Whats the appropriate and your response to the ( 1/4 rides) "Charlie" who cant resist shouting obscenities from safety of his tin box cos you held him up for 2 minutes , queueing to pass up a steep hill /else

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Ride primary, igmore them. Give way when safe for you to allow them to pass a cars width on the other side of the carriageway

 

Depends on if you did anything wrong!

Last MAMIL I shouted obscenities at I politely followed for 1/4 mile due to traffic and then held behind as I was going to turn left at the approaching junction.

And right at this junction I'm holding back to turn into, for no reason he decides to stop for a breather, no signalling, no look behind, front front wheel in the way (narrow junction). Words had to be exchanged in order to get him to roll back and get the front wheel clear of the junction entrance. There was even a bus stop he could have pulled into instead.

Oh and the peloton wannabes hammering it on downhill stretches of single track lanes. Wait 'til they meet my mate John the farmer in his Manitou with spike forks and hay bales...he won't know he's impaled them all until he gets back home


Ergo; There is nothing you can do....if you're a c**t, you're a c**t regardless of the number of wheels on your mode of transport. But I'll give special mention to 8x4 tipper drivers, they really are special sort of c**t above and beyond the rest. Ride down their inside at your peril.

 

1' from the white line at all times !

 

If that is where you cycle, where do you move to the left if someone does comes too close?


I ride primary all the time eg middle of the lane

 

I don’t move anywhere !


middle of the lane would land me many more insults I suspect

 

I can hanfle insults, being bounced down the road Im not entertaining.

My personal experience is drivers give more space and do a proper wide overtake if you force them to move into the other lane by riding primary amd removing the option of squeezing by.

 

Iv only once ever come into contact physically , and that was panel van going over brow of a hill faced with oncoming traffic 30 years ago , i managed to stay upright

so you shouldnt give these people the middle finger ?

I reckon theyre likley troubled people generally

 

The vast majority of drivers are just inattentive and follow the vehicle in front with speed and line.

If you slow down one vehicle, create a rolling road block, they overtake a lot more carefully copying the vehicle in fronts manoeuvre.

There are still some and thankfully few total pyscho's which will try intimidate you. You only enhance aggression by flicking the finger or anything else. Just ride to protect yourself.

 

Do you “ride primary “ on every type road Andy ?

i had to look it up

 

Yes, A roads too. I must point out, I dont plan my rides to stay on any A road for any length of time. I will go miles out of my way to stay on mainly country lanes

 

The scourge of the road riding 3 and 4 abreast dressed in rubber clothes absolute aholes very last one of them

 

You know the clothes are lycra, fantastic material.

Attitude like that, no wonder drivers kill and injure thousands every year

 

The more the merrier , I try to get as man of them as I can in the van
two for tuesdays is my fav day of the week .

 

Watch out, many are Camera covered 👍

 

I am. Front and rear. I hope the **** cycles too close to me.

 

four abreast is bit much !

 

Agreed.

 

The notorious DailyMail long lense photo, trying to depict riders spread across the road, when they were all two abreast-perfectly legal and much safer for riders

 

Snitches get stitches

 

I got more than stitches. A broken femur, broken pelvis, dislocated shoulder and 6 broken ribs.
Thankfully as I had a camera on the bike, the driver of the van was found, prosecuted and jailed for 9 months. I also received a large payout from his insurance company, which was very nice one I'd recovered from my injuries.

***** like you will be caught.

 

And that's why I don't cycle anymore.

Self preservation. I can cover myself with gopros but that's not going to stop me from being in ICU because I get squashed by an 8x4 tipper on the A448.

Of course I could throw caution to wind, ride head down with my earpods in then live a shorter life whilst listening to radio 4 podcasts and not know what killed me until St.Peter tells me before sending me to hell.

 

Its nearly always the lorries that most courteous i find

if they make a mistake its end of their livelyhood

 

Had a run in with a self righteous little pr*ck on a bike today. On the Downs in Bristol, a 20mph zone, full of walkers and cyclists. On a hill, 2 bikes in front of me, abreast. I slow, stay well behind them, and wait til it's safe to pass. I'm doing about 5mph. Another cyclist in go-fast gear comes steaming up the inside (there's no room) about 6 inches from the car. I blow my horn, he clearly hasn't seen why I'm going so slowly. He yells, bends back the nearside mirror, and shouts in my wife's face through the open passenger window. Says he was 'filtering'. I stop to reset the mirror, he starts on at me, bends the front and rear wipers, and punches me in the chest twice, then off he goes. I would add that he was a fit 30 something, I'm a slightly built 68 year old. I've got his photo, not sure whether to inform plod. I'm always very careful around bikes, I've been riding myself for nearly 60 years, but this has really put me off cyclists. Maybe one day karma will come calling, and he'll try and pick a fight with someone in a Q7 with blacked out windows....

 

Another ******* wearing fluorescent plastic , I’d definitely report him bro

 

Dressed in black plastic, black hat, black bike. Spoiling for a fight, so picked a pensioner. Classy.

 

Defo inform the police he will do it to someone else
My friend had a cyclist coming toward him on a quiet road, cyclist was doing something on his phone not looking, my friend stopped awaiting the impending collision, after he had riden into my friends car and fallen off he starts swearing and shouting at him and goes for the drivers window, my friend drives over his bike and goes home.
God that made me laugh.

 

Inform the police, give them image of man. Hopefully he will be caught. After the initial disagreement, there is no need to cause further aggravation and damage.

 

My last close call put me off cycling - nothing serious 100km+ a week - wing mirror to the elbow at 30kph’ish, speeding car, probably thought I was a branch and cleared off. I’m lucky to have a great cycle path network outside my door, but it’s not the same any more.

 

Just proves angry self righteous dangerous scum exists , on all platforms