SparkySpitfire wrote: » Eh, who are you? :pac: Not even going to bother replying to you, you clearly have some sort of agenda. You also seem to lack the ability to read, cyclist, pedestrian, motorist, no one likes to be held up because of someone else's actions, and shouldn't have to change their behavior because someone else is hindering them.
Sauve wrote: » It takes 30-60 seconds for you to overtake a bunch of cyclists appropriately and safely. 30-60 seconds. Chill out like.
Sauve wrote: » Thats a deliberate cuntish move to ensure that car drivers overtake properly, as you would a car. Otherwise, you get drivers trying to overtake in situations where there isnt enough space for a car and a bike.
seamus wrote: » I have never had a rider on a horse pull in to allow me pass in my car. Therefore horse riders never do this.
Ms. Pingui wrote: » When I ride my horses on the backroads by my house, I pull in to allow motorists pass. I don't expect people to drive along at horse pace behind me, why can't cyclists do the same?
Ray Palmer wrote: » The laws of physics. A cyclist has to put in extra excision to start off again. In a car or on a horse it makes no difference to you physically to slow and speed up that is not true for a cyclist. This seems to be the biggest issues people don't understand. Go cycle 1 km with no stops and then do it again stopping and starting 5 times. You will soon realise which is more tiring and maybe understand. Anyway cyclist commuting save drivers a lot of time. For the times you are slowed realise if the cyclists were all driving your journey would take much longer.
hju6 wrote: » Do cyclists remain 2 - 3 abreast on back roads when a Garda car is behind them ?
Ms. Pingui wrote: » I do dismount when neccessary. It's not irrelevant, cyclists take up just as much room on the road as a horse, both move slowly so it's a fair comparrison. Its more "hassle" for a moterist to be stuck behind someone slow for 20 mins than it is for you to unclip your pedals.
Ms. Pingui wrote: » Horses aren't machines?
UnawareCaesar wrote: » Come off it, you don't really think its the same thing passing a horse as a cyclist. A horse is much slower and much more unpredictable which is why a person on a horse should pull over for the safety of themselves because you have to make the assumption the person in the car is an idiot just in case they are. A cyclist won't suddenly spook and cut across the whole road or rear up etc. I don't think anyone has ever been stuck behind a cyclist for 20 minutes.
Macy0161 wrote: » It's easier to pass a group riding 2 a breast than if they're in a single file line.
Ray Palmer wrote: » And you ask this question why? No expert on horses but I am pretty sure it doesn't feel like your body doing the walking or running. I am sure it takes some effort to gallop but we weren't talking about that now were we?
Ms. Pingui wrote: » I have, on backroads with no place to overtake.
Jawgap wrote: » PS, wtf is 'spandex' *with due acknowledgement to the Simpsons
desertcircus wrote: » Well, that unverified anecdote from an anonymous internet user has sold me. I'm off to burn my bike.
shedweller wrote: » http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=891&q=spandex&oq=spandex&gs_l=img.3..0l10.1148.2963.0.3194.7.7.0.0.0.0.210.994.1j4j2.7.0...0.0...1ac.1.8.img.sU3CF2APGpM#imgrc=_ heh.....spandex...
Jawgap wrote: » Yes, I know what it is - I was merely commenting on the use of an Americanism - this side of the pond, old boy, it's referred to as lycra.:D
Ms. Pingui wrote: » It's more effort for the horse though. Anyway this is going way off topic!
El Spearo wrote: » Well I do not object to cyclists using the road. By cyclists I mean people who do no drive, and this is their form of transport to get from a to b. But there are hundreds if not thousands of enthusiasts who are taking over the roads and making them notably more dangerous.
IM0 wrote: » oh you mean like a tractor? tough shit them is the breaks :cool:
shedweller wrote: » Yeah but googling spandex is more, interesting!
