Nice close pass

[Milzy]

https://www.facebook.com/mick.thornton.7/posts/1516837185016710

 

[Drago]

Holy Trump!

 

[KnackeredBike]

It is sodding hard to overtake a club of riders on a country road. I say that as someone as a driver who is sympathetic and takes their time but even sometimes it is a case of flooring it focussed on the corner for oncoming traffic.

 

[r04DiE]

What a muppet.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

even sometimes it is a case of flooring it focussed on the corner for oncoming traffic.

Overtakes should be planned and executed carefully, always having a bail out option. Flooring it and hoping for the best is foolhardy in the extreme.

 

[Scoosh]

There was plenty of room to move right over into the other lane to overtake.

Very dangerous and should be reported to Police, IMO.

 

[Pale Rider]

The carriageways look fairly narrow and the right hand edge of the road appears broken, so I'm not certain there was a lot of room for the car.

Neither did the cyclist do himself any favours, being closer to the centre line than he needed to be.

 

[r04DiE]

The carriageways look fairly narrow and the right hand edge of the road appears broken, so I'm not certain there was a lot of room for the car.

So don't overtake.

Neither did the cyclist do himself any favours, being closer to the centre line than he needed to be.

He can cycle there by law, who knows why he was where he was? Bad road surface up ahead? Another hazard? Just fancied using the road he's paid for? Who cares?

 

[Pale Rider]

So don't overtake.He can cycle there by law, who knows why he was where he was? Bad road surface up ahead? Another hazard? Just fancied using the road he's paid for? Who cares?

I agree with what you say, but the pragmatic approach is the sensible one given the cyclist will almost inevitably come off worst in a collision.

Were I that rider, I would be thinking the driver is bound to overtake, there's nothing I can do to stop that, so the next task is to get the car passed without hitting me or my group.

 

[r04DiE]

I agree with what you say, but the pragmatic approach is the sensible one given the cyclist will almost inevitably come off worst in a collision.

Like I said, we don't know why he was in that position - maybe he had good safety reasons to be there.

Were I that rider, I would be thinking the driver is bound to overtake, there's nothing I can do to stop that, so the next task is to get the car passed without hitting me or my group.

Did you see how fast he was going? He would have been gone before you knew he was there. Really, who is being dangerous here; a human body doing 20mph on a bicycle, or one encased in a heavy, steel box and doing three times that speed?

Its a bit victim blamey.

 

[KnackeredBike]

Overtakes should be planned and executed carefully, always having a bail out option. Flooring it and hoping for the best is foolhardy in the extreme.

You must have much straighter roads or smaller club rides than here. Or just be prepared to sit behind them until they all die of old age.

 

[PK99]

Those riders are MUCH further apart than we are 2-up on a club run

 

[glasgowcyclist]

You must have much straighter roads or smaller club rides than here. Or just be prepared to sit behind them until they all die of old age.

Nah, I'm just a competent driver with a modicum of patience.

 

[KnackeredBike]

Nah, I'm just a competent driver with a modicum of patience.

Or a very loose schedule if you can afford to sit behind cyclists for mile after mile waiting for the zero-risk overtaking opportunity.

 

[Johnno260]

woo I think he took some bar tape with him, that was a little close for comfort.