Cyclists - Why do they ride side by side.....
Discussion
This weekend, we've had blue skies and good weather for out door activities. Including cycling it seems, down various country lanes riding 2 / 3 abreast leaving no room to overtake and with no attempt to move into single file to let me & the 4 other cars behind me past.
Ummm......very antiscocial and behaviour that I struggle to understand.
Personally I think bike riders should be have to buy a tax disc like the rest of us to be allowed on the road, perhaps that would sharpen their minds around good road etiquette.
Any cyclists on here care to explain why you do this???
Ummm......very antiscocial and behaviour that I struggle to understand.
Personally I think bike riders should be have to buy a tax disc like the rest of us to be allowed on the road, perhaps that would sharpen their minds around good road etiquette.
Any cyclists on here care to explain why you do this???
flyingjase said:
This weekend, we've had blue skies and good weather for out door activities. Including cycling it seems, down various country lanes riding 2 / 3 abreast leaving no room to overtake and with no attempt to move into single file to let me & the 4 other cars behind me past.
Ummm......very antiscocial and behaviour that I struggle to understand.
Personally I think bike riders should be have to buy a tax disc like the rest of us to be allowed on the road, perhaps that would sharpen their minds around good road etiquette.
Any cyclists on here care to explain why you do this???
Obviously - because they are chatting! Ummm......very antiscocial and behaviour that I struggle to understand.
Personally I think bike riders should be have to buy a tax disc like the rest of us to be allowed on the road, perhaps that would sharpen their minds around good road etiquette.
Any cyclists on here care to explain why you do this???
They should ideally pull into single file though in such circumstance I think
kers...like caravaners, flyingjase said:
leaving no room to overtake and with no attempt to move into single file to let me & the 4 other cars behind me past.
So they take up more road than a car? If not I struggle to see how they are difficult to overtake, especially given they're probably doing 1/3rd of the speed of the average car you might want to overtake.I think they tend to ride like that to avoid being effectively ignored as traffic by inconsiderate car drivers who would otherwise pass them at a life threatening closing speed with inches to spare.
Disco_Dale said:
flyingjase said:
leaving no room to overtake and with no attempt to move into single file to let me & the 4 other cars behind me past.
So they take up more road than a car? If not I struggle to see how they are difficult to overtake, especially given they're probably doing 1/3rd of the speed of the average car you might want to overtake.I think they tend to ride like that to avoid being effectively ignored as traffic by inconsiderate car drivers who would otherwise pass them at a life threatening closing speed with inches to spare.
Next time maybe I will overtake, it will be too close to the cyclists to be safe, let's see how they react
Highway code rule 66 says:-
You should
keep both hands on the handlebars except when signalling or changing gear
keep both feet on the pedals
never ride more than two abreast, and ride in single file on narrow or busy roads and when riding round bends
not ride close behind another vehicle
not carry anything which will affect your balance or may get tangled up with your wheels or chain
be considerate of other road users, particularly blind and partially sighted pedestrians. Let them know you are there when necessary, for example, by ringing your bell if you have one. It is recommended that a bell be fitted
You should
keep both hands on the handlebars except when signalling or changing gear
keep both feet on the pedals
never ride more than two abreast, and ride in single file on narrow or busy roads and when riding round bends
not ride close behind another vehicle
not carry anything which will affect your balance or may get tangled up with your wheels or chain
be considerate of other road users, particularly blind and partially sighted pedestrians. Let them know you are there when necessary, for example, by ringing your bell if you have one. It is recommended that a bell be fitted
The ones who ride like this are brain-dead knobbers.
The rest of us have somehow mastered an immensely complex manoeuvre which enables us to ride either behind or ahead of our cycling accomplice, with both of us a mere 6 inches from the kerb and hence out of the way of the big, fast, heavy motorised vehicles whose extortionate taxation pays for the bloody roads to exist in the first place.
Just mow the f*ckers, yeah?
The rest of us have somehow mastered an immensely complex manoeuvre which enables us to ride either behind or ahead of our cycling accomplice, with both of us a mere 6 inches from the kerb and hence out of the way of the big, fast, heavy motorised vehicles whose extortionate taxation pays for the bloody roads to exist in the first place.
Just mow the f*ckers, yeah?
Never mind to bikes what about two fookin Horses. Came across two dummys taking up the full width of the road on a couple of ponies today and they expect us all to slow down to a crawl. Horses should be taxed and insured and have the tread checked on their hooves and riders brethalized.
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