Cyclists in the inside lane

Rolandtheroadie

JQ. wrote: »

So you'd happily kill someone because you're too lazy to look in your mirrors.

And car drivers wonder why cyclists are aggressive when morons like this are allowed out on the road.

Should the cyclist not be expected to work out that he's catching up on a car indicating to turn left that the car might actually be going to turn left?
And that the bright move might not be to try to go past it on the left?

flyingscotno1

ckerrd wrote: »

What a confrontational chap.

Wonder if he drives as well, or is he "just" a cyclist

Been on the news before. He does drive. I like the one where he slags a cyclist for being on the pavement 'Pavements for 5 year olds mate' only for the guy to square up to him. :rotfl::rotfl:

mikey72

JQ. wrote: »

So you'd happily kill someone because you're too lazy to look in your mirrors.

And car drivers wonder why cyclists are aggressive when morons like this are allowed out on the road.

Good, it's sinking in at last, next time you're lecturing us morons in cars as to why we shouldn't turn left without checking we're not being undertaken by a cyclist dressed in black, in our blindspot, on a dark night, remember, it might be me driving.
And if by some chance you do miss me, you can follow me, be agressive, and give me a second chance.
Oh, and it's not "kill", I would prefer the term "assisted suicide".
For the record, I have a car that's old enough not to have a nearside mirror, so if you want to trust your life to my phychic ability, you've got even less chance.

bikingbarney

i fail to see how a cyclist would be able to match the speed of a car or even beat it to "undertake " as you say ??

oh and mikey72, i would love it if you tried to have a go at me with your wheel wrench if you had failed to look in your mirror before turning left!

when i go out on my bike at night im clothed in the appropriate reflective clothing and have 2 lights on the back and a HID gas discharge light on the front , people still cut me up or nearly knock me off.

so frustrating to see the attitude of some car drivers on here.

perhaps you should leave the cars at home, get out on your pushbikes and see it from our side.

mikey72

bikingbarney wrote: »

i fail to see how a cyclist would be able to match the speed of a car or even beat it to "undertake " as you say ??

oh and mikey72, i would love it if you tried to have a go at me with your wheel wrench if you had failed to look in your mirror before turning left!

when i go out on my bike at night im clothed in the appropriate reflective clothing and have 2 lights on the back and a HID gas discharge light on the front , people still cut me up or nearly knock me off.

so frustrating to see the attitude of some car drivers on here.

perhaps you should leave the cars at home, get out on your pushbikes and see it from our side.

Fair enough, you keep undertaking, maybe we'll meet, if you do stop in time, feel free to start chasing. If you don't stop in time, I'm not heartless, I'll even get you an ambulance. Are you insured in case you scuff my paint?

bikingbarney

oh dear???????

bikingbarney

its not undertaking though is it?? as i said before a cyclist will never be able to accelerate of even match the speed of a car unless they are in slow moving traffic.

mikey72

It is undertaking.
That's the whole point, the car was slowing down to turn left, the cyclist came from behind, then cycled down the passenger side of a car indicating left.
It's ok calling the car driver names, but how was he supposed to know he was there? If he checked the mirror before turing, the cyclist may even have been in his blind spot.
If the cyclist overtook, on the right, where he was suppose to overtake, he would have been ok.
Then the cyclist started chasing the car and hitting it. All it would have took was to disturb the driver enough to make him brake/swerve, and the cyclist would then have been sideswiped as well!
Sounds like a good safe car driver to me not to react badly.

Obukit

I don't understand how you can know exactly where the cyclist pulled out of and what lane he was in, yet your brother, who was closer to the cyclist, still managed to cut him up? To be honest sounds like cyclist was probably in lane 1, and your brother just was really stupid to pull across a whole lane without bothering to look.

Hopefully lesson learnt - mirror, signal, manoeuvre is one of the first things they teach you when driving for a good reason!

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

bikingbarney wrote: »

i fail to see how a cyclist would be able to match the speed of a car or even beat it to "undertake " as you say ??.

I can get up to about 25mph on my road bike less than 10 seconds.