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Old 07-10-12 | 06:57 AM
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corvuscorvax
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Originally Posted by flipped4bikes
You know what really ticks me off? Is bicyclists filtering past other bicyclists. We were on this group ride and this one rider was slower than most. In an effort to keep up with the group, she would filter to the front whenever were stopped for a light or stop sign. A lot of us got PO'd because we had to pass her again when we got moving.
This. What is it about cyclists thinking they should be stopped six feet ahead of all the other traffic at the light, including other cyclists who were waiting at the limit line before they arrived at the intersection?

The worst example of this I can think of is the New York City Century, where this behavior is epidemic. I can remember doing it one time when a group of three slower riders would filter past us at a red light, ride ten miles an hour in front of us until traffic cleared and we got a chance to pass, then would do exactly the same thing at the next light, and the next, and the next, for twenty miles across Queens. I wanted to give them a sound beating with my pump by the time we finally managed to clear them for good.
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