it takes great restraint for you to not do stuff like that you probably have real anger issues.
Ride a bike enough in this car-brained world, and you’ll have anger issues too. Actually, driving a car with those idiots around is even worse.
Honestly, though, yeah, I probably wouldn’t actually do that. I talk a big game on the internet, but in reality I’m severely conflict averse.
A friendship ended over something this petty
A friend and I were sitting on the curb, legs stretched out over the bike lane. I saw a bike coming and I picked up our bag and got up. He didn’t move and got mad at me for doing that “without warning” right before the cyclist rode between us (that was the only path they had). Ex-friend then turned their ire towards the cyclist calling them rude and whatnot. Fortunately the cyclist kept riding. I was finally able to tell them the bike is why I moved. And dude just tried to justify they could sit there if we had just curled our legs, saying there was enough room for the bike to pass. Bro. The entire lane is for the bike. We were just taking advantage of the fact there were no bikes around when we sat down. I had thought he would have the same response I had when the cyclist came. Apparently not and he ranted about it the whole way home. I blocked him when he drove off.
ETA: he was problematic before that and the weed wasn’t worth it
Did you ask him to try and sit on the road with vehicular traffic?
Good riddance.
I think I would light the dude sitting in a chair in the bike lane on fire. What kind of scumbag does that?
I’d love to get a group together, and go along just throwing scooters out of the path and into the road.
And the guy in the chair too.
Wow, this is awful.
I’ve ridden bikes in many cities (London, Paris, Toronto, Montreal, Seville), never saw anything close to this bad.
How standard is this in Saint Denis?
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This must be quite a more tolerant region of friends because the the 2 French people I know would have immediately resorted to violence. Totally valid as well.
I expected more horses in Saint Denis.
I can kind of understand the sitters, but the parked motorcycles are just wrong. (Also they really should have better dedicated places for people to sit, but c’est la vie as they say)
Complete opposite here. I understand the parking, that’s just standard asshole Behavior. That I get. I’m used to it. The sitting is just fucking bizarre. Why? Just why? They brought a chair for fucks sake. Out into the street. They passed the wide open sidewalk while carrying their chair. It makes no sense.
It does if you consider they are clearly doing it on purpose: the message is that they own the place and will sit wherever they want.
om ok with the sitters if they GTF up and step back when a cyclist comes along i. e pay attention.
fuck the parked scoots.
