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52 posts & 32 voices | Started 8 months ago by cruzheckler | Latest reply from Junkyard

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cruzheckler - Member

Twice in 3 days i have (whilst driving) encountered cluesless nobs with no road sense on road bikes!

Thursday on the way to work i overtook a roadie about 350m back from a junction, as i approach the junction and slow down he appears at my front left wing - i am indicating left - as i start turning left.

Secondly today - overtaking a pair of roadies who looked back (i was indicating to pull out so they knew what i was up to), as i get alongside the tit starts pedalling like **** to get in front of me again!!

Why do some people on bikes not have road sense and realise that ust becaus ethey are on a bike they should not observe tehs ame rules as if they were driving?

Posted 8 months ago #
RealMan - Member

So you overtook someone on a bike then cut him up and now you're complaining - actually wait, forget it, I can't be bothered with this one.

Posted 8 months ago #
ton - Member

not again please..............

Posted 8 months ago #
yossarian - Member

Maybe they weren't aware of YOUR AWESOME POWER!!!!!!! and thought they could overtake you?

Just a thought like

Posted 8 months ago #
Surrounded By Zulus - Member

Troll.

Posted 8 months ago #
shinsplints - Member

Why do some people on bikes not have road sense and realise that ust becaus ethey are on a bike they should not observe tehs ame rules as if they were driving?

Had a few had you ?

Posted 8 months ago #
cruzheckler - Member

how did i cut em up?

Posted 8 months ago #
uplink - Member

Given an earlier thread subject

The biscuit du jour is yo-yo, help yourself all

Posted 8 months ago #
cruzheckler - Member

lol shinsplints - typing quickly whilst watching tv

Uplink ???

Posted 8 months ago #
terrahawk - Member

one day I'm going to properly lose it BIG TIME with dickheads who overtake me in cars and then immediately turn left.

Posted 8 months ago #
cruzheckler - Member

bring it - ton of metal vs cyclist who has no sense

Posted 8 months ago #
antigee - Member

they should not observe tehs ame rules as if they were driving?

if you saw only two (possibly) poor moves by cyclists in 3 days and consider it worthy of discussion then i would guess that you have a higher expectation of cyclists than of the average road user - nobs a plenty

Posted 8 months ago #
Rusty Spanner - Member

I really can't be arsed to respond to someone who can't spell the word 'Knob'.

Have some respect, if only for yourself.

Posted 8 months ago #
antigee - Member

I really can't be arsed to respond to someone who can't spell the word 'Knob'.

nob snob

Posted 8 months ago #
cruzheckler - Member

rusty - but you have responded

Posted 8 months ago #
Rusty Spanner - Member

It's 'Rusty'.

And there should be a full stop after 'responded'.

Posted 8 months ago #
hh45 - Member

one day I'm going to properly lose it BIG TIME with dickheads who overtake me in cars and then immediately turn left.

I quite agree but 350 metres probably doesn't correspond to 'cutting up' (depending on speed and so on).

As everyone is picking on OP I will just add that alot of cyclists on the road (I'm think London commuters rather than hardened roadies) do ride like total idiots with no sense of their own self preservation, respect for other riders, pedestrians or motorists. Give us all a bad reputation and endanger themselves.

Posted 8 months ago #
Jamie - Member

one day I'm going to properly lose it BIG TIME with dickheads who overtake me in cars and then immediately turn left.

This.

As a relative newcomer to riding on the road, this is the only thing that riles me from time to time.

Posted 8 months ago #
Junkyard - Member

yes and car drivers are paragons of virtue

Posted 8 months ago #
cruzer - Member

No offence mate but its you who is in the wrong, i regularly hit 30mph on my road bike, so i would have easily kept up with any car slowing down for a junction. Suggest you start looking at yourself and your lack of awareness before you end up killing someone. Ive been hit twice by idiots like you not paying attention to the speed im doing. Not everyone rides on the road at walking pace!

Posted 8 months ago #
michaelmcc - Member

Are you cousins with the dude that started the horse rant thread???????

Seriously whats wrong with people today..........

You know theres a large chance these "roadies" as you call them are mountain bikers doing some road training. As a cyclist you should give them more respect anyway.. a biker moaning about other bikers?? Come on..

It happens to me lots of times where cars pass me out only a couple of hundred yards from a red light or junction where we're both going to be stopping anyway... whats the point in passing out there, dangerous and annoying.. just be patient ffs.

Posted 8 months ago #
traildog - Member

From your descriptions, it sounds like you were in the wrong, so why not learn rather than calling people names.

As you say, the cyclists are the vulnerable ones, so how about looking out for fellow human beings rather than thinking your some sort of god.

Posted 8 months ago #
michaelmcc - Member

one day I'm going to properly lose it BIG TIME with dickheads who overtake me in cars and then immediately turn left.

Yep bloody annoying.. take a pull on joint before you head out if needs be. Just chill.

Posted 8 months ago #
Basil - Member

Life is made by experience. Recently roadies are knobs.

Posted 8 months ago #
yunki - Member

nobs are nobs..

some of them ride bikes and/or drive cars..

Posted 8 months ago #
Tom83 - Member

Drivers can be knobs, cyclists can be knobs, life goes on! Don't dwell on it...

Posted 8 months ago #
monkeychild - Member

You are awesome. I think you need this hat

Posted 8 months ago #
Mr Woppit - Member

Wednesday, a car driver passes me approaching a junction and immediately starts to indicate left when almost on top of the junction, turning in front of me so I have to brake.

Thursday, different driver approaching the same junction alongside me indicates and turns across me causing me to brake.

Friday - I start wearing my helmet for the daily commute.

Posted 8 months ago #
partyboy - Member

Pricks in cars forget that they are easily tracked down by their registration plate

Posted 8 months ago #
djglover - Member

I kick the wing mirror off now, just before I pop out by the wing. It normally forces the driver into an emergency stop, which is helpful for me to not only get round the corner, but make a quick getaway.

Posted 8 months ago #
jameso - Member

Thursday on the way to work i overtook a roadie about 350m back from a junction, as i approach the junction and slow down he appears at my front left wing - i am indicating left - as i start turning left.

He was in the right and you need to learn to drive with more care and less haste. He may not have seen your indicators and '350m' is not enough space if he was doing an average road pace. I say '350m' as it was probably less if he was able to 'appear' alongside you.

Posted 8 months ago #
The Flying Ox - Member

350m would take roadie travelling at a fairly unlikely 30mph twenty-six seconds to cover. Count that out to yourself. It's a long time, isn't it? Certainly long enough for roadie to work out what car driver is doing. Even if car driver is being a bit of an arse. Cycling down the inside of the car when it is clearly turning left is an idiotic thing to do, whether you're in the right or not. And if you claim that roadie might not know that car driver is indicating left, then you kind of defeat your own argument that the car driver is at fault.

Posted 8 months ago #
jameso - Member

30mph for 26 seconds, so more likely, 20mph for around 40. That's why I say 350m is more likely to be a driver's estimation rather than the reality.

If you overtake a bike and that bike is anywhere near your inside as you then turn left, you've misjudged the situation.

Posted 8 months ago #
taxi25 - Member

Undertacking a car turning left is never a good Idea. If the op was indicating and had clearly overtaken the cyclist, how is he in the wrong ?

Posted 8 months ago #
The Flying Ox - Member

Barring extreme occurrences, if you overtake a bike and that bike is anywhere near your inside as you then turn left, then you've both misjudged the situation.

Posted 8 months ago #

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