What, if anything, most irritates you about other cyclists?

[marinyork]

I voted for I love all my cycling brothers and sisters. Honest. Most things are I'd really rather you didn't/did.

I can see the third option getting the most as it seems to include several favourites!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Pity I can't put both the second and third option.

The ones who really get up my nose aren't on there though. They're the twits who go on about how environmentally friendly and wonderful they are.

Sanctimonious bunch of prats who alienate the rest of the world towards all cyclists.

That's the option I was looking for too. But I'll settle for unlit cyclists who don't obey the rules of the road.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I agree Arch,these people don't do anything for the cause.

People who think there's "a cause", rather than simply a means of transport.

 

[slowmotion]

People who think there's "a cause", rather than simply a means of transport.

Excellent.

 

[TheDoctor]

They're all skinnier than me, the fiends...

 

[Night Train]

The ones that have more wheels then brain cells.

 

[dudi]

I said red lights.. though i'm not sure if they do it because it's safer or just because they're twats.
Had 2 yesterday sail right past me at a red light, just in time to miss the traffic from the other direction

 

[ComedyPilot]

I would also say red lights, but IMO they are just car drivers who've transferred their gotta get ahead mentality to a bike.

 

[Debian]

I don't have a problem with pavement cycling per se, so long as its done in appropriate places and with due care and consideration.

My hate has to be the Ninjas.

Oh, and those who ride the comedy circus clown bikes with their knees around their ears!

 

[tyred]

The ones who really get up my nose aren't on there though. They're the twits who go on about how environmentally friendly and wonderful they are.

Sanctimonious bunch of prats who alienate the rest of the world towards all cyclists.

Fully agree.

I not really sure what to vote for tbh. We have no traffic lights and very few pavements in my neck of the woods but I'll vote for pavement cyclists anyway, if only because one run into me in Dublin a few years ago

 

[trustysteed]

wheelsuckers, definitely. do your own work, twunts.

 

[swee'pea99]

The ones who, having been overtaken, then come up and park themselves in front of me at the lights. 'specially if they do it by wobbling past me on the inside...

 

[dmoan]

I voted for 'The ones that run no lights/brakes/ride on the pavement' but the thing that irritates me most is reasonable bikes which are not even slightly maintained - almost flat tyres, rusty chain and cassette and squealing brakes.

I may have a problem with this, as I have seriously considered carrying a small bottle of lube, chain cleaner and a pump at all times to service such bikes as I find them!

 

[trustysteed]

People who've never adjusted the saddle height since it left the shop and look like they're riding clown bikes should have been on that poll as well

 

[Happiness Stan]

wheelsuckers, definitely. do your own work, twunts.

Take it as a complement, perhaps they aren't strong enough to take a turn at the front.

Irritants and curiosities:

• RLJers
• Those cyclists who push in front of you at red lights and then pootle off so you have to pass them again and again.
• Competitive Commuters
• Fixed Wheel Hipsters
• Miserable Roadies
• Beardy cyclists who think that any technological advancement since 1986 is the work of the Devil
• Moulton Fetishists
• People with seat too high, too low or on a bike too small or too big
• CycleCraft Fundamentalists

and I don't understand MTBers who don't fit mudguards, whats the attraction of a face and back covered in mud?

There that should have covered just about all of you.