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SC024

Cyclists, What the feck is with you cycling 3 & 4 abreast on country roads?

What the feck is wrong with cycling single file

CheGuedara

SC024 wrote: »

Cyclists, What the feck is with you cycling 3 & 4 abreast on country roads?

What the feck is wrong with cycling single file

3 & 4 abreast, illegal and probably down to inexperience and assoc ill discipline.

two abreast, perfectly legal

single file, optional

Lumen

It provides greater visibility to spot the oncoming nutter doing 125mph in a 1.6L petrol avensis.

Quigs Snr

Its a conspiracy you see. All us cyclists meet up every year and decide how best to annoy motorists, usually some directives are produced and circulated to all of our members and we measure their success by the amount of people who complain on internet forums. 2009 is looking good.

Alternatively it is legal to cycle 2 abreast on country roads, there is no obligation to ride single file. And why wouldn't we ride single file anyway ? Well you see this is not a cyclist vs motorist thing, because most of us are motorists also so we understand quite well that if we ride single file, drivers (usually males 21-45) will attempt to pass us with cars coming the opposite direction, occasionally ending up in a wing mirror to the kidneys. If we ride in pairs motorists have to slow down and wait until there is space to pass. So you see we are doing this for you motorists. We understand that some of you are impatient and would happily risk a cyclists life and sometimes your own, to get home in time to see Coronation Street. We wouldn't like you to have that on your conscience.

Gavin

http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/CommonDebates#Why_do_cyclists_take_up_the_road.3F

thebouldwhacker

SC024 wrote: »

Cyclists, What the feck is with you cycling 3 & 4 abreast on country roads?

What the feck is wrong with cycling single file

Are you sure your not feck'en cross eyed??

or after a few feck'en tipels? maybe a drop of the creator?? you don't sound sure was it 3 or feck'en 4 abreast...

Sorry I don't mean to feck'en mock;)

I must say though I drive a lot for my job, I'm based in West Cork & Kerry (prob more country roads per square mile than Cavan), also I have a camper so if I'm not driving for work I'm driving for pleasure, and if not doing either I'm either running or cycling on the road. Basically I get value for money when it comes to road tax. I haven't seen cyclists 3/4 a breast since the last road race....

wait a feck'en minute!!!

you didn't drive past guys in yellow jackets with the words 'feck'en race stuart' on them while they were waving their arms and telling you not to drive down the feck'en road cos there was a feck'en bike race on, did you???

In fairness OP you really should have stopped the car and given out to them there rather than us here cos this is what happens if either cyclists or driver get it wrong....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuUaLW_SKI

thebouldwhacker

Oh yea....

thanks for feck'en posting:D

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055521929&page=8

Funkyzeit

Beat me to it whacker.

Op You find it difficult to overtake cyclists at this speed ?poor you...

Chips Lovell

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petethedrummer

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SC024

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Oh yea....

thanks for feck'en posting:D

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055521929&page=8

What the fu*k?

Chips Lovell

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Oh yea....

thanks for feck'en posting:D

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055521929&page=8

Lol, busted.

thebouldwhacker

SC024 wrote: »

What the fu*k?

What part of the post are you having difficulty with?

Please clarify and I will go through it step by step, read through the answers you recieved from all other posts first though... you might get an idea of where I was coming from.

Caroline_ie

... I was talking to a traffic corp garda yesterday and started by saying:

' You know the way cyclists can cycle 2 abreast on country roads [...]'

The garda said ... 'Can they ..?' ....

I was shocked and just replied ' Of Course they can!' to which the garda replied ' ... OK I didn't know '.

WTF!

Colmhayden76

Happened yesterday to me at the end of the swcc spin . We were coming back to town and just near Superquinn in Waterford we had an irate gombeen in a Chelsea Tractor blair his horn at us. I was 2 a breast on the outside talking to a father who's 2 kids aged 9 and 12 were in front of us in single file.
Its attitudes like this that are stopping more people from getting out on a bike with their kids and enjoying life . So what that he had to wait 30 seconds before overtaking. It was a Sunday morning for gods sake.
I'm not a parent but wtf?
All Parents out there bring your kids out on thier bikes and ride behind them about 2 metres out from the ditch and too hell with the drivers. If the councills around the country are not willing to provide family friendly cycling routes what else can you do.
The ring road in Waterford is about 8km with a family orentated cycle path but to get to it you must cycle the towns buisiest routes with no lanes for bikes. Come on !
As I driver I quite often come up behind cyclists and give them plenty of space and time till it's safe to overtake them, and I get people beeping at me for it!
Right rant over.

