Health Getting hassled while exercising

[Dagless]

Like where trucks don't have enough room to pass them safely. Honestly there are some roads that are just blatantly too narrow. But good work with your cutting wit

They're a viable vehicle that deserves equal consideration on the road.


Truck drivers being too impatient for an appropriate time to pass is on them, not the cyclist. Car accidents in general are caused by a lack of concentration on the drivers behalf. Australian's can't really drive as far as I care (Gross generalisation noted). The funny thing is, the extreme organisation of our infrastructure makes people less conscious of what happens on the road around them, when it should be easy as hell.

 

[Gasometer]

There is a road where I live (country) where B doubles frequent in the mornings. It is a very narrow road, just wide enough for two cars to pass and it is 100kmhr.

The road is well signed for bike riders and there are two big pelotons that ride around the same time each day and within the local community is known as the bike route.

So do the B Dubs slow down?

Nup.

Total arseh*le drivers.

I just dont know what goes through their minds when they squeeze past at 100 kmhr.

One day someone will be hurt.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Sorry, but "two big pelotons" riding on a road like that is no less dumb than a mothers club deciding to walk down the middle of it with their prams.

 

[MarcusP2]

If they're serious club riders they can probably tick along at 50. Bit different to a leisurely stroll in a pram.

 

[The Slitherin' Snake]

If they're serious club riders they can probably tick along at 50. Bit different to a leisurely stroll in a pram.

If a car was doing 50 in a 100 zone would that be safe?

 

[bunsen burner]

Was "sock" a typo? Either way I never heard that one. Ind you, I didn't hang around the Scarborough beach front either.

Scarborough was never my hang out but for various reasons visited there occasionally around that time. But this catch cry was Perth wide. Heard it all over circa 1990.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Scarborough was never my hang out but for various reasons visited there occasionally around that time. But this catch cry was Perth wide. Heard it all over circa 1990.

I obviously hung around a higher class of person.

 

[Quivorir]

 

[Armesy]

I had a classic last month. Was doing a duathlon in a makeshift Santa suit as it was all a bit of fun for charity and while I was running along the beach some guy sitting in a deck chair yelled "You forgot your reindeer ya ******* *****."
I think he must have got some sh1t presents as a youngster. Was harbouring a lot of anger.

 

[J_Moore]

While walking home early one morning, I was hit flush in the middle of the back by something thrown from a passing car (would've been doing a decent clip). Was a pretty big whack - enough to knock me forward a bit and leave me feeling it the next day.

Turn around, and there's an unexploded water bomb on the ground. I shits youse not.

 

[Gasometer]

If they're serious club riders they can probably tick along at 50. Bit different to a leisurely stroll in a pram.

Yes they are do and yes it is a serious couple of outfits.

My point being that if you are 2 metres off the ground and driving a B Dub they are easily spotted so you would wonder why you cant slow down to 80km hr or less instead of being the coward and driving around them at 100km hr.



So anyway Mrs G says that someone has got on FB and done a rant today about a near miss with a B Dub whilst riding this morning. They got the company's name and one of the riders rang to complain about the driving of the truck.

Reply was 'nine out of ten bike riders are F***** anyway mate'.

The conversation went down hill from there..

 

[BomberFletch31]

My point being that if you are 2 metres off the ground and driving a B Dub they are easily spotted so you would wonder why you cant slow down to 80km hr or less instead of being the coward and driving around them at 100km hr.

Because 100km/h is the speed limit.

I don't get it: cyclists argue that drivers should leave a gap of at least 1m between them and the cyclist when passing, which I think is a fair enough request, but it's not as though that gap will magically disappear if they drive at 100km/h to overtake as opposed to 80km/h.

 

[Gasometer]

Because 100km/h is the speed limit.

I don't get it: cyclists argue that drivers should leave a gap of at least 1m between them and the cyclist when passing, which I think is a fair enough request, but it's not as though that gap will magically disappear if they drive at 100km/h to overtake as opposed to 80km/h.

Been in the vicinity of a B Double at 100kmhr within 1 metre have we?

 

[BomberFletch31]

Been in the vicinity of a B Double at 100kmhr within 1 metre have we?

Nope. Not having a go, just trying to work out the reasoning behind it.

 

[Djcjdees]

Funny similar story my old man told me... years ago they were driving along the Great Ocean Road, passing a cyclist, for whatever reason one of his mates throws a half-full Big M at the cyclist and hits him. Just being a Moo but he admits they all had a bit of a laugh.

At least 20 mins later of solid driving, they’re stopped in a shop near Lorne getting a drink, in behind them walks this (prob been exaggerated over the years) absolute behemoth in lycra, about 6 ft 4, built like a super-athlete and puffing like he’d just sprinted a marathon. “Oi Big M boy”... without a second’s hesitation he snots my old man’s mate, walks out, back onto his bike and rides off. Old man reckons they were that stunned they all just stood there staring at each other.

Left him with a fair sore nose and a black eye. Funny thing, the bloke he belted wasn’t even the one who threw it.

Moral: don’t throw shit at possibly elite athletes.

The moral is don't throw shit a people full stop.

 

[Gasometer]

Nope. Not having a go, just trying to work out the reasoning behind it.

