fed up of abuse!!!

[longers]

I had one today which made me smile once I'd worked out what he'd shouted as he went past.

"Oi! Get a derailleur!"

 

[Reiki_chick]

"get off the f#cking pavement" shouted by a bloke walking straight towards me on the designated, and clearly signed, bike side of a half bike / half pedestrian bridge in Bristol.
Sorry mate, there is no f#cking pavement for me to be on or, indeed, to get off.

Brainless.
Or just embarrassed at being caught on the wrong side.

Either way, no need to shout and swear at me.

 

[benb]

I think that if the cycle lane is good condition and well maintained it's OK.
I can't abide so-called shared use facilities - where it's a pavement as well, so cyclists having to negotiate around pedestrians.

Where they've been done with some proper thought, such as some of the Cycle Superhighways in London, they can be useful, but it seems to me that it would be better to just have a nice wide road.

 

[benb]

Everytime I go out in the car I see some plonkerish behaviour from a driver.
Yesterday went to Tamworth. On the way back from Sainsbury's I was going onto A5 and a plonker thought I wasn't going fast enough (I have a deisel Freelander so not the pokiest of motors) so gave me the horn . When on M42 another twonk overtook me going at least 80 (perhaps faster) and slammed anchors on as car in outside lane going 75. He got up to 5 foot from his bumper to intimidate him but he had nowhere to go.

Out on bike today I only encountered courteous road users. I got to this bidge and could see the road ahead was clear so waved to indicate it was safe for car behind me to pass and got cheery wave back. Gave several hrose a very wide berth and got lots of thank yous. I think that as there are a lot of horses and cyclists around here we get treated well.

Fnarr

 

[byegad]

If find a maniacally cheerful wave, which goes on far too long, and mad smile to any negative comments works best. They worry that they've met the local madman and I get a good laugh at their expense.

Sadly the madly cheerful waving and very silly grin comes naturally to me. See?

 

[markharry66]

Whatever foul mouthed language they want to use I use back with interst I get sick of being cut up harassed on the road

 

[AuraTodd]

Had a classic a couple of years ago........

From a female passenger in car after I had called out a request to "give me more room"

"There's a cycle path b'there" (Rough Swansea accent)

"No, that's a pavement."

"Why don't you use the bike path?"

"It's a pavement. You can't cycle on it."

"GET ON THE BIKE PATH!" she screamed

"close your legs love, your meat smells"

"You fu***** b*****d"

The driver (male) askes her what I said. I can see she doesn't want to tell him (this all happens whilst we're stationary, at a red light) but eventually she does. He roars with laughter, beeps his horn a couple of times and shouts "Nice one mate!" as his passenger slaps him about the arm and chest.

Well if the silly cow chooses to make an exhibition of herself, she can only expect to be emabrassed.

 

[Fozz]

Go in a gang, the sight of a dozen lycra clad bikers will send chills of fear into their boxy little lives.......or dress as a tramp with a carrierbag full of feathers on he handlbars,that plus a crazed look on your face should deter most people from even making eye contact!

failing all that ask them if they would like to talk about Jesus over a carrot shake..........they`ll run a mile....... .

 

[mog35]

I can't remember getting any abuse of the 'get on the cycle path / you don't pay road tax' type, but I've experienced some garbled bellowing from chavs in those souped-up jalopies in disguise.

I assume they're shouting something cutting and incisive like 'your mum' or 'you fat see-you-next-tuesday' (I'm currently on the wrong side of portly), but all I hear is 'bleurghrghrghrghegh'. So that's me told, then.

I do remember being told off once by a pedestrian for being on the pavement, which was actually a shared-use facility with a sign indicating this about ten metres away.

 

[Chilternrides]

Several years ago I was taken out by a guy in a bus lane (he was driving a van, by the way) who had completed a mad overtake followed by the emergency left-hook. I had a feeling he was going to do it so I backed off, but not quite enough; THUD

Anyway, on getting to my feet, rather than apologise he launched into the "What the f##k are you doing riding there anyway, you shouldn't be in the 'kin bus lane you should be out there on the road."

Sadly for him, this all happened very close to the bus lane 'business hours' sign which also depicted a bus, a motorbike and a bicycle accompanied by the word 'ONLY' on the same sign.

He wasn't too happy when I pointed to it...

Numpties are part of life, whatever you are doing I'm afraid. I've pretty much learned to ignore all but the worst of it now.

 

[gavintc]

The road tax one is one I used to get at work and with friends. I bored with the response that I have a car and I pay the same tax that they do. So, when I was in UK, my response would often be ' Well, you need to pay more, the potholes are dreadful' . I think it easier to make a joke of it implying that they are fool for paying.

 

[Nkaj]

Had a classic a couple of years ago........

From a female passenger in car after I had called out a request to "give me more room"

"There's a cycle path b'there" (Rough Swansea accent)

"No, that's a pavement."

"Why don't you use the bike path?"

"It's a pavement. You can't cycle on it."

"GET ON THE BIKE PATH!" she screamed

"close your legs love, your meat smells"

"You fu***** b*****d"

The driver (male) askes her what I said. I can see she doesn't want to tell him (this all happens whilst we're stationary, at a red light) but eventually she does. He roars with laughter, beeps his horn a couple of times and shouts "Nice one mate!" as his passenger slaps him about the arm and chest.

hahahahahaah that just made my day,thank you.

 

[Paul_L]

when they shout "use the cycle path"

shout back Ali G style... "no... u is da psychopath!"

Like it

 

[Shut Up Legs]

My response here in Australia would be simply to say "what cycle path?". Over here, almost all paths are shared ones, so cyclist, pedestrian, pet, etc. all "share" them (in theory, at least ), so there are very few dedicated cycle paths. I don't use them even where they follow my usual routes, because they're generally badly maintained and too bumpy.

 

[The Jogger]

'Fed up of abuse'

You want to try posting on P&L