[Closed] If you ride on the road I'll drive on the cycle path

Before I got the whole road riding club ride thing I used to think it was a bit selfish..

100s of thousands of pounds spent on cycling infrastructure (which is to a very acceptable standard here at least) and yet people [i]still[/i] choose to annoy other road users with their fetishistic eccentricities

Then I met a group ride on the local Sustrans when I was out with the kids and it changed my outlook completely..
They met every stereotype

High as kites on testosterone, well heeled, arrogant and reeking of anger management issues and repressed sexuality, they bludgeoned a path through the elderly Sunday walkers and the couples enjoying the majestic scenery, the toddlers learning to cycle and the old giffers that had plodded to work on their bikes in their workboots every day for over a century..

Love 'em or loathe 'em these people should [i]definitely[/i] not be anywhere near shared paths!! 😯

Ah cyclists, they want everyone else to change their behavior to suit themselves but blow up in a hissy fit when someone suggest they make some changes also.
Slow down, fit wider tyres and don't ride in large groups then. You should be grateful some of our road tax is used to build you cycle paths in the first place. Pretty ignorant for you to not use them and continue clogging up the roads for everyone else.

Knobber.

Knob off to knobsville & take your knobbery with you.

When you get there, keep knobbing off.

High as kites on testosterone, well heeled, arrogant and reeking of anger management issues and repressed sexuality, they bludgeoned a path through the elderly Sunday walkers and the couples enjoying the majestic scenery, the toddlers learning to cycle and the old giffers that had plodded to work on their bikes in their workboots every day for over a century..

😀 Exactly. I don't want them on the road either, riding two/three abreast pretending to "train" - you're not Bradley Wiggins FFS; this doesn't put food on your table.

Get back to the golf course.

It's between Rampton and Cottenham: https://goo.gl/maps/mnpHKcFfYNQ2

I cycle along there pretty often, and on a road bike would not consider trying to move from the (very quiet, wide and straight) road to that hundred metres of shared use path. I wouldn't drive along it either.

Chocolate Olivers? Had to google* that. We don't get them in the work house.

*with no small amount of trepidation

If only they considered/consulted cyclists when making cycle paths.

fun fact: the narrow pavement adjacent to the carriageway which the car used to overtake is not a cycletrack/cyclepath.

Ah cyclists, they want everyone else...blah blah blah

High as kites on testosterone, well heeled, arrogant and reeking of anger management issues and repressed sexuality

Did you stop to ask them?

Or are you just projecting your own issues?.......

Lebowski - stop taking life so seriously duuuude

As it panned out, I was already stopped... desperately trying to protect my bewildered children as the steaming peleton thundered past, snorting and braying and shrieking and bellowing aggressively at one another about investment bonds, sabbaticals and rugger

You should be grateful some of our road tax is used to build you cycle paths in the first place

Me? Why? I never wanted or asked for cycle paths!

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