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Meanwhile, Cyclists in America…
C1: Hey did you hear about those Brits getting yelled at by drivers?
C1: Yeah. Somebody call the whambulance, some cyclists are butthurt about being cussed out lol
C2: lol what a bunch of pussies. Anyway, fid you remember to wear your bulletproof vest today?
C1: Every day brother. Now let’s see how many drivers we can fuck with before one tries to run us over.
Lol. I’m pretty sure my local police have their inbox set to auto delete all driving complaints.
When I go for a bike ride with my SO we always ride side by side on streets that have a posted limit at or below 40kmh.
We usually only ride side by side on residential streets. Occasionally we get someone driving too close to us when passing or shouting out their windows saying single file in the same way.
Its like going for a walk, we would not walk in a single file, neither would we sit in a car in single file.
Angry driving can make one quite blunt
Enough to rage over a mundane stunt
At bicyclists abreast
a roar rose in his chest
SINGLE FILE YOU TWO-WHEELED CUN–
Skeleton Warriors!
This is a masterpiece. You should publish.
Jeremy Vine is in Nottinghamshire?
OOTL:
On August 2016, a car driver threatened and was abusive to Vine while he was cycling along Hornton Street in Kensington, London. Vine captured the encounter on his helmet camera, later broadcasting it on YouTube where it was viewed several million times. Vine also reported it to the police. On 18 April 2017, the car driver was jailed for nine months for threatening behaviour. At the time of the incident, she was subject to a suspended sentence for various other offences.
Here’s the video, it contains road rage so don’t watch it if you have high blood pressure.
I think something happened as well with a lorry driver and losing his job. Petrolheads hate vine lol
so did you “bare” this in mind, then?
Bear down for midterms!
taking up more road by riding two abreast may appear to take up more road space
These coppas are genuises, and yes I paraphrased it rather than quoting the stupidity.
You’re not coming off as clever as you imagine.
Okay jerkface
Classic example of
“which one is bigger?”
“that one.”
“no actually, they’re both equal volume.”
“that’s not what you asked.”Two cyclists nose to tail with a small gap ends up meaning that the car behind has to overtake the effective length of a truck to pass them both. Two cyclists riding abreat means they only need to overtake a car length
If there’s enough lateral space to do it in.
When I was a child we didn’t have bike lanes, and biking to school was always an interesting endeavor. Thus I will always take off a bit of speed and give cyclists a good bit of space. But if there’s two or more bikes side by side, then they can take up enough road that you can’t pass them without crossing entirely into the other lane. And then they’re just a big pain as slow moving tractors and other farm equipment, except they’re even more annoying because they could just go single file.
Cyclists going side by side are inconsiderate assholes and this comes from a guy who bikes to work daily.
That’s often the point of riding two abreast. If you are riding one at a time and on the edge of the lane then cars will often try and overtake you without leaving the lane, or at least a minimal amount. That leads to very dangerous close passes.
If you ride side by side or in the middle of the lane if alone, then generally the times you get passed by cars are much safer as if going fully into the other lane already they tend to give you enough space.
This would depend on the drivers in your area, but with the shitty Sydney drivers I learnt quickly to hold the lane unless it was a safe place for them to pass.
Also, because traffic is a thing it’s very rare that I don’t end up right behind whatever car passed me at the next traffic light, safer passes don’t really cost much time for the driver once traffic is accounted for
Love cycling but to be fair that s a little annoying when you have 2 cyclists side by side and you can’t overtake them. The driver was an asshole but i can understand his frustration.
If there isn’t space to overtake two cyclists side by side, there isn’t space to overtake one cyclist. If there’s another car coming towards you while you overtake, you’d be endangering the one cyclist.
So you just lie on the Internet?
1.5m to overtake one cyclist brings you only partially onto the otherside of the road.
1.5m to overtake two cyclists astride brings you fully onto the otherside of the road
exactly, either way you need to make sure there isn’t any oncoming traffic.
Okay, so you only partially hit the oncoming car. Great.
depends how deliberately badly you’re both driving I suppose
??? You expect the other driver to drive on the fucking shoulder because you can’t wait literally half a second to pass a cyclist??
Okay, so walk me through this. This is what I got.
Guy: You have to wait just as long to pass one cyclist as two abreast.
You: I only take up half a lane to pass a lone cyclist.
Me: So you have to wait until the lane is clear.
You: No, I am a good driver.
Me: WTF?!
@mondoman712 @felykiosa it depends a little onthe road in question, there are roads with a sinple lane wide enough that a single file of cyclists are passable without crossing into oncoming traffic, but two abreast isn’t.
But we all know this isn’t what happened here. Driver just wanted to let his priveledge show.
Should one sympathise with car-supremacists?
Sounds like you should talk to your representatives about getting protected bicycle paths in your city so that they’re out of your way
if there isnt enough space maybe just wait a bit untill there is, is getting to the next stop light faster so u can spend more time waiting there rally that fucking important.
I live in rural area the next stop is in 5km , just said that it is annoying when two cyclist are side by side that all.
Not a single one of you thought to consider why the hell an official letter from the police would write verbatim expletive quotes in the style of a tumblr teenager instead of simply writing that there was a verbal altercation. Complete lack of critical thinking or a total suspension of disbelief.
Or the fact that it doesn’t need to be real because 1. It’s still funny and 2. We all know that the incident has happened somewhere, because shit like this happens so often.
“bare”?
How are some cyclist comfortable with driving side by side? I was always anxious when that happened, can’t swifel out and nothing and if you fall because of that, the others fall too.
I mean, they’re probably not touching handlebars when riding side by side.
Yeah, cause touching handlebars would be gay.
