Rant: Who ARE those people who....

[308mate]

...filter to the front of the queue at the lights and then wait until the lights go green to casually put the bike in gear and move off?! You fking clueless pieces of st. If you're pushing your way to the front, be in a state of readiness when the lights go green or get run over by a XR who gives 0 fks and is willing to use them.





Feel free to add your own gripes.

[308mate]

....smugly counsel newbies that spending long periods sat like sitting ducks at 65 in the middle lane of the motorway, sauntering through the blind spots of two lanes of traffic like an made-to-order ambulance sandwich, in some self-righteous convoy of bearded-Road-Captain-endorsed fking stupidity, is a safe way to ride?! Who are the people doing this?! Its plainly a st idea, especially for a newbie. Don't worry, your new hi-vis will save you from the person who didn't even look in your direction in the first place. tts.

This gin is a great loosener

[Fleegle]

.....buy fking great big bmw’s With massive sandwich boxes strapped to the side to go to the office every day? Field worker who’s in and out with folders, laptop, etc..... okay I sort of get it, but wker data inputter....

[drunkenmunkey]

308mate said:

...filter to the front of the queue at the lights and then wait until the lights go green to casually put the bike in gear and move off?! You fking clueless pieces of st. If you're pushing your way to the front, be in a state of readiness when the lights go green or get run over by a XR who gives 0 fks and is willing to use them.





Feel free to add your own gripes.

[Ahbefive]

Yeo, bikers are s.

[drunkenmunkey]

[evil len]

Strikes me you whinge a lot 308mate, don't you ?

[308mate]

evil len said:

Strikes me you whinge a lot 308mate, don't you ?

You don’t have to be old to be grumpy.

[MrGman]

I don’t know where everyone finds the energy to be so bloody grumpy these days!

[Fleegle]

MrGman said:

I don’t know where everyone finds the energy to be so bloody grumpy these days!

practice, practice, practice

[Gavia]

...... live in London and don’t understand that just being there will destroy you.

[NITO]

ah, cyclists, particularly doing sub 20 in a 60mph country lane causing every other road user to slow to a crawl, then either accelerate past burning unnecessary fuel and causing pollutuion or sit behind for freaking ages at an unreasonably slow speed, multiply that by hundreds of cars and dozens of cyclists, it's an absolute scourge of the roads.

I was so temped to slow to about 5mph today after overtaking one, just so they can appreciate how f'ing annoying to lose all your momentum and be reduced to doing quarter the speed you should be doing.

[wuckfitracing]

NITO said:

ah, cyclists, particularly doing sub 20 in a 60mph country lane causing every other road user to slow to a crawl, then either accelerate past burning unnecessary fuel and causing pollutuion or sit behind for freaking ages at an unreasonably slow speed, multiply that by hundreds of cars and dozens of cyclists, it's an absolute scourge of the roads.

I was so temped to slow to about 5mph today after overtaking one, just so they can appreciate how f'ing annoying to lose all your momentum and be reduced to doing quarter the speed you should be doing.

Now that is the best idea Ive heard in ages. Im off for a drive in the TVR in the morning, Im going to try this and report back.

[CAPP0]

308mate said:

...filter to the front of the queue at the lights and then wait until the lights go green to casually put the bike in gear and move off?! You fking clueless pieces of st. If you're pushing your way to the front, be in a state of readiness when the lights go green or get run over by a XR who gives 0 fks and is willing to use them.

I'm right there with you on this one.

[yellowjack]

NITO said:

ah, cyclists, particularly doing sub 20 in a 60mph country lane causing every other road user to slow to a crawl, then either accelerate past burning unnecessary fuel and causing pollutuion or sit behind for freaking ages at an unreasonably slow speed, multiply that by hundreds of cars and dozens of cyclists, it's an absolute scourge of the roads.

I was so temped to slow to about 5mph today after overtaking one, just so they can appreciate how f'ing annoying to lose all your momentum and be reduced to doing quarter the speed you should be doing.

Ahhhhh, diddums. Does somebody need a comforter and some additional driver training? Does he? Does he? Yes he does.

Open wide NITO, here comes the aeroplane...




