Cyclist swore and shouted

[downfader]

Helmet cam?? Footage of the overtake on the sharp bend?

Ooo yes could be! Lets search youtube - what road was it?

BTW - Cab -love it!!

 

[Norm]

To be fair to Nigelb...

Then I suggest you surrender your driving licence at the nearest police station and stop driving.

So why the irritation, when you know the cycle lanes are shyte?

...he did say that he was irritated when people ignored perfectly good cycle lanes, but understood why the crap ones (examples of which he mentioned) are ignored.

Not that I have seen a that perfectly good one in this country.

That letter in the Cambridge News is just too perfect as ammunition for cyclists.

 

[Cab]

That letter in the Cambridge News is just too perfect as ammunition for cyclists.

But it ain't like its worth writing a reply letter to the CEN.

 

[Norm]

oooooo, yeah!

 

[rh100]

I could have easily knocked him over but I was too polite to do so.


ROFL

It's gotta be a wind up - don't bite

 

[downfader]

But it ain't like its worth writing a reply letter to the CEN.

 

[GrasB]

Isn't that the guy that regularly gets published in the letters section of the CN? He's a crack pot!

I know that turn & it's nasty when being overtaken there. Often car drivers will pull in when they see a car coming towards them having completely forgotten that they still have a cyclist besides them.

 

[HJ]

at the sharp bend at Newnham I overtook a cyclist.

What sort of a moron writes to the paper to say that they are a dangerous driver??

 

[jonny jeez]

To paraphrase said motorist:

Dear BBC,

Why, oh why, oh, why are the cyclists in my way?

I overtook one while going around a busy corner at commuting time; I know, there isn't space to do that properly there so I had to pass jolly close. All his fault, of course, using the road like a proper tax payer, the nerve!

Anyway, I wound down my window (obviously while slowing down!) to give him the verbal thrashing he so richly deserves. For some reason he was doing a 'Gareth Hunt' with his hand at head level, I can't imagine why. I had no sooner berated the gentleman for his road positioning than he swept past me (aren't his power assisted brakes up to it? For heavens sake, I'd just gone past, pulled in, and slowed, whats wrong with that?) and started swearing.

And to cap it all off, he kept braking in front of me. Bounder! I could have caught up with the car immediately in front of him had he not done that.

Obviously, being the damned good chap I am, I didn't give him the thrashing he deserved. I nearly drove over him, but I'm such a good egg that I didn't do so.

So there! It never would have happened under the Tories.

Yours,

Brigadier Sir Richard Smythe-Woody-Woodpecker. (Miss).

 

[nigelb]

To be fair to Nigelb...




...he did say that he was irritated when people ignored perfectly good cycle lanes, but understood why the crap ones (examples of which he mentioned) are ignored.

Not that I have seen a that perfectly good one in this country.

That letter in the Cambridge News is just too perfect as ammunition for cyclists.

Cor, someone read what I typed (not what they wanted to read)!
Thanks Norm :-)

Big surprise in store, I commute by bike, 7 miles each way, most days.

We do have some stretches of decent cycleway here, I think Madingley Rd westbound is a good example (once you've passed the Coton turn that is).
However, that just serves to emphasise how bad the rest are!

Considerate road use is the thing, with everyone's safety in mind, regardless of what sort of vehicle you're using. When cycling home in the evening, I see other cyclists cutting from one pavement to the other, diagonally across busy roads, missing the cars, no lights, no thought for mum's pushing prams let alone other cyclists (ie me).

Anyway, I call it as I see it, for which I'm used to getting flack. Sometimes though, by being blunt, I get good info back which shows me how I was wrong.

Nige

 

[davidg]

could easily be true....

people always see it from their point of view

 

[Alien8]

There's no such thing as a good cycle lane. Cycle lanes marginalise cyclists and detract from cyclists being recognised as legitimate road users. They also encourage bad/dangerous cycling/driving. The only slight concession I can give is shared bus/cycles lanes.

 

[Little_McKay]

There's no such thing as a good cycle lane. Cycle lanes marginalise cyclists and detract from cyclists being recognised as legitimate road users. They also encourage bad/dangerous cycling/driving. The only slight concession I can give is shared bus/cycles lanes.

Too true! There's cycle lanes on many of the streets on my route and they're death traps! Lots of drivers get peeved at cyclists riding further out on the road but they're mostly fairly busy roads, so all they're doing is holding them up from joining a long line of traffic anyway!

Most cycle lanes are either at the gutter or right beside parked cars. The former is dangerous as you tend to become invisible! I've seen a lot of cyclists have near misses at turns because they seem to have gone unnoticed by a driver because they are hugging the gutter, cycle lane or not, high vis gear or not! The latter dangerous because of the obvious danger of people opening their doors - a broken collar bone injury at BEST!

I agree that the only "safe" (is anything safe? lol) cycle lanes are the shared bus/taxi/cycle lanes.

Also, I love how people argue that cyclists don't pay road tax so what gives them the right? Well I'm a named driver on my mum's car and use that for some journeys where I need to pick up or drop off passengers/goods. So I DO pay road tax! HA!