Cyclists!!!

[ZXSpectrum]

WTF is wrong with them at the moment? 2 day, 2 near misses throught them just completely ignoring the law as if it just doesnt apply to them because their vehicle doesnt have an engine. I dont have a problem with people cycling to work or whatever but the ones what have a complete disregard to the road laws and going though red lights etc is becoming problematic. Do they think they are invincible? The thing that makes me laugh is they dont seem to think they are doing anything wrong. Idiots...

 

[ZXSpectrum]

I cycle to / from work through heavy traffic, and always bear in mind that the roads are for cars. I'm a motorist first and cyclist second. The amount of 'militant cyclists' I see is unreal. Riding in the middle of lanes, barrelling through lights.. and they wonder why car drivers get annoyed with them. This morning I went through a junction on a green light (in a cycle lane), the road forked to the right and the cycle lane continued, the traffic on that road was under traffic light control and that was on red. I had to swerve to avoid a cyclist in the cycle lane who'd just gone right through the red light.

Standard "don't tar them all with the same brush, and don't forget that other road users are *****s too".



The expensive of administering such a system, where to draw the line. Do you force kids to have insurance to?

Nah i know you are right. There are people i see daily that ride correctly and safely but more and more i see these idiots dangerously thinking that they own the road and that the lights, lanes, signage or laws do not apply to them. While i am sure there are scumbags in cars and motorbikes that are the same, lately the "militant" cyclists are becoming a dangerous hazard. I am glad i have my dashcam running all the time nowdays.

 

[ZXSpectrum]

The cyclist?.

Surely people aren't naive enough to believe that there are not other legal processes in place to afford motorists the ability to recover costs and damages to their vehicles?.

Really? You hit someone on a bike and what comeback do you have? You can ask them for thier details but they dont have to give you the correct ones? There is no identification or registration database on bikes so you cant take a numberplate and report them to the police if the details are not correct or they ride off. All that would have happened in that case if i had hit the idiot this morning would be that he had a bent bike and possibly a trip to the hosiptal and i would have had to foot the bill of possibly thousands of pounds to my car...