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

[trustysteed]

Those that, when you shout "Rider up!" to tell them you are passing, swerve sideways to the right as they look round.

rider up what? this makes no sense so how would you expect anybody to react the way you want them to.

why don't you say something that makes sense such as 'cyclist on your rightleft'?

 

[trustysteed]

I can't account for it, but the adult beginners are always really tiny women. This thing I'm talking about is a 13" mtb, and it's TOO BIG for most of them.

i'd be leaving that strange town pronto...

 

[jimboalee]

rider up what? this makes no sense so how would you expect anybody to react the way you want them to.

why don't you say something that makes sense such as 'cyclist on your rightleft'?

Etiquette is to hold your line, moving neither left or right, so the rider approaching can pass on either side.

The rider approaching might shout something like "Coming through!", and the etiquette is the same, hold your line.

 

[theclaud]

i'd be leaving that strange town pronto...

Easy for you to say...

 

[trustysteed]

which is an anagram for

so very NO stay

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Etiquette is to hold your line, moving neither left or right, so the rider approaching can pass on either side.

The rider approaching might shout something like "Coming through!", and the etiquette is the same, hold your line.

That's fine if you're on a club ride, where you can be pretty sure that your fellow riders operate the same code of ettiquette as you. But on a commute, it's a bit different. Personally if you crept up on me and bawled "rider up" immediately before passing, with no other indication that you were there, I'd probably swerve into your path too. Then chase you down and surprise you by shoving your bike up your arse.
A much better idea is probably to allow for any wobbles on the part of the rider you're overtaking by passing them wide and slow, as if you were in a car.

 

[trustysteed]

and surprise you by shoving your bike up your arse.

that's quite an assumption

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Not as big as the assumption that I'd be able to catch him in the first place.

 

[trustysteed]

carry a monster magnet? but that may not work if he's on a full carbon..

 

[jimboalee]

No. Aluminium.

The other cyclists who irritate me are those who roll round me at junctions, and then break wind.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

No. Aluminium.

The other cyclists who irritate me are those who roll round me at junctions, and then break wind.

Yes, I can see why that would be irritating.

 

[jimboalee]

That's fine if you're on a club ride, where you can be pretty sure that your fellow riders operate the same code of ettiquette as you. But on a commute, it's a bit different. Personally if you crept up on me and bawled "rider up" immediately before passing, with no other indication that you were there, I'd probably swerve into your path too. Then chase you down and surprise you by shoving your bike up your arse.
A much better idea is probably to allow for any wobbles on the part of the rider you're overtaking by passing them wide and slow, as if you were in a car.

If the rider ahead is dead slow, it's a loud bellow from five yards back, and then a sweeping wide overtake.

If the rider ahead is pretty fast, draft him for a while until he knows your there, and then a "coming through" and accelerate past so he can feel your draft...

 

[jimboalee]

Yes, I can see why that would be irritating.

And if it's a bicycle flavour fart, I know you're not far behind...

 

[trustysteed]

And if it's a bicycle flavour fart, I know you're not far behind...

carbon emission?

 

[totallyfixed]

For me I guess all of the above but those on bikes that don't acknowledge you and usually because you are not in full lycra or riding a top of the range road bike. If everyone waved, nodded or said hello just maybe there would be less of the other stuff. I live in hope.