Biker on Stonywood this AM

[u33db]

Hello,

Been a while since I was on here as I sold my bike a while back.

Anyway don't know if this guy is on here but I had the misfortune to come across him this morning;

Me: cycling down Stoneywood ON THE ROAD this AM at around 7:35 on the way to work wearing a hizviz backpack minding my own business.
Biker: draws up alongside me and proceeds to tell me to get OFF the road and onto the pavement!?!

Biker the proceeds to give me the strong armed fellow gesture a ride off.

I find it hard to believe my 20mph+ speed and 30-40cm width was impeding his progress behind that queue of all those cars in front of him so wtf!

The road is for everyone pal!

Forget what he was riding but hes done nothing but marked himself out as a dkhd and doesn't do much to improve the motorcyclist image.

[haiax0]

Pretty poor behavior indeed... I am an active cyclist, motorcyclist and motorist and see this kind of road aggression all to often around Aberdeen/shire.. I'm pretty sure having broader experiences of the road on all kinds of wheels should provide more patience and understanding in certain situations from other road users.

[Hagar]

Read the highway code pushbikes MUST NOT be on a footpath or pavement. It really annoys me when I have to put these numpties right

[Zathos]

I like cyclists. It's like the caterpillars before they evolve into butterfly's...


...you know when they finally fit an internal combustion engine


That said they do tend to get a bit cross when I slap my bike in the bike bit at the front of the queue at traffic lights. No idea why, it's for bikes isn't it

[Coully]

I only get bugged if someone crowds me there, but otherwise, you're going to get away before me on a pushbike so it's no big issue, and it does make sense if you've filtered all the way through. A more annoying thing is folk trying to judge the lights and whom start to creep into the box (even when there is no one there),.... like they're going to get anywhere any faster

[aisgsimon]

I like cyclists. It's like the caterpillars before they evolve into butterfly's...


...you know when they finally fit an internal combustion engine


That said they do tend to get a bit cross when I slap my bike in the bike bit at the front of the queue at traffic lights. No idea why, it's for bikes isn't it

Tax disk says bicycle!

[Coully]

I dare you to try that in a bus lane then

[Ratz]

I dare you to try that in a bus lane then

Sure it was done a few year back down in Englandshire. Council took a boy to court due to not paying fines. Got thrown out of court and boy got off on said reason of tax classification as bicycle

[Feckdeamon]

Is that the bit through Stoneywood where the cycle lane is shared with the pavement?

[u33db]

Yes.

But its not a cycle lane as they haven't bothered to paint a line to segregate pedestrians and cyclists (typical Aberdeen council half assed job)...so its a gauntlet riding down there dodging people walking, dogs and cyclists coming the other way. Plus the bits that cross junctions knock hell out of bike wheels on the curbs.

Also the way they've done it really means if you rode on there and hit someone you'd probably get done for the above reasons (pavement not a proper cycle path aside from some arrows on the road at each end) so its either risk that, or just ride on the road and be safer and quicker...cyclists are not required to use cycle lanes anyway.

[lawzer]

This story is shocking. I fail to see how a pushbike could possibly hold up a motorbike unless there was a q of cars behind the bike. Even though, the road is for all road users and the last time i checked a pedal bike qualifies.
Where I live now i quite often get stuck behind cyclists and actually enjoy holding way back as it seems to piss off all the 100's of evoque drivers who's time is obviously more valuable than someone's life.

[aisgsimon]

I dare you to try that in a bus lane then

I often ride in the bus lane... when I'm allowed too! Its often empty even though the cameras are only active between certain hours. I haven't chanced it, though most bus lane cameras are forward facing...

though it is a bit stupid how despite guidance and research being available the cooncil won't let bikers in the bus lanes. The thought of some kind of direct action ie keeping the haudigan/other choke point busy with bikes going round and round until they consider it properly had crossed my mind...

[CBRXX]

I dare you to try that in a bus lane then

I often ride in the bus lane... when I'm allowed too! Its often empty even though the cameras are only active between certain hours. I haven't chanced it, though most bus lane cameras are forward facing...

though it is a bit stupid how despite guidance and research being available the cooncil won't let bikers in the bus lanes. The thought of some kind of direct action ie keeping the haudigan/other choke point busy with bikes going round and round until they consider it properly had crossed my mind...

Seriously doubt you'd gather much support from Joe public doing that! getting everyone to ride in the bus lanes and not pay the fines would be better

[steve]

Most cyclists on the roads these days are tw@ts , the ones on the pavements are worse !

[Dickie]

Most cyclists on the roads these days are tw@ts , the ones on the pavements are worse !

Some of them really take the piss. If you're turning right in half a mile why do you have to move to the centre of the road other than to hold people up and exercise some kind of right or another.

And the ones with cameras who upload stuff to Youtube, do they upload their own f*ck ups too? Seems unlikely.

[aisgsimon]

Most cyclists on the roads these days are tw@ts , the ones on the pavements are worse !

Some of them really take the piss. If you're turning right in half a mile why do you have to move to the centre of the road other than to hold people up and exercise some kind of right or another.

And the ones with cameras who upload stuff to Youtube, do they upload their own f*ck ups too? Seems unlikely.

Was in london, after driving down the A1 from Edinburgh in a day, when I was lost, damp and a bit naffed when I encountered a protest where a pile of cyclists were blocking up where I was going through. Long story short I revved a bit to try and make a gap for myself when I got boxed in by 3 of them who were leaders of some kinds with a video trying to capture me/my license plate or something. I probably wasn't in the best frame of mind to be dealing with them in hindsight, but still. They have tarnished it for me.

[Coully]

granted the cameras are a bit much but moving across in good time is all self preservation. move across early = more chance of being seen / traffic complying ,.... move across late and get wiped out by smidsy/someone cracking on,... but it depends where/who/what, you are

[Coully]

I'll take to a pavement to avoid a junction/set of lights (provided i'm not going to plough into someone whilst on the kerb), or when on the road make it bleedin obvious i'm going flat out if at the head of traffic

[haiax0]

Base each transport user as you find them on the road at the time.

As a 2 wheeler, I find daily that I am tarred with the bad brush because somewhere along the line a few idiots have spoiled it for the masses when they didn't follow the rules of the road. So by proxy I am hated on sight even though I am a switched on cyclist and play by the rules. So by virtue of a bad experience motorists may have had with another cyclist at some point in the past I am instantly the stereotyped minority and must be wrong.

The majority of respectful and responsible cyclists find themselves at the heart of this debate and are defending the actions usually of some scrote. Ace....

I try hard to have respect for everything on the road with out prejudice where possible. People soon become part of the problem and not the solution when they get bent out of shape and irritated needlessly upon even seeing a bicycle on the road.

Cycling is bloody hard enough as it is with out the added stress of people scaring you off the road and using there vehicles to intimidate etc.

Cars drivers hate 2 Wheeler...motor bikers hate everything and cyclists are just hated.. what can you do!

[huffanpuff]

Most cyclists on the roads these days are tw@ts , the ones on the pavements are worse !

same can be said for drivers and motorcyclists alike - ah to be perfect

[Dave]

- ah to be perfect

so you know my wife then !

[Quicksilver]

Base each transport user as you find them on the road at the time.

On the road, and in life in general, I try to live by the rule that everyone gets my respect until they earn my contempt.

[haiax0]

I will nick that saying! here here.

[Ratz]

- ah to be perfect

so you know my wife then !