Coming in this morning to work, got passed by guy on overclocked ebike. A fag-packet mental calculation based on distance travelled (you can see about a quarter of a mile straight on) and time put him doing about 40mph....on a cycle path. Getting fed up of these muppets now
. No regards for anyone's safety, the 'get out of my way' attitude.....
the thing I dont understand is the thought process these kind of riders have, I had one last week on a narrow shared path that I was riding slowly on because there were pedestrians about who were obviously a risk if they stepped in front, and this guy came around me at such a rate of knots, drifted on to the grass as I think he didnt read what I was doing (suppose I shoould be thankful he didnt just ride into me) slid back on the path, pedestrians are left thinking wtf is going on and off they zoom and Im left as the one who gets the "damn cyclists" look, had that a number of times with these types of ebike riders.
and Im just like at what point does riding like that way compute in your brain thats reasonable, its bad enough on shared paths at 10-12mph, as there are always people doing unpredictable things and you need to be constantly on guard to stop or avoid crashing, so how can you not see the danger of riding at 2x, 3x or more faster.
but then I had to laugh when I saw another one at the weekend, whose chain was just completely loose, so I presume motor hub or wheel driven somehow, and dropped off the chainring, but it was soo loose it was dangling and swaying around the rear wheel/cassette etc, like they arent even smart enough to go oh that might be dangerous Ill fix that, as I suspect they are going to have a phenomenal crash if that chain locks into something and theyre smashing it along at 30mph motor power.
