Bad Name

[Dayvo]

Poll.

[_] Slowness.

[_] Mobile phone.

[_] On the drops.

[_] One handed.

[_] All the gear.


Tick the box which applies.

Done!

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Step back indeed. I am inconvenienced every Tuesday and Thursday by motorists who get in the way of my Volvo 340 GLE Estate (Turbo) when I take ours and our neighbours kids to school. I am unable to drive at anything like the speed limit because of all the cars in my way. In fact there are so many cars in my way that I am often forced to stop completely!

As do all the cars in the traffic jam - they've not all congregated there just for the purpose of slowing you down. Annoying, but a fact of life.

And it's even worse on my bike because, along the same stretch of road, they force their way past and pull in preventing me from going past them.

If we are going to talk about 'let's all get along'.

Oh, I quite believe you. There are a lot of inconsiderate people out on there, in cars, on bikes, on foot and it's very frustrating.

BUT, does this mean that we in turn should be inconsiderate? Of course not.

I find the argument that "it's what everyone else does" a very uncompelling argument, as I have never much enjoyed being a sheep.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Poll.

[_] Slowness.

[_] Mobile phone.

[_] On the drops.

[_] One handed.

[_] All the gear.


Tick the box which applies.

[X] Mickle is a massive pedant

Sorry bud you have asked for that, i think you should wind your neck in a bit. You've got a valid point but I think the record's stuck and needs moving on a bit?

 

[MissTillyFlop]

no let's explore the issue of hundreds of motorists cluttering up the road and slowing my progress to and from work. It is legal for them to do it but it is frightfully inconsiderate.

I know all these motorists DELIBERATELY waiting until the exact moment I leave the house to drive on the road!

Because I am actually THAT important that the whole world revolves solely around me!

(P.S. If my CPN is reading this, this is a joke, I am not having a delusion of grandeur. )

 

[apollo179]

no let's explore the issue of hundreds of motorists cluttering up the road and slowing my progress to and from work. It is legal for them to do it but it is frightfully inconsiderate.

One advantage of selling the big issue is that you can do it anywhere.

 

[400bhp]

Another useful thread

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Another useful thread

Yes, surely it will end world poverty!

 

[Origamist]

It was there but heading towards Totnes, I gave you the coordinates before perhaps "KEN" could have given you a hand to find it, glad about the letterboxing bit, seems a childish activity, why did you not use the B3121 Erme valley route? much faster, my favourite route to Plymouth, Mother-in-law could not help you as it appears she is an Emmet.

I mentioned that very junction earlier, before you had finally given the coordinates (do keep up, TB):

What's the name/road no of the junction? Is it the A381, Green Lane junction - that has a farm at the top.

https://www.cyclechat.net/

I'll let others decide if they would be comfortable descending down to Totnes with cars potentially passing them in the same lane, with those bends and with that width of lane. I'd certainly be a good 3-4 feet from the hedge. Only a bit futher down, it's unbroken double white lines, so no overtaking there anyway. It's easy to see why a cyclist might have had a queue of cars behind, regardless of whether he was on the phone.

Oh, and I think you mean the A3121, not B3121 through Ermington! This rather proves my point about your navigation and direction skills, don't you think? As it happens, I did use the A3121 as well, but I preferred going through Ivybridge as I would often stop to see my gran.

Letter boxing was good fun as a child (it teaches you how to read a map for one!), but I can't say I've done it for 20 years.

I don't know if your M-in-L is an emmet, but the more you post, the more I feel for her regardless of her Devonian heritage or not!

 

[youngoldbloke]

I was driving back home yesterday from picking up the eldest from Saturday job and saw a guy on a nice road bike, all the gear on ,he was riding one handed, on the drops,slowly, and dialing on his mobile phone ,behind him he had a queue of about 20 cars, that sort of behaviour just pees people off, why not just stop and make the call ?.

re, 'facts' (Mickle) Where does the OP state that the drivers were pissed off - his opinion is that the behaviour of the cyclist 'just pees people off' - he is probably right. I don't know whether these drivers were 'peed off, and neither do you

 

[Noodley]

re, 'facts' (Mickle) Where does the OP state that the drivers were pissed off - his opinion is that the behaviour of the cyclist 'just pees people off' - he is probably right. I don't know whether these drivers were 'peed off, and neither do you

So why did the OP state "that sort of behaviour just pees people off"?

Why would it? It would not piss me off in the slightest.

 

[twobiker]

So why did the OP state "that sort of behaviour just pees people off"?

Why would it? It would not piss me off in the slightest.

Good. one less, they all count

 

[MissTillyFlop]

So why did the OP state "that sort of behaviour just pees people off"?

Why would it? It would not piss me off in the slightest.

Because whether intentional or not, it conveys the message "You are all much less important than this text, which is probably, in all fairness, about TOWIE or some such other frippery."

 

[Noodley]

Because whether intentional or not, it conveys the message "You are all much less important than this text, which is probably, in all fairness, about TOWIE or some such other frippery."

And?

So for you it is the fact he was using a phone which is the main issue.

 

[apollo179]

So why did the OP state "that sort of behaviour just pees people off"?

Why would it? It would not piss me off in the slightest.

Because being gratuitously inconvenienced by another road users sheer lack of courtesy and consideration is annoying.
You acknowledge this - your viewpoint is like a boxer not understanding why a member of the general public does not like getting thumped.

 

[gaz]

I just dont agree with your opinion that it is ok to cycle one handed, on the drops,slowly, and dialing on mobile phone causing a tailback of peed off motorists.

What about cycling one handed, on the drops,slowly, and drinking from a biddon causing a tailback of peed off motorists?