Most anti cycle hatred boils down to simple jealousy.

Motorists see someone using a cheap, fast and healthy mode of transport and redirect their anger at the cyclist rather than all the other traffic which is actually making them late for work.

basically car drivers are NOT annoyed by cyclist par ce, they are actually annoyed that another human being has passed them, over taken them and there's nowt they can do about it. Self frustration. Its the root of much car versus bike rage.

Here in london village average car speed is 10mph and even a granny on a sit up and beg with wicker basket is quicker than this.

Well the answer is usually staring them in the face.

Surely this suggests that cyclists are expected/encouraged to filter to the front, and past the stationary traffic don't you think?

The problem is, the designers have put lots of effort into thinking about how you can safely enter the junction, but very, very often you'll be exiting that junction into a complete clusterfnark, it doesn't matter if you have Jared Graves levels of "Snap", you're about to be overtaken, by a queue of vehicles with acceleration on their mind, and more likely than not the exit will be narrower than the ASL...

Anyway. Don't be irritated by queues when driving. That's like going to the beach and being irritated by sand.

People do that all the time on my commute, see you coming behind, then they pull right over tight to the kerb.

At which point you do a jolly loop round them, not forgetting to wave.

johnhe - Member

I've never thought about why, but cyclists moving to the front of a stationary line of traffic is usually extremely irritating, and that's coming from a cyclist. Anyone who claims that they're unaware that this is the general feeling of drivers isn't trying to see the drivers point of view too much.

I take reasonable steps not to annoy drivers. But if they want to be unreasonably annoyed they will be, the only way to avoid annoying some people is to not exist.

I don't get annoyed by cyclists passing me, kind of bewildered why any cyclist would tbh.