Lee, I agree that everybody needs to chill out but would you agree that the aggression from cyclists is a relatively new phenomenon?

I don't know if it's headcams or the fact that more people are cycling so there will inevitably be more nutters on two wheels, but something seems to have changed.
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Honestly I don't know the answer to this.

I do know that the number of cyclists has rocketed on our roads over the last 5 years or so. It may be that percentage wise nothing has changed, that 3%, or whatever the figure is, of aggressive cyclists has remained constant, but due to the higher number of cyclists this is now more visibile ???

Social media has a lot to account for too. Previously unnoticed events now get plastered all over the net.

I don't wear a camera, but have considered one for the reasons I mentioned earlier; for those instances where dangerous car driving has potentially put lives at risk. I wouldn't plaster these all over the net though, it'd be a matter purely for the police.

 

I've only ever 'taken the lane' once and that was a few weeks ago when I was nearly pushed into the verge on 2 occasions within about 5 minutes of eachother. Usually I keep well over to the left, but moved over to force drivers to overtake until I got onto a quieter stretch of road.

It is fairly antisocial to ride 2 abreast, especially on busier sections of road, however it is sometimes more practical for the car driver to get past when passing larger groups of cyclists. It is a lot quicker to pass a line of 5 bikes 2 abreast than it is to pass 1 line of 10 bikes single file.

Anyway there is a road biking thread in the off topic section if anybody is interested in discussing this further.

Back on topic !

 

It's partly an old phenomenon; being put constantly in danger by mong drivers raises stress levels & too much adrenaline & oxygen turns cyclists into panicked airheads. And there are more utter tards with driving licences. I try to avoid busy roads completely when cycling.

Also, there seem to be fewer real cyclists these days - like the old dear I saw the other day with a shopping basket on the front & a fag in her mouth. They remember the war & are mostly nice. These lycra-clad Armstrong wannabee sports twats with all the gear & NFI seem to treat it like it's serious, or something...and with that poseurdom comes road warriordom.

It's probably to do as well with the encroaching STASI-dom in society; divide to conquer and turn each interest group against the next. I believe the entire place is becoming more aggressive/intolerant.

 

Bradley Wiggins' little incident happened only a mile from my house. I mean - to go out training at 6pm on Crow Orchard Road is careless by any means. It's too busy!

In fact, it's a lesson to other riders not to meddle with congestion/busy times. Every man and his dog is trying to get home, not veer around matchstick men on carbon-fibre bikes. The roads are full of carelessness which proved to be so with him being knocked-off his bike.

 

As you say, sometimes it is, perhaps on a very quiet two lane b/c/d road, but not an a relatively wide A-Road where a car can comfortably pass a single file line without having to cross the white line. When I am cycling, I have no problem with vehicles doing that.

completely.

Not forgetting that many of these tards with driving licenses also ride bicycles. It'd be interesting to see if there is a correlation between Audi and carbon bike ownership

 

If you run one over, does it leave a carbon footprint?

 

 

Only if its an Audi / BWW / Mercedes that does it - nothing else weighs enough / has fat enough tyres

 

 

Cyclists now getting road rage with other cyclists:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-his-bike.html