Club run abuse

As a driver/cyclist/road user
As a driver/cyclist/road user I get abuse daily and I won’t speed up on a 30mph doing 33mph and tailgated -why should I get a ticket?

Cycling – well I don’t get much abuse as I just ignore it.

I don’t go training at peak times and if I am going up a steep hill and holding 5 cars up I usually wave them on or stop to let them through.

Car drivers-leave earlier.
Cyclists – ignore the prats.

I would say yes a helmet cam is a good idea.

What state of mind sane person would hurl abuse? nutters.

Stay positive and don’t react to their behaviour – there is a reason for it but don’t waste your life thinking about it and enjoy your ride.

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Excellent suggestion.
Excellent suggestion.

I passed the same club run
I passed the same club run twice today – both times they were so disorganised that I expected abuse from the passing traffic. Some of them were all over the place, despite shouts from one of their number to single out They didn’t receive any abuse, and rightly so, but after waiting for the cars to pass, I was nearly touching the white line to overtake them. Can’t help sympathising a little if any drivers were frustrated by them.

Motorists are massively
Motorists are massively subsidised, they pay nothing like what they should do. Private motoring is a net drain on the economy. As an example of the war waged by the motorist, the revenue generated by car parking barely even covers the cost of pavement damage caused by motorists parking and driving on the pavement, that’s before taking into account the cost of enforcement, revenue collection and the cost in injuries to pedestrians forced to use these facilities vandalised by the private motor vehicle owner. The space wasted on publicly subsidised car parking spaces could be put to better use as segregated bicycle and improving existing walking infrastructure which would reduce the “need” for on-street parking itself.

Just how true is this perception that motorists are so unfairly taxed?

Well in the financial year 2006-07 £28.43bn was raised from taxes on fuel and Vehicle Excise Duty (VED).

In the same year around £8.78bn went toward maintenance and £11.91bn new road building, but that is not the whole story.

The cost of policing the roads and the expense incurred by the judicial system has been estimated to be £3bn.

Also, the cost to the NHS of injuries due to road accidents crashes, according to figures from collated by RoSPA, was £9.93bn.

So the total cost to government was £33.62bn, meaning there was a short fall of £5.19bn, which had to be covered from other non-motoring related taxation.

In addition there is the cost to businesses and other drivers due to delays caused by congestion, estimated by those rampant greens, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), to be about £19.1bn.

Even this does not cover the whole cost of motoring to the nation as a whole, there are a large raft of hidden costs borne by all UK tax payers, these include –

* Noise pollution: in the form of lowered house prices, spoilt semi-natural areas, ill-health and disturbed sleep, estimated to cost £3.1bn

* Air pollution (not including CO2): estimated to be between £8.5 billion and £20.2 billion a year and this is likely to be an under-estimate! When looking at the costs associated with global warming, the figures are more difficult to pin down, but have the potential to dwarf our entire economic system. Transport contributes about 23% of UK domestic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and road transport is responsible for 93% of this.

* Water pollution: in the form of run-off into rivers and drainage of leaking oil, break fluid, exhaust and soot from vehicles, rubber particulates from tyres and salt used in winter. Again estimated costs are uncertain, but are somewhere between £1bn and £16bn per year.

* Costs to health due to lack of exercise: the British population is one of the fattest in Europe. The direct cost of obesity to the NHS is £0.5bn per year, the indirect health impacts of physical inactivity, estimated to be £10.7 billion per annum, and on top of that the indirect cost to the UK economy is at least £2bn per year.

* Insurance: Car insurance is a competitive business. Figures released by the Association of British Insurers show that the payouts to road users were not covered by their premiums. The average shortfall for the five years from 1988 to 1992 was £626 million per year. In other words, insurance companies are charging more on other kinds of insurance to subsidise motorists.

* The cost of repairing pavements damaged by illegal parking: this has been estimated to cost in the region of £234m a year and that does not include the cost of policing, installing bollards and other devices to stop vehicles parking illegally or the cost of compensation claims for trips and falls caused by this damage.

The simple inconvenient fact is that it is 18% cheaper to run a car now than twenty years ago.

This shows that “the motorist”, far from being unfairly taxed, is being heavily subsidised by the non-motoring tax payers.

So it is motorists that are the free loaders on Britain’s roads, not the long suffering cyclists and pedestrians.

This is now the norm it would
This is now the norm it would appear. I had an old boy in a nissan estate honking me whilst right on my back wheel up a single track lane into Fradley the other week. I stopped and asked him where he’d prefer I ride. “In the ditch for instance” to which he replied ” I should get out of the effing way” !

Morons that would benefit from a slap I’m afraid !

What can you do?

I have given up being annoyed
I have given up being annoyed or even disbelieving.
It is not just cyclist. The number of T**** who passed me yesterday morning is crazy. I was in the car, on a stretch of road well known for der and boar crossings. It was dark and I felt that at 40ish I was going too fast to definitly stop if some thing walked out in front of me. Yet I ws passed time and time again ina 3 mile stretch by cars that then closed up behind another vehicle that blocked their daft driving for 3 or 4 miles. they gained a good 10 seconds. It is just that so many people want to rush. I have mates that go everywhere on the speed limit rather than the 10 below that I do. I pointed out once that their 25 mile commute was about 3 minutes longer than mine and a lot more expensive.Do they change? Nope.
I reckon the issue with club runs is that a group is hard to overtake as it strings out. A tractor at the same speed is short and also hard to kill. Many drivers are scared of their skill levels and over react. Many are just ill mannered tossers who should crash and burn.