But youre not showing them consideration
Hold you up. You mean it takes you an extra 30 secs to get somewhere.
Two cyclists just gave me some verbal
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But youre not showing them consideration
Hold you up. You mean it takes you an extra 30 secs to get somewhere.
It would be far safer to ban cyclists from the roads altogether if that is the criteria
The problem seems to be that cyclists often consider themselves both better than other road users and unconstrained by any form of law or manners...
So it is ok to ride like a **** in your mind, as long as it is only motorists being inconvenienced?
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I don't see anything wrong with using your horn to alert them of your presence, after all that's exactly what its for and i do the same fairly regularly up here as in Snowdonia there are road cyclists everywhere.
It does do my head in when they are 2, 3 or 4 abreast in the road and just sit there happily holding up traffic sometimes for miles at a time. I do cycle on the road sometimes but it's only a means to get somewhere more interesting on my MTB but as soon as i hear a car i'll pull right over or if the road is narrow stop on the side of the road to let the car past. It takes me about 5 seconds and i feel a lot safer than forcing cars to do silly overtakes to try and prove something.
It does do my head in when they are 2, 3 or 4 abreast in the road and just sit there happily holding up traffic sometimes for miles at a time. I do cycle on the road sometimes but it's only a means to get somewhere more interesting on my MTB but as soon as i hear a car i'll pull right over or if the road is narrow stop on the side of the road to let the car past. It takes me about 5 seconds and i feel a lot safer than forcing cars to do silly overtakes to try and prove something.
No I don't at all. But I take it you think its ok for the motorist to sit on the cyclist back wheel honking his horn.
If the cyclist had fallen off do you think sitting 10 feet of his back wheel would have been enough time to stop.
I have no problem with that line of thinking, but don't getting ****y when a car wants to overtake without fully driving in the wrong lane.
So you think it is ok to just make up a position to argue thst had no bearing on the op? That is called a strawman fallacy.
Alerting someone to your presence who has shown no exyernal signs they know you are there is exactly what the horn is for. The rest is your fantasy and completely irrelevant.
No issue with that as long as you leave them room to "Wobble".
As the OP didn't give distances I used an example based on what I have seen and heard with my own experiences
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Whilst that may be what horns were invented for it's not what they are most commonly used for. Beeping at cyclists from a distance just comes across as aggressive. You wouldn't do it if it were a slow moving tractor so why do it at cyclists.
95% of cyclists in my experience are decent people. 5% are utter twits. Same goes for any road user really, cyclists are no different. What sets them apart is the speed differential on some roads making the likelihood and consequence of any accident greater when they are being idiots.
It would be far safer to ban cyclists from the roads altogether if that is the criteria
The problem seems to be that cyclists often consider themselves both better than other road users and unconstrained by any form of law or manners...
They were obeying the law though. Which your quote of rule 66 supported. They were not riding more than 2 abreast.
No wonder they didn't hear you the first time if you were over 190 feet away the 2nd time
So how far where you really
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some of the attitudes in here scare me.
Car drivers should ask themselves would they do it on their driving test. If yes they'd fail
If no then.....