[don simon fbpe]

Out for a pootle today as the weather’s quite mild and it’s nice to get outside. Most of my UK riding is done on cycle paths due to dickhead drivers.
Today’s ride was the Millennium/Dee coastal path and the spur up towards Parkgate. A nice wide path which is used by many local clubs of which I have complained about before. It’s a shared path you dickheads!
Anyway, back to today, oncoming club ride with riders taking up most of the path, no obvious shouts from the “leader” nor hand movements. I will always take the primary position and more than happy to let other path users have 50% of the path. One of this club, who I know and will be contacting, shouted to “move over”.
I passed them again as they were returning back up Wirral to their club in the north, again holding the primary position and this time hearing the shout of “push him over”.

This is not the attitude I’d expect from a cyclist and especially not in the current era where cyclists have been pushed and seriously injured by dickhead drivers.

I will be contacting the club and asking that this dickhead rider justifies his comments.
Rant over.

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[peted76]

Name the club. 

Name the club. 

Clubs need to know when their ‘acceptable riding’ is unacceptable.

 

[don simon fbpe]

To be fair, not all drivers

To be fair, not all drivers close pass.

[don simon fbpe]

It was just the one fella in

It was just the one fella in this particular club ride, I’ve had banter with other members on other rides. There does seem to be a common trait among the clubs around here where they think they are superior to other shared path users.

I have video and Strava to show how one group overtook me then slowed down, I wasn’t up for the future cat and mouse had I overtaken them that I assumed would happen.

Most just ride en peloton, which is why I assume a position to hold 50% of the path. I am also deranged enough to take the head on collision.

[hawkinspeter]

I don’t ride in a club (I

I don’t ride in a club (I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member), but I’m sure they all vary a lot with their percentage of idiots. Those riders do sound like selfish idiots though.

[Eton Rifle]

To be fair, not all clubs are
To be fair, not all clubs are the same. One comprising hard-core roadies is very different to a social group. I belong to the local CTC group and they’re a lovely bunch.

[Kapelmuur]

Similar experiences involving

Similar experiences involving club riders are the reason I’ve never joined a club.

My favourite was the time one of a group shouted “slow down so we can get past you”.   I suggested that they pedal harder.

When I looked later at footage from my rear facing camera these guys had emerged from a side road , spotted me ahead and sprinted hard to catch up.   They couldn’t pass because they were in the red and actually no quicker than me.

Sadly I have other examples of unpleasant behaviour by club groups most of them wearing the jersey of the leading club in my area.

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