cfcjim Posted July 22, 2018 Posted July 22, 2018 Your vehicle horn is to warn other road users you are in the immediate vicinity. NOT to blast them out of the way. Chris: I have read many of your posts and have the affinity of a fellow commuter. Braking was an option to avoid the possible fatal injury of a cyclist. No matter the behaviour of said eedjit. Your responsibility as the operator of a giant steel murder weapon is to ensure those more vulnerable than yourself are protected where possible. <some hyperbole may have been involved when composing this post>
Patchelicious Posted July 22, 2018 Posted July 22, 2018 Yesterday, Lady in Landrover Discovery tries to run me over while out on my bike, at the next traffic light I asked her why she tried to kill me. Her response: “because you cyclists have no right to be on the road” proceeds to speed off. WTAF
Bonus Posted July 22, 2018 Posted July 22, 2018 Yesterday, Lady in Landrover Discovery tries to run me over while out on my bike, at the next traffic light I asked her why she tried to kill me. Her response: “because you cyclists have no right to be on the road” proceeds to speed off. WTAF It's shocking that people actually think like that. It's also well worth knowing/being reminded that these people exist. Remember, when you think "he/she will never do such and such" well, some people actually might.
Pure Savage Posted July 22, 2018 Posted July 22, 2018 The behaviour of SOME cyclists do the rest of us no favours !! On Saturday morning at about 7:45 I was driving along Jip De Jager, direction Durbanville. Along the uphill section where it turns from 2 to 1 lane a group of about 6 or 7 cyclists are filling the cycling lane. Ample space for cars and cyclists. Now bear in mind there was THICK fog !! Next moment one idiotic cyclist swerves into the road, and slowly starts passing the group of cyclists - very slowly along the uphill !!! I tap my hooter to inform this brain dead moron that he has just swerved in front of group of vehicles, already pre-occupied with dealing with the 2-to-1 lane and poor visibility .... standing on the brakes to avoid this blithering idiot was not an option, not with cars right up my rear bumper in the thick fog .... blaring the hooter did get this idiot out the way, but obviously got the expected "gestures" .... Now bear in mind I AM a cyclist, I had my bike on the back of my car and DO give way where at all possible and safe to do so !! This blithering idiot was so busy "owning the road" that he probably does not even begin to realise that he:- put his own life in real danger- put the lives of the other cyclists in danger- put MY life and car danger .... Thankfully this type of behaviour is NOT the norm. Thankfully most cyclists actually do ride in a responsible manner !! Not to be that guy, but was that guy breaking any laws? He was passing slow moving traffic. Do you sit on your hooter every time a tractor or horse and cart have to pass a broken down car or single lane road?
Pure Savage Posted July 22, 2018 Posted July 22, 2018 Today on my ride with 3 year old, wife and 1 year old, we get to robot, push the button, wait for what the 3 year old felt was 4 weeks and then all green so we start trying to cross. This old dude with one foot in the grave had missed the white line so badly he was blocking the entire pedestrian lane, so when I asked him where the pedestrians should go, he hooted, waved his hands and shouted at myself and three year old. Now I have to explain to my child what a wank face is and the strange gesture I showed the oke.
Me rida my bicycle Posted July 22, 2018 Posted July 22, 2018 Today on my ride with 3 year old, wife and 1 year old, we get to robot, push the button, wait for what the 3 year old felt was 4 weeks and then all green so we start trying to cross. This old dude with one foot in the grave had missed the white line so badly he was blocking the entire pedestrian lane, so when I asked him where the pedestrians should go, he hooted, waved his hands and shouted at myself and three year old. Now I have to explain to my child what a wank face is and the strange gesture I showed the oke. would have been lot less explaining to do if you just walked over and slapped the taste out of his mouth. All you need to tell your son is see that how you treat an A hole.????????
Pure Savage Posted July 22, 2018 Posted July 22, 2018 would have been lot less explaining to do if you just walked over and slapped the taste out of his mouth. All you need to tell your son is see that how you treat an A hole. This old oke was genuinly cross that I rather politely asked where we should cross. Probably escaped out of Pinelands on Sunday afternoon....
Coolspin Posted July 23, 2018 Posted July 23, 2018 It make my blood boil really to read things like this. Motorists mst understand if they hit cyclist that outcome can be fatal.Cyclists have to understand this too, the way some ride in the middle of traffic lanes etc it seems many of them dont. See so many cyclists riding with no lights or flashers, dressed like ninjas on all black bikes etc. Sometimes the motorists really just dont see the cyclists.Riding 2 or 3 abreast and "owning" lanes is not the smartest move imo.I wonder if the Figo driver in this thread intentionally tried to run the OP off the road at the circle or just didnt see the cyclist.Maybe she did see him and thought she had right of way as she was at intersection before him.There is always 2 sides to a story and often fact lies inbetween. One thing for sure is that if a bicycle fights with a car, you will have to argue how right you are from a hospital bed if you are lucky enough to be alive.Me I yield to cars every time.
Kranswurm Posted July 23, 2018 Posted July 23, 2018 You must be this oke....keep up the good work ....would have been lot less explaining to do if you just walked over and slapped the taste out of his mouth. All you need to tell your son is see that how you treat an A hole.
