Pet Hates things you hate that other road users do

[oxred81]

No, they should not be in the ASL. I ride a motorbike as well as cycling, and one thing that pisses me right off is when other bikers filter round me and into the ASL when I've stopped behind the ASL! Especially chavs on hairdryers ...

 

[oxred81]

argh, got a bit confused with that post! thanks - will revert to giving evils and nudging my bike into their space a bit.

 

[Clandy]

My pet peeve is motons overtaking me just to get to the back of a queue or a red light. Such as yesterday:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIsqdv-w8SA

 

[Jezston]

The iPod-lobotomised showroom new fixie-riding twunt who drifted from one side of the lane to the other without looking and missed my front wheel by an inch.

Wish I'd clipped him - 130lbs of Geordie on 50 lbs of vintage steel vs an E1 fop on a tin foil fixie, I know who'd I'd bet on!

I bet he wasn't even riding fixed either

 

[Matthames]

Drivers not taking into consideration their surroundings. If an emergency vehicle is coming up behind you on a shout with blues and twos going, overtaking a cyclist to get to the back of a queue that is moving over to allow said vehicle through is not a good idea.

 

[Matthames]

Also drivers that look but don't see. Woman looking right at me as I came around a roundabout, what does she do? She pulls out right in front of me.

 

[XmisterIS]

I may add one to the list ... "interesting" situation that just happened recently ...

I was in the car going round a tight, blind, left-hand bend ... all of a sudden there are two headlights facing me, coming towards me, on my side of the road. I slammed on the brakes and I heard a screeching sound as the driver of the other vehicle did the same.

After I had recovered from the shock of it, I saw what had happened - a woman in a Range Rover Sport had decided that the best place to overtake a cyclist was on a blind bend. I shoot ye not.

 

[david1701]

That weird way some women have of cycling with their knees and feet turned in. What's that all about?

its how you ride a horse, you turn in your toes which pulls in your knees which gives you better grip on the saddle for rising trot (which is where I max out speed wise on a horse - quicker on a bike and fall off less )

 

[ColinJ]

After I had recovered from the shock of it, I saw what had happened - a woman in a Range Rover Sport had decided that the best place to overtake a cyclist was on a blind bend. I shoot ye not.

I was overtaken by a driver on a blind bend once. The driver seemed more interested in looking round at the scenery than the risk of oncoming vehicles.

5 minutes further up the road I came across the car embedded in the front of a van which it had run into on another blind bend.

Neither driver was hurt but the van driver was telling the car driver exactly what he thought about people who drive round blind bends on the wrong side of the road!

 

[XmisterIS]

I was overtaken by a driver on a blind bend once. The driver seemed more interested in looking round at the scenery than the risk of oncoming vehicles.

5 minutes further up the road I came across the car embedded in the front of a van which it had run into on another blind bend.

Neither driver was hurt but the van driver was telling the car driver exactly what he thought about people who drive round blind bends on the wrong side of the road!

The exasperating thing about drivers like that is that, as a rule they never learn. That driver will be back out on the road doing the exact same thing once they get their car sorted out. And I am certain that the woman in the range rover who nearly hit me will go right ahead and overtake another cyclist on a blind bend.

 

[ColinJ]

The exasperating thing about drivers like that is that, as a rule they never learn. That driver will be back out on the road doing the exact same thing once they get their car sorted out.

In this case, I don't think the car was ever going to get sorted out! It was a very old Triumph Herald convertible. The driver was a hippie chick, flowers in her hair, coloured flowers painted all over the car. She obviously loved it. Pity that one of its front wheels was now on one side of the road and the second was on the other! If ever I saw a right-off, that was it.

I have a theory ... When the driver left home that morning, her partner (sorry - boyfriend/husband/girlfriend/wife!) said to her "I know what you're like - it's a lovely day and you'll be looking at the scenery; just make sure that you drive on the right side of the road!"

As she drove along Heights Road in the sunshine, she was repeating her mantra "Drive on the right side of the road, drive on the right side of the road, drive on the right, drive on the right ..."

 

[Mad at urage]

I hate cyclists and horse riders (or anyone really, but these seem to be the main culprits) who, when I wait behind them on the approach to a blind bend ... WAVE ME ON TO PASS!!!!


LOOK, I am the driver of this car and I will decide when it is safe to overtake: Until then, please procede as normal, pull off the road if you choose, or just let me sit here until it is SAFE (in my judgement). Don't try to drive my car!

(Yes it happened again today, poor chap was probably a bit tired, it was a long hill, still on a blind harepin!!!!

 

[Dan B]

From the top of a horse it may not be quite as blind as it is from down at driver eye level. Of course, you have no more way of knowing that than they have of knowing that you're quite happy to wait until safe and you're not just sitting there stewing until you do something really stupid.

I still wouldn't trust the signals they're giving, but I can't really say I hate it when they're trying to be helpful

 

[MontyVeda]

Why hate someone who is trying to help / assist you ? You don't have to take their advice and occasionaly it is best to wait and make your own decision. But at the end of the day they are trying to be courteous, and that is good.

I agree, although it does depend on the situation.

When I wave cars to pass it's because I know I can see further up the road than they can... a blind bend to a driver sitting in the right hand side of his car isn't necessarily a blind bend to a cyclist riding on the left hand side of the road


edit... although if a driver did end up crunching their car after taking instruction from a 3rd party, it could harm their insurance claim.

 

[MrHappyCyclist]

Classic example is if a lorry that you have been following for a while uses his left indicator; is he telling you its safe to pass or is he turning left?

He's turning left. That is the meaning of a left turn indicator.