Cyclists on SH16 this morning

[MSTRS:Me]

Lets not forget the rolling traffic blocking maneuver.

To all those who defend the cyclist's right to do whatever they want, without any consideration for powered vehicles - in fact, with outright selfish, arrogant behaviour - Flip's photos need no more explanation....
Cyclists like these are as bad as the dickheads that give bikers a bad name.

[imac]

...Did you also know that it is illegal to ride at a speed that you can't stop in half the clear distance ahead? I.....

I think that is only for roads not marked with a center line
Mac

[chasio]

To all those who defend the cyclist's right to do whatever they want, without any consideration for powered vehicles - in fact, with outright selfish, arrogant behaviour - Flip's photos need no more explanation....
Cyclists like these are as bad as the dickheads that give bikers a bad name.

Did anyone actually say that, though?

Got to agree, some shockingly bad road use on display. Just as well we're all

[neels]

Did anyone actually say that, though?

Pretty much, with the comments about cyclists being entitled to use of the road, and people should be more patient etc etc.

Fair enough sometimes, but the photos that have been posted show cyclists failing to follow the road code by;

Riding 2 abreast past parked vehicles
failing to ride as close to practical to the left
Failing to stay in their lane
Obstructing following traffic.

So while people should be more patient of reasonable cyclists, they are just as entitled to get pissed of with fucking ignorant ones.

[skinman]

I used to ride a road bike when younger, after the 3rd crsh caused by a car doing something stupid I took up Mountain biking as it was safer. Now im all grown up the toys are bigger & faster

[MattTLR]

In a previous life I was a half arsed reasonable cyclist (won a hand full of NZ track titles). In training I did +-700km a week, often up and down SH 16. Then due to a fucked ticker I started racing motorcycles. So, with foot in each camp, I feel able to comment impartially.

In the 25 yrs I rode bicycles, from 12 yrs old, I only got knocked off 3 times by cars when training (not a bad record compared to some). I usually rode by myself, and always stayed as far left as was possible, but still had to put up with some unbelieveable bullshit from people who felt that paying road tax meant thay had the right to behave like fuckwits.

Frequently when I went out on the bicycle I had to put up with completely unprovoked bullshit, I had my 5th metatarsal broken by a car clipping me by driving too close at high speed, I got wacked in the back with a stick by a pussy leaning out of a car who didn't have the balls to stop, and ultimately ended up going through the passenger window of a car turning across Don Bucks Rd who "didn't see me" (how many motorcyclists have heard that line).

I had trouble with cars (including an amusing incident with a dodgy pregant pissed Ho), buses (especially the pricks driving Commerical Buses based in New Lynn), and the Atlas Concrete trucks.......BUT....... never, never had a problem with motorcyclists.

We are on the same side. I only ever had positive interaction with blokes and blokesses on motorbikes'

Two suggestions -
1) a short friendly blip on the horn when you are coming up from behind to let the cyclist know you are there is usually enough for them to move over.
2) If you are in that much of hurry then you obviously have the speed of Rossi and maybe you need to get your prodigious skill onto the race track and prove just what a hero you are.

Remember - there are far more fuckwits behind the wheel of a car than are riding either bikes or motorbikes. Both groups are usually trying to keep ourselves alive, while car drivers couldn't give a shit.
So lets have less of this bollocks and support each other.

[Rych]

Thumbs up to that post ^^^^

Can't really put accusations against the sport it's the individual's involved. I've been given quite a bit of grief while riding out on the open road just on my own, on the white line, even left if I can, enjoying some exercise. Mostly young people yelling out abuse etc for no reason, had a bottle thrown at me once, not hit luckily.

If I rode past them on my R6 they would probably look with a little more respect, still on two wheels, same person different mode of transport.

[hellokitty]

was having a nice ride today up the Old North Road to Helensville - there was a pack of bicycles in a huddle and some dumb ass car on MY side of the road overtaking them on a sharp corner.
Luckily I was thinking about this thread and the thread about the car that knocked the guy and his daughter off (sorry forgot your name) and was expecting some form of idiocy, and so was well prepared

[MSTRS:Me]

....
Remember - there are far more fuckwits behind the wheel of a car than are riding either bikes or motorbikes. Both groups are usually trying to keep ourselves alive, while car drivers couldn't give a shit.
So lets have less of this bollocks and support each other.

Most of us would agree that respect and support are due ANYONE behaving responsibly in/on ANY SORT of vehicle. Act IRresponsibly, and no-one has the right to expect any sort of courtesy...
It is my belief that the more vulnerable one is, the more courtesy/responsibility one should demonstrate...if only to avoid becoming a victim of the more extreme examples of dickhead 'retaliation' from other road users. Or to avoid giving them any 'legitimate reason' to get aggressive.

[Voltaire]

did 300 odd kms around the Huntly area and SH 22....not one cyclist.....bugger all cars too.
..and not too boring if you go the back road from Papakura.

[Gareth51]

Going up our local Pae-kok hill,going round a corner to come across 2 cyclist one to the left and the other in the middle of the road,..leaving me enough room to go between them...............tempting as its was I didn't.

[Insanity_rules]

OMG.....held up for a few/seconds/minutes by cyclists......it really doen't get much worse that that....

I'll say...............

But having had the experience of a stupid cyclist wobbling into my path on a blind bend sure makes a change of pants a necessity.