Thread: Cyclists.

Hopefully made the learner driver more aware of how stupid other road users can be !

Originally Posted by MrLandy

Not when the gravity of the situation is so grave, dangerous and drivers of 2+tonne vehicles constantly berate cyclists for getting in their way! Seriously? Just blow em all away?
(PS: John Wayne has always had a serious problem with his alpha-male bad attitude towards anyone who is not actually him, so in that sense yes the video perfectly illustrates the self-centred ****head drivers I'm constantly having to fend off while riding my bike!). I've actually nearly been killed too many times, so it's not funny to me in the context of this thread. I'm over it. You might change your tune if your were in my situation.

You have read more into that, than my high school English teachers read into Shakespeare, when I did the HSC.

This is the way this thread goes...

http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article...-and-heres-why

Pricey

Originally Posted by bee utey

Quite true. You could almost call it Unaustralian not to laugh at people actually getting hurt. Even better to pretend to shoot and kill people for fun. Quite hilarious, you know, to do "pretend" violence. Just like bullying is fun for the bullies. And it's clearly not intended to make boof heads laugh uproariously as they buzz another cyclist just minding their own business. Rofl. It's almost as funny as this picture:



No-one hurt here, must be almost-top grade humour too. Have a happy day.

Yes, its about as hilarious as persecuting an asylum seeker who just wanted his little daughter to be happy untill he gives up and attempts suicide, so you drag him off to hospital while leaving his little girl abandoned for two days, and then you drag the father off to a Nauru court and get him fined for attempting suicide because of your persecution. Hilarious. Don't believe me - it actually happened this week in one of our hellhole detention centres. What a laugh hey? Hilarious.
Sometimes I despair for this country.

Actually this is more like an asylum seeker being accepted to Australia from Syria or turkey or Iraq or Lebanon etc and offered a plane ticket to Oz but instead choosing to fly to Indonesia and hop on a leaky boat.

It's about mutual respect, if your LR lost high range 10km from home and you only had 1st and 2nd low , most of us would plod along but pull over into the breakdown lanes/ road shoulder to let traffic past. Now imagine if there was no vehicular traffic in your direction , but , there was a mass of cyclists on a single lane road stuck behind you, with heavy traffic heading in the opposite direction? Their all wanting to go 30-60kph and your stuck doing 10-15. Now for most of that road there is a rough break shoulder wide enough for you to use , similar to numerous cycle ways next to lots of roads, but because you have a right to be on the road refuse to use it. The cyclists can't because the shards and gouges would flatten their tyres or throw them off the bike.
The result of this is the cyclists spend 20 min doing a 5-7min section, several fall off as their feet are locked in and the wave effect means from the middle back they end up stopping suddenly for no apparent reason, whilst others get flat spots in their tyres jamming on the brakes, or making close encounters with the scenery when their brakes fail.
P.s I thought the John Wayne clip was excellent .

Originally Posted by frantic

Actually this is more like an asylum seeker being accepted to Australia from Syria or turkey or Iraq or Lebanon etc and offered a plane ticket to Oz but instead choosing to fly to Indonesia and hop on a leaky boat.

It's about mutual respect, if your LR lost high range 10km from home and you only had 1st and 2nd low , most of us would plod along but pull over into the breakdown lanes/ road shoulder to let traffic past. Now imagine if there was no vehicular traffic in your direction , but , there was a mass of cyclists on a single lane road stuck behind you, with heavy traffic heading in the opposite direction? Their all wanting to go 30-60kph and your stuck doing 10-15. Now for most of that road there is a rough break shoulder wide enough for you to use , similar to numerous cycle ways next to lots of roads, but because you have a right to be on the road refuse to use it. The cyclists can't because the shards and gouges would flatten their tyres or throw them off the bike.
The result of this is the cyclists spend 20 min doing a 5-7min section, several fall off as their feet are locked in and the wave effect means from the middle back they end up stopping suddenly for no apparent reason, whilst others get flat spots in their tyres jamming on the brakes, or making close encounters with the scenery when their brakes fail.
P.s I thought the John Wayne clip was excellent .

Sounds like they were not keeping a safe distance from each other and/or they are unroadworthy.

And if you could only do 10-15kmph you shouldnt be on the road, i think that is an offence as well.

Originally Posted by AndyG

Sounds like they were not keeping a safe distance from each other and/or they are unroadworthy.

And if you could only do 10-15kmph you shouldnt be on the road, i think that is an offence as well.

The John Wayne funny clip was a perfect example of not following road rules as a majority of his second "shots" where cyclists tailgating!

And there's the crux of the argument!
It's an offence for you to do 1/3 the speed of the surrounding road users IF your a registered road user , but perfectly fine if your unregistered on a push bike going uphill.
Now here's one for the backyard legalistas' , would it be an offence to be going to slowly in front of a group of cyclists who had no opportunity to pass safety? As your not actually blocking any registered vehicles how could it be?