Lol. I'm pretty sure my local police have their inbox set to auto delete all driving complaints.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
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Angry driving can make one quite blunt
Enough to rage over a mundane stunt
At bicyclists abreast
a roar rose in his chest
SINGLE FILE YOU TWO-WHEELED CUN--
Skeleton Warriors!
This is a masterpiece. You should publish.
When I go for a bike ride with my SO we always ride side by side on streets that have a posted limit at or below 40kmh.
We usually only ride side by side on residential streets. Occasionally we get someone driving too close to us when passing or shouting out their windows saying single file in the same way.
Its like going for a walk, we would not walk in a single file, neither would we sit in a car in single file.
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That's technically illegal here, but I mostly only see cops violating it. I think the larger cycling groups go for rural roads.
taking up more road by riding two abreast may appear to take up more road space
These coppas are genuises, and yes I paraphrased it rather than quoting the stupidity.
Classic example of
Two cyclists nose to tail with a small gap ends up meaning that the car behind has to overtake the effective length of a truck to pass them both. Two cyclists riding abreat means they only need to overtake a car length
If there's enough lateral space to do it in.
When I was a child we didn't have bike lanes, and biking to school was always an interesting endeavor. Thus I will always take off a bit of speed and give cyclists a good bit of space. But if there's two or more bikes side by side, then they can take up enough road that you can't pass them without crossing entirely into the other lane. And then they're just a big pain as slow moving tractors and other farm equipment, except they're even more annoying because they could just go single file.
Cyclists going side by side are inconsiderate assholes and this comes from a guy who bikes to work daily.
That's often the point of riding two abreast. If you are riding one at a time and on the edge of the lane then cars will often try and overtake you without leaving the lane, or at least a minimal amount. That leads to very dangerous close passes.
If you ride side by side or in the middle of the lane if alone, then generally the times you get passed by cars are much safer as if going fully into the other lane already they tend to give you enough space.
This would depend on the drivers in your area, but with the shitty Sydney drivers I learnt quickly to hold the lane unless it was a safe place for them to pass.
Also, because traffic is a thing it's very rare that I don't end up right behind whatever car passed me at the next traffic light, safer passes don't really cost much time for the driver once traffic is accounted for
But you should just go into the other lane. Treat them as you would a car or a tractor as you say
"which one is bigger?"
"that one."
"no actually, they're both equal volume."
"that's not what you asked."
“lateral road space” then?
You're not coming off as clever as you imagine.
Okay jerkface
Not a single one of you thought to consider why the hell an official letter from the police would write verbatim expletive quotes in the style of a tumblr teenager instead of simply writing that there was a verbal altercation. Complete lack of critical thinking or a total suspension of disbelief.
Or the fact that it doesn't need to be real because 1. It's still funny and 2. We all know that the incident has happened somewhere, because shit like this happens so often.
How are some cyclist comfortable with driving side by side? I was always anxious when that happened, can't swifel out and nothing and if you fall because of that, the others fall too.
I mean, they're probably not touching handlebars when riding side by side.
Yeah, cause touching handlebars would be gay.
"bare"?
Meanwhile, Cyclists in America...
C1: Hey did you hear about those Brits getting yelled at by drivers?
C1: Yeah. Somebody call the whambulance, some cyclists are butthurt about being cussed out lol
C2: lol what a bunch of pussies. Anyway, fid you remember to wear your bulletproof vest today?
C1: Every day brother. Now let's see how many drivers we can fuck with before one tries to run us over.
Jeremy Vine is in Nottinghamshire?
OOTL:
On August 2016, a car driver threatened and was abusive to Vine while he was cycling along Hornton Street in Kensington, London. Vine captured the encounter on his helmet camera, later broadcasting it on YouTube where it was viewed several million times. Vine also reported it to the police. On 18 April 2017, the car driver was jailed for nine months for threatening behaviour. At the time of the incident, she was subject to a suspended sentence for various other offences.
Here's the video, it contains road rage so don't watch it if you have high blood pressure.
I think something happened as well with a lorry driver and losing his job. Petrolheads hate vine lol
