This was filmed Rue Gabriel Perri, near Maison Kouts
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.
OP should devote a day off to doing hourly sweeps while getting belligerent about it.
Bike obviously means motorbike duh
I found your problem.
you’re in the land of the fr*nch.
to resolve your issue, please proceed to the nearest border and leave the accursed snail eaters to their pretentious bubbly wine, and their overpriced long bread.
you shall have a much more pleasant experience going to Germany, Italy, or any one of the numerous other eurpooran places.
French ain’t a race, it’s a personality disorder.
People of all races can be afflicted with it if they have the bad luck of being born or raised in France.
Xenophobia is being replaced with racism in the common tongue.
You might disagree, but they are not confusing race whatsoever, you can replace racism with xenophobia if you like since that’s what they actually meant.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Can’t they hang out in the street or something?
Sheesh, should take a slice from the Dutch and start ramming people tbh
Or from Indian police men and start slapping them with sticks.
Yes, ramming people with a bicycle. Sounds brilliant.
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.
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.
This is the most polite behaviour I’ve seen towards people blocking bike paths in Paris
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
That’s maybe a bridge too far for me but I might yell at them.
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.
