Does This Make Your Blood Boil?

[piggynose]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9876537/Jeremy-Vine-s-cycling-video-sparks-angry-reaction.html?ito=push-notification&ci=gwMjDak20Q&;si=37878405&ai=9876537

[vulcan42]

\\ If car drivers bothered to learn the rules and obey them, there would be no need for defensive cycling.//
This applies to cyclists just as much as drivers.
Where I live there are three small towns making up a triangle of about 45 miles. Also in these towns are a number of cycling clubs who have total disregards for other road users and the highway code. At weekends they go out riding this triangle, usually four abreast and taking up the room of an articulated lorry but at half the speed. On numerous occasions I've seen the person on the outside at the back, when he hears a car approaching from the rear actually move across the white line to make it impossible to overtake. That's not in the highway code.

[youngmafbog]

Vines a prat.

That's all there is to say really.

[sunny-dave]

If [i all car drivers observed the Highway Code and gave cyclists a decent width of gap when overtaking, then it would be safe for cyclists to ride in single file whenever a car approached from behind.

[i] but ] far too many cars will squeeze past a single file of cyclists giving no room at all - so my practice (and one that I'm pleased to see in cyclists in front of me when I'm driving the car) is to remain at two abreast until/unless it is safe for cars to overtake me.

I have friends who I will never, ever get into a car with when they are driving - as they have barged past dangerously close to single file cyclists without even deviating from their original course (which was impossible as there was oncoming traffic on the narrow lane) - and then couldn't even understand why I was cross.

It is also true that cyclists are often their own worst enemy - I too have seen the deliberate 'over the white line' behaviour which Vulcan recounts - I had the dashcam footage and was ready to send it to the Gardai until a more sensible member of the peloton remonstrated with his idiot co-rider and waved me past.

[david small]

Click bait by the let’s anger the plebs Mail....

[jno]

sounds right, david small.

[davebro]

//The road markings say the speed limit is 40mph, and the cyclists are likely to be going near to that.//

I doubt they'd be going that fast - maybe 20mph.

[douglas9401]

Unless they're at the wanton and furious cycling.

Such larks.

[Togo]

How come the roads are full of wannabee bikists and the cycle lanes are empty? Why do they manage to do 30mph on the pavement but only manage 10 on the roads?

[DTCwordfan]

I agree Togo, there's a stretch on the road out of Truro to Perranporth where the local council have invested several ks of our tax money into building a nice cycle lane off the road and what do some of the cycling plonkers do but pretend that they are Bradley Wiggins or Chris Frome and barrel with disdain and disregard down the main road.....putting themselves at unnecessary risk and the car drivers too. However, it takes education on both sides, that I will accept.

[Togo]

Same up here DTC. After being hounded by pressure groups, so shall warriors, and anti progress sociopaths our Local Authority spent squillions making a cycle path for most of the coast along N. Wales. They won't use it. No fun to be had there ... they aren't getting the joy that they enjoy when making a nuisance of themselves. The cycle lane along Colwyn Bay front(about 2 miles) runs along the promenade for most of the way. They use the road if it is busy, but when it isn't ride alongside the designated lane weaving in and out of the pedestrians and children and sometimes faster than the motor traffic on the road.

[douglas9401]

Maybe Welsh cyclists have been getting their heads together with their Irish counterparts. :-

[Togo]

I think they are all from Manchester Douglas ... the locals ride sheep.

[DTCwordfan]

Sure that they aren't Yorkshire, Togo....?

The Dales are home to 20,000 sheep and around 600,000 who think that they are sheep - The Swaledale Sheep is the much loved emblem of the National Park and, of course, they have horns to warn the locals.

[Spicerack]

I'd be worried about avoiding Drink Drivers in Ireland, not playing mind games with them.

[gness]

You're right, Spicerack. We have to be so much more aware when the Brits arrive on our roads. :-(