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Cyclists! A rant.

TheCatWoman

Are like an embolism clogging the roads round here and are just as dangerous to other road and path users. I had angry waves from a cyclist because I didn't overtake him when he's kindly pulled over to let me past, there were two cars coming in the opposite direction on a single track road. There are just as many cyclists on pavements as there are on the roads riding far to fast for the numbers of people using the path. They ignore road signs and go the wrong way down a one way street, cross red lights, have no way of inidicating where they're going. The ride around the park at top speed scattering children, adults and dogs. The selfish arrogance of the people seem to know no bounds, do they not realise that people actually live in the countryside and have no choice but to drive on single track roads? So many people and animals have been hurt round here and it gets worse every year. Does nobody even have a bell anymore? 

Why should they be able to perpetrate every sort of stupidity under the sun and get away with it? Why should it always be my fault if I'm driving and their not paying attention? I'd like to see cyclists have to have some sort of MOT and public liability insurance, vets bills for a horse are astronomical and a horse could quite easily kill a cyclist, so why do they think it's OK to go speeding past horses? Many seem to have no or poor lights too. Grrr Arrgh.

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  • There are good and bad people in any group of people (though personally, I struggle to see that in members of the Russian army right now).  Some cyclists (myself included) do have insurance for riding on the road, do stop at red traffic lights, do ride on roads not footpaths, do slow down to give horse riders a wide berth, Sadly, some do not. 

    As to the roads, we have to share them, be you a lorry driver, car driver, motorcyclist, cyclist or horse rider (I have been all of those at different times).  A cyclist and horse rider have an absolute right to use them, other do so under licence.  Though I understand drivers' frustration when a cyclist is free wheeling and slowing them down rather than going as fast as they can.  I find the more effort I putting in to keep up with traffic and not inconvenience anyone, the more tolerant car drivers seem to be.  What we need is more consideration of other people and a move away from "your rights" to "your responsibilities", then maybe we could all get along a little bit better.

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  • There are good and bad people in any group of people (though personally, I struggle to see that in members of the Russian army right now).  Some cyclists (myself included) do have insurance for riding on the road, do stop at red traffic lights, do ride on roads not footpaths, do slow down to give horse riders a wide berth, Sadly, some do not. 

    As to the roads, we have to share them, be you a lorry driver, car driver, motorcyclist, cyclist or horse rider (I have been all of those at different times).  A cyclist and horse rider have an absolute right to use them, other do so under licence.  Though I understand drivers' frustration when a cyclist is free wheeling and slowing them down rather than going as fast as they can.  I find the more effort I putting in to keep up with traffic and not inconvenience anyone, the more tolerant car drivers seem to be.  What we need is more consideration of other people and a move away from "your rights" to "your responsibilities", then maybe we could all get along a little bit better.

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  • in reply to NAS19947

    It would be nice if everyone was well mannered, but frequently they're not, I could have a rant about drivers who don't indicate, or only indicate when they're already half way round a corner. The lorry drivers who clutter up the side roads and supermarket entrances. The people who park on double yellow lines and zig zag lines near a zebra crossing because their packets of chips are to heavy to carry across the road to the car park, or to go to the post office because they've "always parked there".