To think if you dive a car, you are an idiot

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In reply to 'cyclists having a deathwish'. All these things have happened this week, no wonder we're an angry bunch! I cycle everyday to work and drop DS (18mo) off at nursery on the way

• IF I INDICATE RIGHT, DO NOT THEN OVERTAKE ME ON MY RIGHT HAND SIDE! thanks. If one more person overtakes me on my right hand side when i've indicated, i will purposefully fall off my bike and claim then knocked me off and sue them

• A cycle lane is for me to cycle in, not for you to park.

• a woman doing her make up in her mirror at 7:30am drove through a red light, when me and DS were trying to cross the road at the green man and clipped our back wheel, sending us flying. He is fine, thanks to a helmet. (cycle on the pavement at busy times when I have DS and pavements are empty)

• If you insist on driving your little darlings to school in a fucking ridiculous 4x4, it's not my problem to make way for you and you should drive behind me sensibly until it's safe to overtake and not drive me into the pavement

• When there are road works blocking half the road, i am infront of you and have right of way. I shouldn't have to stop and wait for their to be a gap so I can overtake roadworks, you go after me and don't try and run me over

-Me and DS always have helmets and lights on. BUT if i have cycled by myself to the gym in the evening, i may not have a highvis jacket on or lights because I was expecting it to be dark. You're issue, i'm going down a road with fucking lights everywhere, it's not an excuse not to see me. I shouldn't have to paint mysef flurouscent just because you're distracted.

• Crossroads? Deathroads. I have to wait for a car going the way i'm going to cycle alongside and guide me across safely, or i would be pummeled.

-If you are on your phone. text/talking, you deserve to be shot.

• Mostly, I am on a bike. You are on your ass in a car. I am cold. It is usually wet too. I have a baby on my bike. GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK AND LET ME CYCLE!

• If you ever shout at me out the window for being a good human being and not poluting the planet and excercising, unlike you lazy bastards in cars, then i will remember you. Just because you can drive off afterwards, doesn't mean you get the last word.

I can't even explain my fury, I am so angry at the other thread. i'm sure i've missed some off.

OP seems ever so slightly touched

I am an idiot, but it is the only way we can get the DC's to school and to work.

Or the lights as seen in the clip

Nice.

adding to VivaLeBeaver's list

That's no excuse home ed and resign then.

Bloody idiots and their excuses.

Slap wrists, no excuse at all. Will keep me from lock downs, fights and positive drug tests.

VleB - the woman in the car has placed her car on top of that mans bike - yet pleads not guilty wtf, good job he got out the way quick

as for the death sarnie, my heart was in my mouth

Now horse riders .........

horse riders are a delightful breed and I always shout hello when approaching if I am on a bike as I worry that they will not hear me and it may spook the horse - which I don't want at all.

Waves to Ivy

Don't get me started on horse riders, but in my defence I rant at horse riders, cyclists and cars who don't say thank you.

How do you travel Dorset?

YY, people who dive horses are really bonkers!

By broomstick.

I love the fact most horse riders say good day in some format and smile - waves back to Exit

I drive a car, but miss that good morning part that you just don't get when in a car. In the morning if I cycle to work there are a few people I see regular and we exchange greetings - that never seems to happen in the car

Sadly most horse riders where I live don't and I come across them regularly. It doesn't matter that you could be crawling past them they stillw on't acknowledge them, and howver frustrting that is I still crawl past them.

ivy it does where I live, but then I live in the sticks so I can spend the first three miles waving at people.

I know Ivy - I speak to everyone when I am riding, or walking the dog, but if I am alone people look at me as if I am mad.

I live in a town and people wave and say hello when on a bike or walking - or perhaps its me making them do this

Sorry you experience that Dorset. When riding, the most imporant thing to me is my horse's safety, so I will do everything to ensure that.

what size engine do you have on your broomstick and do you have starting problems on the cold mornings?

ivykaty - "I always shout hello when approaching if I am on a bike as I worry that they will not hear me and it may spook the horse"

Thank you! Most cyclists do the opposite, freewheeling up behind us quietly and then popping into the horse's field of view at the last minute. This does spook them. Making some kind of noise lets the horse know you are there. We'll probably even shout hello back, which is nice when you are out on a ride, either on your horse or your bike!

I get about by car (yes, it's even one of those fucking ridiculous 4x4s!) and also by bike, horse and on foot. I've found that it doesn't matter how you travel, there will be idiots about somewhere, but that doesn't mean everyone is an idiot. The OP does seem a bit overwrought about car drivers though - there's no need to be quite so rude about all of us.

I don't like the implication in your OP that having an 18 month old strapped to your bike means the road will suddenly become automatically safe and if it isn't it is everyone else's fault.

God forbid you ever meet my 81 year old mother pulling out of a side road.

You know it's dangerous therefore you are deliberately putting your child at risk.

I have to say, on the topic of stupid drivers, that last weekend I almost had a hear attack with my father's driving.
Not a cyclist. He was behind a very slow long vehicle with huge wheels. He was so close to the back wheels, when it was clear he could not overtake for miles, that he was virtually under the vehicle.
I had to tell him off.

Unfortunately, he's the type to drive too close to overtake (why, FFS?) and too close to cyclists!

I have trained myself to be very aware of safe breaking distances and it really pisses me off when I am tailgated or the driver I'm with does that.
I really must annoy tailgaters because the closer they come, the bigger distance I leave to the car in front.

me and DS were trying to cross the road at the green man and clipped our back wheel, sending us flying.

So you were breaking the law by using a pedestrian crossing. You also say you cycle on pavements.

And car drivers are idiots p OK got that

No wonder everyone's complaining about dumbing down in education when someone who claims she writes academic papers doesn't know it gets dark at night.