Cyclists 6 abreast

[HenryDorsetCase]

The government should make it illegal for cyclists to ride 2 or more abreast. It's very dangerous and irresponsible for them to not ride single file. The lucky survivors are the first to complain when they get hit.

fixed that for you.

[EJK]

Here's a funny contradiction to the other thread:

From: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...yclists-deaths

"King had been driving on the Morrinsville-Walton Rd at about 9am when she collided with a group of cyclists travelling in the opposite direction.

The riders were travelling in a group of 10."

Wonder what else happened there.

[Jantar]

The government should make it illegal for cyclists to ride 2 or more abreast. ....

It is already illegal to ride more than 2 abreast, and it is illegal to ride 2 abreast if that causes an obstruction to other traffic. So no law change needed, just enforcement of the current law to the same extent that speeding laws are enforced.

[imdying]

Install a Stebel on ya bike...

This.

I once saw a cyclist fall off a bike due to being tooted at by a horn that had been 'liberated' from NZ Rail. He'll think twice about using someones car as a leaning post at the lights (put your feet down you stupid gits) from now on I expect.

[Flip]

I am a cyclist.

What I do in a old MG I own is..... as I come up behind them I push the brake pedal hard and the car locks up a rear inside wheel. The plonkers move dam quick when they hear a car skidding behind them.

I have posted these pics before, but I had to wait for miles behind these morons..... The ute has ABS so I can't lock up a single wheel.

Blocking the road going up hill, blocking the road going down hill. Blocking the road on the wrong side of the road (Darwin Award). I just left these fuckwits do their own thing, they were just too stupid to survive. They are only worth 100 hours comunity service now days.

[ellipsis]

....I travelled that same road for years , most days Flip, tuesday mornings was a regular ride for some of the biggest bunch of wankers you would ever want to meet on a public road.They became such a hassle to all other road users that the Lyttelton cops had a book full of complaints from as broad a cross section of drivers as you could get...stories of being stuck behind them from Govs to after where your photos were taken were common...actual physical abuse to some drivers who tried to get past and deliberate impeding of paying road users was also common...I watched them beating the shit out of a car driven by a rather mature woman who took advantage of a clear way past up above Rapaki...when I got to Lytt I approached the woman who had stopped and asked how she felt about what had just happened...she said it happened a bit on occasions where a lot of these twats were out there causing mayhem...she also said she was the chairperson of the Inner Harbour Safer Communities Board and that she had made representations on numerous occasions to the local police, council and traffic authorities, to no avail...after that , they got no mercy from me...wanna fuck with a truck, feel free...

[rustic101]

I am a cyclist.

I have posted these pics before, but I had to wait for miles behind these morons..... The ute has ABS so I can't lock up a single wheel.

Take the fuse out you should be able to lock it up then.

[Woodman]

About a month ago me and Mrs Woodman got in the car to go to town, and just down the road from home we noticed some elderly men in hivis vest sitting on chairs at a few intersections. We concluded that there must be some sort of event on round our place.(clever aye)
On the way back we had trouble getting to our steet and eventually found a way, but at the bottom of a hill a marshall (for want of a better name) noticed us in the car and came running over in a panic and told us to stop where we were because a bunch of cyclists was coming round the corner and down the hill. We waited a wee while and this big bunch came hairing round the corner and down the hill on the wrong side of the road followed by a motorcycle who beeped to the marshall as he passed, who then said we could proceed, which we did only to be almost tee boned by 2 cyclists at the intersection.
They are a bunch of arrogant pricks IMHO, firstly no one in the suburb knew that there was a race on. We were basically blocked in. Why could they not inform the residents?
Secondly,the marshalls were useless
Thirdly,how come they can have a race on an open road/ street network, and ride on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic. The port nelson motorcycle races had to change the track to a more dangerous option because of noise. Double standards here me thinks.

i could go on.

[Katman]

Say.... If it was to be converted in monetary figure, that's....
(say minimum wage) $13 * 100 = $1,300.

Their life's worth $1,300 each. Equavalent to a 42" TV.

Fuck. That. Shit.

You could have got 6 points in total.

So which is it - $1300 or 1 point?







Twat.

[Shaun]

Cyclists should be BANNED from the 100K Zone full stop, tourist the fukin lot, they are an accident weighting to happen, causing huge tracffic flow problems, in turn causing impatient agressive driving causing more road crashes causing more deaths.


Organised traffic control Races only

[Swoop]

The government should make it illegal for cyclists to ride 2 or more abreast.

As stated, it already is. They may ride two abreast, BUT when passing a parked car they must ride single file.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Cyclists should be BANNED from the 100K Zone full stop, tourist the fukin lot, they are an accident weighting to happen, causing huge tracffic flow problems, in turn causing impatient agressive driving causing more road crashes causing more deaths.


Organised traffic control Races only

How do they train for organised traffic control races in that scenario?

[Maha]

''they are an accident weighting to happen''

Thats a rather heavy accusation.

[shrub]

Cyclists should be BANNED from the 100K Zone full stop, tourist the fukin lot, they are an accident weighting to happen, causing huge tracffic flow problems, in turn causing impatient agressive driving causing more road crashes causing more deaths.


Organised traffic control Races only

you have a point. There are some roads that are just dangerous for cyclists to ride on, so they should be banned from riding on them. The 2 abreast rule should be canned - there is no need to have a chat to your mates while you're riding.

I find a really good way to fuck them off is overtake and then slow right down. Going down hill it means they ,miss out on their thrill, but going uphill really does their heads in - if you slow down to a crawl and stop they lose all momentum and it's bloody hard to get back on 2 wheels on a steep hill. They also hate it when I ride beside them in first gear - drowns out their conversation.

BTW I am also a cyclist, but ride solo and around town only.

[Shaun]

How do they train for organised traffic control races in that scenario?

Im not god mate and cannot be bothered even thinking about it to be honest.

All I know is they are dangerous to them selves and a Total pain to the drivers/riders to be riding the way most do, and trying to police them and the 2 abreast rule is near on impossible as there is to much scum out there for the police to deal with now ( Not on the roads, P drugs granny bashers etc)

I personally carry a bottle of water with Food dye in it and SQUIRT the shit out of any arse holes taking up the road in a 100k zone.

Yes I am a prick, but most know that anyway