Disgusting excuse of a cyclist 🤷‍♂️

[rydabent]

Ok we have all seen cyclist jump the lights, but this guy in his late 50’s gave a real bad name to cyclists around my area in Surrey.
Sat as a passenger four cars back from this disgusting excuse of a cyclist. He jumped the lights and as he did a young lady waiting at the lights tapped her horn once, very quickly. The guy on the bike gave her the finger as he went through. The lights changed and he Rode dead centre to prevent the young lady from overtaking and started giving her the W-anchor sign. The next car he gave them the thumbs up and the next.
The guy was dressed in all the gear.
That guy was so lucky someone who would not put up with that, wasn’t driving behind him!!!

He sounds like the "rea cyclist" we encounter. You know the type, they have all rules. Full $250 spandex kit, $5000 carbon bike, every ride is a "training" ride. They ride their racing bikes with the seat jacked up high, and handle bars down as low as they will go. With their rear end way up in the air, and their heads way down low, they remind of of an old hen picking corn out of a cow pie. They look down with distain on the rest of us that ride for fun and exercise.

 

[Drago]

I used to enjoy embarrassing "real" cyclists on the commute, letting them wear themselves out tryi g to haul me in and then opening rhe taps as they were about to pounce. Weekends and the odd evening is all well and good, but doing it every day, all weathers, all year, with panniers or a rucksack, on real roads separates the men from those that like to pretend,

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

On my ebike I cannot compete - and would not try to - with a proper cyclist on a road bike

I do however sometimes come across someone - normally a young man - who will not admit that some old bloke on a hybrid bike wearing hi-vis and a helmet
can possibly be faster than him

so they insist of passing me
then realise that my normal cruising speed is faster than they realised when they accelerated to pass me

funniest times were
a) riding along a nice tree lines main road - the trees were shelterig us from the wind
but i was doing 16-17 mph - hence no motor assist but it was a nice sunny day and I had been riding a lot lately
so he got ahead of me and the road went round a gentle right bend - allowing the wind to come down the corridor of trees
I was fine - - still over the power assist level but he was struggling so I slowed down
I was still catching him so I switched the motor assist right off
still catching him because he had blown himself by passing me and trying to keep ahead

In teh end I turned off and took a long cut home out of pity for him - he was NOT going to give up but was just getting slower!!!


b) on the main road in Warrington from here there is a long stretch of dual carriageway witha good separate cycle path at the side

so I was riding along the cyclepath - having to stop at each junction as usual and I came to a long section with no junctions
I was cruising along - must have been a tailwind because my speed was up around 18-19 mph
again - over 15.5 so no motor
when I got to the next junction a man in his 20s pulled up alongside me puffing like mad and totally out of breath
He stopped and looked at my bike and commented
"Thank God to that - its and ebike - I've been trying to catch you for ages!!"

like I said - no motor at that speed

proper cyclists just cruise past