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Re: Rude Riders Giving Others A Bad Name
Postby rkelsen » Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:18 am
And I'll admit to being a little less courteous than I should be sometimes.
On a day like today when there are a lot more people out walking, jogging and cycling, it is very difficult to be 100% courteous to everyone when you have to get to work and they're meandering all over the path in front of you.
Mind you, I dunno where all these people have been for the past few months...
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Re: Rude Riders Giving Others A Bad Name
Postby adrian_d » Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:33 am
damhooligan wrote:Try searching for the thread dumb cyclist.
As for the title.... please. .
Rude people are everywhere.
They di not represent all cyclists...
mods??... merging this with the dumb cyclists thread???
If the mods could merge my thread that would be fantastic. I should have done a better search sorry.
They are definitely a minority as i've had awesome fun
Whats the general concensus with waving and saying hi to riders as they go past? i've had 1 in 6 reply back with a "good day". Maybe i'm just strange lol
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Re: Rude Riders Giving Others A Bad Name
Postby g-boaf » Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:52 am
Otherwise - I generally find most other riders are really friendly and say hello. It never ceases to amaze me, even though some of them might be pushing up a long hill, they don't mind saying hello.


There will be some riders out there who have the race-face on, but I don't see too many of them, most of the ones I come across are totally and absolutely top people, very cool.

On the topic of sharing the paths, you'll get better at using less space when you have more confidence at riding smoothly. More time riding will gain that.
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Re: Rude Riders Giving Others A Bad Name
Postby adrian_d » Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:15 am
I was maintaining an average speed of around 36km an hour for about a minute which I found very difficult. haha
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Postby jules21 » Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:42 pm
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Re: Rude Riders Giving Others A Bad Name
Postby biftek » Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:57 pm
rkelsen wrote:I see it every day.
And I'll admit to being a little less courteous than I should be sometimes.
On a day like today when there are a lot more people out walking, jogging and cycling, it is very difficult to be 100% courteous to everyone when you have to get to work and they're meandering all over the path in front of you.
Mind you, I dunno where all these people have been for the past few months...
so let me get this straight , we want cars to give us cyclists more space , more time , stop being so impatient , but when it is others holding cyclists up they should get of the way ???
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Re: The Dumb Cyclists and Pedestrians thread...
Postby Howzat » Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:27 pm
m@ wrote:Given the amount of cycle traffic, the best solution would've been to continue the bike lane along the left-hand side of Commonwealth Ave and require traffic entering from Parks Way to give way to cyclists (though that's another 11/10 skill for drivers hereabouts).
That's still the case isn't it - that vehicles from Parkes Way have to give way to cyclists on Commonwealth Ave? (Assuming drivers take the time to look for them, of course.)
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Re: Rude Riders Giving Others A Bad Name
Postby birdbrain » Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:40 pm
Anyone else got a story like that? A fellow cyclist being less courteous than desired?
No.
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Re: Rude Riders Giving Others A Bad Name
Postby rkelsen » Thu Oct 04, 2012 2:02 pm
biftek wrote:rkelsen wrote:On a day like today when there are a lot more people out walking, jogging and cycling, it is very difficult to be 100% courteous to everyone when you have to get to work and they're meandering all over the path in front of you.
so let me get this straight , we want cars to give us cyclists more space , more time , stop being so impatient , but when it is others holding cyclists up they should get of the way ???
No mate. I try to be as courteous as I can, but some people make it very difficult. That's all I'm saying. Don't read more into it.
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Re: The Dumb Cyclists and Pedestrians thread...
Postby m@ » Thu Oct 04, 2012 3:31 pm
Howzat wrote:m@ wrote:Given the amount of cycle traffic, the best solution would've been to continue the bike lane along the left-hand side of Commonwealth Ave and require traffic entering from Parks Way to give way to cyclists (though that's another 11/10 skill for drivers hereabouts).
That's still the case isn't it - that vehicles from Parkes Way have to give way to cyclists on Commonwealth Ave? (Assuming drivers take the time to look for them, of course.)
I think you're thinking of the west-bound Parks Way intersection (where they have to give way)... Lots of 'creepers' there!
East-bound traffic exiting Parks joins the ramp coming off London Cct, which joins Commonwealth Ave just north of the bridge over Parks. The southbound bike lane on Commonwealth just peters out and you're probably expected to dismount and walk across the ramp (which is now two lanes with a zip merge right at the end); but everyone tries to pick a gap and move across to re-join the bike lane on the left.
Most drivers are pretty good at letting you cross provided you're moving at a reasonable clip and don't hold them up... but now will be preoccupied with merging with each other. And when someone decides not to let you in, you're stuck riding into a diminishing triangle between two merging lanes of traffic (at said fair clip).
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Re: The Dumb Cyclists and Pedestrians thread...
Postby Howzat » Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:36 pm
m@ wrote:East-bound traffic exiting Parks joins the ramp coming off London Cct, which joins Commonwealth Ave just north of the bridge over Parks. The southbound bike lane on Commonwealth just peters out and you're probably expected to dismount and walk across the ramp
Yeah I see what you mean. Nothing is worse than bike lanes that peter out.
I can see the traffic engineers presenting this plan - "Cyclists will just, uh, disappear at this point and rematerialise at the bike lane 200m up ahead" - to a sea of nodding heads.
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Re: The Dumb Cyclists and Pedestrians thread...
Postby adrian_d » Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:46 pm
Howzat wrote:m@ wrote:East-bound traffic exiting Parks joins the ramp coming off London Cct, which joins Commonwealth Ave just north of the bridge over Parks. The southbound bike lane on Commonwealth just peters out and you're probably expected to dismount and walk across the ramp
Yeah I see what you mean. Nothing is worse than bike lanes that peter out.
I can see the traffic engineers presenting this plan - "Cyclists will just, uh, disappear at this point and rematerialise at the bike lane 200m up ahead" - to a sea of nodding heads.
Its the usual thing for them to end up in an ambulance from those scenarios

