Some posts of of the caravan forum.
I had to collect my Bailey from Herald Caravans Castle Cary, after some warranty work had been done. We decided to stay at The Old Oaks for a few nights to check it all out. Driving through Wells was no problem, but the road from Wells to Glastonbury (The Old Wells Road) had a group of around
five lycra clad cyclists riding, two to three abreast, achieving a queue of cars some fifteen cars long with my outfit in the middle.
With a steady flow of traffic from the other direction it was not possible to pass them safely so in the end I gave a couple of short toots to alert them to the queue. They waved briefly and dismissively without looking around, at hat moment a police or ambulance siren sounded and they did look around and actually stopped completely (the emergency vehicle was not in sight) then as a group they crossed the road and started back for Wells, glaring at the queue of traffic as they went by (I smiled sweetly)
This sort of aloofness on the part of cyclists continued for the few days we drove around, luckily going in the opposite direction, to the queues of cars that formed up behind them.
Is there a protocol for slow moving cyclists? should they like tractors and, of course my good mannered self, pull over if they see a big queue building up?
Here is a good one, check out the sweeping statement often favoured on this site.
We were out and about in the Peak District this last weekend, albeit not with the van.
As is usual this time of year, there was a lot of mist about on medium to higher ground. We saw several cyclists, both small groups and individuals, all clad in black lycra, nothing reflective and no lights. Why do they not make dayglo lycra?
In the mist some were very hard to see. Of them all, only one individual had a reflective top and a single weak front lamp (no rear one). They must have a death wish....
You can read some more here.
http://www.caravantalk.co.uk/community/topic/101373-doing-themselves-no-favours-cyclists/