Originally posted by MediaCreations
I always love the motorists who rev their cars madly and zoom past you at a million km/h so that they can beat you to the red light. You can almost hear the litres of petrol being sucked into the engine.
They're not nearly as much fun as the ones who sit at the traffic lights behind me, revving the living s**t out of their engine, then being the absolute
last ones to react when the light actually changes. I always get a chuckle out of them.
Originally posted by Khuon
What I don't do however is try and antagonise them (at least not without a quick getaway plan)...
I agree. Confrontation is always better avoided. However there's just something I've noticed from posts I've read here, and from people I've spoken to. A lot of cyclists seem to have something of an inferiority complex with regard to riding on the roads. Specifically, they seem to value the judgement of the motorist who is not in that position to their own judgement.
Basically, if a motorist tells them that riding on the road is "dangerous", they'll accept it on face value. Even if they've been riding on the road all day without incident. Again, this is something they simply would not do in any other facet of life.
Originally posted by jatkins679
[If that were to happen to me off my bike (say while locking it up), that motorist is really taking a big chance. I road away, avoided a confrontation, and now the other person has sought me out? In that sort of situation, that could very easily and reasonably be taken as being accosted,
I think there might be a bit of a misinterpretation here. The tone of the motorist isn't always confrontational in these situations (meaning that we need a non-confrontational way of telling them to mind their own business). However, in saying that, what gives them the right (politely or not) to pass judgement on the actions of a total stranger who is not breaking any laws, not affecting them in any way, and did not ask for their opinion?