This is why we get a bad name...

[Colin B]

I'm thinking of carrying this torch just in case a driver says my lights aren't bright enough
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00I06CZAY/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?qid=1393443436&sr=8-5&pi=AC_SX110_SY165

 

[Shut Up Legs]

He's got nothing to do with me, anyone who thinks my name's blackened by that bloke is an idiot.

Exactly. We're not responsible for morons like that, any more than all motorists are responsible for the silly actions of some of them.

 

[glenn forger]

lesley, if a broken-down driver asks you for a bump-start do you fold your arms and say:

"Not til you lot apologise for killing Diana!"

 

[400bhp]

It's irresponsible people like this that give us all a bad name

nope

 

[benb]

Stupid riders are a disease and just to say "hey ho it doesn't really matter" is just a good way to harden opinion againt cyclists.

Just as well no one is saying that then.

 

[Cush]

Motorists and cyclists can both behave stupidly. Most learn and become well mannered cyclists/motorists/pedestrians. Some never learn and some of these kill themselves or cause the death of others. It is just something we have to live with.

 

[gambatte]

lesley, if a broken-down driver asks you for a bump-start do you fold your arms and say:
"Not til you lot apologise for killing Diana!"

Is the driver French?

 

[ufkacbln]

As someone once said (Patrick Field?)

I wear black lace up shoes and work for the NHS
Harold Shipman wore black lace up shoes and worked for the NHS

However this does not mean that I kill my patients


In the same way, I am not responsible for the actions of nutters on bikes!

 

[fimm]

So where was the cyclist before he "appeared from nowhere" (no such place as nowhere)?

 

[glenn forger]

How could you tell he was going to give you the finger?

The questions are piling up.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Yes, such as: "Is our collective reputation sullied, yet?"

(I guess that depends on whether the person evaluating "our" reputation is of the "tar them all with the same brush" school of thought, or not)

 

[Chris Swift]

Most folk lump us all together. They don't remember the curteous cyclist or driver, they remember the idiot or 'yob on a bike'. I hate to break it to you but the general public hold you in the same regard as the 'yob on a bike'. Why else do you think you get punishment passes, etc? To think joe bloggs doesn't include you in his assessment that all cyclists are idiots who hold him up and shouldn't be on the road and deserve close passes is naive.

Look at how people on this forum lump mercedes, BMW, and Audi drivers together. I have owned and driven all three. According to this forum, I'm an peanut driver.

I wouldn't brand you a peanut..... I don't know you.... Next door to me has a merc, my brother has a Audi I would say you and they are the sensible ones!

Whenever I'm in my car I always get cut up or caught up around the handful of knobheads that drive mercs & bmw's ..... Not sure why!

I drive a Mondeo St

 

[400bhp]

Look at how people on this forum lump mercedes, BMW, and Audi drivers together. I have owned and driven all three. According to this forum, I'm an peanut driver.

Nope.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Last night a fellow cyclist, wielding a Brompton as a weapon, attempted to push past me, and several others, when we were boarding an already crowded train. They pissed off about 25 pedestrian train passengers in one go.

Another good way to harden opinion against cyclists?

I decided that a retaliatory strike, wielding my own a 58cm frame 700c diamond frame as a weapon, was inappropriate.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Cycle Gaz often filters like that