I'm A Bike

lanternerouge79

Friday afternoon ride home from work.

I'm in secondary position in the left hand lane of 2 lanes waiting behind 2 cars that despite no indication will be turning left.

Car behind me revs his engine and tries to pull along side me.

Conversation went like a bit like this.

Him:Why on earth would you do that

Me:Pardon

You're on a bike

Yes

So why would you do that

Pardon

You should be next to the kerb

No i shouldn't because that would be dangerous as i'd be left hooked by those 2 other cars.

But you're on a bike and i'm in a car

Bikes have the same right to use the road.

But you're on a bike and i'm not saying that

So why don't you wait behind me then?

But you're on a bike and i'm in a motorised vehicle

I decided to stop the conversation at this point as he truly had no clue.

veronese68

Well done for not going with "so braindead twunts like you might get the message and leave me some space."

cruff

I find this is the thing that riles me the most about clueless drivers - totally failing to understand the concept of positioning on the road. Setting aside the (relatively few) simply aggressive, idiotic and dangerous drivers (there are probably a commensurate number of cyclists who fall into this category), the one thing that seems to be commonplace amongst 'proper' drivers is their inability to grasp the basic science of cyclists adopting a position that isn't going to leave them as meatloaf on the kerb.

It's this same cluelessness that makes drivers think it's perfectly acceptable to pull into the left hand lane without looking or indicating when traffic is turning right across a carriageway - the unshakeable belief that biks should travel three inches from the kerb at all times, irrespecitve of how dangerous it is to do so.

byke68

It's drivers attitude that get me. I work with a bloke who hates cyclists but has to make an exception for me. He moans if he sees a cyclist without lights (fair enough) but moans if a cyclists light is too bright! Moans if they don't indicate (fair enough) and moans when they do because he gets confused! Finally he calls bikes "push-irons"!
ps:he also ride a motor bike sometimes.

navt

Yes, but did you realise you're on a bike? I think that fact might have been lost on you .

Matthewfalle

Who was on a bike?

The Rookie

So your user name is red light and you are saying you are a bike (presumably with the same number of riders as a Boris bike?), I can get the connection.......not sure what that has to do with the conversation with the car driver though?