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I had a disconcerting experience today. I was driving behind a cyclist on a mountain bike on the road. He was cycling slowly but all was ok. I waited to pass then overtook giving him room but then there was crossing furniture ahead and I had to turn in a little before I would have liked but not dangerously as I took account of the speed of the cyclist and the other hazards around. I stopped in a queue and he tapped on my window. He told me I’d cut him up dangerously and had it all on his camera. I said I thought I’d been ok and not cut him up but I apologised if he thought I had. His response was to call me a c**t and I was to apologise ‘to the fine’ when I receive it. I checked my dash cam which was inconclusive so maybe I’ll get to see his version one day. The thing was when I thought about it after I now think he was deliberately encouraging a situation where he had to be overtaken and was looking to be cut up or have someone overtake too closely. I’m all for safety and I cycle a lot and am for ever getting cut up etc (six stitches in hand after car door opened on me late last year) but I think we (cyclists) have to be careful not to fuel the bike v car debate by acting in such a way. Today I was a driver and tomorrow a cyclist – we’re all in this together and both drivers and cyclists must learn that we all make mistakes (I don’t think I did but we shall see) so we mustn’t assume that the other party is a c**t just because we’re in the other transportation category. He certainly didn’t help the cause of the rest of us cyclists by being so abusive. Comments or views?

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[Kirk Patric]

Maybe when he reviews the

Maybe when he reviews the footage He’ll decide it wasn’t as close as he thought, if not, and you did leave enough space, the police will.

What the cyclist was doing is irrelevant, you’re the one in control of a deadly weapon.  You have to give him enough space, whether you approve of his cycling or not. You don’t say how fast you passed him, maybe technically you left just enough space but he still got a blast from your wake, that can be frightening & annoying even if it wasn’t enough to be dangerous, the faster you pass, the more space you should leave. If you were as polite as you say then that’s the right thing to do and accept that, whether he assessed it correctly or not, he was a vulnerable road user who had just received a fright.

If the nature of the road was such that you didn’t see the street furniture until after you pulled out, you could always slow down and slot back in behind him rather than “turn in a little before I would have liked”

[hawkinspeter]

A problem that I

A problem that I
have with haikus is that I
always run out of

[mdavidford]

Take care what you ask.

Take care what you ask.

As the old saying has it,

You might just get it.

[brooksby]

Oh god what have I done…?

Oh god what have I done…? 🙁 😉

[chrisonabike]

A haiku you want?

A haiku you want?
You’ll wait until the snow comes!
Austerity, see?

[Fignon's ghost]

Just as the driver should’ve
Just as the driver should’ve done.
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Think outside the box.
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That’s it!.
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End
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[hawkinspeter]

Squirrels are not dumb

Squirrels are not dumb
They keep away from humans
They know what we’ve done

(by Jared Brace, 10, Springfield, Virginia)

[mdavidford]

It’s an austerity haiku –

It’s an austerity haiku – cost-of-living crisis and all that.

[brooksby]

No – you’ve got it all wrong.

No – you’ve got it all wrong.  A haiku should be in a 5-7-5 pattern (you’ve only done 2-5-3).

[BalladOfStruth]

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Why

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do you

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format your comments

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like that?

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[Flintshire Boy]

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Closed mind?

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That’s you, by the way.

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Sure looks like.

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[Fignon's ghost]

You might think yourself a
You might think yourself a proper cyclist. But it doesn’t seem to have sunk in that.
The rider didn’t have a metal safety cage.
The rider will obviously have had an adrenaline spike.
The rider believed you had caused unnecessary danger to his welfare.

If you fuck up. Be responsible. Accept the consequences and do better next time.
And move on!

[chrisonabike]

Never hidden on here…

Never hidden on here…

[mdavidford]

jh2727 wrote:

chrisonatrike wrote:

I don’t see “troll” in your list?

That’s “agender”.

Is that a hidden agender?

[jh2727]

chrisonatrike wrote:

I don’t see “troll” in your list?

That’s “agender”.

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