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

[jam17]

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.

You're being a bit of a dick OP.

Actually, a big one.

You can't get a bus to work or any supermarket?

Dragging potatoes in your dead arms?

Do you write for eastenders?

get off your bike and either walk or get on public transport

I can't type anymore goat because you knocked me off my bike when i swevered over a pothole and diddn't want to break

Yep. Making the case for cyclist .
Hysteria, hyperbole, rudeness, idiocy.

Fine job.

Jams for the love of god turn off your pc and have a cup of tea.

Most cyclists are careful and considerate
Most drivers are careful and considerate..

i was actually enjoying this until what goat said. That just made me feel sick, that someone thinks it's their right to slam into me if I stumble off my bike because of a pot hole, because they don't want to break? I'm actually feeling physcialy sick at what a disgusting human being there are.

NO ones mentioned the other points about getting killed every day

Oh, Captain Jack. Nice to meet you.

Drivers, nearly all of them, don't realise how close they get to cyclists or how intimidating it is
That is often true. If only you would manage to put your point across without seeming like being a twat.

Oh, by the way, I have often considered pushing cyclists when they run red lights at speed when I'm crossing a road and have a green light.
Not to mention the idiots that fail to notice my young DS.

Still, I don't think all cyclists are idiots. Or bastards.

If you are actually neeeding to vomit because of some hypothetical nonsense posted in an argument on the Internet, you should go away for a bit.

Jam, if you're likely to stumble off your bike, should you be riding it in the first place?
I think you should give up now. It's embarrassing

sorry OP but 'dragging potatoes in my dead arms' from Morrisons has really made me . I think that cycling may be the least of your worries.

Surely there are buses if you are in central Manchester?

some posters are being a bit sick in their ideas today makes me feel sad

cyclists - and that is all cyclists are humans with families

Well, without having read any of the whole thread including the OP i'd say that Diving a Car is certainly idiotic.

It would get waterlogged and sink.

Also, you're not really writing on your iPad with auto-correction, are you?

At least my little iPod manages to start sentences with capitals and correct i to I. It won't automatically write taxi's, either.

Oh i see, now i've read the OP - possibly slightly pissed off at drivers then.

OP - don't worry, we all have very pissed off times & some drivers are idiotic, so are some cyclists & even pedestrians - in fact everyone is idiotic at times.

Have a (I lied in my last post - i'm not allowed anymore, has to be )

Your posts are getting more hysterical and more over the top.

May as well give up OP, because you are making yourself sound like a complete moron.

it's not a matter of me calming down. it's a matter of nearly being seriously injured. I'm not upset because someone was rude to me, or the way someone acted. the behaviour drivers display puts my life in danger.

Why do you do it if you feel it's so dangerous?

jam, i am emphatic with your case let's try something constructive, do you always need to take little one with you, is it possible a partner, family member, friend sometimes look after him when you need to go out? it might take the stress off of you, while you attend your business, shopping etc. i have had problems with cyclists on pavements but admittedly they have been the lycra clad brigade.

because there are no buses where i want to go to and it's too far to walk

i only ever take him when i'm dropping him at nursery. so yes he does have to come with me

it's funny people thinking i'm hysterical just shows how hard it is to tell someones character through typing. I've got a cup of green tea and cat sat on my lap, watching real housewives of new york, whilst laughing at what people are writing.

Oh FFS OP.

Did I actually say that?

No.

My point is, you're expecting all drivers to be aware of the safety of cyclists, while many cyclists don't give a fuck about car drivers.

You have admitted to not making yourself visible to drivers at night. How can they be responsible for you. That is YOUR responsibility.

Your being hysterical.