Disgusting excuse of a cyclist 🤷‍♂️

[Dogtrousers]

Whatever you might think, no cyclists ‘gives cyclists a bad name’ just as drivers don’t do likewise

It's a thread form that has a very long history on cyclechat.

1. I saw a cyclist doing a thing that I don't like (this step is entirely optional)
2. Here is a heavily embellished story about a cyclist doing the thing that I don't like. (That I may or may not have seen)
3. It's outrageous. The thing is bad. I don't like it. The cyclist in my story gives all cyclists a bad name.

It has as strong a tradition as the "I saw a cyclist and they didn't wave to me" thread.

This example even had a catchy theme tune
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/no-wonder-we-get-a-bad-name.208320/page-4#post-4501078

 

[Phil Fouracre]

It's a thread form that has a very long history on cyclechat.

1. I saw a cyclist doing a thing that I don't like (this step is entirely optional)
2. Here is a heavily embellished story about a cyclist doing the thing that I don't like. (That I may or may not have seen)
3. It's outrageous. The thing is bad. I don't like it. The cyclist in my story gives all cyclists a bad name.

It has as strong a tradition as the "I saw a cyclist and they didn't wave to me" thread.

This example even had a catchy theme tune
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/no-wonder-we-get-a-bad-name.208320/page-4#post-4501078

👌😂😂

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I saw a cyclist doing a thing that I don't like

Except they claim they were four cars back and hence couldn’t have observed what they claim. It must have just been a bad fever dream, after dropping some tabs.

It is like a poor rendition of would I lie to you.

 

[T4tomo]

Except they claim they were four cars back and hence couldn’t have observed what they claim. It must have just been a bad fever dream, after dropping some tabs.

It is like a poor rendition of would I lie to you.

Can we get Bob Mortimer on this thread please?

 

[mickle]

Years ago i witnessed a couple of teenage lads riding a moped the wrong way up a cyclepath which ran through a busy town centre pedestrian zone - and they weren't wearing helmets.

None of the elderly people and mums with prams seemed to care. Some calmly stepped out of their way. No one seemed to mind. No one attacked them with a handbag, stood in their way or tried to push them off.

Because they were riding really slowly and respectfully, and we were in a Dutch town. We should be more like the Dutch. AKA respect each other more and chill the fark out about other people's actions unless and until they impact negatively on someone else. We're a nation of selfish twats and/or busybodies.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Except they claim they were four cars back and hence couldn’t have observed what they claim. It must have just been a bad fever dream, after dropping some tabs.

It is like a poor rendition of would I lie to you.

I did say that step was optional

 

[Dogtrousers]

And we can apply the same theme tune to this thread.


Disgusting excuse
And you're to blame
You give bikes a bad name

With acknowledgements to @John the Monkey

 

[Time Waster]

When in my car behind cyclists on country roads I

Not even if someone is reversing towards you? Seems entirely appropriate.

I had a large pickup reverse all over my bonnet at a set of on demand lights. He thought the lights were taking too long so backed up intending to trigger the sensor again. Unfortunately he could not back up far enough due to me being there. At pulling off my now crumpled bumper he jumped out to see what he'd done. Just as the lights changed as per the on demand cycle. They'd detected his presence it was just at the wrong time in the lights cycle to change for him quickly.

Anyway, the young lad was in a right state of panic when he saw me getting out. I really had to calm him down until his pregnant wife turned up in a car driven by his mother. They took over, mother calming him down and wife telling me they were going to accept full responsibility and have the insurance documents at their house on x street. I followed them and got the details, address and name. Insurance fixed the car in a fortnight and I had a nice car in the meantime.

However I did find out hard to use my horn what with getting into reverse and starting to move back asap to lessen damage. I think by the time I was moving and applied do the horn he was practically on top of my bonnet. It still worked as his pickup bed was not much lower down than the top of my bonnet. If I hadn't moved back a little bit and he stopped on hearing my horn he have hit the windscreen.

So as far as I'm concerned in that situation I will use the horn. Rules or no rules!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not even if someone is reversing towards you?

The person cycling was reversing through the red light? Now it all makes sense.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I think the only time I’ve ever sounded my horn was by mistake when getting into or out of the car.

 

[DRM]

Re: Disgusting excuse of a cyclist,

 

[John the Monkey]

And we can apply the same theme tune to this thread.


Disgusting excuse
And you're to blame
You give bikes a bad name

With acknowledgements to @John the Monkey

Eh thengew.

 

[Katana]

Mod Note:
Still, I'm sorry but you are advocating violence here (hopefully only verbal), even possibly road rage.
We must be mindful of the Online Safety Act (Google for full explanation if you like)
As a forum mod I must point out this to the membership, least we want to end up Cycle Chat refugees in some other forum.
Thanks for reading.

I think whenever the term sorting out is used somehow we ascertain it means hitting someone or giving abuse! You can be firm and yet polite as making someone realise their wrongdoing doesn’t involve violence!!

 

[freiston]

Bit of a thread resurrection there!

I think it fair to say that the population of people you refer to, as ascertaining from the use of the term, are the same population of people using the term - so not only a reasonable surmise but a probable one.

That aside, I would consider it unlikely and fanciful to think the OP meant anything else, especially with their employment of stereotypes and chivalry. Also, the OP's account is highly questionable - not only because of their ability to witness such detail from their position but also because the timings of "jumping" the red light and the lights changing with the cyclist holding the driver up. The OP could have misattributed the actions of the cyclist actually getting into an ASL type position, also the OP could have confused timings of the cyclist crossing the line and the lights changing - very difficult to ascertain from the passenger seat of a car fifth in the queue. It seems to me that the OP had an agenda in posting their account of events here and that that account was shaped to fit the agenda. This approach seems to work well for the Daily Mail - let's hope that readers of these boards are not that easily swayed

 

[Drago]

The OP could have misattributed...

Not on a family forum he couldn't!