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.

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

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

[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]

Originally Posted by maviczap

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

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]

Originally Posted by maviczap

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