The reason is that the drag acts like a vacuum.

Mr Truck Driver needs to have some common sense and share the road responsibly otherwise Mr Truck Driver will have someone under the back dog wheels and wonder wtf that bump was back there. Smart arses.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

The reason is that the drag acts like a vacuum.

Mr Truck Driver needs to have some common sense and share the road responsibly otherwise Mr Truck Driver will have someone under the back dog wheels and wonder wtf that bump was back there. Smart arses.

Mr Peloton of cyclists also need to grow a ****ing brain and realise they're not in the Tour de France, and never will be.

 

[Gasometer]

Mr Peloton of cyclists also need to grow a ******* brain and realise they're not in the Tour de France, and never will be.

Dont ride in one purely because of this I.N.

 

[BomberFletch31]

The reason is that the drag acts like a vacuum.

Mr Truck Driver needs to have some common sense and share the road responsibly otherwise Mr Truck Driver will have someone under the back dog wheels and wonder wtf that bump was back there. Smart arses.

Would it help if they left a bigger gap? Fact of the matter is that driving at a constant speed aids traffic flow. That's why people that merge onto freeways/motorways without first accelerating to match the speed of the traffic poses a danger.

Even if I were a cyclist, I would personally never ride on any road with a speed limit greater than 60km/h, because that is realistically the fastest that people on bikes would be able to ride. In Perth, cyclists are prohibited from riding on freeways and some 100km/h highways, presumably because of the safety hazard that such a speed differential would pose.

 

[courtjester]

Seriously, cyclists are getting out of hand around here. It's no wonder other road users get sick to death of their shit. They ride in their big clusters (pelatons ), take up the whole road, force drivers to drive on the opposite side of the road to o/take them, refuse to ride IN THEIR ALLOCATED LANE, wear lycra, completely **** up good coffee places with their presence, and think they're God's gift to humanity because they do some lame charity ride to raise money for cancer or some shit.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

That's what shits me the most, a ****ing bike lane is put in yet these w***ers take up the entire left lane, with their cyclist orgy.

Then get pissed off when someone cracks it and forces them off the road, get in the cycle lane provided or strap a ****ing engine on that two wheeler and get up to the bloody speed limit.

 

[Gasometer]

Would it help if they left a bigger gap? Fact of the matter is that driving at a constant speed aids traffic flow. That's why people that merge onto freeways/motorways without first accelerating to match the speed of the traffic poses a danger.

Even if I were a cyclist, I would personally never ride on any road with a speed limit greater than 60km/h, because that is realistically the fastest that people on bikes would be able to ride. In Perth, cyclists are prohibited from riding on freeways and some 100km/h highways, presumably because of the safety hazard that such a speed differential would pose.

It is an isolated road with very few cars are on it...it is country Vic...there is some earth moving works going on further down the road. It has been a road used by cyclists of all types (pelotons-individuals) for close to 30 years.

Occasionally I see a some joggers and walkers.

I am only thinking that the Truckies with dogs would use some common sense and slow down a little to suit the conditions and other users on the road.

 

[Dagless]

Seriously, cyclists are getting out of hand around here. It's no wonder other road users get sick to death of their shit. They ride in their big clusters (pelatons ), take up the whole road, force drivers to drive on the opposite side of the road to o/take them, refuse to ride IN THEIR ALLOCATED LANE, wear lycra, completely **** up good coffee places with their presence, and think they're God's gift to humanity because they do some lame charity ride to raise money for cancer or some shit.

Would you prefer 30 bicycles lined up in a row in the bike lane, disallowing left turns?
It isn't really a viable alternative. And I've never even ridden in one of them.

'Their' allocated lane is one of the most dangerous places on the road, primarily because drivers don't consider it an 'actual' vehicle lane.

 

[Sydney Bloods]

Would you prefer 30 bicycles lined up in a row in the bike lane, disallowing left turns?
It isn't really a viable alternative. And I've never even ridden in one of them.

'Their' allocated lane is one of the most dangerous places on the road, primarily because drivers don't consider it an 'actual' vehicle lane.

Yes I would very much prefer that as for dangerous I don't see how I've never felt the inclination to just cut across a bike lane and I don't merge or turn without looking.

If they hold up a vehicle turning for a few minutes who cares its better then holding up ALL traffic when you can't overtake them.

As for the pissing and moaning cyclists whinge about safety demand bike lanes (which motorists pay for), they get them then don't bloody well use them "for safety"

And you wonder way people hate bike riders. When I lived in Sydney my work place used to drink at a pub on the corner of Kent and erskin street, called the office. Every Friday night we played rumpelstiltskin.

That is you take a shot everytime a cyclist ran a red light and nearly got taken out by a bus/car or sometimes other cyclists.

I don't think I ever left that pub sober once. Cyclists don't follow any of the road rules don't pay Rego then finally to solve the problem of the cyclist hazard you don't use the solution.

Thankfully on the coast the riders aren't as bad but this because the cops hassle them atleast once a week I see the cops pull a Lycra boy over just past the sundale bridge for their antics.

 

[Poseidon]

As for the pissing and moaning cyclists whinge about safety demand bike lanes (which motorists pay for), they get them then don't bloody well use them "for safety"

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