Ah. Then why not rant at the fact that the road is too busy with cars? You could just as equally rant that those other-direction-driving-bastards are holding you up, and should pull over to let you through. Because you’re special, for some reason.
Pulling over and riding along an empty layby whilst faster traffic overtakes? Jesus, the humanity! It’s called common courtesy. A bit of ‘give and take’ if you will.
Only if you think that “courtesy” means slower road users getting out of the way of the Proper People in their cars.
No, people who, in the way of going about their business, have held up faster traffic and who now have the opportunity to let that traffic past at no penalty to their own enjoyment.
Was that the right link? It took me right to a big long straight bit where you could overtake a bus. Actually, you could overtake a line of buses.
As I said, the camera is mounted 10′ up on a pole, try driving the road (all five miles to Skelmorlie) and you’ll get a very different picture. It’s full of dips, bad cambers and blind bends* that make a safe overtake very difficult (especially from a 15-20mph rolling start) and is generally much busier than whenever the photos were taken.
*All of which catch out the “driving gods” and regularly spit them off down onto the rocks.
Even on a supposedly cyclists forum, the overwhelming attitude is that the car is king.
Wonderful isn’t it?
I’d say it’s more people who understand the concept of sharing vs those who think it only goes one way.
