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What tyres for trolley rage!! Love it!
No, I mean, I hate other cyclists particularly at trail centres who know you're behind them (especially on descents) and ignore your pleas for them to move over. I wouldn't do this to a young child, but if you're an adult and won't get out of my way following a polite request, I'm gonna do my best to get past you no matter how safe you perceive my manoeveur
As a rider with relatively poor skills its not always easy to move over on a stretch of descent. If I am finding it tricky, despite the fact that you are a cycling god I am afraid you will have to wait a bit until I can move off the line safely.
If I perceive your manoeveur unsafe then you may perceive my reaction as excessive!
Surfer - I'm not entirely intolerant, and it sounds like you still ride with awareness of the trail and other trail users. It's when someone has the opportunity to pull over and doesn't that they risk getting T-boned!
Ultimately I want everyone to have fun on a trail, I'll get out the way asap of a whippet on a climb, and expect the same courtesy on a descent.
Get a £1.50 bell and use it! Pedestrians out on walks respond well to them. They know immdiately what is approaching without needing to turn around - even the stupid ones!
Well, in the Chilterns yesterday, it was a bit of a revelation! Much smileyness and courtesy from some of the many walkers when I used my bell/called out politely. 8)
Of course it may well have been my ineptitude on a bike that forced them to jump into the undergrowth. 🙄
Our little girl who just bollocked through em in the end had tinged the bell a few times! I'm gonna look on flea bay tonight for some loud handlebar add ons for the kids 😉
don simon - MemberOne born every minute.
Ah, sarcasm, lowest form you know. 😉
i find parents are generally prone to ignorance. it's as if the very act of producing a wonderful piece of humanity absolves themselves from any rational thought or concession towards others.
i blame the hormones.
Read the above mr smith, that's not the case with our sprogs at all!! Although when said add ons to the bars are ready I'm gonna tell them to use them all the time!!
thankfully there are exceptions 🙂
[i]As a rider with relatively poor skills its not always easy to move over on a stretch of descent. If I am finding it tricky, despite the fact that you are a cycling god I am afraid you will have to wait a bit until I can move off the line safely.
If I perceive your manoeveur unsafe then you may perceive my reaction as excessive! [/i]
Surfer, that's entirely correct though, the responsibility lies with the overtak[b]er[/b] to pass safely without endangering anyone. The overtak[b]ee[/b] should of course not hog the trail for longer than necessary but equally they have right of way and can continue until they find a safe place for the overtaker to come past.
IME it's always the wannabes who yell and holler to come past - a true pro just gets on with it, often making a line where none exists and doing it all in a perfectly safe manner!
a true pro just gets on with it, often making a line where none exists and doing it all in a perfectly safe manner!
Thank you. I'll take that as a compliment as I'm yet to even touch someone whilst under/overtaking. Some people do find it alarming though.
At the risk of tangenting,
As a less experienced rider, I will happily yield to faster riders behind me [i]if I know they're there.[/i] Sadly, more often that not the first time they make themselves known to me is when they try and barge past. Please, if this is you, stop it; a yell will suffice.
a yell will suffice
My first option is always a pleasant 'excuse me'.
Ah, sarcasm, lowest form you know.
Who's being sarcastic?
Just purchased a really nice pink bell as I think you people are correct and it may help keep the peace. Thanks guys/gals......
I purchased a mace. It's brilliant at clearing the trails.
I reckon us girlies have a slight advantage on the trails - a winning smile and good manners. 🙂
Some blokes react with a bad attitude. 😯
(C_G causing mischief).
Blokes aren't biting. 😉
You know what C_G... I rarely ever try and overtake women on climbs. It's like there's a little ray of sunshine draggin me up the hill.... 8)
TSY - cuts both ways. 😉
cinnamon_girl - Member
I reckon us girlies have a slight advantage on the trails - a winning smile and good manners.
For a not dissimilar reason that is why I never have problems when I'm riding with my 6 yr old daughter. Coming up to people I tell her to ting her bell, she gives a big toothy grin and we both ride past. Easy.
it's a minefield...
I've been called a four eyed c*** by an elderly gentlemen who I repeatedly said excuse me to, and he looked back and made no effort to move over a bit. When I cycled past anyway he treated me to a verbal assault not limited to the little beauty I've already mentioned.
When I stopped and asked him what his problem was, he kicked my bike, squared up to me and said, "i'm 80 years old...what are you going f'ing to do?". After getting back on my bike and politely telling him I was looking forward to his funeral, he walked off muttering about f'ing cyclists.
He did tell me he knew where I lived and his grandsons were going to 'get me'.
I think the only thing to do is either ring your bell if you've got one, or politely say excuse me...if they go off on one or don't make an effort, truck on by. There's no point getting in an arguement, I should have just carried on cycling and not looked back, but I was lost and in a bad mood.
Get a bell on the bike.
English? well I think some people are idiots and some are very nice.
OP -You need to wake the wife and give her a good seeing to and you'll feel better!
McHamish - just ignore people - I mean if he swore at you - what does it tell you about his brain or attitude? he was jealous of your bike 😉
I had a strange incident with walkers once.
Using the local towpath to reach some trails i happened upon a youngish lad wandering along in his own little world whilst three adults were approx. 20yrds ahead, strung out in line abreast chatting away.
I approached the young lad slowly, said "excuse me" several times quite loudly but it had no effect. Eventually managed to bimble past him and approached the 3 adults. Said "excuse me" again, & received a gobfull from the female walker to the tune of "he's deaf & autistic,why can't you be careful around him!" I realised she was talking about the young lad i'd just passed slowly & carefully.
Now, i'm not a professional carer, but surely if a young teenaged lad is both deaf & autistic then shouldn't his carers be watching out for him rather than leaving him to follow on 20yrds behind on a ruddy canal bank?
She seemed most put out when i rather strongly put this theory forward...
Cycling the TPT on Saturday, and a chap shouted at me where your bell, i shouted back a bloody scoucer nicked it mate(then realised i was actually in scoucerland. I rode off quite quick.
What's a 'scoucer'?
It's like a manc but without the ability to even attempt to speak English... 😛