Seen a funny as fuck thing today, was stopped at traffic lights in Wishaw and there was this jakey looking guy on a bike cycling up the path, he kept stopping and kicking the bike etc so was just having a wee chuckle but wondering wtf he was doing, he then got right up beside me and I realised the pedals kept falling off as he was cycling probably stole the bike anaw.
Great Scottish run today so loads of roads closed. Absolute state of the drivers who are seething messes at having to take diversions. Cycled 3km to Shawlands and had about 3 private hires almost knock me off my bike.
Eye opening. Skidding about in the rain, wheel spins, revving up to pass within a foot with parked cars either side, to get to a red light in front of me. angry angry men.
(10-01-2017, 12:19 PM)Walter Snowchak Wrote: Great Scottish run today so loads of roads closed. Absolute state of the drivers who are seething messes at having to take diversions. Cycled 3km to Shawlands and had about 3 private hires almost knock me off my bike.
Eye opening. Skidding about in the rain, wheel spins, revving up to pass within a foot with parked cars either side, to get to a red light in front of me. angry angry men.
I've never got the people who hate "all cyclists".
I've heard it numerous times. I've heard plenty people saying they hate taxi drivers, or van drivers or whatever. But never "all" drivers. You get twat cyclists like anything else. Don't see the need to lump every cyclist in that category though.
(10-01-2017, 12:49 PM)Craig Levein-Style Icon Wrote: I hate cyclists on the road but equally am deliberately obtuse towards drivers when cycling on the road
The problem is there are a lot of arsehole cyclists who go through red lights etc and that gives the rest a bad name.
On the roads, I've always found that if you show respect to cars they will do the same. The times I've cycled badly I've been rightly pulled up for it. Always have a wee laugh at how seething some of them get though, one boy absolutely frothing at the mouth calling me a fucking idiot Not wrong tbf.
Only time i get angry at cyclists if their poor choices make it likely that I could hit them in spite of driving as I ought to. I don't want their death/injury on my conscience. Although I nearly knocked down a guy in the supermarket car park who was wandering along a road at a diagonal and gave him the most withering glare a weed in a c1 can muster.
The thing is "cyclist" is a pretty broad church. You have your neds, jakes and bams, on supermarket 'mountain bikes' who are the absolute worst for riding on pavements, not obeying any semblance of road etiquette and weaving in and out of pedestrians. They're probably the ones who get the rest the bad name, but a serious road cyclist - the 'lycra lout' of daily mail fame - is mainly pretty road aware. Then you have all in between.
I sometimes go through red lights but only where you can see it is safe, in a turn left on red situation, or maybe 4 or 5 seconds before I know the lights will go green - usually because there is someone sitting revving behind me and I know there's going to a guy trying to overtake me as I turn in the junction.
It's the boys who think they're doing the Tour de France that do my nut it, the jakeys and your average Joe will get out the way cunts that think they're cavindish think they own the road.
(10-01-2017, 05:44 PM)Shteve Wrote: It's the boys who think they're doing the Tour de France that do my nut it, the jakeys and your average Joe will get out the way cunts that think they're cavindish think they own the road.
Aye but the reason they have to ride in that manner is to protect themselves. Check out my post above. I cycled 3 km earlier and had 3 ridiculous passes by cars going too close in brutal wet conditions. I've been knocked down by an arse taxi driver. Folk open car doors on cyclists all the time. So clued up ones will ride in the primary position in the middle of the road, to protect themselves. This then enrages Joe le Taxi who is seething he can't get to the red lights in front 5 seconds quicker.
I imagine the opening of car doors onto bicycles is a complete accident, I can quite easily see that happening if a cyclist is going past a row of parked cars.
I actually give a cyclist loads of room and usually pass them on the other side of the road like I would a car, just pisses me off if I need to sit behind one for ages before I can get past it, I think the cyclist could use the path every now and then if it's clear.
Starting a new job in a couple of weeks out at Drumbrae. Cycling daily from East Lothian is a no go for me but I'm thinking of investing in a bike rack for the car roof so I can drive part the way and cycle the rest.
Was thinking about leaving the car at Straiton Park & Ride but not knowing the south/west of Edinburgh that well, I'm not sure how good the roads/routes are for cycling from there to Drumbrae. Any of the #thfcyclewankers able to give me some advice?
Open also to suggestions about better options to leave the car, although I wouldn't be willing to pay to park so that kind of limits my options.