No wonder we get a bad name

[MontyVeda]

So i was cycling down the shared use track and this huge group of joggers blah blah blah....

 

[dusty605]

So you're on a motorcycle, and are complaining that cyclists filtered the queue, and made it so busy you couldn't race off the lights like you normally would?

I don't race off the lights, I ride sensibly thank you very much. Racing is for tracks as I've said.

 

[snorri]

Bad name? Do cyclists really have a bad name?
Most non-cyclists I know hold me in awe and struggle to accept my unbounding energy proven by my ability to cycle out five miles and get back home on the same day.

 

[dusty605]

I give up, some of you are obviously Oxford cyclists that feel it's ok to have a disregard for other traffic around you. Some peoples attitudes truly suck.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

I don't race off the lights, I ride sensibly thank you very much. Racing is for tracks as I've said.

So you was just annoyed that you had to wait behind slower traffic? Or was it the cheek they had to filter at the lights that annoyed you? By disregard, you mean they should know their place and wait behind other traffic>

 

[benb]

Even if there was something wrong with the way these cyclists were behaving, which has by no means been shown to be the case, only an ignorant tool would extrapolate that to disliking all cyclists because of it.

A motorcyclist undertook me at speed and way too close the other day. I don't hate all motorcyclists because of that, because I'm not a moron.

 

[r04DiE]

^^^

Yep, OK - I totally get that.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I give up, some of you are obviously Oxford cyclists that feel it's ok to have a disregard for other traffic around you. Some peoples attitudes truly suck.

I have plenty of regard for other traffic, given that it could kill me.

That doesn't mean that I consider it more important than me. Just more dangerous.

If there's an ASL at lights I will* filter to the front and position myself centrally behind the ASL. If the result that some chap on a motorcycle might have his day completely ruined by having 15 seconds added to his journey, well ... I'm not going to lose any sleep over that.

* unless circumstances dictate otherwise, like a big vehicle that I'd prefer to stay behind.

 

[vickster]

Remind me again what they did to show disregard for other traffic, other than filter to the front why they are perfectly entitled to do...just like motorbikes except they are allowed in the cyclist box (not that many motorbikes seem able to grasp that fact at least around London)

 

[Dogtrousers]

[QUOTE 4500711, member: 9609"]I would be really interested in looking at those tables, but how do I open an ODS ? (I have excel but it won't open them)[/QUOTE]
I can't help you there I'm afraid. ODS is an open standard for spreadsheets. They opened automatically in excel for me.

 

[vickster]

They beset him on all sides.

What did Moses do in that circumstance?

 

[MiK1138]

That is Mrs Miks pet hate, it is so prevelant on TV these days

So.

Stop using it to start sentences.

 

[Leaway2]

[QUOTE 4500711, member: 9609"]I would be really interested in looking at those tables, but how do I open an ODS ? (I have excel but it won't open them)[/QUOTE]
Libre office will open them. It is free and will also open almost every other document. Use it instead of M$ office.

 

[bozmandb9]

So I'm on my motorbike this evening riding to work instead of cycling for a change and there are cyclists everywhere, obviously some club meeting. No regard for traffic, the only thing they seem interested in is racing each other. I stopped at a set of lights only to get swamped on all sides as they turned green with no where for me to go. This kind of behaviour gives the rest of us a bad name and consequently drivers on the whole dislike us. There really is no need for it in my eyes, if you want to get that competitive hit the track and get off the road. This is in Oxford by the way.

I'm local to Oxfod, and do club rides out of Oxford. I'm sitting here scratching my head, and wondering about what the message is here. Presumably everywhere means in many different areas of the road. This is difficult to get around, since once one bit of road is already occupied by a cyclist, you generally need to find another.

Then, apparently said cyclists stopped at a red light. Hhhhmmm. Well usually the complaint is that we don't.... Ho hum. And the cyclists progressed along the road when the lights were green... Did you get any descriptions, was there CCTV? They should probably all be proscuted for progressing on a green light.. Bloocy cyclists, oh, hand on, green you say...

I know what you mean though. I've been caught at a green light surrounded by cars, bastards, all around me. Must call 999 next time.

Not sure what the behaviour is that gives us a bad name. Cycling in groups? Stopping at red lights, going on green, occupying different bits of the highway? Anyway, drivers on the whole dislike most other drivers, and pedestrians.... and their passengers, not to mention tractors, horseriders, and worst of all caravaners!

 

[Lozz360]

I give up, some of you are obviously Oxford cyclists that feel it's ok to have a disregard for other traffic around you. Some peoples attitudes truly suck.

I'm a cyclist from Oxford. 'Spose that makes me an Oxford cyclist by definition. The term appears as an insult above. I don't quite get the reason for that? (I don't disregard other traffic either).