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@anneramsey740

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Cycling granny Feminist/LGBT/cycling activist// Green Party member. professional photographer AKA The Gay Archivist #roadtozero

Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined September 2016
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@anneramsey740
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2 years
They are running out of excuses
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2 years
It’s a gif now
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5 years
I’m dressed like this shopping in Iceland and a woman comes up to me and asks me do I own the blue Hyundai outside that’s blocking her in. Bewildered 😕
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2 years
This is what we need to see more of not less of. It’s drivers that need to be curtailed.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
4 years
It has worked. My cycling has put my type 2 diabetes into the range of not requiring medication. Latest test results just in. Yay 😀
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1 year
An elderly gent driver thought it would be funny to deliberately block the cycle lane and pretend to drive at me. Even when you alternate your route you still come across nasty idiots.
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2 years
@alysdenby You mean like this oil spill
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4 years
I’m alive. I ate toast and had a cuppa tea. No pain resting now 100% fine
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2 years
I should have been a fighter pilot. I escape a bonnet ride on the way home. Driver fails to see me on a mini roundabout. Tell me again about hi-viz and lights!
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3 years
I did it, my first 50 mile ride. 🏆
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
3 years
Involved in hit and run but I am ok. Driver of course illegally driving in the bus lane.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
4 years
The diabetic nurse said that lockdown and isolation was the cause of my diabetic crisis. She reviewed my past blood results and said that cycling was keeping my diabetes firmly controlled. 100% proof that cycling can save your life.
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2 years
Why are people like this being celebrated as legends. Speeding kills he is no hero he should be given points on his license for this.
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1 month
Love this graphic ❤️
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3 years
You dare to pull in on me in the bus lane I will empty my air horn at you.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
2 years
It’s my observation that the thing that triggers drivers more than anything is cyclists filtering.
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@Mad_1nventor @TfL He picked you because the gate would be open longer with the bike going through
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
7 months
If you are a cyclist and you have gone out on a ride and had no negative experiences, that’s great, that is the purpose of all the hard working cyclists who take their time to report the dangerous drivers.
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4 years
And hello new bike.
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3 years
Drivers should be afraid of breaking the law every time they take a drive in their car instead of vulnerable road users being terrified to use the road because of drivers.
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3 years
I’ve done it 2021 miles in 2021
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5 years
The best Glider driver ever. We travelled the road together on Wednesday morning. This is how to share the road. @GliderBelfast
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
3 years
A young woman was engrossed in a phone conversation and ran out in front of my car this evening. You know what, I expected it and slowed down and prepared for it. She was shocked but relieved. Expect the unexpected concentrate on the road ahead at all times.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
2 years
@danwootton We are having to do this at the minute because my wife is going for spinal surgery next week. People look at you strange but if she gets covid her surgery will be cancelled for a few months and if she has to wait any longer she will lose even more mobility.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
4 years
Verbally abused this morning by a driver “take the bus you fat c**t” we have to share the road with these imbeciles.
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2 years
Please tell me this is a parody account. The car means more than the child. What a sad world we live in.
@Sandford_Police
Sandford Police
2 years
Appeal to trace cyclist following a collision that occurred on Shorton Grange Road Cyclist has illegally ridden on the pedestrian crossing causing minor damage to a passing car
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3 years
Cyclists delay the glider, oh wait 🤔
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12 days
I got angry. I was moving left to let the moped rider past in the cycle/bike/bus lane and this driver pulls out on me. She lets the moped rider proceed and drives on out like I am not there and she doesn't care, like I don't exist.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
10 months
I decided to stick the memory card through the Mac to see if I could read the plate of the smokey Audi and I got a surprise.
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2 years
Just put a deposit on this Brompton this morning.
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4 years
I got a reply from the truck company O’Reilly transport. I am very happy with their response and I trust they are dealing with the driver appropriately.
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4 years
It was a cold cycle in, but worth it, to get my covid vaccine. 1st shot done #CovidVaccine
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2 months
I hate indoor cycling. I need to be actually going somewhere
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1 year
Look what Bradford Council did ❤️
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
3 years
An attempted left hook on a blind bend. Driver has no idea what she did wrong. They give these people driving licenses and control of a killing machine. This happened on my quiet route.
