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I don't understand this - teach you a lesson for what exactly?
Cycling?
The levels of stupidity are quite worrying, all 3 in quick succession and for no gain.
White Audi overtakes into a blind bend and then beeps, not sure if that's to alert me or any oncoming cars he might meet.
Silver Citroen (UK reg) is dangerous, I'm signaling into the bend to turn right and he proceeds to overtake across the junction, any cars turning left from the side road wouldn't expect that and likely take us both out.
3rd grey SUV driver overtakes into traffic to gain 100m so I congratulate him on his progress to which he takes offense.
I HAVE GOT TO GET BY YOU, STUPID CYCLIST.
I'm out in the Sierra Nevadas since Friday. Loads of miles, loads of hills, lovely quiet roads, and even when there are cars, the overtake you like you would your own 6 year old daughter if she was on a bike and you in a car.
Had one dodgy pass today though, overtook me quickly with cars oncoming and cut in, something which NEVER happens here.
Then as it scurried off ahead I copped the 161 KE reg.
Well done Paddy. Well fcukin done. 🙄. A one-man masterclass in cultural difference.
which end? i have relatives in las alpujarras.
Might it have been them?? 😁
We're in Motril. First grey skies day today but still warm.
heh, they've been there since the 70s - no irish reg!
they were very surprised to see their house being used as the main image on a guardian article about las alpujarras - it's their house on the left in the photo, i've stayed there several times.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/mar/26/healthy-pleasures-in-rural-andalucia-spain
a sight my wife and i saw there years ago was as we were leaving orgiva (in the car) to go up into the mountains, up to the white villages; we passed a cyclist on the climb, who had only one leg.
That is absolutely idyllic. Fair play to them.
Did they have an employment/income angle to make the big move work out?
my dad's cousin was a walking tour guide, and trained chef; his partner was an art teacher and potter. he's retired from the walking tour game but i think she still gives art and pottery classes from the house - the ground floor is her studio and pottery.
they've a patch of land downhill from the house - when we were there, we were using olive oil from their own olives, almonds, figs, kaki fruit etc.
a lovely life but a bit spartan.
Niiicce…Maybe spartan, but I'd take it having arrived in on the red-eye from New York yesterday morning to see the levels of traffic on the M50/N7 at 5:30am
i was reminded when i googled his name, that he used to be the local expert on rewaterproofing the roofs used on the traditional buildings in the area, so that was obviously another source of income for him.
That's unreal. But not atypical. There seems to be no end of such tiny little remote villages in the hills. They're amazing altogether.
This has been an epic cycling trip. Definitely coming back again.
On the close pass theme. Had another one while ago. A French reg this time. It's never an E for Espagna.
Probably wasn't even that bad of a pass, he went by me in-lane approaching a roundabout. It stood out a mile though from the Spanish equivalent. They don't tailgate, they retreat a good 50 yards and when it's clear they often go right over the other side of the road altogether into the opposite lane.
I really would love to know where it stems from and how this ultra - respect for bikes has been engendered in the national driving psyche.
Just to say if you cycle round Motril itself long enough you might see another side of driving & definitely if you go to Malaga Town itself, fairly familiar with the area.
In general though it's a great place to cycle especially when you go up into the mountains.
There was a great restaurant on the main road just outside Motril called El Mirador which has amazing steak that is cooked inside a clay oven in the wall of the bar, also a,nice terrace even just for a beer.
Any more deets on that restaurant? We're finding them a bit hit or miss in Motril. Had one really and truly awful meal. Thing is there are a zillion Miradors. Every hillock is a Mirador and has a Mirador restaurant. If you can remember the exact name I've been looking for a good steak house.
Apologies- its called el mirador de la corregidora & it's actually outside the next town over- Almunecar.
Nice place to stop on the bike for a beer.
I guess it's a shared lane after all!
A horrible one this evening; on a country road cresting a hill so was at low speed and could see a few 100m ahead of me and a car coming really fast on the edge of my side of the road, a few feet spare on his own side. I was going slow so braked and into a track stand position while trying to think what to do, luckily he was able to slow enough and move over to his side of the road but braked hard alongside me. He then started shouting out the window (which was open) but i just let go off the brakes and rolled off.
However I looked back as I could still hear shouting and expletives, he had gotten out of the car to hurl more abuse but the worst part for me was for the next few km's I had to look back to wonder was he going to chase me down and thinking what would I do. If I was doing a decent speed or in a car or tractor it could've been nasty.
did any of his shouting reveal what he was angry about?
He was angry about being exposed (and therefore embarrassed) doing something stupid I'd say.
There is little self-awareness or very little ownership of one's own mistakes in the population.
Easier to blame the cohorts society sets up nicely - like cyclists, or immigrants, or God-forbid immigrant cyclists.
Awful story in the context of recent discussions here. Doesn't sound good but wishing the lads a speedy recovery
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/04/09/three-irish-cyclists-hospitalised-after-collision-in-spain/
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That link isn't working I don't think.
the url is in the link twice
i've edited the post, should work now.
You were there, were you?
"I'd say" being the operative phrase, this isn't after hours, it was quite clear what the poster meant.
to be fair, Mojomaker seemed to have his own agenda answering a question he had no knowledge of the answer to.
immigrant cyclists?
Aspects of the media portrays the foreign food delivery riders in a negative way regularly. It was a factor in the recent accident reporting in Dublin city centre.
A common reaction to being found out up to no good, being lazy, or caught doing something stupid…is to go on the offensive. It is a plausible answer as to why a driver got so thick with a cyclist despite the car he was driving coming across the white line on a blind bend over a crest where he couldn't possibly have seen the oncoming cyclist.
Never underestimate how many drivers would see this as the cyclists' fault.
"I'd say" he felt like a right tit and instead of owning it, he doubled down and got narky.
CUMMIN OVER 'EAR!! BYIN' ARE BIKES!!!😡😡🤬
Out on a club spin on a back road on Sunday morning. Not a wide road but enough for two abreast cyclists and a car to meet and pass safely if travelling at appropriate speeds. We met a few cars, no issues at all. Then a Merc came along (in South Wexford they are the equivalent of an Audi in Dublin). Now he was doing 60 on a winding back road (and a reasonable driver would say 40 is probably the upper limit for most parts of the road) where there is frequently walkers, cyclists (part of the Norman Way) and Ag machinery. Well he lost it, started beeping the horn, gesticulating, etc. We decided not to stop and interact, and instead when we met a large tractor up the road that was out further than us, wondered would he have had the same reaction.
Oddly, I think not.
