Irritations - dump here thread

[damian]

push bike riders that dont move over to let you past.

push bike riders that dont follow road rules.

push bike riders that jump up on teh footpath when the light is red.

push bike riders that ride up teh middle at red lights then sit in front of you and take half an hour to start off.

push bike riders that lean on your car so tehy dot have to take there feet off the pedals.

push bike riders that ride 2 and 3 abrest so u can not possibly pass them.

push bike riders.

You don't drive a blue ford ute do you ?

(Local joke, sorry)

The courier mail occasionally runs a hot button article on push bikes. The comments blow out with drivers and bike riders railing against one another.

Thing is pedestrians chip in too. Pedestrians and car drivers never rail at each other. Pedestrian needs to cross, they obey the rules or show curtesy and cars stop and let them pass.

So if cyclists can't get along with cars, can't get along with pedestrians and apparently get into punchups with each other on cycleways who do you suppose is the problem here ?

And it's not all cyclists. The ones that are always cited are the lycra brigade. No one minds kids riding, no one minds some poor sod trying to get to work in steelcaps wobbling along the side of the road. As is so often the case it's a badly behaved minority.

Funny thread this. Some of you are hysterical.

[AUSSIE]

And it's not all cyclists. The ones that are always cited are the lycra brigade. No one minds kids riding, no one minds some poor sod trying to get to work in steelcaps wobbling along the side of the road. As is so often the case it's a badly behaved minority.

Funny thread this. Some of you are hysterical.

You have it Damian-The poser- or the type of person who wants to control the world and all they have is their little bike

[Ashore]

people that drive 10km/h under the speed limit when you can't overtake safely then accelerate to 20km/h over for an overtaking lane then slowing down again at the end

The correct term for such people is " Passhole"

[jimbur]

and all they have is their little bike

And with lycra you know that that's all they have

[Woodwould]

ps to WW. Did you jump on it or just toss it into the traffic?

Conveniently, as it happened, a smallgoods van approached and the bicycle inexplicably threw itself before it. (If it was your bike, then I'm merely repeating these events on behalf of a friend whose name I can no longer recall.)

[jimbur]

Conveniently, as it happened, a smallgoods van approached and the bicycle inexplicably threw itself before it. (If it was your bike, then I'm merely repeating these events on behalf of a friend whose name I can no longer recall.)

Bicycles do that. They have a mind of their own (even with someone in the saddle)

[AUSSIE]

good one woody,I like that

[Geoff Dean]

push bike riders that dont move over to let you past.

push bike riders that dont follow road rules.

push bike riders that jump up on teh footpath when the light is red.

push bike riders that ride up teh middle at red lights then sit in front of you and take half an hour to start off.

push bike riders that lean on your car so tehy dot have to take there feet off the pedals.

push bike riders that ride 2 and 3 abrest so u can not possibly pass them.

push bike riders.

Idiots in cars that drive so close to you on a bike that they almost brush you off.

Idiots in cars that don't follow road rules.

Idiots in cars that run red lights.

Idiots in cars that sit at red lights spewing pollution from their exhaust.

Idiots in parked cars who open their doors as you are riding past.

Idiots in cars who drive slowly so you cant get past.

Idiots in cars in general.

[weisyboy]

what i cant understand is why dose everyone feel the need to wear really tight Lycra suits to ride there bike.

if it not possible to ride in normal clothes.

[Gingermick]

that's for the aerodynamic gain. Some of these eejuts ride at almost 30kph and need all the help they can get.

[weisyboy]

cos its really gunna make that mutch diferance.

[artme]

Lasagna that sticks to the aluminium tray when you heat it in the oven.

Guess what I had for dinner?

[Grumpy John]

Idiots in cars that don't use indicators.

[Blue-deviled]

That's not grumpy enough. I find anybody using the road when I do is in the way!

[AlexS]

... couriers mainly, try stopping 30t of coach when one darts out in front with less than 1m to stop

Cycle couriers are a breed apart. They seem to think that because they spend more time on their bikes than most others, they are better riders and don't have to obey the road rules. Or perhaps it's because they have to make a living that they think that they don't have to obey the rules. Much like cabbies, bus & truck drivers, couriers.

As to traffic jams.... travel the Old Pacific Hwy, Geat Western Hwy, Princess Hwy when cyclists believe its their right to ride on any Sunday with no regard to how much road they use, speed limits indicated.

In either case, there are parallel freeways where cyclists are prohibited. Why not use them if you're in a hurry?

I'm sure anyone living in Melbourne's Eastern Bayside suburbs has had to put up with this:

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It's not just on weekends either, but during the week in peak period.

The irony in the first two photos is that the holdup, if there is one, is caused by cars - all those cars parked in the left hand lane. I thought roads are for travel, parking lots are for parking.
If all those cyclists were in their cars, one or two per car, as is normal, you'd have a much bigger traffic jam.

Cyclists should be taxed in line with other road users.

Quite so. The damage to roads, according to research done by the old NSW DMR, is proportional to the 5th power of the mass of the vehicle. So, if a cyclist and his bike weigh 100kg, and a car weighs 1000kg, the car is doing 100,000 times the damage that the bike is. If your rego is $250 per year, mine should be 1c every 4 years. Work out for yourself what a 40 tonne truck should pay. Or perhaps everyone should be charged for the amount of thoroughfare they use. In that case, pedestrians aren't going to be very happy. Think of all those footpaths that hardly ever get used.