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I was cycling down a country road - only really wide enough for one car, one would have to stop to allow passing. I saw a walker with a dog up ahead on the left, and a chap on a mountain bike overtaking. He drifted to the centre of the road so I overtook them both on the far right.
I cycle on a bit further, before hearing a car horn beep. I look over my shoulder to see someone in a car overtaking, he pulls alongside and starts shouting at me. I cant hear him because of the wind, and he drives on.
I catch him up round the corner - he has slowed right down behind another car because two walkers are on the road. He beeps them. They wave at him either in recognition or as if to say 'whatever mate'. He passes them then beeps the car which, I think, pulls over and he drives off into the distance quite quickly.
Anyone else got any idea WTF that was all about?
I don't know why he shouted at me in the first place, maybe I was taking up too much road so he couldn't overtake? Maybe he was behind me when I pulled out to overtake the other cyclist and I didn't check? Maybe I was wobbling/drifting (don't think so though).
And then why all the beeping afterwards? He certainly had the opportunity to stop and talk to me about it if he wanted to. Maybe he was in a rush due to an emergency? Or just an idiot? Or maybe he realised he'd been a tit and wanted to get away?
Sorry, bit of a long boring post but is does make you worried when you think about what a mental car driver could do if they wanted to.
Some people are just bell ends, if he was in a rush to an emergency why waste time yelling at folk.
<optimist> The driver was indeed in a hurry due to an emergency and was shamed by his actions but had no choice </optimist>
<pessimist> He was indeed an (insert insult here) and will get what he deserves one day</pessimist>
you choose, either way it could have been worse ie you are not in a ditch right now 😀
There are some real c*cks out there. Had a run in with a dozy women on my way home on Friday (in the car). Narrow stretch of road, car in fron of me gets to the naroow bit first, I follow them. Silly woman comes the other way and instead of stopping at the wide bit she keeps coming and just squeezes past the first car and then realises she can't get past me so stops. I have another car sat behind me and expects me to reverse 8O. Had to fold my mirror in to finally get past and she gives me a load of abuse.
People are just scum and are even worse in the car. Personally I think a lot of it is not down to enforcing our traffic laws properly, encourages people to believe they can get away with anything. Ranges from not calling killing someone with a car 'Murder' down to not enforcing parking regulations. If the rules are worth having, they're worth enforcing or get rid.
Personally the term 'Murder' implies some amount of malicious intent or premeditation but I see where you're coming from.
Does seem to be a wide held belief that the Law is something that affects other people.
As for the OP, well it seems as though you've had a brief encounter with a peice of bell end cheese. Just better to let them go and have their accident away from you 🙂
The thing is, now I am worried and keep wondering what it might be that I did wrong. Possibly he was right behind me when I pulled out, but I doubt it as I surely would have heard him? Grrr. Wifey told me not to worry, and that he was just a knob. He had a little child in the back too!
What you did wrong was to have the gaul to occupy a section of Public Highway that they deemed was their Private Road.
I doubt you did anything wrong if they gave the same stupid attitude to the users in front of you too.
Be grateful that your dealings with this individual didn't result in you being injured.
was probably in a rush to get to MaccyD's before they stop serving breakfast, you were in his way, he's an impatient selfish pr1ck
....and the ironic thing is that councils, Sustrans, and Clarkson-types are all trying to encourage cyclists onto the very same type of 'quiet,narrow, country roads' that makes these sorts of encounters with ar*eholes more likely.
Me? I stick to main roads wherever possible.
He obviously had a horn,
and wanted to get home and play with it.
On my darkside rides I get that sort of thing a lot. Since taking up the road bike thing I have had more road rage type incidents than I can recall. People just don't like cyclists in their way. The horn is their way of saying: 'I am very impatient person full of my own sense of self-importance'.
The other day I had a guy come up behind me whilst I was smoothly riding along in a cycle lane and just blast his horn before continuing past.
Another driver stopped to give me abuse (his wife joined in too) because I had delayed him joining a queue of stationary traffic 50 yards ahead by approximately 5 seconds. He then tore ahead to prove whatever point he was trying to make before doing an emergency stop at the back of the queue. I cycled past him almost immediately and saw two petrified kids in child seats in the back.
Agree with all the posts about people believing they are invincible and above the law when they get behind the wheel....