Cycling to work this morning and i saw a cyclist up ahead moving quite slowly. A small car passed me (plenty of room given) and came up behind this cyclist, who by this point was in the middle of the lane and moving at a snails pace.
Fortunately, the car was turning left so waited until it could make the turn.
I carried on and came up behind this cyclist who was essentially riding down the white line very slowly.
I realised something wasn’t quite right, he was all over the place, riding one handed and looking down at a steep angle.
Came alongside (on his left ‘cos he was in the middle of the roadway) and realised he was actually, really doing it…..

The thick clown was texting on his soddin’ phone!

I looked at him in amazement and he looked up at me and said “…what?”

Flabbergasted, i passed him and looked back, he was now on the wrong side of the road, still texting and still riding really slowly!

No wonder we get the blame for idiots like this!

I was tempted for a moment to push him off so he broke his phone but common sense prevailed…

and realised he was actually, really doing it…..

Thought “it” was going to be something dirty for a moment..

Should have given him a ‘tyre burn’ 😳

Thought “it” was going to be something dirty for a moment..

Slightly disappointed here too 🙁

I think “that” would have been to far even for the local inbreeds around here! 😆

Was it an Iphone?

If so, I would have been in awe of him.

Saw something similar last week with a guy on a bike swerving all over the road. No phone this time just trying to light his fag! 🙂

Future Darwin award winner?

It would have been even better if your reply to “what” was to point at the lorry that was about to flatten him.

That would have learned him…although they allow phones in hospitals nowadays so he would have just carried on in the ambulance and probably asked for a local anesthetic so he could carry on while they sewed him together again.

Know it sounds awful but was kinda hoping to hear a squeal and a BANG! as he won an Honours in the Darwin Awards…

world is full of idiots. some ride bikes.

Pretty much shows the double standard. People see someone on a bike doing this and it’s “no wonder cyclist have a bad name and drivers hate them” people do this in a car and it’s “that person is a bloody idiot e.t.c” but the gneral public would not really consider this to be an issue with “those bloody car drivers, shouldn’t let any cars on the road”.

Personally i think anyone caught using a handheld phone whilst driving – and especially texting – should be immediately banned for 3 months.
Not going to happen though, because the car is king and because no-one actually seems to get pinged for using a handset whilst driving!
Certainly, around here drivers aren’t worried about being caught…

I followed a girl (presumably a uni student at Manchester) who rode through every red light along Oxford and then Palatine Road heading south towards Didsbury.

She was going fairly slowly so she passed me every time I stopped at a red light and overtook me, and then I caught her up. After the fourth or fifth time (and after two occasions when she’d avoided being knocked off her bike only by crossing traffic giving way to her), I took a closer look and realised she was deep in conversation on a handsfree kit.

It’s hardly surprising many car drivers loathe cyclists when people like her (and, in fact, I think the majority) do ride like ****. The worst of it is, if a car does take them out after they’ve ridden through a red light, it’s on the neck of the driver.

Even if they’re absolved by the police, chances are the cyclist will use a no-win-no-fee solicitor for compensation and if they’re killed, the driver has to live with that forever.

I became so disillusioned with the behaviour of drivers and cyclists on my commute that I changed my route completely. I now have a mellow pootle with minimal traffic of any kind. I think jimbobrighton sums it up though. There’s no accounting for fools.

I’m now riding 5km further on my commute to get virtually traffic free country lanes. Sweet 🙂

Wish i could do a nice pootle to work via country lanes, unfortunately i have to use a 40mph (i.e. 50) A road, then cut through the town centre to get to work. 🙁

Flaperon – I ride that route every day and see so many terrible cyclists it makes me wince.

For the past year I’ve mainly taken the back streets so I don’t have to see any of it. I saw a lad in Fallowfield just this week ride between 3 buses while on his phone, riding about 5 mph without a care in the world.

I on the other hand, was positively cacking it just watching him. Just pure selfishness really, and typical of the ‘me me me’ attitude of people these days.

Like I said in a previous post, nothing, absolutely nothing I see on the roads surprises me any more.

I shot a bloke on a unicycle earlier, he was disturbing my chickens, I’m sticking with the line that the fur coat he had on made him look like a dog/wolf.

I was out for a walk Sunday, and there’s a busy road with a short narrow uphill one-way section that becomes two-way just at the crest, before dropping down to the main A4. There are houses either side so they have an uphill access with no entry signs. Anyway, I get to the crest of the hill to see a pensioner on a bike, dayglo jacket, helmet and all, cycling on the footpath, which is just wide enough for a pushchair. As she forced herself past me, onto the one-way bit, I said, “excuse me, cycling on the footpath’s illegal, and you’re riding the wrong way down a one-way road” “F*** off” was the reply. Senior citizens, eh, no damned respect. I rather hoped I’d hear a bang as the stupid cow went head-on into one of the cars coming towards her.
Previous week, on the junction at the beginning of the one-way bit, I went to cross the road, which is a blind corner on the right, looked left to check no cars were coming, stepped out and nearly got clobbered by a male cyclist tearing along the one-way bit the wrong way in the actual traffic lane. Missed me by centimetres. Wish I’d been a fraction later, I’d have had the stupid bastard clean off his bike and lying in the road. Perhaps next time. He had on all the kit, dayglo jacket, reflective tabard, lights on his bike and a lid. And riding like a complete ****wit. I s’pose all the kit give the retard moral superiority.

Even if they’re absolved by the police, chances are the cyclist will use a no-win-no-fee solicitor for compensation and if they’re killed, the driver has to live with that forever.

Killing cyclists makes you immortal???

There can be only one………

Overtook a woman in a merc the other day doing about 70. Coffee in one hand mobile in the other, texting. I suspect she was holding the wheel with her knee.

All too typical unfortunately.

It’s hardly surprising many car drivers loathe cyclists

Again great to see basis of groping together cyclist is still strong.

Do you feel you this way about all motorist when you see a motorist driving badly?

Couldn’t agree more with TheBrick!

Motorists and Pedestrians do it too. why not use that as a basis for hating a group of people who simply happen to use the same form of transport.

Because it is a cycling forum?

Just a thought.

Just because people wear trainers it doesn’t make them a runner, and so on

I think I’ll start a new thread every time I see a motorist doing something **** stupid.
It could get boring.

Some bad things have happened to me when cycling but i am still waiting to be groped!

Overtook a woman in a merc the other day doing about 70.

At least she wasn’t speeding

There seems to be an ever increasing proportion of the population who aren’t prepared to take any responsibility for their own actions.

It manifests itself in everthing from personal debt to obesity and riding/walking/driving like an idiot.

The OP’s comment “No wonder some drivers hate cyclists” was a perfectly valid one imo.

Yes, some people see someone acting like an arsehole on a bike and it colours their opinion concerning all cyclists . That isn’t exactly totally surprising – people tend to remember incidents which shock them, rather than non-incidents which don’t draw their attention.

Again great to see basis of groping together cyclist is still strong.

I’m not entirely sure what that means, but whatever it means, I feel fairly confident no none has done that on this thread.