Will the Pea-Brained cyclist who did this stand up and explain themselves!

I remember cycling along the Portway shared-use path in Bristol one time and passing an inner tube and a bike chain that had been left behind by someone... 

I'd much rather have a littering asshole out there riding a bike than have a littering asshole sat in a car.

Also, if you buy/take something, then you should be responsible for throwing it away when you're finished with it. I blame the teachers. And parents.

Totally agree, a really stupid and pointless thing to do. I tried to leave a comment on your blog but it says I'm a suspected bot!

This thread made me want to comment, however, i can see everyone else has summed it up nicely.

As a cyclist we see what that litter is, and it personally offends us. It is however just litter, nothing less, nothing more.

What one cyclist chooses to do has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with my choices and who I am as a person. I would strongly question the motives of anyone looking to use this to push a wider anti cyclist mantra.

As I remember, not much armco, lot of soft verges and a lot of rubbish strewn about.  We walked down the hard shoulder picking and everything up to the fence.

Nice little temping job that one, the next year was spent clearing the slab ditches on the M3.  Proper motorway van and a little more in nature.  Even nicer.

Changed the coloured cats eyes on the A34 and A303 at some point too, much harder, lot of bending down, my fellow temper was a very bitter ex military bloke who would laugh at all of his constant and unfunny jokes.  Full rolling road closure with big crash cushion, some hairy moments with unattentive motons there, much scarier than working on the hard shoulder.

Back in the mid 90s I temped for a few months litter picking on the M3, the mile after Fleet services took about a week.

In a couple of weeks, in the village I live,  the annual litter pick will be held. Villagers will assemble in the market place and be issued with gloves, bags and litter pickers.

I found no inner tubes or energy gel wrappers last time. I had not thought to classify my fellow pickers by their transport, but I imagine that many will be motorists, some cyclists, and all pedestrians.

I have yet to see a motorist bothering to write a blog post to express 'shame' and castigating fellow motorists at the sight of some motoring-related litter.  Still less have I ever encountered a pedestrian doing that 'putting our house in order' codswallop .

This sort of thing seems like a very niche form of 'virtue signalling'.  I don't really see the point of it.

PS

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/102653/number-of-abandoned-cars-tr...

PPS littering is bad.

You're right, throwing tubes away like this is unacceptable.

But I have seen fridges dumped at the side of the road. And cooking stoves, armchairs, sets of four car tyres, a continuous trail of plastic bottles which once contained sugar water, lager cans, the debris of takeaway hamburger meals,  used disposable nappies, etc. etc.

How can car users convince the non-motoring public that they are public spitited etc......?

I am ashamed of cyclists who behave as you describe, but non cyclists cannot throw the first stone.

Cannot claim to have ever seen this before however, fly tipping around the country lanes in my area is on the increase and this drives me mental. Probably more so than one discarded inner tube. Having said that, I would not leave the tube there either.

I look forward to the day where I film someone fly tipping whilst passing by. Disgraceful behaviour by disgraceful people.

I don't know who left those items at the side of the road, and as you admit you don't either, could you please not use terms like "one of our number" as if you, or myself, are somehow responsible for them?

Well done for clearing up someone else's mess though.

As a driver, cyclist and pedestrian I'm also not responsible for any other idiots that litter.

Not a professional as no CO2 canister.

the % of ordinary motorist and pedestrian litter massively more, stop with the tarring with the same brush victim mantra, it's bullshit!

I've seen this a couple times, drives me mental.

Firstly, the punctured inner tube was clearly replaced by a non-punctured innertube (so carrying the punctured tube clearly isn't an issue).

Inner tubes aren't great for the environment and it's littering anyway, so why not just stuff it in a jersey pocket.

Also, inner tubes can be repaired, why on earth would you leave one at the side of the road?!