Why do people cycle slowly?

[Pigeon]

angusc43 said:

I was just responding the "why do people walk slowly" thread and though of another one.

Why do people ride bikes slowly?

Why would you do it any other way? Bicycles don't have engines. Riding them fast is knackering. Riding them slowly is less effort than walking. The whole point of using any means of transport is to make things easier, so you do it the easy way, you don't deliberately do it the hard way.

[LRdriver II]

yeah,
Let 'em do what they want... what are you?, some beardie type who rides audax's?

[Chris71]

angusc43 said:

Chris71 said:

angusc43 said:

fathomfive said:

You forgot to add that they think they own the road, don't pay attention to red lights, ride two abreast so you can't overtake and don't pay road tax.

Or pay insurance. And then they f**k off after pulling daft stunts and causing my wife to crash and write off a £2000 scooter.

This has become such a PH cliche. I'm not sure if it's a vain attempt to fit in with everyone else moaning or simply trolling.

No, this genuinely did happen. My wife was on her way to work on the road through Regents Park in the LH lane when a cyclist (without looking) veered right across in front of her into the RH lane as he decided he wanted to turn right. She locked up the front and binned the scooter (luckily no more than the odd scratch and bruise but of course here clothes were trashed and the scooter was a write off). The cyclist hung around long enough to deny responsibility then disappeared. Bit shabby really.

Don't get me wrong - I am cyclist myself. I just think this particular character was a t**ser for basically leaving my wife lying in the road with a trashed scooter after an accident that was 100% his fault.

Nothing to do with being anti-cylist, more to do with having a sense of responsibility.

Wasn't so much refering to the original post as the feeding frenzy of 'they don't pay road tax et al' that I thought was about to ensue. Apologies for being defensive, but you know what it's like on here. Evidently I'd be preaching to the converted as, like you say, it's symptomatic of the guy being a tt, not specifically a cyclist.

Ironically I ran my first ever red light this morning - it was only in the process of going red and it was on a deserted side street where I know the sequence of the other lights. I'm still not proud of it though. However, that's the only time I've done that in my life and I was in the car, not the bike. Says it all really.

[angusc43]

LRdriver II said:

yeah,
Let 'em do what they want... what are you?, some beardie type who rides audax's?

No beards here. Don't know what an audax is.

I've just got a 10 yr old DiamondBack which I sometimes use.

I'm not really bothered about slow cyclist - I just don't get it