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Behave like this complete bunch of ****ing cretinous tossers. Arseholes every last one if them Shaving 5 seconds off tbeir pb on the Windsor Triathlon time ****ers what the **** did they think they were doing. I hope they're all identified and banned from future participation. If the organisers didn't sign post the route then they hold responsibility to o.
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Yes they're triathletes but read the comments, no one is making that distinction
That is horrible. That horse was incredibly calm up until that point
Yep thats bad but probably an innocent error head down in a group ! they should have stopped!
Completely agree, even the first few close passes with a whole lane to use were bad enough.
That is one well behaved horse, and rider, had it not been that would have been carnage.
Aye, innocent error just like those drivers that couldn't see due to the sun in their eyes.
Rider could do with calming down, shrieking like that's not gonna do the horse any favours.
What a bunch of ****ers.
Mass group stuff with testosterone flowing from the very pores of middle aged blokes looking to prove manliness generally leads to much bellendery.
I came across one local here a while back, Rat run coast to coast thing. Standard of riding was shockingly bad and would have done nothing but wind up drivers who probably hate cyclists quite enough already.
indeed what a bunch of @#£%ers i hope the lady and horse are ok.
Shocking behaviour.
What a load of **** wombles, especially those who chanced zooming by on the left of the horse!
I sometimes come across horses around Durley and when I do, nevermind 1.5 metres clearance, I'm right over the other side of the road and randomly saying "Hi" to the rider on my cautious approach and pass... I really don't fancy the idea of my head being taken off by a horse leg!
To be fair, as riding in the draft of another competitor is banned in triathlon at age group level it gives you a fair idea of the makeup of the group - they were all cheating in the race they were involved in even before they met the horse.
Windsor triathlon has what, 2000 competitors. You have to be a bit of a masochist to knowingly go walk a horse on a course that busy with bikes. I guess the problem is organisers are only going to mark junctions etc. If you live on the course and didn't go past a sign it could take you by surprise. Bearing in mind this event is annual and has been for 20 years+ and she claims to have lived there for years too the first sign of a bike would have jogged my memory and would have had me knocking the ride on the head for the morning.
They were oafs and need identifying and banning from TE events for the year .Her shrieking was pretty bad too and not what the horse needed.
Complete tossers ....
As for the comments regarding the young lady shrieking ..get a ****ing grip !
Believe me if someone slammed into me from behind without warning at speed then I would be screaming too ..probably more with rage than anything else but that would have been a hell of a shock for her and could very easily have been life threatening
Cowardly ..makes me ashamed to be bracketed as a cyclist when you have self centred prats like that.
Thank God I only ride mountain bikes..
Christ - on bikes or not, they're just dicks riding like that. Buzzing people/cars/horses etc is just antisocial. Going down the left is idiotic. Cretinous self entitlement has reached epidemic proportions.
Want to race? The piss off to a track. Bunch of pricks.
Sadly, arseholes don't exclusively use of one type of bicycle and this just provides more ammo for the anti-cycling brigade.
I ride both horses and bikes and believe you me that being pissed off with on a horse and coming off in the road is worse than any bike crash ive had so I don't blame her for raising her voice and screaming. On the issue of whether she should be riding when there is a 'race' on, round our way there are hundreds of arrows on junctions that have been up for years which should have been taken down (Evans ride-it) being the worst offenders, so you wouldn't know if there was an event on or not! As for the head down riveted b@##cks its illegal to race on any open public road, if you do then you are an asshole. These ****s are just poor excuses for human beings and give us all a bad name. If you know one of them call them a **** and punch em in the kisser for me, and I'll owe you a beer!
Have been in plenty of road races where the group has slowed for horses. It’s not specifically a cyclist problem, it’s just bell ends.
But did the horse pay its road tax.
Mass group stuff with testosterone flowing from the very pores of middle aged blokes looking to prove manliness
those drivers that couldn’t see due to the sun in their eyes.
The scary thing is, I suspect those two groups might not be mutually exclusive.
Ridiculous behaviour. I hope it was an innocent error, rather than just stupidity, but that doesn’t excuse it. Rider either needs to pay much more attention, or needs to be told what a ****ing idiot he is.
As for the comments regarding the young lady shrieking ..get a **** grip !
it was not a situation of her making but anyone with much horsemanship knows there are times when you just know that you need to keep your emotions from the horse. Sorry, that was one of those times.