Murph100

Dont get me started, Quigs is spot on !!! I drive over 25,000 miles a year with my work, so while cycling I'm always very conscious of not obstructing motorists unnecessarily, and always go in single file.

End result was two of us nearly got killed yesterday going from Killarney to Killorglin by some tosser in a 4WD commercial who just had to overtake when an oncoming car was right across from us. This was in the middle of a clear straight mile long stretch of road.

The bastard just missed us by inches, the other driver got a huge fright and nearly crashed because he had to brake so hard. I couldn't get the reg as it was covered in sh1te.

From now on its 2 abreast, or if solo, well out on the road to prevent any temptation of reckless overtaking. It could so easily have been the young mother we passed only minutes before, walking with her toddler, getting the same treatment from that f%@ker.

Right, blood boiling again ......:mad:

blorg

I think we have all had that same experience Murph, I have literally seen **** send oncoming cars into the ditch while they pass me by inches. It's important to ride far enough out so as to have wiggle room on your inside in case someone tries a dangerous overtake.

Murph100

I hear ya Blorg. I'd just love to find the driver of that Metallic Wine Izuzu Commercial Trooper, maybe those guys with the bike cams aint so strange after all. Payback would be sooooooooooo sweet !!!

short circuit

Saviour of the motorists ...
Destroyer of cyclists ...
Where is TimAllen ...
When there is talk of payback ...

We

blorg wrote: »

I think we have all had that same experience Murph, I have literally seen **** send oncoming cars into the ditch while they pass me by inches. It's important to ride far enough out so as to have wiggle room on your inside in case someone tries a dangerous overtake.

only started cycling recentely and I've already had experience of this a few times.. today in particular.. scared the life out of me, some bmw overtakes with literally about 2 inches between us, me being as close as I could possibly have been to the edge of the road aswell.. if I had even tried to seperate us another inch, I would have been in the ditch..

Civilian_Target

Murph100 wrote: »

End result was two of us nearly got killed yesterday going from Killarney to Killorglin by some tosser in a 4WD commercial who just had to overtake when an oncoming car was right across from us. This was in the middle of a clear straight mile long stretch of road.

The bastard just missed us by inches, the other driver got a huge fright and nearly crashed because he had to brake so hard. I couldn't get the reg as it was covered in sh1te.

Honestly, I used to think the same way about being polite and all that, but there are so many drivers that don't think about the fact that cyclists actually need space that nowadays I send an unequivocal message when I cycle. I am here, this is my space.

Signal clearly, cycle assertively, and when there's hard shoulder space (or a big queue behind) pull in and let people past.

CheGuedara

short circuit wrote: »

Saviour of the motorists ...
Destroyer of cyclists ...
Where is TimAllen ...
When there is talk of payback ...

Ssshhh,

he's like Beetlejuice - say his name often enough and he'll appear back ssshhhh!

Stark

SC024 wrote: »

Cyclists, What the feck is with you cycling 3 & 4 abreast on country roads?

What the feck is wrong with cycling single file

Speaking as someone who's never been on a club ride, but has driven past plenty of them, it's always seemed perfectly obvious to me and to people with whom I've shared car journeys what the protocol is for overtaking. Slow down, wait for someone at the head of the pack to give the wave to signal it's safe to overtake, pack pulls in to the left, you drive on. I think only a moron could fail to understand what was going on.

thebouldwhacker

Rub the lantern and see the genie that pops out....................

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/search.php?searchid=6193832&pp=25

Raam

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

Rub the lantern and see the genie that pops out....................

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/search.php?searchid=6193832&pp=25

I didn't get anything with that link?

thebouldwhacker

Sorry Raam, the genie has legged it:mad: link is gone

Sorry all:o

Jawgap

Stark wrote: »

Speaking as someone who's never been on a club ride, but has driven past plenty of them, it's always seemed perfectly obvious to me and to people with whom I've shared car journeys what the protocol is for overtaking. Slow down, wait for someone at the head of the pack to give the wave to signal it's safe to overtake, pack pulls in to the left, you drive on. I think only a moron could fail to understand what was going on.

The OP revels in getting 125mph out of a 1.6L petrol avensis - perhaps that provides some insight into why he might fail to understand what is going on.

Wonder what he wants to be when he grows up?:cool: