Road hogs

[maviczap]

I'm just returning home from a ride on my push bike, hot sweaty and tired, headwind out, tail wind home.

The main road to my home is really wide and has a cycle lane on each side. So I've just overtaken a couple of parked cars and I'm outside the cycle lane, then theres a traffic island, so the road has narrowed.

When I hear brakes being applied, but not like in an emergency.

I turn my head an see a car bumper a bit too close for my liking, then this old geezer wound down his window and shouts 'the inside lanes over there!!!'

Jeez I'd held him up for all of 2 seconds.

The worst part was, all I could think of saying was 'roadhog!!'

It's one thing to having near misses whilst out training on quiet country roads, but having gits like this I can do with out. :smt014

It's not like I live in the city where cycle couriers give ordinary cyclists a bad name :(

[Wideboy]

i get that all the time when i pushbike to work, MP3 player solves all

[maviczap]

Bet you're missing it

[Holdup]

Lol i hate people like that, i was driving along the other day in my car went down a road cars parked on rhs (so my right of way) sold old fart in his rover comes round the cars i brake and he has the ordasity to wave his finger at me like he's telling me off! im like wtf you w****r its my right of way, the biker behind me also made a rude gesture to the old man :D

[maviczap]

It's something that is endemic in this country, as too many car drivers think they own the road. One excuse is that we cyclists don't pay any road tax. I do, two cars and the Sv.

In Europe they have a much more tolerant attitude toward other road users in general, both bikers and cyclists.

[Wideboy]

In Europe they have a much more tolerant attitude toward other road users in general, both bikers and cyclists.

i think that's because there punishments for breaking road laws are more severe than ours?

[Dave20046]

I'm just returning home from a ride on my push bike, hot sweaty and tired, headwind out, tail wind home.

The main road to my home is really wide and has a cycle lane on each side. So I've just overtaken a couple of parked cars and I'm outside the cycle lane, then theres a traffic island, so the road has narrowed.

When I hear brakes being applied, but not like in an emergency.

I turn my head an see a car bumper a bit too close for my liking, then this old geezer wound down his window and shouts 'the inside lanes over there!!!'

Jeez I'd held him up for all of 2 seconds.

The worst part was, all I could think of saying was 'roadhog!!'

It's one thing to having near misses whilst out training on quiet country roads, but having gits like this I can do with out. :smt014

It's not like I live in the city where cycle couriers give ordinary cyclists a bad name :(
Did you do it like the cylists do though, just move out of their line without a shoulder check expecting cars to slam on the anchors for them?

[maviczap]

Did you do it like the cylists do though, just move out of their line without a shoulder check expecting cars to slam on the anchors for them?

No, I had shoulder checked first and he came up to me as I got to the traffic island.

When I ride on the road I ride assertively, but not aggresively, I won't ride in the gutter

[Dave20046]

No, I had shoulder checked first and he came up to me as I got to the traffic island.

When I ride on the road I ride assertively, but not aggresively, I won't ride in the gutter
Then he was a penis! Don't dwell on he won't be the last :)

[maviczap]

Thank you

[Ruffy]

I hate most cycle lanes, especially the painted strip on-carriageway ones. Most car driver then seem to believe that pushbikes aren't allowed anywhere else.

It constantly amazes me how short sighted most drivers are. On my regular commute that takes me through a local village, I often get overtaken by cars only to have to brake because they can't get through the gap between parked cars on either side of the road due to oncoming traffic that's been visible all the time.