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2 years
went on my bicycle to the local shop for a bottle of whiskey yesterday. I was worried that the bottle might break as it was swinging in a plastic bag on the handlebars. I decided to open it and drink it just incase. It was just as well because I fell off 7 times on the way home
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11 months
I wondered why he needed a tinted plate. Then it all came clear. This has to be a massive failure in policing of our roads if drivers can use these plates on their vehicles without a care.
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11 months
It’s seems apparent, from posts on Twitter that cars are not designed to travel at 20mph. So it’s time that the car industry made cars that meets the needs of the motorists.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
11 months
One thing I have realised whilst cycling this morning London is not a city of drivers. I have never seen so many people walking, cycling, scootering, taking public transport and generally getting around without a car.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
7 months
The lemmings syndrome one parks and they all follow. 🤷‍♀️
@CrimeLdn
London & UK Street News
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😯😯 ( lewislikesbikes )
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3 years
How to turn left when there is a cyclist ahead of you.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
3 years
Ok everyone I have done it. I spoke to my GP today and I am now an injection and medication free diabetic
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
2 years
New bike day #newbikeday
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7 months
What do we do about it then, to improve things.
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3 years
Looks like the police are going to let the driver off with this without any prosecution without even seeing the footage because the damage to the vehicles were minor and the driver wasn’t aware he hit anything I have demanded they view the footage I am so pissed off.
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1 year
Where do the sun get these people from 😢
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
5 years
I received a delightful private message this morning jeez how original. I’m tweeting it for all the world to see because I’m not embarrassed for being a lesbian and dyke on a bike has a bit of a ring to it. Homophobia isn’t cool though bro. @FatboyMorton
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4 years
She arrived this morning #newbikeday @LivCyclingUK
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1 year
They blame anything nowadays except the driver 🤦‍♀️
@Southwark_News
Southwark News
1 year
An eleven-month-old baby was hospitalised after a car collided with a roadside bike hangar which councillors were reportedly warned was dangerously placed. #Camberwell #Southwark
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
1 year
Today I met the cyclist that all drivers are talking about. The caricature of a cyclist video.
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8 months
A young yob hit me with a golf ball on my commute home. It hurt like hell and there will be a bruise in the morning. Footage is too dark to identify any of them so probably no point in reporting it at all. I mean who would deliberately want to hurt an older lady cyclist?
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3 years
This person needs to never be allowed to drive ever ever again 🤬
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
2 years
@ShaunaCarberry3 No sympathy, if you are attending an event and you know there is limited parking then find another way. It’s a pavement for pedestrian not somewhere to store your private property to inconvenience others.
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2 months
How many people on bicycles have had seizures and killed people or plowed through buildings? I’ll wait!
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4 years
Pesky cyclist red light jumping again.
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1 year
@Southwark_News Are you on crack
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1 year
Driver driving illegally in the bus/cycle lane stops over the crossing then attempts to move forward as the children were crossing the road. My heart was in my mouth when I saw her brake lights go off.
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10 months
I collided with a child who ran out into the road into my path. He was unharmed thankfully. I made sure he was ok, I rang the police and his mummy. I stayed with him until his bus finally came. Thankfully it’s not a tragic story but bad enough for my nerves and stress levels. 😢
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2 years
@pdreynolds81 I wish drivers would get out of my way on the morning commute and stop illegally blocking the bus/bike lane.
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4 months
@jfwduffield So here I am an older disabled lady with two kids who had to use a bicycle to get to work because I couldn’t afford public transport.
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10 months
The van driver from today. Ok I am a coward I didn't want to chance riding on the left over muck from the road works but was his behaviour necessary.
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2 years
@ItsAndyRyan My daughter rescued this big boy from being drowned when he was a kitten. She was visiting a friend and the boys father was going to drown the kitten because he was sick. She just grabbed him and brought him home. 10 years later here is ozzy still here.
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4 years
It’s our sixth anniversary of our civil partnership today. love her more and more everyday @Lorrain29511675
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1 year
Arghhhhhhhhhh 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 I didn't expect this. When will we ever have a safe reliable route?
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2 years
I accrued 100 hours flexi and let it go because I knew I could never take it. I accrued another 100 hours so I let those go too and stopped recording the number of hours I worked beyond my shift. Flexi is pointless when you can’t take it.
