This was filmed Rue Gabriel Perri, near Maison Kouts
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)
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.
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.
Hell…sitting just on the ground I’d even understand. It sounds spontaneous enough. But bringing out a fucking chair is just deliberate and fucking bizarre behavior.
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.
This is the most polite behaviour I’ve seen towards people blocking bike paths in Paris
I’d be knocking over those motorcycles
I think I would light the dude sitting in a chair in the bike lane on fire. What kind of scumbag does that?
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.I know it’s incorrect to say “on accident”, but sometimes I do anyway, just to be wrong by purpose.
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 expected more horses in Saint Denis.
Bike obviously means motorbike duh
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.
Sheesh, should take a slice from the Dutch and start ramming people tbh
Or from Indian police men and start slapping them with sticks.
This isn’t mildly infuriating. It’s just regular infuriating
Can’t they hang out in the street or something?
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.
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 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.
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
Good riddance.
Did you ask him to try and sit on the road with vehicular traffic?
Every so often they need to send down a golf cart with a cow catcher on it
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?
