No doubt that was a disgusting bit of riding.
I beg to differ if I'd done that maneuver in my works vehicle (when I worked) I would have creamed both nag and rider, it's hard to undertake in a 40-foot double deck truck.No doubt that was a disgusting bit of riding.
There was a programme on either 4 or 5 earlier this week that included that clip. It also had a balance to it in showing that all classes of road users are capable of being stupid, irresponsible and dangerous.
As an aside, not sure why you are calling the cyclists 'professional'. Nothing to indicate that, but plenty to indicate the opposite??
They were partaking in a triathlon so they weren’t your average Sunday road blockers.As an aside, not sure why you are calling the cyclists 'professional'. Nothing to indicate that, but plenty to indicate the opposite??
Anyone would think you were anti-cyclist!
So what marked them 'professional'?They were partaking in a triathlon so they weren’t your average Sunday road blockers.
So if I do track days I'm a professional motorbike rider? LOLThey were partaking in a triathlon so they weren’t your average Sunday road blockers.
Yet another example of race organisers bullying other road users, some people only get to ride their horse at the weekend & these organisers don’t give a shit, what gives them the right to close roads to legitimate road users just so they can break the law by racing on public roads?And the facts......
Appears there were three parties at fault in one way or another.
https://humanrace.co.uk/news/follow-up-incident-windsor-triathlon/
It looks like the organisers have put their hands up on the signage side.It wasn't a closed road so the horse rider was 100% innocent in my view. The blame must be 100% with the cyclists. The Triathlon club did put warning signs up but so what. Maybe they should have put some more signs up to warn the cyclists that the road is a public road?
Is it sensible organising stupid cycle races on public roads?It looks like the organisers have put their hands up on the signage side.
Not sure I agree that the horse should have been on the road......yes, technically they had every right to be there but was it sensible??
Is it sensible riding horses on public roads??!!Is it sensible organising stupid cycle races on public roads?
Horses have been around considerably longer, as a form of transport, than the bicycle.Is it sensible riding horses on public roads??!!
At the end of the day if everyone treated each other with courtesy and respect regardless of mode of transport then there wouldn't be a problem.
End of.
Therefore all cyclists are arrogant?Horses have been around considerably longer, as a form of transport, than the bicycle.
We went for a walk into town this morning. Part way in we crossed a humpback style pedestrian footbridge which recently has been designated as dual traffic (with those blue pedestrian/cyclist signs).
Just as we got to the foot of one end over the brow came a gaggle of club cyclists going at speed.
No attempt was made to slow down and they were coming over 2 or 3 abreast in an area just about wide enough for a car.
Words were exchanged but not one of them was in the slightest bit interested in slowing down.
You don't get that level of arrogance from horse riders.
Therefore all cyclists are arrogant?
Ok.We're talking about groups of club cyclists and yes.... I've yet to come across any who are anything else other than arrogant, rude and convinced that the rules of the road don't apply to them.