However, if I was to ditch Rannoch Station, I would take in some of the best riding Scotland has to offer and head over the Devil's Staircase and take a right.
A – France, South Africa,
B – Argentina, South Korea,
C – USA, Slovenia,
D – Germany, Australia,
E – Netherlands, Cameroon,
F – Italy, Slovakia,
G – Portugal, Brazil,
H – Spain, Chile
Nowhere have i said that what the van driver did is defensible – he needs banned for what he did. My point is that it was the cyclist who escalated it.
It has nowt to do with being a pacifist. It has to do with the realisation that people are morons and that there are a hell of a lot of things out there that can kill me on the roads.
Would I like to be rammed off the road? No.
Would I do everything in my power to avoid being rammed off the road? Yes.
What do you wear to keep your knees warm? Singlespeeding puts more strain on the structures within the knee – if they are cold they will tend to break instead of stretch.
What a psycho! typical roadcyclist haters popping up to have a go.
I am not a roadcyclist hater – I do way more road miles than offroad miles and would hazard a guess that there arent many people on here do more road miles than I do.
nickjb – I am talking about this specific case using the details provided. Drivers have a duty to not hit stuff AND give enough clearance so as not to cause endangerment.
Ok – i'll put it another way. Two wrongs dont make a right. We all know that people drive like bell ends, so we should make allowances for this and not be surprised and act angrily when it happens.
The trouble with the tree hugging hippy element of the environmental debate is that they dont actually live in the real world. If we were to do everything they say we would all be dead.
Incredibly poor roadcraft from the cyclist. Some of the worst I've seen. Another thing – if you go out looking for trouble like he obviously was then you are certain to find it.
The van driver would have been looking for cars and large vehicles, the cyclist should have know this and expected the van to pull out in front. Anything that happened after it did is 50:50 and the cyclist has a deathwish.
Shifting your weight right back might be good for doing back flips, but its not much good for anything else. Lots and lots and lots of people on here post pictures of them demonstrating very bad technique.