jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Ignore them.
+1, Ignore them...everyone else in their life does.
Ignore them.
Agreed, over here in the States we also don't have enough information educating drivers about cyclists rights to the road. One of the funniest encounters I had with someone yelling at me to get on the sidewalk/pavement (here in Florida where I live it is legal to ride on the sidewalk/pavement. It was a pedestrian walking on the sidewalk/pavement.
How is that for irony? A pedestrian telling a cyclist to get on the sidewalk/pavement?
Nah, that was just the Judas Priest tour bus
I couldn't let that joke go by without some appreciation. If every anyone does something wrong I tell them they are "breaking the law, breaking the law" and they think I am mad.
Video here:
View: http://youtu.be/L397TWLwrUU
Blow them a kiss and wave at them enthusiastically like they are a long lost friend...
Get used to it.
A bus driver in Manchester (shortly after knocking me off trying to beat me around an illegally parked DHL van) offered the opinion that he'd sooner "fix a puncture than be squashed". These drivers have had extra training, and in this case, are on one of the busiest bus and cycle routes in and out of the city.
If they can't be bothered to know what cyclists are allowed to ride on, and their responsibility to them, there's little hope that the everyday motorist will know.
I've had a police car stop and tell me to get on the cycle lane. The road is so much nicer to ride on, it is maintained (whereas the cycle lane is cracked up everywhere and full of glass). The worst thing about cycle lanes is having to stop at each sideroad to cross it, whereas on the mainroad you can just cycle. It takes so much more effort on the cycling lane
I would love that to happen to me.
Curious - why, what would you do?