Tommo68 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Lol, thanks......amended ---------- Post added 04-06-2015 at 14:21 ---------- How nice...... Never said it was nice ..but its just the way things are. . . ---------- Post added 04-06-2015 at 14:40 ---------- I suppose in some peoples eyes, if he holds traffic up he deserves to be run over. I think if people were honest you'd find that really is the case. Personally I just have no time for idiots. By which I do not mean the mentally challenged. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnailyBoy Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Never said it was nice ..but its just the way things are. . . ---------- Post added 04-06-2015 at 14:40 ---------- I think if people were honest you'd find that really is the case. Personally I just have no time for idiots. By which I do not mean the mentally challenged. . . Come on, you need to try better than that. You're just too obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 On an animosity thing. There is a selfish fu kwit I have seen regularly travelling up Baslow road on one of those laid down trikes, which makes him even harder to spot. This guy regularly has a tailback of vehicles behind him where the road narrows. He seems to either not care or be in blissful ignorance. I can see when the weather gets back to normally one foggy evening someone in a truck running over him 'accidently' and never even noticing. I wish him no harm but when he inevitably does have an accident I won't lose any sleep about it and I assure you I will not witness anything when he does whether I see it or not, he is a danger to himself and others...an idiot and sheffield is not short of them. . . How is that different to a tractor being driven down the road? Except that no one will try to kill them for holding up the traffic by a minute or two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattleonard Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 How is that different to a tractor being driven down the road? Except that no one will try to kill them for holding up the traffic by a minute or two? It isn't. I asked earlier about whether motorists on this thread felt it was acceptable for motorists to not distinguish between cyclists who use the road safely and legally, and those who don't, and for them to express their displeasure through illegal and dangerous driving. It would seem we've had Tommo's answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EODM83 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 (edited) How is that different to a tractor being driven down the road? Except that no one will try to kill them for holding up the traffic by a minute or two? Because i often see tractors pulling in and letting the road clear when they are an inconvenience to other road users, as do I. Never seen any other cyclists do it. Just saying Edited June 4, 2015 by EODM83 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnailyBoy Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Because i often see many tractors pulling in and letting the road clear when they are an inconvenience to other road users, as do I. Never seen any other cyclists do it. Just saying Strange, I hardly ever see tractors pulling in. What's gives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EODM83 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Lived in the peaks for many years, some Farmers I know even created passing places on the roads running too and from their farms to pull in too - never seen cyclists do it, just an observation thats all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattleonard Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Because i often see many tractors pulling in and letting the road clear when they are an inconvenience to other road users, as do I. Never seen any other cyclists do it. Just saying Often see many tractors? You mean like this? I've often seen cyclists pull over. I would do so myself. But in reality they have no legal requirement to, and they definitely shouldn't have their lives threatened for not doing so. Tommo mentioned the road narrowing, so I suspect the best thing he could do was to cycle in the safest position he could and get through as quickly as possible - which seems to be what Tommo described. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EODM83 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I've often seen cyclists pull over. I would do so myself. But in reality they have no legal requirement to, and they definitely shouldn't have their lives threatened for not doing so. Are you for real? Lives threatened for not doing so? Do calm down dear, responses like this pretty well answer the original post! There's no legal obligation for tractors to pull in, they do it out of common courtesy and mutual respect of other road users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattleonard Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Are you for real? Lives threatened for not doing so? Do calm down dear, responses like this pretty well answer the original post! We've just had a poster say he would turn a blind eye to somebody running over a cyclist for not pulling over when they were using the road in a perfectly legal and safe manner. Yes, I am for real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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