Shitty behaviour; as the ride co-ordinator for our local club undoubtedly we will get a few emails this week.
As for the head down riveted b@##cks its illegal to race on any open public road
No, it isn't, the rule is that it's basically legal and you just have to inform the police but 'the police may impose conditions as they see fit' which on open roads usually means that the race is escorted by signed vehicles, and anyone dropped is either pulled out or has to then ride as if they were just riding.
http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.com/2010/04/road-racing-in-england.html
Which is hard for a tri because everyone is riding their own race within a race, so the assumption is that people have to adhere to rules of the road, and that hasn't gone well clearly.
If they identify the riders, the race organisers have posted they will ban them from all future events and disqualify them from this one.
Better than nothing.
The lady shrieked because she was hit, and she regained control quickly. Good riding.
And that is a brilliant horse, it got a fright from being hit and calmed down almost right away. I've been on a runaway horse that got a fright, it wasn't pretty and ended painfully.
If it had panicked the result for the following riders would have been carnage - maybe what that's what the head down arseholes were hoping for, to slow down the opposition.
Hope the police do them like a dinner.
maybe what that’s what the head down arseholes were hoping for, to slow down the opposition
You give arseholes like that too much credit. Ability to plan ahead...... can't see beyond Me Me Me!
Its a shame the horse did not kick a few of them that is just crazy,madness.
Triantelopes are asshats. This cements my opinion on the matter.
They're asshats in bike shops. Clueless about fit, function, or anything unless it's AERO. Hence massive spacer stacks, upright ride position and wobbling over tri bars.
They're asshats on the road, as evidenced above. There's one near me, often see him on my bimbles. Every ride sees him in full sperm-dome helmet, those silly socks and arm thingies. He gets annoyed when I overtake him downhill. Even more so when I did so on my Brompton once!
Asshats.
Now how do we actually get to a point where you can race properly one some closed roads, back in tas they managed to use the local motor racing track, perfect place to go just not a nice like nearby
Triathletes - say no more. Some of the worse riders I've seen, and that's from Roadie's experience.
Group riding should be banned in Tri, just like any drafting is in Time Trials. I initially thought it might have been a sportive, as you do get some right knobs in those.
You get knobs in all forms of life. Ban all of them
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Got to laugh when someone who rides a brompton mocks a triathlete for looking silly.
From chatting to horse riders locally, they all say two things, Pass wide and slow, and a horse never forgets ill treatment or something thats scared it, poor horse cant go for councelling or remedial help, its a living thing thats now probably traumatised by idiots on bikes, just like some dogs chase bikes.
Oh great - the bbc website has picked up the story. It has now expanded to include a car drivers perspective...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-44512967
Rene, I KNOW how ridiculous a Brompton looks. I wasn't wearing all teh AEROness though, just normal clothes, using a mode of transport.
This, though...
plenty of closed road races on circuits in the UK. Look at the road racing thread on here, the reviews and tactical discussions are a good read even though I have no aspirations to race myself.
I suspect the person who went to the left of the house was not paying attention and needs the same level of respect as a driver that says SMIDNSY.
As for the others passing to close on the right that we’re on there own with a clear lane to the rightof then just inexcusable even for retard tri riders
Amanda Coyne, who lives near the route of the race, said she had encountered cyclists riding "dangerously" while driving shortly before 09:00.
"I nearly had a heart attack as I nearly got hit by a car which had been forced to overtake cyclists who were riding four-abreast," she said.
Forced to overtake? Into an oncoming car?
Here we go.......
****ing cretins, we get so much crap from drivers then these pricks do this to another vulnerable road user.... dick heads of the highest order
I suspect the person who went to the left of the house was not paying attention
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Forced to overtake? Into an oncoming car?
Yup, that was the bit I noticed too. Jesus.
we get so much crap from drivers then these pricks do this to another vulnerable road user…
Yep biggest problem here is 1 cyclist represents all and 1 driver does not.
Theotherjonv - was about to point that one out. Asshats as the triathletes may have been, noone is ever FORCED to overtake into traffic.
Do we need a separate thread to vent at the bbc article? And that small yet stupid quote
Rider could do with calming down, shrieking like that’s not gonna do the horse any favours.
Pretty good pitch for Dumb Victim-Blaming Comment of The Year there, well done.