saoirse50
Veteran
Ok..I don't usually make a fuss about bad driving or cycling. I am no absolute paragon myself, and certainly when younger, was probably guilty of riding behaviour which many, including myself now, might consider reckless and risky. So usually, I just put it down to experience and ride on. But there is a particular road where the same thing keeps happening, a bit of bad cycling which eventually caused a nearish miss and I am getting a bit fed up with it, especially as this is supposed to be a quiet cycle route for less experienced cyclists. Near misses are just the kind of thing that put them off going out on their bike.
There is a road on LCN 22, just after it crosses the OKR going northbound. Mawbey Rd and Mawbey Place. It's a messy bit of one way short roads round an estate with several turns and poor visibility of oncoming traffic for everyone. It's here http://goo.gl/HgfYiX
As you cross OKR, you go straight on, turn left then right on to Coopers Rd. If a cyclist is behind me, quite often they try and overtake before the right turn, once we are on Mawbey Place (sometimes, even more oddly before that on Mawbey Rd, which is daft as you can't see round the corner and have no idea if there is any oncoming traffic...road is really narrow too.) Usually I just let people get on with it. If they can overtake me, let them. As long as they don't then automatically sit right on my front wheel, I am not bothered about being overtaken. Then, a couple of weeks ago, someone overtook me on Mawbey Place, just as we were approaching the right turn again into Coopers Rd, with me indicating to turn right, At that moment a car took the right turn into Mawbey Place, from Cooper's Rd, leaving the overtaker with no choice but to swerve right across my path, in turn forcing me to swerve, left into the kerb. No one was hurt, thankfully and no bikes damaged.
Today, same thing happens, guy overtakes as we are both approaching the right turn..I am again indicating to turn right at this point. I feel a bit fed up at this point....hasn't been a great day so far so I am not my usual chilled zen like self. I catch up with him on Coopers Rd and alongside him for a bit. I ask him if he thought that was a sensible thing to do. He laughs at me at first and seems to think it was a perfectly sensible manoeuvre..."What, you some kind of cycling teacher or something." he says. "Well yes I am," I reply, "but that's not the point. You took a risk, which might be fine if it was just your safety at stake, but it's not" I try to explain how it can be dangerous, and my previous experience, but it's apparent he thinks I am completely over reacting and just laughs at me. We part company with him muttering something which I can't hear, but doesn't sound very pleasant.
So was I over reacting...should I just have followed my usual pattern of behaviour and ignored it?
There is a road on LCN 22, just after it crosses the OKR going northbound. Mawbey Rd and Mawbey Place. It's a messy bit of one way short roads round an estate with several turns and poor visibility of oncoming traffic for everyone. It's here http://goo.gl/HgfYiX
As you cross OKR, you go straight on, turn left then right on to Coopers Rd. If a cyclist is behind me, quite often they try and overtake before the right turn, once we are on Mawbey Place (sometimes, even more oddly before that on Mawbey Rd, which is daft as you can't see round the corner and have no idea if there is any oncoming traffic...road is really narrow too.) Usually I just let people get on with it. If they can overtake me, let them. As long as they don't then automatically sit right on my front wheel, I am not bothered about being overtaken. Then, a couple of weeks ago, someone overtook me on Mawbey Place, just as we were approaching the right turn again into Coopers Rd, with me indicating to turn right, At that moment a car took the right turn into Mawbey Place, from Cooper's Rd, leaving the overtaker with no choice but to swerve right across my path, in turn forcing me to swerve, left into the kerb. No one was hurt, thankfully and no bikes damaged.
Today, same thing happens, guy overtakes as we are both approaching the right turn..I am again indicating to turn right at this point. I feel a bit fed up at this point....hasn't been a great day so far so I am not my usual chilled zen like self. I catch up with him on Coopers Rd and alongside him for a bit. I ask him if he thought that was a sensible thing to do. He laughs at me at first and seems to think it was a perfectly sensible manoeuvre..."What, you some kind of cycling teacher or something." he says. "Well yes I am," I reply, "but that's not the point. You took a risk, which might be fine if it was just your safety at stake, but it's not" I try to explain how it can be dangerous, and my previous experience, but it's apparent he thinks I am completely over reacting and just laughs at me. We part company with him muttering something which I can't hear, but doesn't sound very pleasant.
So was I over reacting...should I just have followed my usual pattern of behaviour and ignored it?
