Overtaking
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what?
for using the phone?
in fairness - i usually have other things on my mind when out riding than to use the phone - it was a humourous post
but even if it wasn't - there's no law against it, i'm not in a motorised vehicle and i don't have 2 ton of steel around me to kill people with - i've done it before on at least one occasion i can think of and i would do it again if i needed to.
i think you need to calm yourself down a bit Billy!0 -
Billy Dunlop wrote:gkerr4 wrote:Billy Dunlop wrote:gkerr4 wrote:coombsfh wrote:+1 about the pain
In fact if you can check your watch or some other nonchalant thing...
Whistling is great if you can manage it but absolutely none of the painful endeavour should be evident on your face. No wincing, grunting, bellowing or wailing. As for other acts of nonchalance, men may adjust their shorts, unzip their jersey a little to allow the heat generated my mach speed to dissipate, perform cocktail flairs with both water bottles at once and possibly (if stunting prowess is great enough) perform a backflip over the next available car.
this is good advice - also it's a good time to send a text message, just pause enough in th texting to grunt at cyclist you are overtaking, then complete the text, phone in back pocket and accelerate again!
You deserve to have your phone shoved where the sun don't shine
thats a bit harsh? whatever for?
What for? If you can't think why then you shouldn't be on the road
Dime.........Bar?!?0 -
gkerr4 wrote:what?
for using the phone?
in fairness - i usually have other things on my mind when out riding than to use the phone - it was a humourous post
but even if it wasn't - there's no law against it, i'm not in a motorised vehicle and i don't have 2 ton of steel around me to kill people with - i've done it before on at least one occasion i can think of and i would do it again if i needed to.
i think you need to calm yourself down a bit Billy!
You can't see anything wrong with using your phone whilst cycling? Anything that distracts you from concentrating on the road/path in front of you is a bad idea I would have thought this was common sense?0 -
What's the actual consensus on being overtaken then? Is the person doing the overtaking automatically showing off? Or if you're trying to catch someone and they keep racing away does that make them the show off?!
I was putting in a 10mile effort on my road bike last week and a guy pulled onto the same road behind me when I was doing 22-24mph, (fast bit of road - this is not my usual speed!) he got out of the saddle and spent a few minutes trying to get on (I checked every 200m or so) and in the end I sat up out of guilt, thinking that he was probably calling me all the names under the sun for being anti-social! Turned out he was a nice guy on his way to do some hill repeats and we had a bit of a chat before going our separate ways, but I would have felt bad doing what I was doing when he was clearly trying to get near to say hello! Can you really win either way?0 -
King Jeffers wrote:gkerr4 wrote:what?
for using the phone?
in fairness - i usually have other things on my mind when out riding than to use the phone - it was a humourous post
but even if it wasn't - there's no law against it, i'm not in a motorised vehicle and i don't have 2 ton of steel around me to kill people with - i've done it before on at least one occasion i can think of and i would do it again if i needed to.
i think you need to calm yourself down a bit Billy!
You can't see anything wrong with using your phone whilst cycling? Anything that distracts you from concentrating on the road/path in front of you is a bad idea I would have thought this was common sense?
not really no
I'm usually out of breathe on the bike though, which doesn't help
and obviously i have to remove one of my ipod earpieces to hear people.0 -
I've had a stinking cold/ cough / chest thing for a while and haven't even been on the bike for a week. I felt marginally better today, and as my commute is only two miles, albeit uphill, I thought I would take it slowly and chance it.
I was sitting at traffic lights waiting to go straight ahead when a bike appeared on the pavement from my right and turned right. The lights change and I start off. He's now going the same way as me but on the pavement at the wrong side of the road. I studiously avoid him, but then during a gap in the traffic he shoots across the road about 50 yards in front of me. I'm spinning in a low gear, trying hard to control my breathing to prevent a coughing fit but realise I'm gaining on him. He's making a strange bobbing motion - it might have been a full sus bike - I didn't really notice. I slow down, but still end up on his wheel. Ten seconds later I think sod it and wind it up enough to overtake. He just doesn't react at all. I expected a mad dash after me, but he just gradually falls back, still doing his rubber duck on a rough pond impersonation.
I rarely pass anyone - mainly because I see very few cyclists. I've kind of built it up to a big thing because I've read all the comments on here, the SCR threads etc, but for many people out there I suspect it means absolutely nothing - either way.0 -
Pigtail wrote:I've had a stinking cold/ cough / chest thing for a while and haven't even been on the bike for a week. I felt marginally better today, and as my commute is only two miles, albeit uphill, I thought I would take it slowly and chance it.
I was sitting at traffic lights waiting to go straight ahead when a bike appeared on the pavement from my right and turned right. The lights change and I start off. He's now going the same way as me but on the pavement at the wrong side of the road. I studiously avoid him, but then during a gap in the traffic he shoots across the road about 50 yards in front of me. I'm spinning in a low gear, trying hard to control my breathing to prevent a coughing fit but realise I'm gaining on him. He's making a strange bobbing motion - it might have been a full sus bike - I didn't really notice. I slow down, but still end up on his wheel. Ten seconds later I think sod it and wind it up enough to overtake. He just doesn't react at all. I expected a mad dash after me, but he just gradually falls back, still doing his rubber duck on a rough pond impersonation.
I rarely pass anyone - mainly because I see very few cyclists. I've kind of built it up to a big thing because I've read all the comments on here, the SCR threads etc, but for many people out there I suspect it means absolutely nothing - either way.
