Motorists vs Cyclists.... again

[Edition 507]

2 hours ago, Hairy said:

K@K, you can be both no. 1 & 2

Ja, when I k@k I also do a number 1 & 2

[Thomo]

1 hour ago, W@nted said:

The issue is the general selfish mentality in SA.

This.! The sense of entitlement is crazy and evident all the time.

Nothing and nobody else matters to these individuals.

[RustyHWR]

2 hours ago, Hairy said:

K@K, you can be both no. 1 & 2

I think @Milosh meant it differently than what most people reading in it? 

[DieselnDust]

2 hours ago, ChrisF said:

 

Getting worried now .... so when I commute to work, am I not allowed to use the cycle lane to the trails for recreational riding, before commuting back home on roads that dont have cycling lanes ....

 

 

Aaaa damn this ... time to go RIDE my bikes ....

 

Oops, sorry for the double space 😉

just make sure you avoid the cyclelanes ok

[DieselnDust]

1 hour ago, Edition 507 said:

Ja, when I k@k I also do a number 1 & 2

what is your pronoun.....?

[Hairy]

3 hours ago, Milosh said:

With respect that is then your take 😉

With the utmost respect, I have lived the life of 1 and 2 for a good many years, on a daily basis, come rain or shine or $#^%# muggers.

[Hairy]

1 hour ago, Edition 507 said:

Ja, when I k@k I also do a number 1 & 2

I think you should have that looked at if they are coming out of the same hole .... either that or you ride e-bikes on flat tracks to get starbucks.

[Hairy]

3 hours ago, Milosh said:

With respect that is then your take 😉

Oh, historic proof that you can cycle on the lanes to go ride up the mountain and then cycle to work on the same ride .... mind blown
 

 

[Hairy]

2 hours ago, droo said:

Does he still ride bikes recreationally?

When I do ride bikes these days, my fitness is so trashed that it DOES NOT feel like recreation

[Hairy]

33 minutes ago, RustyHWR said:

I think @Milosh meant it differently than what most people reading in it? 

Tsek, your opinion does not matter as you laughed at this 🤣

[ChrisF]

4 hours ago, NotSoBigBen said:

I'm not sure about where most of you ou's come from but at least here on the Highveld bicycle commuters (the correct name for those going to work?) ride into oncoming traffic and don't give 2 hoots about cycle lanes ....

 

Seeing more and more kids and rural commuters riding on the wrong side .... pretty darn dangerous ....

[NotSoBigBen]

1 hour ago, ChrisF said:

 

Seeing more and more kids and rural commuters riding on the wrong side .... pretty darn dangerous ....

I chatted to a chap quite a while ago and he told me they want to see the cars so they can avoid something happening. Often they are riding in dawn and dusk lighting...

[Mook]

13 hours ago, NotSoBigBen said:

I chatted to a chap quite a while ago and he told me they want to see the cars so they can avoid something happening. Often they are riding in dawn and dusk lighting...

Ja right 😵

These dingbats want to see oncoming traffic, yet they can't be bothered to push an oncoming cyclist into the roadway because they wont budge to allow him/her/them to pass safely without being run over from behind.

In my parts of the Cape Winelands, this has become way too frequent. Sometimes they are 2 abreast, spread across the width of the yellow shoulder.

OK, admittedly the majority of these riders are NOT cyclists. Bicycles are mere means of transportation. Cars and trucks however do not discriminate between a R50k or R500 bicycle.

Ai, ai, ai 👽

[StripesOfYellow]

14 hours ago, NotSoBigBen said:

I chatted to a chap quite a while ago and he told me they want to see the cars so they can avoid something happening. Often they are riding in dawn and dusk lighting...

One thing I've always wondered is what do they intend to do if they see a car coming? A lot of roads have no shoulders and high kerbs, so there's no room to go. Do they intend to try and hop onto the kerb? How is that safer than just riding with traffic? Not to mention you have so much less reaction time and cars aren't expecting people to be coming from that direction, so many won't even bother to look there before pulling into the road.

[Robbie Stewart]

During my ride this morning I was certain I was about to witness a car completely broadside a cyclist who decided to cross over the road without stopping. This lady, riding a fairly upmarket road bike but dressed casually, complete with flip flops and no helmet, decided to roll up to the stop and without looking to see if there was traffic approaching from her right just proceeded to pedal straight into the path of an oncoming car. I shouted at her to stop but she just waved her hand at the car and told me "ek het hom nie gesien nie". Sometimes I wonder if these people are intentionally living in lala land or if they are competing for a Darwin award. Either way, this antie doesn't realise how close she came to finding out what happens when the lights are forever switched off.