Cyclists Again

[SueEllen]

Are you sure about that? Only if it is signed that the pavement is dual-use.

The pavements are signed as dual-use.

Hence my initial point about some cyclists not reading road signs.

Also one of the dual carriageways is dangerous i.e. lots of accidents, so even if you can't see a road sign you wouldn't cycle on the road if you valued your life.

There is another road which has a bridge over it. Unofficially everyone is advised to cycle on the pavement unless they want a trip to the local A&E.

In both cases the pavements are rarely used by pedestrians.

[hyperD]

3. It's worse when you are on a bike yourself. Especially when following behind a shapely young lady in tight shorts. It gets very distracting

Totally. But it does add great value to the commute. However, gets embarrassing when they know you are following them deliberately and they stop to let you past with a look of disdain.

I always say "Good morning!" as I pass though.

Honestly officer.

[quackhandle]

There's an odd chap who rides his bike down my road (v busy A-road) one handed with the other one (elbow on handle bar) supporting his chin. Most peculiar.

I thought he can't be that mad, but then I spotted him a week later doing the same thing on the dual carriage way to Manchester.

qh

[mudskipper]

Next time a cyclist tries to undertake as I'm indicating while turning left I'm not gonna hit the brakes.

idiot motorists who hare past you and then brake sharply before turning across right in front of you.

That's probably what CH is calling undertaking.

[Cliphead]

That's probably what CH is calling undertaking.

Moving off on green at the lights indicating and turning left as the dickhead on two wheels undertakes trying to beat me to the turn.

I suspect he's a casualty waiting to happen and probably not before time.

[SueEllen]

Moving off on green at the lights indicating and turning left as the dickhead on two wheels undertakes trying to beat me to the turn.

I suspect he's a casualty waiting to happen and probably not before time

I move my car as close to the left as possible on many junctions if myself or the vehicles I can see in front of me are signalling to turn left.

Sooo many cyclists are confused by this.

If however the cyclist has sense and takes the middle of the lane in front of me because they got there first I leave them to it.

I simply have better things to do with my time then call an ambulance for them and wait around to talk to the police.

[Dallas]

FTFY!

Agree with you and the OP though - the most stupid thing to do.

And those new suited commuters going to the station on those foldaways - they don't survive long..

+1
chappy at work spent hundreds on gear, hangng around in his hi-viz and assos gear talking about cycling all day. turned out his foldup took him from liverpool st to waterloo every day

on the flipside there are sooooo many types of cyclists you can generally see the muppets a mile off

[vetran]

the left turn cars normally get a flat handed slap on their bodywork, they panic & stop because they think their car has been hit, I just cycle past giving them the bird.


Frankly though having been walking a lot recently i'm surprised most cars make it to their destination a good quarter of them are on the phone texting mainly.

Pedestrians step out in the road or barge past you, either I'm getting old or everyone else is fecking rude.

You step aside to let someone past and 50% just ignore you. People barge into it seems like the tube has expanded to Budgens.

[BigRed]

First, a cycle lane isn't just to restrict the cyclist to it and leave the road free for motorists. Second, as a motorist I hate 'bus' lanes as a driver and love to hold up the buses when I am on my bike. They are actually for buses, taxis and cyclists.

On a serious note, cyclists are extremely vulnerable, I saw two accidents in a week, the first was a woman walking across a road of stationary vehicles straight into a bicycle in it's bike lane, second was a bus flattening a bike at a roundabout, the bike should have owned the lane in my opinion.

There is a serious problem where I live (Peak District) where we have 30+ groups of cyclists flogging their way up hills at 5mph and groups of motorcyclists zooming past so you can't overtake them.