Hi Bradley!0 -
Question is when you've passed somebody do you hope they fall away, or do you wish for them to put up at fight and make it difficult for you to get away?0
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Can i just add here about the phone thing....
It IS against the law to use a mobile phone whilst in charge of a vehicle.....that includes a bike! I've seen a lady getting a very stern telling off from the police once for using a phone whilst riding one of them mobility scooters.....this prompted me to ask the question!0 -
OllyRidesFirst wrote:Can i just add here about the phone thing....
It IS against the law to use a mobile phone whilst in charge of a vehicle.....that includes a bike! I've seen a lady getting a very stern telling off from the police once for using a phone whilst riding one of them mobility scooters.....this prompted me to ask the question!
It doesn't - it only applies to motorised vehicles.0 -
gkerr4 wrote:OllyRidesFirst wrote:Can i just add here about the phone thing....
It IS against the law to use a mobile phone whilst in charge of a vehicle.....that includes a bike! I've seen a lady getting a very stern telling off from the police once for using a phone whilst riding one of them mobility scooters.....this prompted me to ask the question!
It doesn't - it only applies to motorised vehicles.
I can guarantee that if you get seen, you will be charged with careless cycling, which is an offense!0 -
ShutUpLegs wrote:
Hi Bradley!
Bradley??0 -
Pigtail wrote:ShutUpLegs wrote:
Hi Bradley!
Bradley??
Wiggo :?:0 -
ShutUpLegs wrote:Pigtail wrote:ShutUpLegs wrote:
Hi Bradley!
Bradley??
Wiggo :?:
I can be very thick sometimes.
If only - if he had my chest infection and was on my MTB with the front suspension and I was on better form than I have ever been in my life on his bike - whatever it might be - I would be unlikely to get a whiff of his dust!
Before I started commuting I got very excited about this SCR stuff. Then when I started using my bike it was a huge letdown. The fact I have travelled the same route for years by car and have rarely seen a bike should have given me a clue- but did it?
Yet another example of me not joining the dots.0 -
OllyRidesFirst wrote:gkerr4 wrote:OllyRidesFirst wrote:Can i just add here about the phone thing....
It IS against the law to use a mobile phone whilst in charge of a vehicle.....that includes a bike! I've seen a lady getting a very stern telling off from the police once for using a phone whilst riding one of them mobility scooters.....this prompted me to ask the question!
It doesn't - it only applies to motorised vehicles.
I can guarantee that if you get seen, you will be charged with careless cycling, which is an offense!
But not specifically " using a phone"
I'll take my chances with bonny streets finest!0 -
gkerr4 wrote:OllyRidesFirst wrote:gkerr4 wrote:OllyRidesFirst wrote:Can i just add here about the phone thing....
It IS against the law to use a mobile phone whilst in charge of a vehicle.....that includes a bike! I've seen a lady getting a very stern telling off from the police once for using a phone whilst riding one of them mobility scooters.....this prompted me to ask the question!
It doesn't - it only applies to motorised vehicles.
I can guarantee that if you get seen, you will be charged with careless cycling, which is an offense!
But not specifically " using a phone"
I'll take my chances with bonny streets finest!
read that and thought i had a stalker......then saw your location!
Worried me a bit then
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King Jeffers wrote:gkerr4 wrote:what?
for using the phone?
in fairness - i usually have other things on my mind when out riding than to use the phone - it was a humourous post
but even if it wasn't - there's no law against it, i'm not in a motorised vehicle and i don't have 2 ton of steel around me to kill people with - i've done it before on at least one occasion i can think of and i would do it again if i needed to.
i think you need to calm yourself down a bit Billy!
You can't see anything wrong with using your phone whilst cycling? Anything that distracts you from concentrating on the road/path in front of you is a bad idea I would have thought this was common sense?
Depends. In an urban area its daft and you could endanger pedestrians. On country roads, the only person you're endangering is yourself so IMHO that's your call.
YOUR CALL! I crack myself up.0 -
Was on interval training the other day, and just started a 8 min blast; was aware another roadie had turned into the road behind me.
At the end of the 8 min interval i then eased up to take on some fluid and the other guy went past ; he got ten yards up the road before almost falling off his bike to "answer a call". Dunno why though cause i dont think he was capable to talking much.
So i guess i dont really care about being overtaken as you dont know if the other rider is on some training day and you may just be in their way on their interval time. Thats what i tell myself when i am being overtaken anyway.
Though my pride took a kicking when a paper boy o a £20 piece of rust overtook me, seated, on a big climb near home. That hurt. Come to think of it he was on the phone ad looked like he could ot care less.0 -
P_Tucker wrote:King Jeffers wrote:gkerr4 wrote:what?
for using the phone?
in fairness - i usually have other things on my mind when out riding than to use the phone - it was a humourous post
but even if it wasn't - there's no law against it, i'm not in a motorised vehicle and i don't have 2 ton of steel around me to kill people with - i've done it before on at least one occasion i can think of and i would do it again if i needed to.
i think you need to calm yourself down a bit Billy!
You can't see anything wrong with using your phone whilst cycling? Anything that distracts you from concentrating on the road/path in front of you is a bad idea I would have thought this was common sense?
Depends. In an urban area its daft and you could endanger pedestrians. On country roads, the only person you're endangering is yourself so IMHO that's your call.
YOUR CALL! I crack myself up.
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