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@kwhitestone @samaritans @GWRHelp My daughter was walking home up the falls with her newborn baby and came across a young man from the homeless shelter. He was about to jump from the westlink bridge. She talked him off the edge and chatted long enough for the welcome centre staff to come and help. Proud of her
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3 years
Female driver doing the school run threatened me this morning on my commute. I have experienced her driving before and she has obviously remembered me.
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4 years
Me at about 7-8 years old riding my cousins chopper. I loved his bicycle. Look at the smile on my face. Photo Probably taken in 1974.
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4 years
I couldn’t breathe for laughing. 😂
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5 years
Do you think it was bad of me to go really slow in front of a driver who used the bus lane to bunk the queue to overtake about 25 cars who were patiently waiting in the correct lane.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
3 years
I have noticed a very strange phenomenon. If I post a dashcam video from the car very little engagement from drivers regarding the driving. When I post a cycling video I get full analytics from very driver troll that lives on twitter. Analysing every millisecond to find fault
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2 years
Here she is “water Nokk” #newbikeday
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6 months
Not good
@MerseyRoads
Merseyside Have Your Say
6 months
Day in the life of @PilsworthJulie
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6 years
Left hook this morning im ok no injury
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4 years
@Joe_Raggs What medical condition means you can’t wear a mask
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
2 years
Apparently 16 seconds is a long time to be held up by a cyclist when you are a driver.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
6 years
I have come to the conclusion that you can’t share the road with people that think they own the road.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
4 years
Please let’s make how the roads are funded part of the theory test. This might make drivers less arrogant in the long run.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
1 year
Taxi driver horn abuse and break check. Imagine driving at a human being in this way.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
1 year
It’s always important to find some way to blame the cyclist no matter what.
@Steptoes_orphan
Dìon an Aonaidh
1 year
@anneramsey740 Perhaps if you hadn't have been cycling in the middle of the road and the driver wasn't focused on you, his angle of view would have been more open and he would have seen the hazard.... Just a thought!
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3 years
What a legend
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
11 months
Please don't ride like this. If you are sharing pedestrian spaces ride carefully and remember the hierarchy of road users.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
1 year
My bus lane driver friend was back again this morning for another chat. This time he was on his phone.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
3 years
😂😂😂
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
1 year
The 'Highway Code' according to this taxi driver.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
1 year
How many times have they told us that us cyclists block the traffic
@ShabazzStuart
Shabazz Stuart
1 year
One selfish driver blocks a bus full of people and other drivers for 15 mins. Crazy.
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1 year
@elliotsteelcom My nephew was killed while cycling by a driver with poor vision. 5 people a day are killed by drivers but hey yea you get you kicks and your clicks making fun of the victims. Not a good look.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
1 year
Some drivers just drive blindly, this was one of those drivers. The bad parking doesn't help the situation.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
3 years
I made it in this morning, commute was ok nerves not too bad. One job done, one to go. #cycling
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
10 months
I never imagined that twitter drivers would be so triggered by a post featuring a driver with no MOT or VED. Or is it only cyclists without these that annoy them 🤷‍♀️
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
10 months
I decided to stick the memory card through the Mac to see if I could read the plate of the smokey Audi and I got a surprise.
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4 years
The new bike is second hand. Only used a few times during lockdown. The lady resold it after a few months because the traffic got too heavy and she was scared. 🤷‍♀️☹️
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3 years
I will never be as lucky again. This one I have reported and the vehicle is untaxed. So they drive like an idiot and don't care that they are not road legal.
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7 months
Flipping heck 😱
@tombrossman
Tom Brossman
7 months
Drivers, this is not how you should pass a mother pushing a pram down a narrow road. Slow down. Please move over. I leave more space and I'm on a bike! Red Vauxhall Mokka with Jersey registration J385472. Pedestrians beware.
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
4 years
Had a terrible commute home with a angry driver revving and tailgating me and a taxi driver shouting abuse at me out of his window. Though it didn’t deter me from going out and buying a winter bike. #newbikeday
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Cyclegranny 🚴‍♀️
1 year
Bookmark this for when people try to say that using the phone whilst stationary is ok
@phonekills
PhoneKills
3 years
This is why texting in the queue is DANGEROUS! You deserve to lose your driving license if you do so. #fatal5 #reported
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3 years
My longest ever recorded ride. It was lovely until I got to Carrickfergus the wind and rain started.
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