Encounter with MAFIL's

[johncarnie]

First things first - I don't like shared cycle tracks! What with dog-owners on long leads, yummie-mummies with prams two-abreast (that's the prams not the kids! ) and peds with ear-phones lost in their own world! But I was on the A4440 to Powick Worcester where at times the traffic just crawls, so it's best to use the (bumpy, overgrown) cycle/ped track. I was approaching the Powick roundabout when coming round a blind corner were two MAFIL's in full gear going hell for leather as though they were being pursued by the devil himself. I swerved to avoid and ended up in the grass verge all arms, legs and bike. They did not look back so intent were they on their race! I would have been be safer with the traffic!

[Si]

'MAFIL's ?

[johncarnie]

Middle Aged Females in Lycra (as opposed to MAMILS)

[graymee]

I would have been inclined to hold my ground, stopping if necessary (as a last resort) to force them to change course however I wasn't in the situation you were in.

[jezer]

Well, we had one of these on our club run yesterday (it was more like a chain gang). Twenty started, seven of us at the end, including her. Every time she went on the front the pace increased by a couple of kilometres per hour. Awesome!

[Claireysmurf]

I'm sometimes a MAFIL then but really do aspire to their greatness (if not their obvious lack of awareness)

[Ian Raleigh]

MAFIL MAMIL ..never heard of it until now

I'm not a Lycra man myself ! Been a retro 'Beenbag' knitted leggings man for years

I too hate shared kerb's too. Most pedestrians think they own the eight feet wide section of tarmac

[wirral_cyclist]

MAFIL MAMIL ..never heard of it until now

<SNIP>

I too hate shared kerb's too. Most pedestrians think they own the eight feet wide section of tarmac

Because they do? Peds are allowed on all parts of a shared use path but cyclists only on the cycle bit, sad but true, just another reason not to use them.

[cjchambers]

I would have been be safer with the traffic!

Yep, with shared facilities that's generally the case . . .

[Ian Raleigh]

Because they do? Peds are allowed on all parts of a shared use path but cyclists only on the cycle bit, sad but true, just another reason not to use them.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that if a shared path has a white line down the middle with markings
showing of a cycle and a walking man, pedestrians are not allowed into this section of kerb which shows the cycle.

[DougieB]

Because they do? Peds are allowed on all parts of a shared use path but cyclists only on the cycle bit, sad but true, just another reason not to use them.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that if a shared path has a white line down the middle with markings
showing of a cycle and a walking man, pedestrians are not allowed into this section of kerb which shows the cycle.

not true. do you live in Edinburgh by any chance ? I had a cyclist shout at me for daring to walk on the cyclist side of the line. pedestrians can walk anywhere, except motorways ?

[Ayesha]

I went into a cafe in Birmingham and asked for Mille feuille.

The waitress came back with a glass of warm yellow liquid.

[snibgo]

In theory, cycle tracks can be made "without a right of way on foot". In practise I don't think they ever are.

[Ayesha]

If a cyclist collides with a pedestrian where the pedestrian is on the 'cycling' half of a shared pathway, guess who will be prosecuted for 'inconsiderate cycling'?

You can't just go mowing down pedestrians because they are ocupying the side of the pathway that has a painting of a bicycle on it...

What's this? Death race 2000 ???

[kwackers]

If a cyclist collides with a pedestrian where the pedestrian is on the 'cycling' half of a shared pathway, guess who will be prosecuted for 'inconsiderate cycling'?

You can't just go mowing down pedestrians because they are ocupying the side of the pathway that has a painting of a bicycle on it...

What's this? Death race 2000 ???

+1

I don't understand this attitude. Peds are unpredictable, they'll always be so. Deal with it or use the road.