Spinnekop Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 In general it is. 5:30 in the morning.You have two three choices. Be pissed off.......*** a cyclist out for being wrong.....try to kill him on your way passed Wait a bit until it is safe to pass, wave at the people and enjoy your day. Pass him safely, make mention that he should rather move over, get shat on and then flamed on the Hub. People need to relax a bit. - You too dude Noted.I'll go see if I can find some MTB shoes at the shop.
Pure Savage Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 Ask yourself the question: Do you think the average South African motorist or Taxi driver, gives a crap about your legal right as a cyclist? Nope, but if you are all single file and out of the road, do you think the motorist will wait behind till it is safe to pass, or just squeeze past and if something comes around the blind corner just pull into the cyclists. If you are in a group, the motorist has to pass you, they know running over a cyclist takes more time than actually passing when safe to do so. Sort of like making a motorist engage his common sense for him.
blondeonabike Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 Ask yourself the question: Do you think the average South African motorist or Taxi driver, gives a crap about your legal right as a cyclist?No. Most motorists do not even know what cyclists rights are. And this is where we need to be realistic about our safety. Because being right doesn't help if you are dead.
Spinnekop Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 we actually lost a club member on that road in the yellow lane.Very sad day. I cycle past there every day. Impatient driver passing on the left side in the yellow lane if I remember correctly.
Patchelicious Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 Aaaaa...but Patchy.....you for get one thing......it is a REaction.For it to be a REaction, there first had to be an ACTION. No? A cyclist does not swear at a motorist just because he feels like it. Never ever happened in my 25 years of cycling in and around Pretoria. Never.The only swearing takes place when there was an ACTION from the motorist FIRST. And that is where the 3 stories comes in and who's is longer and thicker and why don't you ride on the gravel and why warra warra warra..... Wait. Safe. PassSmile and wave. Yes it does, its called OVER REACTION. Happens a lot. I see it with my buddies often, ride 2 abreast, car hoots as it goes by, cyclists knows they were being a tad inconsiderate, instead of acknowledging the fault, they rather flip him the bird and shout some obscenity. Please lets not pretend that cyclists are incapable of over reactions.
Patchelicious Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 Nope, but if you are all single file and out of the road, do you think the motorist will wait behind till it is safe to pass, or just squeeze past and if something comes around the blind corner just pull into the cyclists. If you are in a group, the motorist has to pass you, they know running over a cyclist takes more time than actually passing when safe to do so. Sort of like making a motorist engage his common sense for him.Thats all I asked.
Bateleur1 Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 Very sad day. I cycle past there every day. Impatient driver passing on the left side in the yellow lane if I remember correctly. Passed there soon after it happened before any emergency vehicles arrived. I could not see into the ditch as we were approaching from the other side. All I saw was a bakkie in the ditch and only thought it was a vehicle that went of the road and the people standing there did not seem too stressed. Renate and I passed. Later found out what that a cyclists was hit there.
Joe Low Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 The OP would do well to better understand the rights and rules of road use. The expectation that cyclists should use the yellow lane and that there is such a thing as a "driving lane" are both misplaced. This could have affected the tone of their interaction with the cyclist, so eliciting the time-honoured response. Always best to see what you could have done better.
Sparki 1 Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 I think moondust and her husband got off lightly. She could have been beaten up and her hubby whacked in the jaw with a coffee mug. what ever did happen to that case? any1 know?
Patchelicious Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 I am actually flabbergasted. Since when does riding a bicycle give you the right to be a rude person?
Spinnekop Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 Pass him safely, make mention that he should rather move over, get shat on and then flamed on the Hub.I guess each to his own. I don't know why some people need to be opinionated. Why do some people HAVE to say something. Me......I drive off into the sunset and listen to good Rock n Roll in the. Cyclist holding me up for 1minute does not evoke enough emotion in me to come have a uitkak parade on a public forum, let alone winding my window down and giving them my own thoughts. But that is what makes this world such a marvellous place. Imagine how boring the world would have been if everyone was like me.
Spinnekop Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 Yes it does, its called OVER REACTION. Happens a lot. I see it with my buddies often, ride 2 abreast, car hoots as it goes by, cyclists knows they were being a tad inconsiderate, instead of acknowledging the fault, they rather flip him the bird and shout some obscenity. Please lets not pretend that cyclists are incapable of over reactions.You need to get new buddies.
bikebloke Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 this has soooo been done beforejust agree that you dont disagree and talk about bikes instead
Patchelicious Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 I think moondust and her husband got off lightly. She could have been beaten up and her hubby whacked in the jaw with a coffee mug. what ever did happen to that case? any1 know?Remember, that was a REaction to an action, motorist must have deserved it.
Patchelicious Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 I guess each to his own. I don't know why some people need to be opinionated. Why do some people HAVE to say something. Me......I drive off into the sunset and listen to good Rock n Roll in the. Cyclist holding me up for 1minute does not evoke enough emotion in me to come have a uitkak parade on a public forum, let alone winding my window down and giving them my own thoughts. But that is what makes this world such a marvellous place. Imagine how boring the world would have been if everyone was like me. Everybody has an opinion about everything. You have an opinion about this very thread. People don't HAVE to say something every time, but if they do, and they are not being rude, surely we as human beings don't have to over react like rabid apes. We are a society, we are not farm animals!
Patchelicious Posted January 10, 2017 Posted January 10, 2017 You need to get new buddies. Tell me about it!! But they party hard, so I like that about them!
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