ChrisF Posted July 23, 2018 Posted July 23, 2018 Your vehicle horn is to warn other road users you are in the immediate vicinity. NOT to blast them out of the way. Chris: I have read many of your posts and have the affinity of a fellow commuter. Braking was an option to avoid the possible fatal injury of a cyclist. No matter the behaviour of said eedjit. Your responsibility as the operator of a giant steel murder weapon is to ensure those more vulnerable than yourself are protected where possible. <some hyperbole may have been involved when composing this post> "slowing down" was an option, and it is what I did. BUT - do remember the THICK fog ! Slowing down along a straight road put me, the car behind me and the other cyclists AT RISK ... There was NO reason for the car behind me to expect a car along a straight road to suddenly slow down drastically .... Had he swerved to avoid me he could have wiped out 6 other cyclists ..... The mindless blithering IDIOT that thinks he owns the road put MANY lives in danger !!! That small percentage of cyclists are putting the rest of us in danger. And as long as we defend their idiotic behaviour there is no reason for them to start acting in a responsible manner ..... CONTEXT :- cycling lane- many riding IN the cycling lane- THICK FOG- road narrowing to single lane, with the resultant nervous car behaviour, made worse by the thick fog ....- I did blip the hooter to warn the cyclist of the danger, at a time when he could just as easily have pulled back into the pelleton ... he chose to move INTO the lane blocking the cars .... split second later and would not have time to slow down !!- in THIS context it is "not wise" to try and "own the road" on a bicycle .....
ChrisF Posted July 23, 2018 Posted July 23, 2018 Not to be that guy, but was that guy breaking any laws? He was passing slow moving traffic. Do you sit on your hooter every time a tractor or horse and cart have to pass a broken down car or single lane road? I trust my previous post provides more context .... Consider three situations :1) NO cycling lane .. I HAVE used my car to protect other cyclists and to hold back traffic. no hooting required, the cyclist has no other alternative. 2) Cycling lane used by cyclists ... everybody HAPPY. 3) majority of cyclists use the cycling lane ... one lone rider decides he wants to pass the peleton and moves into the "car lane", right in front of cars doing 60km/h .... a quick blip on the hooter should suffice to warn the cyclist of the real danger, and he DID have the opportunity to just pull back into the pelleton. For the cyclist to then pull right into the lane causes danger to everybody ....
Schnavel Posted July 23, 2018 Posted July 23, 2018 Yesterday, Lady in Landrover Discovery tries to run me over while out on my bike, at the next traffic light I asked her why she tried to kill me. Her response: “because you cyclists have no right to be on the road” proceeds to speed off. WTAF Had the exact same thing last weekend outside Broadacres shopping centre. Riding in the turning lane as we were turning right into the shopping centre. While riding and gesturing that we are turning right, a young gentleman in his fancy BMW pulls up behind us and starts hooting. He then pulls up next to us in the left lane and starts shouting at us that we must get out of the way as we have no right to be using the road. A simple wave and a smile at him, together with telling him to have a pleasant morning and that was the end of that... People are tw*ts.
Robbie Stewart Posted July 23, 2018 Posted July 23, 2018 You gotta love South Africa, with all the entitlement going around here.Cyclists vs CarsCars vs CyclistsRoad Cyclists vs MTB'sMTB's vs Gravel TravelYoung vs Old It all seems to me a lot like the old White vs Black slant, or the new Black vs White angle, whereby people seem to think "they" are in the right, and everyone else must just p!$$ off...I am so over it. (...grabs hat and heads off to the bar)
Eldron Posted July 23, 2018 Posted July 23, 2018 You gotta love South Africa, with all the entitlement going around here. Cyclists vs CarsCars vs CyclistsRoad Cyclists vs MTB'sMTB's vs Gravel TravelYoung vs Old It all seems to me a lot like the old White vs Black slant, or the new Black vs White angle, whereby people seem to think "they" are in the right, and everyone else must just p!$$ off... I am so over it. (...grabs hat and heads off to the bar)It's a common SA problem: "I'm obviously right so someone else is obviously to blame".
Grease_Monkey Posted July 23, 2018 Posted July 23, 2018 You gotta love South Africa, with all the entitlement going around here. Cyclists vs CarsCars vs CyclistsRoad Cyclists vs MTB'sMTB's vs Gravel TravelYoung vs Old It all seems to me a lot like the old White vs Black slant, or the new Black vs White angle, whereby people seem to think "they" are in the right, and everyone else must just p!$$ off... I am so over it. (...grabs hat and heads off to the bar)You forgot the most important and polarising issue of all: Normal bikes vs e-bikes.
Sparki 1 Posted July 23, 2018 Posted July 23, 2018 You gotta love South Africa, with all the entitlement going around here. Cyclists vs CarsCars vs CyclistsRoad Cyclists vs MTB'sMTB's vs Gravel TravelYoung vs Old It all seems to me a lot like the old White vs Black slant, or the new Black vs White angle, whereby people seem to think "they" are in the right, and everyone else must just p!$$ off... I am so over it. (...grabs hat and heads off to the bar)you sir have bigger fish to fry......you have a drinking problem
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