Bicycles and Cyclists...

[Deleted member 37751]

I'm astonished by some of the comments. I walk, cycle, use public transport and drive cars. Why it's not possible for people to just co-exist is beyond me. I was in Italy a couple of years ago (ironically as a spectator on several stages of the Mille Miglia). In their ancient cities with incredibly narrow streets, pedestrians and cyclists co-existed very naturally with motorists and motorcyclists. Why on earth we can't do that here is beyond me. A bit of patience and consideration for others is all that's required. Live and let live, surely....

I agree with everything you have said, but sadly it is all in vain.
There is a general culture in this country of pressure; to work harder, faster and longer for less, to be told what to do and take it on the chin.
All these feelings of powerlessness then manifests themselves in anger and rage at their fellow man, which tends to be those that are in their way at any given time.

Me? I've got bigger fish to fry than be angry at the world, I try and go about my business with a smile on my face.

(that's all a bit philosophical for me at this time of an evening )

 

[MrML]

Not read all the comments, has there been any reference to a personality disorder charactorized by an abnormal lack of empathy combined with strongly amoral conduct, but masked by an ability to appear outwardly normal....
Or more commonly called a cyclepath (ouch)

 

[Spinal]

Just a heads up... this is a 3-year old thread...

 

[MrML]

I've only had the ML for a year !!

 

[Beetnik]

Just a heads up... this is a 3-year old thread...

Maybe so - but can we please have an option for caravans?

 

[219]

Sunday I went to Play Live (a video game expo sort of thing), while play live was quite fun, I got there VERY angry.

While driving down the A40, I noticed a cyclist in the rain (with a red bag on either side of the bike, alot like the royal mail ones)... While I thought it was quite stupid to ride in the rain, and I found it odd there was a "royal mail" bike on the A40 on Sunday - I ignored him and kept going.

Not long after, I'm stuck behind a foreign car from Bulgaria (I think... BG is said in the Euro-stars) in a very slow moving queue of traffic. A while later, guess who shows up? The friendly cyclist...

Only this time, as he weaves through the almost still traffic, he sticks out his hand and slaps the bulgarian's right-hand-side mirror. I was shocked, I truly was. He didn't bump into it, he actually slapped it!

The car, not being in the most pristine condition, promptly released the mirror, which flew a few meters ahead. The car's driver then proceeded to get out of the car and pick up the mirror before driving on, probably thinking the cyclist bumped into him.

I sat there stunned, part of me wanting to get out of the car and run after the cyclist, the other half of me wanting to call the police...

Why don't cyclists have plates? Why can they hide under a helmet, wreck other people's property and get away with it?

It's just not fair! I always move out of the way for bikers and cyclists, from now on, cyclists aren't getting any favours from me! That one cyclist ruined it for all the others!

Michele

Michele ,

we don't know the full facts .

Not that it is any excuse , but for all we know , perhaps something had happened between the 'Bulgarian' and the cyclist before you caught up with either of them - maybe the Bulgarian 'cut up' the cyclist or wronged him in some other way - we'll never know .