Passing commuters

Passing commuters can be a bit of a strain, but getting the toilet
seat down afterwards is the hardest part.

IGMC

Graeme

BT Humble wrote:

My favourite is when I'm commuting home on Aaargh[1] and I get passed
while I'm stopped at the pedestrian lights by a poser/wannabe who
blows the red. They've usually opened up a 100m or so gap by the time
I get a green, and on the rare occasions that manage to catch them
going up the long hill I make sure to call out "Put in, lad!" as I
sail past. ;-)

Oh... BT... you've just made my day... I SO HATE those *******s who blow
a red and have had about 5 of them in the last week where I've been SO
eager to bad mouth them as I come past a few seconds later, but I can't
work out the best thing to say to them. I mean, I'm really glad to see
people out on their bikes and would hate to see them squished under a
car, but they are such DICKHEADS!

A few weeks ago there was a guy riding in front of me southward on
Adelaide Ave. Just as I caught up to him he quickly darted across onto
the other side of Adelaide Ave (80 kph zone both ways, three lanes each)
so that he could ride the WRONG way along the cycle lane to get onto the
bike path. I met the dickhead again on the bike path in Woden (why he
didn't go the same way as me is just bizarre!!!). He then proceeded to
race me (well, he sucked my wheel) all the way to Wanniassa, thinking he
was top **** every time he passed me. I have to add that he only managed
to do this whenever we got to the lights where I would stop and wait for
the green but he would slip through. He was nearly flattened twice. I
waited at one set of lights for around 30 seconds but still managed to
stroll past him on the uphill. I was SOOOOOOO angry with the idiot but
didn't have the right words to drill him with. I'm open for some useful
input on the subject. I'm keen to speak to this guy. He's giving good
riders a bad name and putting his life in danger.

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Bean

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Bean Long wrote:
BT Humble wrote:

My favourite is when I'm commuting home on Aaargh[1] and I get passed
while I'm stopped at the pedestrian lights by a poser/wannabe who
blows the red. They've usually opened up a 100m or so gap by the time
I get a green, and on the rare occasions that manage to catch them
going up the long hill I make sure to call out "Put in, lad!" as I
sail past. ;-)

Oh... BT... you've just made my day... I SO HATE those *******s who blow
a red and have had about 5 of them in the last week where I've been SO

I had a series of a variation on this on Beach Rd yesterday. I'd
overtake groups of slow riders (ATB 50km riders my guess), get stuck at
a red light and as it changes and I'm clipping in they sail past. Single
riders I don't mind because I can get past them easily again, but the
groups are much harder to overtake, especially some of the scary groups
out the week before ATB. If somebody has overtaken me and obviously much
faster I'll slow down at the red light to let them keep ahead.

Oh well magpie season must be just about over, time to get out to the
hills again.

DaveB

On Oct 15, 9:48 am, Bean Long wrote:
... I was SOOOOOOO angry with the idiot but
didn't have the right words to drill him with. I'm open for some useful
input on the subject. I'm keen to speak to this guy. He's giving good
riders a bad name and putting his life in danger.

I usually say something along the lines of.. "you know, that was a red
light back there.. you make us all look like dickheads when you do
that"..

if there's any retort (there usually isn't), ask them why they think
cars should give way to them if they dno't obey the road rules
themselves.

Gags Wrote:
He was clearly buggered by the top of the hill and
I was having a bit of a chuckle to myself - I then let the gravity
turbo
kick in (steel bike + 102kg Gags + approx 8kg backpack + slicks pumped
to 65
psi + hubs only repacked and adjusted last week) and I went past both
of
them on the downhill without having to turn a pedal.


ok maybe I am being a bit over-sensative or something I don't know, but
why did you find that you had to overtake him anyway, did it just make
you feel better about yourself ?? Maybe the guy had just ridden 200km's
?? Maybe he had been off somewhere doing long hill sprints or something
and was at the end of his tether and now he has some-one
tail-gating/passing him when he is exhausted.

I see a lot of this especially on beach road, you see someone that is
obviously putting in and trying to push themselves and then you get
other *******, drafting for ages and then overtaking and all sorts of
cr&p. Like DaveB pointed out, it happens a lot there, but you just have
to realize where you are and its going to happen.

I have learn't to deal with it on Beach Rd and usually work out fairly
quickly and easily which packs/groups I want to drop in with. The best
rides on Beach Rd are when you go out and happen to get maybe just 1 or
2 other riders and you rotate around with each and before you know it
you're back home, no talking, no stress, you just know whats going on
and it all clicks in.


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MikeyOz

Graeme Dods wrote:
Passing commuters can be a bit of a strain, but getting the toilet
seat down afterwards is the hardest part.

Oooooh! Ouchies! LOL! :-)

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Bean

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In article ,
DaveB wrote:

I had a series of a variation on this on Beach Rd yesterday.

Ah, Beach Road yesterday. I watched a pair coming the other way slow
down and then ride through a red light, nearly missing a pedestrian
stepping out to cross. The pedestrian let fly a justified barrage at
them -- unfortunately extending it to all of us within hearing, which at
that stage was a fair range -- and one of the pair actually tried to
justify what they'd done.

Yes, this was in Mentone, at *that* crossing.

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Shane Stanley

On Oct 15, 12:32 pm, Shane Stanley
wrote:
In article ,

DaveB wrote:
I had a series of a variation on this on Beach Rd yesterday.

Ah, Beach Road yesterday. I watched a pair coming the other way slow
down and then ride through a red light, nearly missing a pedestrian
stepping out to cross. The pedestrian let fly a justified barrage at
them -- unfortunately extending it to all of us within hearing, which at
that stage was a fair range -- and one of the pair actually tried to
justify what they'd done.

Yes, this was in Mentone, at *that* crossing.

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Shane Stanley

"nearly missing"? So they hit the pedestrian?

;^P

Tony F

Shane Stanley Wrote:

Yes, this was in Mentone, at *that* crossing.
Shane Stanley

Unbelieveable.......

It is a bit unfair though, I+others got abused by a pedestrian crossing
the road because we had stopped and other riders ran the red light. He
starts crossing and abuses us, we just looked at each other and in
perfect synchornization just stared back at him and said "What are you
abusing us for !?"

He grumbled to himself and stormed off across the road.


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MikeyOz

In article . com,
thefathippy wrote:

"nearly missing"?

Sorry -- narrowly missing.

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Shane Stanley