Cyclists on the Franschhoek pass

[Quagga]

You have the right to your wrong opinion. 

Now you make even less sense....

 

I have told MANY cyclist that they are endangring their lives and that they make the rest of us look stupid. 

 

What you do is seeing something wrong and then moaning about it a day later with VERY little effect on the problem at the time

[porqui]

At least name and shame!!!

 

Or else shoesh.

 

I'm one of those pain in the butt okes that would have stopped in the middle of the road and given them a lecture. I'm sure all other motorists would have understood and supported you and given you encouragement.

 

Just do it.

 

How are you so sure they are going to read this thread?

(Oh you know who they are)

[Chris_]

You have the right to your wrong opinion. 

 

This is just not cricket, come on friend...

[fanievb]

You have the right to your wrong opinion. 

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[Quagga]

Sounds to me like the OP is one of those who moans about the state of the roads, then skips Stop steets and texts while driving....

[Jase619]

You have the right to your wrong opinion. 

 

Just because their opinion doesn't agree with yours, doesn't make it wrong. . . 

[PhilipV]

Don't worry, those of us who drive the pass regularly (read, nearly every weekday) know to look out for cyclists, to take it chill and not to speed. 

Those were not the first cyclists to ride next to each other on the pass, and not the only cyclists on the pass yesterday. Flip, even the truck drivers have a lot of grace for the cyclists. You should too. 

 

And BTW, the only cycle related accident in the last while, was the bus with the rugby team that came in too hot into the hairpin bend and lost control. that was no fault of the cyclists, they were sadly in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

[L46]

Titleist, this is not golf

[Slowbee]

Oi! You guys really have your knickers twisted so early in the year.

 

Stop attacking the OP for asking for cyclists to be vigilant.

 

We say it to each other all the time in all the threads. Even the ones on safety.

 

But to echo another post on this thread, if you knew they were a professional team, you should take it up with their team management. Be the change.

[Dirkitech]

This thread got me thinking and maybe I should ask this in a separate thread or resurrect the small-arms thread, but how safe is it to stop cyclists lately? I do agree that speaking out and holding trespassers accountable, but it sounded like OP was alone and how safe is it really to confront 4 cyclists riding 2 abreast when you're alone? If they are willing to ride 2 abreast outside the yellow, what else are they capable of?

(if those riders in question happen to read this, I'm just using you as an contextual example - I wasn't there and don't know if you were avoiding potholes in the yellow while checking your buddies' wheels for trueness)

[Mamil]

To be sure .... and face the barrage of abuse and aggression one routinely gets from fellow cyclists when politely pointing out that it's poor form to roll over the single file please signs on Chappies while chatting two abreast etcetera ....

 

Look at the hostility OP's post elicits here about cyclist bashing and so on when all he's done is make a cogent and reasonable appeal to us to ride in single file up a dangerous road.

 

 

Is there not a number of Lookout Points on the pass, both sides?

Surely if it caused so much angst in you, you could have stopped at one of the lookout points, and corrected them in the error of their ways.

I mean really, if it bothered you that much, do something about it, there and then.

[MintSauce]

I once nearly ran over two cyclists while driving up Du Toits Kloof Pass. I was doing 100km/h (the legal limit on the pass) and came around a corner and there they were, chatting away in the middle of the road. This is the reason I understand the OP's views on this type of behaviour.

 

That day I didn't do a thing. I didn't hoot (not even friendly hoots). I didn't gesticulate. I didn't slow down or stop and politely ask them to consider their actions. That is because every time I have done this, I have been met with aggression, swearing and the middle finger.

 

***Every. Single. Time.

 

I completely understand why motorists think cyclists are wankers.

 

 

 

***Except that time I jokingly asked a paraplegic cyclist if he should be running red lights if he was already in a wheelchair...he took it surprisingly well 

[PingPong]

All I can say is it was not 'zoom zoom Froome' he was in mpumalanga today so not really a biggie who was going up Franschhoek pass

[DieselnDust]

Argh man just another en-titlist with a bee under his cycling bonnet.

Pass is legal to cycle so learn to drive safer and think ahead

[DieselnDust]

Sounds to me like the OP is one of those who moans about the state of the roads, then skips Stop steets and texts while driving....

I bet he drives a 4tjuna

[Chingy182]

This thread got me thinking and maybe I should ask this in a separate thread or resurrect the small-arms thread, but how safe is it to stop cyclists lately? I do agree that speaking out and holding trespassers accountable, but it sounded like OP was alone and how safe is it really to confront 4 cyclists riding 2 abreast when you're alone? If they are willing to ride 2 abreast outside the yellow, what else are they capable of?

 

(if those riders in question happen to read this, I'm just using you as an contextual example - I wasn't there and don't know if you were avoiding potholes in the yellow while checking your buddies' wheels for trueness)

I would initiate the confrontation by opening my car boot to display to them my bike rack and all my spare wheels, tools and empty quarts of beer I'm going to return for a deposit someday to show them I'm coming from a friendly place -  and hope they'd see it that way