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Re: The Dumb Cyclists and Pedestrians thread...
Postby Biffidus » Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:52 pm
adrian_d wrote:I can see the traffic engineers presenting this plan - "Cyclists will just, uh, disappear at this point and rematerialise at the bike lane 200m up ahead" - to a sea of nodding heads.
Its the usual thing for them to end up in an ambulance from those scenarios
I now have a very pleasant mental image of the traffic planner being set upon by angry cyclists and being carried away in an ambulance.
I regularly have to dodge dog walkers (off-lead and lead-across-the-path varieties), slow people who veer side to side as they walk and then react comically to a bicycle bell (not the air-zound, I swear) and the occasional older asian gentleman practicing Tai Chi on the shared path (I kid you not). On the road I'm lucky to find a bike path that isn't full of pot holes or parked cars.
Good times

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Re: Rude Riders Giving Others A Bad Name
Postby Livetoride » Fri Oct 05, 2012 8:06 am
rkelsen wrote:I see it every day.
And I'll admit to being a little less courteous than I should be sometimes.
On a day like today when there are a lot more people out walking, jogging and cycling, it is very difficult to be 100% courteous to everyone when you have to get to work and they're meandering all over the path in front of you.
Mind you, I dunno where all these people have been for the past few months...
Probably hiding away from the cold n rain

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Postby bychosis » Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:02 am
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Postby jasonc » Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:08 am
bychosis wrote:You really have to wonder at some people. Went for a quick pedal before work today and saw a dumb jogger. Jogging on the road, on a roundabout, no shoulder lane, over the kerb from grassed park, 15 paces from a shared pathway along the foreshore. I didn't see where she ended up, but it looked like she was going to jog along the fogline past a row of parked cars. Also dressed in black, running with the traffic ie back to oncoming traffic.
saw a runner I see regularly running over the bike-only path on the inner city bypass bridge (there is a separate path for bikes/peds)

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Re: The Dumb Cyclists and Pedestrians thread...
Postby herzog » Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:44 am
bychosis wrote:You really have to wonder at some people. Went for a quick pedal before work today and saw a dumb jogger. Jogging on the road, on a roundabout, no shoulder lane, over the kerb from grassed park, 15 paces from a shared pathway along the foreshore. I didn't see where she ended up, but it looked like she was going to jog along the fogline past a row of parked cars. Also dressed in black, running with the traffic ie back to oncoming traffic.
Probably in the zone
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Postby Missy8787 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:20 am
All the organizers (who are volunteers) would yell out that we had someone on coming, immediately you should move to the left when safe and keep an eye out in front of you. This poor bloke who saw the two women in front of me side by side on the bike path, very nicely yelled "excuse me!" over and over until he almost collided with them and was run off the path. She seemed so oblivious that he was even there. She didn't even turn around to look at him, just kept pedaling. Poor bloke. He was fuming afterwards, l don't blame him!
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Postby g-boaf » Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:27 am

Keep left unless overtaking signs might be good on bike paths. We also need more signs instructing people that should keep their dogs on short leashes. Not these 4 metre long things. I've not had too many issues with dogs recently though - and I hope I'm not jinxing things by saying that.
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Postby jasonc » Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:46 am
Missy8787 wrote:I am only new to cycling, but even l know to "keep left" on bike paths. I was out on a community bike ride with my partner last weekend and this poor cyclist who was not part of our group was coming towards us and heading in the opposite direction.
All the organizers (who are volunteers) would yell out that we had someone on coming, immediately you should move to the left when safe and keep an eye out in front of you. This poor bloke who saw the two women in front of me side by side on the bike path, very nicely yelled "excuse me!" over and over until he almost collided with them and was run off the path. She seemed so oblivious that he was even there. She didn't even turn around to look at him, just kept pedaling. Poor bloke. He was fuming afterwards, l don't blame him!
this solves the problem for me

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