Cyclists!!!

[Basher]

whats not fine about it ?

half the cycle tracks round here lead to and from zebra corssings

Someone else who hasn't read the highway code ...

You shouldn't ride your bike across a zebra crossing.

 

[EdGey]

Got off road 'tarmac sucker' tyres on it?

Yep! After a while the buzzing noise becomes slightly less annoying

 

[helpimcrap]

I'm a fairly new cyclist.
I won't ride in the gutter because that's where all the crap is and you end up with punctures all the time (same goes for cycle paths as they ALWAYS have glass on them!)! Found that out the hard way...

I'm a pretty common sense cyclist i think as have driven cars/motorbikes/vans etc. I.e. wear a hi-vis over a black ruck sack when going down A roads and lights at dawn or dusk and it seems to have served me well .

2 things annoy me - cyclists (bad ones!) who are riding at dawn or dusk with no lights on and in black clothes! I feel like going out and pushing them off for being so stupid and irresponsible! It's the car driver who will be left literally picking up the pieces!

The other thing to balance that problem out is 'school run mums' or old people or Mercedes drivers (Mercedes drivers are the new BMW driver!). The amount of times i've had mums with kids in the car (and they happen to look double chinned as well and look at me as if it was my fault and i shouldn't dare be on the road!! ) pull out on me and i've had to take avoiding action on my bike!!

 

[grudas]

My beef with cycle paths is that the surface is quite often even worse than the road you could be using.

the problem with cycle paths here is that they are connected with the pedestrian ones - shared

and trust me people don't move so slowing down, avoiding, braking etc every 10m is just not worth it easy for drivers to say "oh use the cycle path" well wake up?

cyclist disturb you on the road
and pedestrians are suicidal at the cycle path..

 

[Draeger]

Yep! After a while the buzzing noise becomes slightly less annoying

Haha!!!. Back in 2010 when I took up MTB'ing I bought a Cube Acid H/T. I'd been a roadie for years but decided one morning to ditch the Pinarello and ride the Cube the 36 miles to work.

I only ever did that the once.

 

[EdGey]

Both of those look nice.

I've never ridden a road bike, so I don't know what I'm missing. I'd like one eventually but I have to make do at the moment.

Wouldn't mind a crack at the coast to coast to be honest!

 

[Mr-White]

I think the answer is too many MAMILS on the road

MW

 

[eatcustard]

I dont care what a cyclist does, as long has he does not scratch my car, its his life he is risking by riding like a tool, not mine.

 

[uvarvu]

I really don't like the MGIF mentality that the majority of cyclists on my route into work seem to be taking. I'm quite happy to sit behind a vehicle indicating left at a junction without advancing to the ASL but there are always cyclists who will pull up to the left of the car and then try and pull away first when the lights go green. It's actions like that which make drivers hate us!

 

[Third Opinion]

What amazes me is some, not all seem to be oblivious to just how vulnerable they are.

Surely riding defensively (the same as we should all drive) is the safest way, rather than just keeping your fingers crossed that everyone has seen you and will anticipate every move.

 

[Judgeneo]

Whats wrong with pulling up on the left at lights?

 

[uvarvu]

Whats wrong with pulling up on the left at lights?

Pulling up next to a car indicating left isn't a good idea, they might not see you and turn into you when the lights change. It also holds up the flow of traffic.