Rude cyclists

[Dieselman]

But I get a bit cheesed off when they don't use perfectly good cycle lanes..

I think that's the issue. other than lanes marked at ths side of a road I've yet to ride on a decent cyclepath.
If you have decent ones running along dual carriageways that really are up to standard, then you are extremely fortunate.
The other problem is that the cyclist has to keep stopping to merge backinto or cross the roads at junctions. It's just easier to use the road.

 

[para alpha]

I think that's the issue. other than lanes marked at ths side of a road I've yet to ride on a decent cyclepath.
If you have decent ones running along dual carriageways that really are up to standard, then you are extremely fortunate.
The other problem is that the cyclist has to keep stopping to merge backinto or cross the roads at junctions. It's just easier to use the road.

Yes, there is a good one that runs about 10miles along the A59 Which is by my house, Past Aintree Race course, over the start of the M58/M57 then all the way to Ormskirk and Burscough. It tends to get a bit rough then until you get thought to Tarleton just out side of Southport, then again all the way through to Preston...

 

[mun802]

Driving through Lytham today and there were at least 100 plus cyclists causing absolute chaos riding 3-4 abreast pulling out without looking etc. Rude ignorant feckers!

 

[Ian B Walker]

Driving through Lytham today and there were at least 100 plus cyclists causing absolute chaos riding 3-4 abreast pulling out without looking etc. Rude ignorant feckers!

Just the same on the back road to Warton (From Wrea Green). Too many cyclists straying / wobbling over the road.

 

[Spinal]

For all of those progressive thinkers and armchair commentators - get on a bike yourself and then you can give your opinion on what cyclists should and shouldn't do! I am genuinely stunned by some of the egocentric, knuckle dragging comments.

I've got a bicycle actually... in fact, I have more than one!

That said, when I do ride, I do it in the park, in fields and other green spaces. I ride one in the Alps in Italy. I ride them when I'm in Tuscany in the parks on the beaches... I rarely ride on a road - it just doesn't feel "right". Maybe I'm a bad rider and maybe I'm a coward, but I don't feel safe on roads and do my best to leave the roads to powered vehicles.

If you want proof that cyclists are the bane of roads, just go to a town like Oxford, where cars are generally frowned upon. There are hundreds, if not thousands of bicycles... and yet, these cyclists still try to run over pedestrians, jump red lights/pedestrian crossings, etc. Safety cannot be a factor - there are no cars to run them over...

Michele

 

[para alpha]

If you want proof that cyclists are the bane of roads, just go to a town like Oxford, where cars are generally frowned upon. There are hundreds, if not thousands of bicycles... and yet, these cyclists still try to run over pedestrians, jump red lights/pedestrian crossings, etc. Safety cannot be a factor - there are no cars to run them over...

Michele

Oxford where the cycle has no natural predators (Cars) To keep the numbers down! May be time for a Cull!.

I may start another thread and have a list of names on who would like to go to Oxford for the day, you know, having a drink (Coke), chat, Bashing unsuspecting cycles on the handlebars with clubs and stuff

 

[Ratz]

I've got a bicycle actually... in fact, I have more than one!

That said, when I do ride, I do it in the park, in fields and other green spaces. I ride one in the Alps in Italy. I ride them when I'm in Tuscany in the parks on the beaches... I rarely ride on a road - it just doesn't feel "right". Maybe I'm a bad rider and maybe I'm a coward, but I don't feel safe on roads and do my best to leave the roads to powered vehicles.

If you want proof that cyclists are the bane of roads, just go to a town like Oxford, where cars are generally frowned upon. There are hundreds, if not thousands of bicycles... and yet, these cyclists still try to run over pedestrians, jump red lights/pedestrian crossings, etc. Safety cannot be a factor - there are no cars to run them over...

Michele

As I said earlier I live in Manchester so I can't speak for those in Oxford, but given that most of their number are likely to be students then I rest my case that it is not cyclists who are the problem... (Before I get any comments from students - I was one, and I still work with them).

Besides that, I don't avoid people in red cars because they're statistically more likely to have an accident, assume people whose eyebrows meet in the middle are violent or think that if you have a scouse accent then you're going to mug me.

Aggressive or dangerous riding/driving is not the preserve of a particular mode of transport - nor does a particular steed encourage it.

 

[prprandall51]

... Aggressive or dangerous riding/driving is not the preserve of a particular mode of transport - nor does a particular steed encourage it.

I would have agreed with you.... but I was up in London yesterday and my progress (I was on a bus so I wasn't driving) was consistently hampered by those ***** pedal-driven rickshaws that now infest the streets of the capital and are ridden by couldn't-give-a-damn tax-dodging, soap dodging scruffs. In this particular case, selfish and lazy riding is the preserve of this particular mode of transport.