No but when they are that close they send you in to a wobble
Theres more car drivers being cunts and breaking traffic laws on the road than there are cyclists but they always get a hard time. Mind you the people that hate them are usually in cities where there is probably a much higher cunt cyclist population, but tarring with the same brush and all that.
( Peej, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:06, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

so we need to distinguish between rural and urban cyclists

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:07, Reply)

isn't that like distinguishing between black olives and green olives?
they're all bitter and ruin your pizza
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:17, Reply)

No we need to accept that some car drivers are cunts and some cyclists are cunts
There are more cunt car drivers and cunt cyclists in citys
( Peej, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:20, Reply)

I'd say it's likely that cunt car drivers are responsible for more deaths than cunt cyclists.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:22, Reply)

The trouble is that if people create a society where it perfectly ok to assume every cyclist is a cunt
you will get more of this type of person www.thejournal.ie/driver-cyclist-twitter-norwich-police-919833-May2013/ and more cyclists will be killed.
( Peej, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:26, Reply)

I went to the peak district the other week
And had a bunch of cyclist (about 40) thinking they were doing the tour de france, 8 + abreast the lycra clad fuckers were determined not to let anyone overtake
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:26, Reply)

If they really were 8 abreast (which I doubt)
they would have only been 5 deep so overtake in the other lane like you're supposed to.
( Peej, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:28, Reply)

Why?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:29, Reply)

When you took your driving lessons did they not tell you that you are supposed to overtake all other road users as if you are overtaking a car
Sounds like you would have had the same problem if it were a slow moving lorry you needed to pass.
( Peej, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:31, Reply)

No they didn't, how would that work if I was overtaking a HGV?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:32, Reply)

I'm just going with cyclists in a 8x5 rectangle would take up space similar to a lorry
sorry if I was confusing.
( Peej, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:35, Reply)

Not confusing at all, why take up so much road when you're on average only doing 10-15mph
going up hill, it's basic cuntish behaviour, on a hill where there are loads of twists and turns, no more than two abreast was needed
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:39, Reply)

I don't believe that you can fit 8 cyclists abreast in a single carriageway

( Peej, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:53, Reply)

So you're saying that not only is he a prick, but he's a liar too?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:55, Reply)

Thats because you're used to cornish roads
anything more than 2 abreast (and only then for over taking each other) is simple disregard for other road users.
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 13:03, Reply)

You're right, I have never travelled and all cornish roads are 3ft wide

( Peej, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 13:10, Reply)

Apology accepted

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 13:13, Reply)

Rule 163
https://www.gov.uk/using-the-road-159-to-203/overtaking-162-to-169

Personally I'd be more than happy to drive straight through a group of cyclists like that, but since the law tells us we can't do that, they should be setting up proper cycle carriageways.
( Kroney, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:33, Reply)

Ta

( Peej, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:34, Reply)

Don't thank me, I'd nudge you into a hedge as soon as look at you.

( Kroney, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:37, Reply)

Why?
People we cycling on the roads before car came along, so why can't they coexist? I have no problem with car drivers as long as they don't pull out on me or put me in the hedge. Same should go for car drivers should be fine with cyclists as long as they don't fuck their cars up, pull out on them etc.
( Peej, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:36, Reply)

It's for the safety of cyclists as much as anything.
You're more vulnerable than motorcyclists and don't even have the modest protection of being able to keep up with the traffic. Plus, regardless of whether or not it *should* be possible to get along, we don't. There's no reason why you can't use the road network, but different types of traffic need to be separated. Even the Romans could see that.
( Kroney, Mon 1 Jul 2013, 12:39, Reply)