If you ride like this....
Captainlip
Posts: 281
1. Get off your bike.
2. Sell your bike.
3. Go find another sport.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xzb5zbnY6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mikXAckc-8
Those who spout sh!t on this topic clearly find this acceptable and destroy the reputation of cyclists. Im sure there are plenty of you on here that fall into this catagory.
Attitudes have got to change.
2. Sell your bike.
3. Go find another sport.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xzb5zbnY6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mikXAckc-8
Those who spout sh!t on this topic clearly find this acceptable and destroy the reputation of cyclists. Im sure there are plenty of you on here that fall into this catagory.
Attitudes have got to change.
MADONE 5.2
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LOL.
I have to agree with Mr Lip though, probably the first and only time that will happen.
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
I don't think lippy rides in the winter -hence the motorist rant.
Maybe you should try winding your window down and kicking them, seeing as how flexible you are eyh?
you're weird
The problem in your second video is that the van driver was just being aggressive for the sake of it.
It is shot on what looks like an urban dual carriageway. It wouldn't have mattered whether the cyclists were in single file or two abreast, the van driver should have overtaken by moving fully into the outside lane (Rules 137 & 163). I didn't see any cyclists there :?.
Best regards
David
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Apologies, re-reading this I think I have been snared by this guy:
+1
As a cyclist who doesn't drive it still irritates the hell out of me to see a bunch of lycra'd up roadies riding two abreast in packs as if their in the TDF. Specially when you can see a big queue of cars behind them and clear road ahead. Especially on main roads and if they don't seem to feel any compunction to go single file or get out of the way when they are obviously holding up traffic. Almost as bad as taxi drivers when it comes to arrogance and poor road awareness. There's something of a mob mentality to it. As if because they are riding around in a pack they can just stick two fingers up at motorists and be as irritating as possible.
Cyclists two abreast occupying the whole of a lane on a fast dual carriageway but doing only 20 mph or less will just antagonise people.
Highway code or not, it's often perfectly safe to drift out a little to overtake bikes if there's nothing coming up behind, whereas a completed lane change takes a lot longer.
Not that I'm in any way advocating disregard for the HC, but in the real world this whole us/them situation is not entirely rational - and perception is relevant, like it or not.
Personally, I don't ride on dual carriageways any more than I have to.
Or maybe signal that the road is clear ahead as one of the group of four does?
In the second video the driver was just an idiot.
I have to say, I'm with Lippy on this one. The cycists in the first one had a perfectly wide cycle lane - all they had to do was single out and use it when there was traffic.
In the second vid, it's a bit less obvious - as someone said, two up wasn't necessarily any worse for safe overtakes than one up - but it just looks selfish IMO.
Ill cycle 2 a brest no problem. But if its going to hold up traffic Ill pull in to single file.
Lighten up
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Just like driving, cycling is transport first sport last.
Well we all know where you are coming from .. thanks for that.. are you Swampy, 20 years on?
generally this sport does attract more pr!cks than the next.
From a cyclists perspective even though it's a dual carriageway it has narrow lanes and you get commercial traffic on it that never give you proper width. There are two roundabouts on it, one of which I have been sideswiped on in the middle of the day by a guy who swore he didn't see me. Honestly if it was me I would not be riding two abreast up there if there was traffic out of politeness, however from a defensive riding point of view I can understand it.
Some years ago my brother and I had a similar experience coming the other way on that same road. We were riding two abreast on a three lane road and got an awful lot of abuse in relatively light traffic.
There are definitely rights and wrongs to the situation and without actually being there or having a different camera's point of view it would be hard to say otherwise.
The first video is also clearly antagonistic and published by someone looking for trouble. Why else would you be videoing from your car?
Even when they overtake (safely, at the very end) they do nothing except just drive past.
You can't infer anything from the fact that someone's videoing from a car. Maybe they've just bought a new camera (videoing from a car happened to be one of the first things I did with mine, when I was a passenger), or maybe they've seen the cyclists acting selfishly before and want to prove it. Who knows - but as I say, there's nothing about what they do that suggests looking for trouble.
Come back and tell me about it when you're an actual cyclist and not just a know-nothing weekend warrior dressed like a gay power ranger.
a so thats why everyone has a dashcam, I thought it was for hit and run and drivers with a lack of insurance.
is this the same for cyclists? are they out looking for trouble?
got a MIRROR
DID IT WORK FOR YOU?