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

[Rhythm Thief]

^^ Wouldn't it have been quicker to list what you do like?

 

[theclaud]

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

Mudguards for mountain-biking are a bit beside the point. 'Mudguards' is in fact a bit of a misnomer - they are really dirty-water guards. Having them on in proper mud just means more bits of bike for the mud to cling to.

As you were!

 

[Happiness Stan]

Ok. Told Me.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Hell is other cyclists.

 

[Wheeledweenie]

I've voted red lights but, for me, it's the cyclists who think only of themselves and have no situational awareness and are completely self-absorbed, this includes *takes a deep breath*:

• The people who overtake you really closely having given no indication that they're nearby, then cut you up to the point that you have to brake to avoid them as they swerve their rear wheel into your front;
• The people who *have* to get to the front only to pootle in front of you in a situation where you are unable to overtake;
• The people who tut loudly because you've decided to queue rather than undertake that massive bendy bus that you know for a fact is about to pull left into a stop;
• The many idiots who have run into my panniers/bike because they've been following me really closely and haven't been paying attention so haven't braked in time when I've stopped;
• The ninjas;
• The people who make your heart jump into your mouth in terror as they blindly weave across junctions through red lights without looking;
• Those people who smirk when they pass you because you've stopped at a red light and they haven't.

Wow, I'm full of the rage this morning, you can tell I've been on the 'Tour de Commute'.

 

[dub-no-bass]

+1

 

[hackbike 666]

The people who overtake you really closely having given no indication that they're nearby, then cut you up to the point that you have to brake to avoid them as they swerve their rear wheel into your front;

+1

 

[theclaud]

Ok. Told Me.

It was a bit OT. What I really meant was that it's pointless getting irritated by what kind of bikes people ride and how they are set up. There's often a reason for people's choices that the multiple bike-owner with a stable-full of dream machines fit for each purpose can't see. I commuted on an mtb for years, because if you only have one bike and you want to take it over some tricky terrain, even occasionally, it's the obvious choice. My tyres probably looked squishy to roadies and commuters, but then I did a lot of my commute cross-country and had just emerged from the woods. Occasionally I am spotted pedalling a bike that is far too small for me to and from town. It's because I've borrowed it from a tiny friend in order to teach tiny Welsh women to cycle. I do look like a right tit on it, mind...

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Occasionally I am spotted pedalling a bike that is far too small for me to and from town. It's because I've borrowed it from a tiny friend in order to teach tiny Welsh women to cycle. I do look like a right tit on it, mind...

I used to look like that on my Moulton APB copy.

 

[trustysteed]

It's because I've borrowed it from a tiny friend in order to teach tiny Welsh women to cycle. I do look like a right tit on it, mind...

whoohoo! when did the circus come back to town?!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm very tolerant of all my cycling brethren except pavement cyclists who should be thrown into the sea.

 

[Brahan]

I love all my cycling brothers and sisters honest. I really can't find an issue with anything that other cyclists do. Probably because I'm not in a city where they're flying out of every nook and cranny!

 

[trustysteed]

some of the most irritating ones are those that feel the need to verbally spout cyclecraft at other cyclists espec during commuting times.

 

[jimboalee]

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

 

[theclaud]

whoohoo! when did the circus come back to town?!

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.