Meanwhile, in the real world, not the made up bullst world where this rectum inspector lives, the net impact of cyclists on journey times is next to fk all when compared with the hours and hours spent by drivers sat in queues on motorways and trunk roads, sucking on someone else's exhaust fumes while the emergency services and recovery contractors extricate the vehicle of yet another inept moron who ought not to have a driving licence from another vehicle or a stationary, immovable object.

[WarnieV6GT]

NITO said:

ah, cyclists, particularly doing sub 20 in a 60mph country lane causing every other road user to slow to a crawl, then either accelerate past burning unnecessary fuel and causing pollutuion or sit behind for freaking ages at an unreasonably slow speed, multiply that by hundreds of cars and dozens of cyclists, it's an absolute scourge of the roads.

I was so temped to slow to about 5mph today after overtaking one, just so they can appreciate how f'ing annoying to lose all your momentum and be reduced to doing quarter the speed you should be doing.

How do you get held up on a motorbike by a cyclist? And even if you somehow do, then how hard is it to roll on the throttle and be back up to 60+ in a couple of seconds?

If more people rode cycles then there be a hell of a lot of extra room on the roads for enjoying your car and motorbike, and no doubt the nhs would benefit too.

[Biker's Nemesis]

NITO said:

ah, cyclists, particularly doing sub 20 in a 60mph country lane causing every other road user to slow to a crawl, then either accelerate past burning unnecessary fuel and causing pollutuion or sit behind for freaking ages at an unreasonably slow speed, multiply that by hundreds of cars and dozens of cyclists, it's an absolute scourge of the roads.

I was so temped to slow to about 5mph today after overtaking one, just so they can appreciate how f'ing annoying to lose all your momentum and be reduced to doing quarter the speed you should be doing.

Thats a damn good idea.

[sicarumba]

WarnieV6GT said:

How do you get held up on a motorbike by a cyclist?

You don't get held up on a motorbike by a cyclist. You get held up on a motorbike by a row of cars who are being held up by a cyclist. If there is traffic coming the other way you can't go around the cars. If there isn't traffic coming the other way you are waiting for the cars to cautiously and slowly overtake the cyclist one by one, because if you overtake the cars before they've overtaken the cyclist they will more often than not begin their overtaking manoeuvre without expecting (or looking for) a motorcyclist overtaking them, and nudge you off the road.

[WarnieV6GT]

sicarumba said:

You don't get held up on a motorbike by a cyclist. You get held up on a motorbike by a row of cars who are being held up by a cyclist. If there is traffic coming the other way you can't go around the cars. If there isn't traffic coming the other way you are waiting for the cars to cautiously and slowly overtake the cyclist one by one, because if you overtake the cars before they've overtaken the cyclist they will more often than not begin their overtaking manoeuvre without expecting (or looking for) a motorcyclist overtaking them, and nudge you off the road.

Ok that makes a little more sense. I only get pissed off with cyclists when they ride two abreast. Those are proper s of the highest order. Other than that the more people on two wheels instead of 4 the better and it should only be encouraged imo.

[Prof Prolapse]

Yeah cyclists are a nightmare by me.

A group decide to have an unofficial road race last year on an arterial road. Imagine,70+ of he s. One single, 1/4 mile streak of flourescent gobste. The traffic on the A701 (one of only two roads South) backed up about ten miles.

Thankfully I was on my GSXR. I filtered, ripped past, but not before slowing to gesticulate to the officials on their "support" vehicles that they were a shower of dicks, I have never seen such a sense of entitlement and inconsideration on such a scale.

I even had to keep my horn on the whole time passing the cyclists as, despite obviously hearing me, the cyclists kept pulling out to overtake each other (two/three abreast so well into opposite lane) without shoulder checks. Full tour de fking knobhead mode.

It's all the fking finance s from Edinburgh. Spending all week hedge funding via land mines and shafting poor people, then they come here in their Spandex on their ill-gotten ten grand plastic push bike, and obligatory VW Meincampfervans with full dhead chrome accessories, just to ps off another demographic before retiring back to their luxury homes for a finance sector BDSM and puppy drowning party.

One of the few positives of Brexit, I hope, is a long overdue hardship for these s. Perhaps they can wear their fking spandex onesy's when they're forced to apply their transferable skills to things like "cat strangling ", or taking their fragile, pretentious, carbon bicycles to ride between houses when they're trying to fleece old people.