Do you 'engage' with cyclists?
Discussion
Interested in other people's opinions / experiences on this...
Trying to get home yesterday, a tree hugger in dark clothing and obligatory lack of lights was clogging up the single lane main road yesterday at rush hour. His selfish human rights self didn't care of the fact that there was a huge tailbacks due to his paltry maximum of 15-18 mph. Also kept going through red lights.
There was a cycle lane, however he wasn't using it as he either decided it was too narrow for him or that the whole road is all one big 'pinch point'. I would have happily interacted further but the cycling has turned him into a Wiggins-shaped weakling. In cleats.!
I wondered is there any point in 'engaging' with cyclists in situations like this? The downside is (as we see on so many videos online) that you may encounter a nutter who is happy to start tapping your rear windscreen, or hit your side mirrors or use physical violence. Given the cyclists gesture to me afterwards, they clearly believe they are in the right and probably now have a negative opinion of motorists. Therefore me 'engaging' with them has not had the desired effect.
Trying to get home yesterday, a tree hugger in dark clothing and obligatory lack of lights was clogging up the single lane main road yesterday at rush hour. His selfish human rights self didn't care of the fact that there was a huge tailbacks due to his paltry maximum of 15-18 mph. Also kept going through red lights.
There was a cycle lane, however he wasn't using it as he either decided it was too narrow for him or that the whole road is all one big 'pinch point'. I would have happily interacted further but the cycling has turned him into a Wiggins-shaped weakling. In cleats.!
I wondered is there any point in 'engaging' with cyclists in situations like this? The downside is (as we see on so many videos online) that you may encounter a nutter who is happy to start tapping your rear windscreen, or hit your side mirrors or use physical violence. Given the cyclists gesture to me afterwards, they clearly believe they are in the right and probably now have a negative opinion of motorists. Therefore me 'engaging' with them has not had the desired effect.
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