As a cyclist who do you dislike the most?

[Biglad82]

ppl doin txt spk

Translation - People who do text speak. There is no need, especially in emails/fora, and even in proper 160 character texts it takes off so little time but gets added on the by the recipient trying to decipher. You're given an education, use it.

Nice to see it few and far between on this site.

2rite i 2nd tht

 

[Biglad82]

Yep, one of my pet hate's too. They always seem to lean in to the centre of the car too in an almost exaggerated way. You just know they are driving a 'cherry bomb' exhaust, plastic festooned piece of sh*t with a tiny 1L engine, yet sounds like a tractor on steroids.

Bit like this really:

. Wtf ! Is that legal lol

 

[Judderz]

. Wtf ! Is that legal lol

No, there's no lens on the indicator...although the skip in the background looks more roadworthy than the car

 

[perplexed]

People who insist on running along side of me whilst playing a badly out of tune ukelele.


Note: this has never happened to me, but it would be a novelty if it did.

For punishment, they should be made to lay face down in a muddy field in Barnsley for a week whilst being pelted with slightly stale sausage rolls from Greggs.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Thats lollypop ladies for ya

I've been thinking about carrying a lollypop stick around with me when I go to the shops so that I can just walk across the road any time. Of course I wouldn't stop bikes.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Some pet hates of mine:

1) Motorcyclists who think that mandatory cycle lanes and the ASL are there purely for their convenience and who get shirty with you when you refuse to budge for 'em. Don't get me started on chav scooter riders.... ..
2) Dog walkers who pick up the poo in freezer bags and then inexplicably hang it on tree branches. WTF are you thinking?
3) Drivers who think pavements and cyclepaths are free parking.

 

[Dragonwight]

People who walk & text at the same time and arent aware of the impending doom they are about to walk into.

 

[Eddie]

people in full team sky kit / rainbow jerseys.

Happened to me a few weeks ago, this woman in Full team GB kit flew past me up a hill and gave me a nonchalant hello. She stood out in my mind, as I don't think i've ever been overtaken by a woman before, and you don't see many bald women about...

You can imagine my surprise when I was watching the Olympics the other day...

 

[Spartak]

Happened to me a few weeks ago, this woman in Full team GB kit flew past me up a hill and gave me a nonchalant hello. She stood out in my mind, as I don't think i've ever been overtaken by a woman before, and you don't see many bald women about...

You can imagine my surprise when I was watching the Olympics the other day...

Respect

 

[mark c]

People who have no control over their dog/children, then get sh1tty when you nearly run one over as it bimbles into your path

 

[Accy cyclist]

Isn't this what "lollipop" people are meantto do? Stop traffic so that pedestrians can cross safely and with priority?

Others that i see wait till there's a few children and their parents waiting to cross the road instead of stopping the traffic every time a solitary person approaches. She is a liability because as a driver you tend to watch out for her more than pedestrians or other cars. Seriously she can have only just stepped back onto the pavement after seeing someone across the road, then she's back out again, stopping the traffic again!, because she thinks that someone has to be seen across the road asap!!

 

[geo]

Taxi drivers, but only Black Hackney cabs. Each and every one of them think they have sole use of the road and the right to do a u turn in front of you. The outrageous prices they think they can get away with charging (hence my refusal to get in one of these things) Yep Definately Black cab drivers I really do hate them all (only when driving their cabs by the way, I'm sure some of them are actually decent people when they get out of their driving seat of power !! )

 

[summerdays]

I find that lollipop ladies actually help some of my routes. The two I'm thinking about are by side roads that I'm coming out of and I usually manage to get across the road as she holds up the traffic on the main road. One of them usually gives me a big smile too.

 

[Boris Bajic]

There's a "lollypop lady" on one of my routes. She steps out to stop the traffic whatever the approaching vehicle, including cyclists, even if there's nothing behind the approaching vehicle, therefore not letting the hazard get out of the way, but stopping it . She stops the traffic to let not only children but grown adults without children pass, and she's only just stepped back onto the pavement when a few seconds later she's stopped the traffic again to let a workman or a dog walker cross "safely" when they are quite capable of waiting till there's a build up of pedestrians. Then all can cross at once instead of individually, allowing the traffic to run more freely.
In short she's power/jobsworth mad!!

When I was a boy, we had a "teacher" who somehow got the impression that her job was to sit us down and teach us stuff.

We were only allowed to answer questions in class if we put our hands up and were asked to speak. She made us take books home and keep working there. Sometimes she gave us tests to see how well we'd been listening to her.

Twice a year she wrote to our parents to tell them how well we were doing.

In short, a power-mad jobsworth!

No wonder our jails are so full!

 

[theclaud]

Others that i see wait till there's a few children and their parents waiting to cross the road instead of stopping the traffic every time a solitary person approaches. She is a liability because as a driver you tend to watch out for her more than pedestrians or other cars. Seriously she can have only just stepped back onto the pavement after seeing someone across the road, then she's back out again, stopping the traffic again!, because she thinks that someone has to be seen across the road asap!!

Christ on a bike! You were actually serious!