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What I don't understand is racing seems to be permitted on the public highway on bicycles, surely this is dangerous as riders compete for places and overtake without any regard for other road users?

 

I get really pissed by idiot cyclists, car drivers and bikers. I am a cyclist, car driver and biker.

As someone earlier said there is an a**hole brigade in every aspect of life and they give everyone a bad name. Get ALL the idiots off the road.

 

Hmmmm.....nah....just cyclists

 

I’ve given up weekend riding unless it’s with my mates. Very few cyclists around during the week

 

And the twats ignore traffic lights to boot

 

From the Urban Dictionary 2016...

TOP DEFINITION
Lycra wanker
Those wankers on bikes who think they are Chris Hoy, but are in fact middle-aged accountants and are shit bike riders
Jon - "look at that wanker on that bike"
Robin - "yes, what a lycra wanker...."

 

Highway code section 66. If they are more than two abreast, or not in single file on a busy road or around bends, they are in breach of the highway code.

It is every road user's duty to avoid accidents, so I am not sure where a driver would stand if they gave room for them (if they were riding legally) but no more, and the self-entitled twats ended up in the gutter as a result of their own selfish attitude.

While it's great that people are getting out on cycles, and nobody has a problem with this, it is the asshats that ride as if the rules don't apply to them that get my panties in a bunch - and yet it is those same people who whinge and whine about people not giving them space

 

what makes it worse the police reccomend giving them 1 to 1.5 mtrs space when passing them ? thats the other side of the road??!!!