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[twobiker]

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Here is a relevant article from the Guardian phone cycling law

In the event of causing an accident whilst cycling/phoning , the plea of "but its not illegal officer " may not help then.

 

[Noodley]

In the event of causing an accident whilst cycling/phoning , the plea of "but its not illegal officer " may not help then.

In the OP the "problem" was he was cycling slowly, not "causing and accident"...the real problem was the interpretation that he was "causing" the drivers to get annoyed - poor them.

 

[twobiker]

In the OP the "problem" was he was cycling slowly, not "causing and accident"...the real problem was the interpretation that he was "causing" the drivers to get annoyed - poor them.

Wishing to annoy someone driving a ton or so of metal is not my idea of fun

 

[Noodley]

Wishing to annoy someone driving a ton or so of metal is not my idea of fun

Why should they be annoyed tho?

 

[apollo179]

In the OP the "problem" was he was cycling slowly, not "causing and accident"...the real problem was the interpretation that he was "causing" the drivers to get annoyed - poor them.

In the op the problem was he was cycling one handed, on the drops,slowly, and dialing on his mobile phone causing a tailback of peed off motorists.
Now im tempted to assume you are just talking noinsense.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Whether the cyclist in the OP was checking his GPS, making a call or admiring his screensaver he was a self-gratification artist.

Get over it.

 

[Norm]

Why should they be annoyed tho?

I'm not certain, but maybe some people could find it annoying that they are forced to travel unnecessarily slowly by someone who is being selfish as well as being dangerous by tarting around with their phone in the middle of the road.

 

[freecyclist]

In the OP the "problem" was he was cycling slowly, not "causing and accident"...the real problem was the interpretation that he was "causing" the drivers to get annoyed - poor them.

Poor you when you get side swiped by a motorist whos been peed off by one of these selfish mobile phone users.

 

[Origamist]

What road was this?

I v rarely use my phone when on the bike, but I regularly slow to drink from my water bottle, eat energy bars, bananas etc whilst on the move - all of which are distractions.

 

[mickle]

Poor you when you get side swiped by a motorist whos been peed off by one of these selfish mobile phone users.

Here we get to the crux - the ever present threat of violence because a poor motorist was held up for a second by someone else. Listen to yourselves!

 

[LosingFocus]

I'm not certain, but maybe some people could find it annoying that they are forced to travel unnecessarily slowly by someone who is being selfish as well as being dangerous by tarting around with their phone in the middle of the road.

Playing devil's advocate Norm, how is "tarting about" with ones phone any different from checking the route/speed/distance on a GPS unit? Checking how long you have been out on your watch? Arsing about trying to get a bottle back in its bottle cage? Going none-handed to put on/off a jacket (something that has been "bigged up" on here before)?

TBH, the guy in the OP could have been me, as I regularly get my phone out of my top and check the GPS/App data when out and about.

 

[mickle]

I was driving back home yesterday from picking up the eldest from Saturday job and saw a guy on a nice road bike, all the gear on ,he was riding one handed, on the drops,slowly, and dialing on his mobile phone ,behind him he had a queue of about 20 cars, that sort of behaviour just pees people off, why not just stop and make the call ?.

One handed on the drops? Well that takes some skill.

You know what? So. Bloody. What. I get held up by motorists all the time - on my bike and in my car. In town, on the motorway and on the open road. I don't think that all motorists are idiots on the basis of the actions of a few. It wouldn't have crossed your mind to write about a truck which had done the same thing - ie travel slowly holding up a line of traffic, and you wouldn't have even remembered the incident. Your post proves my theory that even cyclists have become so familiar with the normalisation of car culture that we consider it so noteworthy that someone holds up 'traffic' for a few moments that they start a thread in a forum about it.

 

[4F]

Here we get to the crux - the ever present threat of violence because a poor motorist was held up for a second by someone else. Listen to yourselves!

Got it in one, why should a driver of a motorvehicle who maybe was inconvenienced by a matter of a few seconds then use his vehicle as a weapon against someone else

 

[gaz]

What road was this?

I v rarely use my phone when on the bike, but I regularly slow to drink from my water bottle, eat energy bars, bananas etc whilst on the move - all of which are distractions.

Opening energey bars and bananas can be tricky at times as well. espcially if you have just wiped your brow with your fingers (made that mistake once). You may have to go very slow and wiggle all over the road to get the levage on the energry bar wrapper.

 

[Noodley]

Poor you when you get side swiped by a motorist whos been peed off by one of these selfish mobile phone users.

He is just as likely to side swipe me cos he has a small dick, or cos his wife refused to have his tea on the table, or cos he was thinking about how crap his football team played - none of these circumstances are within my control.


And in what way was the cyclist selfish? Was it because he was going slow? Or because he was doing something he is permitted to do, and there is no evidence it was in anyway dangerous - unless going slow is dangerous.