Wtf do they think they are?

[derek kelly]

Bev just rang me from work (farm store) the owners are busy working the fields, a wagon came part way down & stopped, two blokes got out & started unloading tools from the back, Bev went up & asked them what they were doing, they explained that they were going to chop down a tree, Bev told them that she knew nothing of this & to wait until she rang the owners.
Bev told Phil (farm owner) what was going on & he said “don’t let them touch anything until I get there”
Ten minutes later Phil turned up & asked them what they were doing, they said they had been sent by the route planners of the tour de Yorkshire as it had been noted that people may try to climb the tree to get a better view & end up injuring themselves.
Phil promptly told them where to shove their tools.
These organisers seem to think they have authority over everyone & everything, I’ve a good mind to poor my used engine oil on the road just for the cyclists.

 

[Pow-Lo]

Bev just rang me from work (farm store) the owners are busy working the fields, a wagon came part way down & stopped, two blokes got out & started unloading tools from the back, Bev went up & asked them what they were doing, they explained that they were going to chop down a tree, Bev told them that she knew nothing of this & to wait until she rang the owners.
Bev told Phil (farm owner) what was going on & he said “don’t let them touch anything until I get there”
Ten minutes later Phil turned up & asked them what they were doing, they said they had been sent by the route planners of the tour de Yorkshire as it had been noted that people may try to climb the tree to get a better view & end up injuring themselves.
Phil promptly told them where to shove their tools.
These organisers seem to think they have authority over everyone & everything, I’ve a good mind to poor my used engine oil on the road just for the cyclists.

Um, going onto private land and chopping down someone’s tree? Wouldn’t that be, as an absolute minimum, trespass? And then if they cut the tree down? The organisers would be vicariously liable for whatever ‘crime’ the tree choppers committed. Could have been one hell of an expensive bit of lumberjacking.

And, yes, pouring your used oil over the road would be completely justifiable providing you cleaned it up before motorbikelists were able to ride the route.

 

[Jaws]

Make up a few random detour pointer signs and place them along the route..

 

[derek kelly]

Um, going onto private land and chopping down someone’s tree? Wouldn’t that be, as an absolute minimum, trespass? And then if they cut the tree down? The organisers would be vicariously liable for whatever ‘crime’ the tree choppers committed. Could have been one hell of an expensive bit of lumberjacking.

And, yes, pouring your used oil over the road would be completely justifiable providing you cleaned it up before motorbikelists were able to ride the route.

Hoping that lycra will soak it up.

 

[sr71caspar]

Make up a few random detour pointer signs and place them along the route..

I've often thought about turning the route arrows to the opposite directions when the twunts have a race around my area.

 

[andyBeaker]

Here we go...the anti cycling mob out in force again.......l

 

[Cougar377]

Pick on the wrong tree and they could be in a whole world of shit. I've heard of plenty of cases of trees with preservation orders being wrongly cut down and the fines are hefty.

 

[derek kelly]

I've often thought about turning the route arrows to the opposite directions when the twunts have a race around my area.

These aren’t direction arrows, just big yellow notices declaring cycle route, also several kids bicycles painted yellow & blue & tied half way up lampposts

 

[derek kelly]

Here we go...the anti cycling mob out in force again.......l

Their (cyclists) own fault for being ignorant twats who think they own the roads.

 

[andyBeaker]

Their (cyclists) own fault for being ignorant twats who think they own the roads.

Here we go...the anti cycling mob out in force again.......l

 

[Minkey]

I was driving through the village where I live and approaching a corner when around the corner came a bunch of cyclists spread right across the road I had to stop, if I had been a few seconds earlier half of them would have hit my car they are idiots

 

[ianrobbo1]

I was driving through the village where I live and approaching a corner when around the corner came a bunch of cyclists spread right across the road I had to stop, if I had been a few seconds earlier half of them would have hit my car they are idiots

Shame, it may have got you a new car, when you sued the wankers "I'm not allowed to call them what I normally do"

 

[slim63]

I was driving through the village where I live and approaching a corner when around the corner came a bunch of cyclists spread right across the road I had to stop, if I had been a few seconds earlier half of them would have hit my car they are idiots

When going over the Derbyshire tops last year I approached a blind bend on a narrow road nice & steadily (sub 20mph) only to be met by 20+ lycra clad twats coming down the steep hill spread across the whole road at 40+mph I narrowly avoided them almost binning the bike in the process & shouted at them in anger as you do ............... one took offence & came back but I'm guessing he wishes he hadn't


Details redacted to protect the guilty

 

[andyBeaker]

We have all met cyclists who are stupid/arrogant/rude/take your pick.

We have also all met motorcyclists/car drivers/lorry drivers/coach drivers/horse riders/old people/young people any other sort of road user you can think of who meet these categories.

The nearest I have ever come to being in a really bad accident was when I was on a bike in a situation totally caused by a car driver. Doesn't make all car drivers bad.

Live and let live.

 

[Jaws]

We have all met cyclists who are stupid/arrogant/rude/take your pick.

We have also all met motorcyclists/car drivers/lorry drivers/coach drivers/horse riders/old people/young people any other sort of road user you can think of who meet these categories.

The nearest I have ever come to being in a really bad accident was when I was on a bike in a situation totally caused by a car driver. Doesn't make all car drivers bad.

Live and let live.

Say what you like, when driving around the country I witness a LOT more incidents involving cyclists being arseholes, ignoring basic road safety ( their own as well as others ) and believing all road users except them selves should obey what is suggested in the highway code

 

[andyBeaker]

Say what you like, when driving around the country I witness a LOT more incidents involving cyclists being arseholes, ignoring basic road safety ( their own as well as others ) and believing all road users except them selves should obey what is suggested in the highway code

i will say what I like, thank you.

And I will say it is unfair to,stereotype all cyclists because of the behaviour of a minority.

 

[Jaws]

i will say what I like, thank you.

And I will say it is unfair to,stereotype all cyclists because of the behaviour of a minority.

As it is for motorbicycles or motorbicyclists !

 

[andyBeaker]

As it is for motorbicycles or motorbicyclists !

No, they are all twats.

 

[Squag1]

Incident in Dublin a while ago.
The cyclist wandered in front of bus.
The driver bipped him.
The cyclist dropped the bike on the road and spat through the window at the driver.

 

[slim63]

Today on the A429 while on my way south a bunch of maybe 5 lycra clad arseholes spread across the whole of my side of the carriageway & giving the V's to anyone who dared to try and overtake them, the van driver in front of me gave them a blast on air horns & I really thought he was going to plough straight trough the idiots which is nothing more than they deserved