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.
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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It’s not so black and white. Yes asshole behaviour. But also: the sidewalk is very narrow, there are many shops, people living in the neighborhood are likely to not have any garden or tiny balconies etc. The (other) real culprit is the street designer / city planner. You can see on the other side of the street that despite it being a very narrow, multimodal busy place… they did NOT sacrifice all (free?) streetside parking in favour of more “living space” for pedestrians. Likely recorded during heat wave, with unlivably overheated Appartments and not enough trees/parks in the area…
An 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.
FWIW saw a scooter parked this way, not on a bike lane but in front of a bike garage. I put a paper on it saying “This is not a parking spot, next time I’m moving it myself” with the intent of being polite but firm. Since then they never parked there anymore. Sometimes people don’t even realize.
This isn’t mildly infuriating. It’s just regular infuriating
OP is showing incredible restraint here not to just kick those parked scooters over.
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.
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.
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
And kicking people sitting in the bike lane.
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.
Every so often they need to send down a golf cart with a cow catcher on it
Great. Now I want a golf cart with a cow catcher.
train horn time
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.
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.
I did that shit by “purpose”
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 know it’s incorrect to say “on accident”, but sometimes I do anyway, just to be wrong by purpose.
You ok bro?
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 think I would light the dude sitting in a chair in the bike lane on fire. What kind of scumbag does that?
