Is it Worth complaining

slowmart
slowmart Posts: 4,516
edited July 2017 in Road general
So going downhill heading home and it's a nice bit of road with a right handler with no vision as to what's heading towards you.

So a shout from behind and two club riders in kit plus another rider who glances me as he nips in before the corner. A wobble and cuntybollcks disappears. So shite riding and decision making but worth a shout to the club secretary in question?

For added context is was averaging 37kmh so it would have hurt coming off.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    They shouted in advance? More than most would do in my experience.
    Doesn't make it nice, or right though.
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  • slowmart
    slowmart Posts: 4,516
    My mates were some distance behind and they said they shouted but I didn't hear.
    “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring”

    Desmond Tutu
  • sloppyschleckonds
    sloppyschleckonds Posts: 8,019
    Next time just shout 'hold your line'
    I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles
  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    Not worth complaining, as such, you ain't gonna get chaff all in compensation...but maybe a constructive note to the club? Then again, sometimes we all get things wrong and this was one of those occasions?
  • shimanobottombracket
    shimanobottombracket Posts: 376
    I couldnt understand the wording of OP. Can someone explain what happened?
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    ShimanoBottomBracket wrote:
    I couldnt understand the wording of OP. Can someone explain what happened?

    Nope, nobody can unless they guess at what was meant.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,210
    mfin wrote:
    ShimanoBottomBracket wrote:
    I couldnt understand the wording of OP. Can someone explain what happened?

    Nope, nobody can unless they guess at what was meant.
    He was buzzed by a small group. Ignorant, but surely life is too short to complain?
  • timothyw
    timothyw Posts: 2,482
    If you use Strava, you can use the 'flyby' feature to identify the two riders assuming that their rides are also on strava and public. You could then comment on their rides that you felt the pass was a bit close, and fairly reasonably take it up with the club secretary.

    You wouldn't accept such a close pass from a car, so I've no idea why you'd accept one from a bicycle - the ground is just as hard whatever has caused you to go down.

    Club gear makes it all the worse as you are supposed to be representing your club and being friendly, approachable, etc, not clipping riders who happen to be going slower than you.
  • fenix
    fenix Posts: 5,437
    Yes that flyby is quite good - I had words with someone online after they bumped my pal coming past taking both of us off... Nobber.
  • DavidJB
    DavidJB Posts: 2,019
    Lighten up.
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    You should have caught him up and decked him.
  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 722
    TimothyW wrote:

    Club gear makes it all the worse as you are supposed to be representing your club and being friendly, approachable, etc, not clipping riders who happen to be going slower than you.


    This.
    Definitely worth a note to the club secretary. At the very least I would hope he/she would inform club members to be a bit more considerate in future.
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    TimothyW wrote:
    Club gear makes it all the worse

    in fairness, the guys in Club kit did nothing wrong .. other than over take a slow cyclist:

    "two club riders in kit plus another rider who glances me as he nips in before the corner"

    the other guy, sounds like he was new to the club, not used to riding with others, totally failed to judge the corner, didn't want to not get round the same time as the other riders, pushed bad move and clipped you.

    so yeah, I would complain, its definitely worth compensation of some kind ... easily £1000

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