Face-Plant

mikeybikes

I find this funny personally.

I frequent Subaru forums, and have yet to see one thread about idiot bicyclists.

Yet, here we have someone driving their car complaining about idiot bicyclists.

Santaria

Let me see if I can put this in polite terms.

I'm sorry that you dealt with two bad riders while driving your car. I'm not entirely sure what I can do to make them not bad riders, or even who they are or, for that matter, where and who you are.

Since I am currently limited by a complete, and total lack of information I can only say that I didn't come to the forums today to hear about your adventures in driving.

So while I really could have avoided clicking this, I knew in advance that this post would be another:

While I was driving, cyclist(s) did something wrong. Isn't that a shame? Thread.

In conclusion, please consider my apology for being funny at your expense with all sincerity. Unfortunately, you still have come across as an ******* who wanted sympathy for dealing with poor (or perhaps scared? cyclists).

In the future, I recommend you either scream and yell at them about how they should ride in accordance with your standards, or perhaps you should find something to busy your day enough that you don't feel compelled to start "I took a **** and ate lunch" threads.

Sincerely,
Santaria

mikewille

Congratulations(not sarcastic), you successfully and calmly maneuvered your vehicle around an obviously inexperienced/distracted/inebriated cyclist and his buddy. I hope someone makes the same effort to give me lanespace when passing if I pull some kind of stupid move while riding. Lighten up, everyone, it's just words on a screen. Thought I was in A&S for a minute there...

I-Like-To-Bike

From a reply to a different "I took a **** and ate lunch" thread on Commuting

IMO, BF Commuting list could use an enema on all the gratuitous rants about the trials and tribulations and insignificent slights to the whiners, and alleged misdeeds of the other cyclists and motorists whom they encounter when they venture out of the safety of their house -

Boo Hoo somebody didn't wave; WAA-WAA I saw a cyclist who was/wasn't wearing (fill in the blank); Grr-Grr someone used different equipment than me; Yip-Yip somebody did/didn't ride like I would. Its too hot/it's too cold Yap, Yap Yap.

wunderkind

I think it's because alot of commuter cyclists are former car drivers or have driven cars. So now that they started cycling to work during their drive, they will notice other cyclists' behaviors more.
I don't take offence to such posts. In fact to me I see it as another "Not to do as a cyclist" observation. There seem to be a sense of cyclists are above reproach kinda mentality. A coin has two sides as they say.
OP, if you feel upset at the idiotic behaviour of those roadies, you can always 'wash your windshield' after you pass them. Works great dealing with obnoxious Harley riders. <--- So I was told!!!

aley

If the OP posted to a car forum about how he'd been riding his bike and some driver had buzzed him, how much sympathy do you think he would have gotten? How much scorn? How many people agreeing, "Yeah, no wonder cyclists don't like us!"

I mean, really, what did the OP expect? I imagine that many here would agree that there some cyclists don't ride particularly well, just as most would agree that there are some drivers who don't ride particularly well. The difference is that threads discussing ways of dealing with poor drivers are relevant to this forum, while threads discussing ways of dealing with poor cyclists while we're driving are generally not relevant. Should the OP expect applause for posting an off-topic rant, particularly one that indicates by its title that it's an issue that's been hashed out to death here anyway?

lil brown bat

It isn't and it wouldn't. But thanks for playing.

h. bicycletus

". . . on their way to the local park MUP so they can buzz walkers .."

so, is the OP a bit presumptious and judgmental from the start? and expecting some love from a commuting forum. . .?

slloth

I want 20 seconds of my life back! I was waiting for something and it never came. Those guys where probably on their way back from pizza and beer! Probably too much beer!

grolby

Two bikes, one car, eh? Sounds like they were moving at the speed of traffic. What's the problem?

Luddite

I LOL'd, and I concur.

Dude, stop thinking like a cager and get rid of that 4 wheeled agent of death!

ChipSeal

I am impressed with OP's superior automobile skills! I reckon he displayed the lightning fast reflexes and precise maneuvering skills of a Formula One race car driver! I wish I could've been there to see it!

I am dismayed that you left out details that would have made this an epic thread, though. You never said whether or not the cyclists were wearing helmets or not. That is truly a grievous oversight on your part!

Perhaps you should find a different route between "lunch" and work, so that you can stop annoying the cyclists by driving on their road.

therhodeo

From its placement in the story it would seem that way but a coworker and I watched them for probably 10 minutes out our window so I had actually observed them buzzing walkers and joggers.

lil brown bat

How is it possible to observe cyclists who are in motion ("buzzing walkers and joggers")...for "probably 10 minutes"...from a stationary position?

DataJunkie

They are very slowly buzzing walkers and joggers at 3 mph.

lambo_vt

A non-Euclidean MUP. Obviously.

therhodeo

The MUP is around a small lake that our offices overlook. Its a small loop.

DataJunkie

Man... if I complained about every stupid maneuver I see motorists doing on a daily basis BF would be overwhelmed with my whining. Being that I no longer commute perhaps I should stick to Foo and the road cycling forum. At least in road cycling they complain about more important things like the color of your saddle.

Bob N.

yup

Whodat?

OP, we have all seen others bikers doing something stupid. The problem with posting here is that you were in your car, and most feel that in it's self is enough to attack you. The real shame is that if this guy had gone down you would have been blamed, right or wrong.

calamarichris

Just reading the whiney rants in the Advocacy & Safety forum are enough to make me not like us anymore.
And HOW DARE YOU criticize we holy cyclists who do not emit carbon monoxide and are therefore not subject to your petty vehicle codes. < / smirk>

RogerB

Then that's not buzzing.