The amount of hate for cyclists

[numbnuts]

Read the comments and all we want to do is ride in the New Forest
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/152..._part_in_event_told__respect_the_New_Forest_/

 

[Racing roadkill]

I was out in amongst this today. The monkeys fully deserved all the hate. Sweet baby jeebus, I honestly think these people take their brains out before they ride.

 

[Globalti]

Bad behaviour by cyclists is the reason why I have never gone out with a club. There's always someone who antagonises drivers.

 

[smutchin]

It's a shame that you do get some idiots on sportives. But really, they're not that a big deal in the grand scheme of things. They certainly don't harm the livestock, as some of the nimbies imagine.

The New Forest must have the highest concentration of seething Daily Mail-reading morons of anywhere in the whole of Britain. Mostly it's best just to ignore them.

 

[Drago]

Many car drivers act like plums but they don't get asked to restrict their numbers to 1000 a day.

 

[Venod]

Bad behaviour by cyclists is the reason why I have never gone out with a club. There's always someone who antagonises drivers.

Bit of a generalisation, I have being on hundreds of club rides without anyone antagonising anybody, no doubt it does happen but please don't tar everybody with the same brush.

 

[Drago]

I can only speak as I find, but the road craft displayed by club groups round here is, as an average, pretty pish poor. Indeed, many solo riders are no better, but perhaps that's less noticeable or obtrusive.

 

[smutchin]

Bad behaviour by cyclists is the reason why I have never gone out with a club. There's always someone who antagonises drivers.

We wouldn't tolerate it on our club rides - anyone who misbehaves would get kicked off.

 

[Racing roadkill]

I can only speak as I find, but the road craft displayed by club groups round here is, as an average, pretty pish poor. Indeed, many solo riders are no better, but perhaps that's less noticeable or obtrusive.

I thought I'd be clever and head out through the forest in the opposite direction to the Sportive today, it worked, until the clown with the pink lid, who had gone the wrong way, suddenly jinked right, without looking, and slammed the anchors on, right in front of me. I think I invented a few new words, on the spot. It wasn't an isolated case, by any stretch of the imagination either. I don't know how some of these people survived to be adults.

 

[smutchin]

I don't know how some of these people survived to be adults.

Because in many cases they didn't take up cycling until they were adults. Which is actually part of the problem.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Because in many cases they didn't take up cycling until they were adults. Which is actually part of the problem.

That would explain some of it.

 

[ufkacbln]

Loved this one.....

You mean "commons" sense. Your rants are verdering on the ridiculous. Calm down deer.

Almost cringingly punworthy enough for this forum

 

[Milkfloat]

Has anyone noticed that the most visceral and angry comments are from people with no idea how to spell and construct a sentence? Do erudite people not hate cyclists, or do they just keep their anger in check? I really do worry about the people of this country when I read their ranting in local newspapers, I imagine them turning purple with rage and dropping dead of a heart attack all because a fellow road user held them up for ten seconds.

 

[ufkacbln]

Tragically there are a lot of ill informed people in the New Forest

 

[Drago]

Milky, I worry about you reading local newspapers.