• Codex@lemmy.world
    25·
    3 个月前

    Angry driving can make one quite blunt

    Enough to rage over a mundane stunt

    At bicyclists abreast

    a roar rose in his chest

    SINGLE FILE YOU TWO-WHEELED CUN–

    Skeleton Warriors!

  • Cypher@lemmy.world
    143·
    3 个月前

    taking up more road by riding two abreast may appear to take up more road space

    These coppas are genuises, and yes I paraphrased it rather than quoting the stupidity.

      • xfc@lemdro.idEnglish
        62·
        3 个月前

        Two cyclists nose to tail with a small gap ends up meaning that the car behind has to overtake the effective length of a truck to pass them both. Two cyclists riding abreat means they only need to overtake a car length

        • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
          32·
          3 个月前

          If there’s enough lateral space to do it in.

          When I was a child we didn’t have bike lanes, and biking to school was always an interesting endeavor. Thus I will always take off a bit of speed and give cyclists a good bit of space. But if there’s two or more bikes side by side, then they can take up enough road that you can’t pass them without crossing entirely into the other lane. And then they’re just a big pain as slow moving tractors and other farm equipment, except they’re even more annoying because they could just go single file.

          Cyclists going side by side are inconsiderate assholes and this comes from a guy who bikes to work daily.

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
        22·
        3 个月前

        “which one is bigger?”
        “that one.”
        “no actually, they’re both equal volume.”
        “that’s not what you asked.”

  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
    155·
    3 个月前

    When I go for a bike ride with my SO we always ride side by side on streets that have a posted limit at or below 40kmh.

    We usually only ride side by side on residential streets. Occasionally we get someone driving too close to us when passing or shouting out their windows saying single file in the same way.

    Its like going for a walk, we would not walk in a single file, neither would we sit in a car in single file.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 个月前

    How are some cyclist comfortable with driving side by side? I was always anxious when that happened, can’t swifel out and nothing and if you fall because of that, the others fall too.

    • Isoprenoid@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      3 个月前

      OOTL:

      Jeremy Vine

      On August 2016, a car driver threatened and was abusive to Vine while he was cycling along Hornton Street in Kensington, London. Vine captured the encounter on his helmet camera, later broadcasting it on YouTube where it was viewed several million times. Vine also reported it to the police. On 18 April 2017, the car driver was jailed for nine months for threatening behaviour. At the time of the incident, she was subject to a suspended sentence for various other offences.

      Here’s the video, it contains road rage so don’t watch it if you have high blood pressure.

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        3 个月前

        I think something happened as well with a lorry driver and losing his job. Petrolheads hate vine lol

  • cumtownenjoyer@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 个月前

    Not a single one of you thought to consider why the hell an official letter from the police would write verbatim expletive quotes in the style of a tumblr teenager instead of simply writing that there was a verbal altercation. Complete lack of critical thinking or a total suspension of disbelief.

  • felykiosa@sh.itjust.works
    1021·
    3 个月前

    Love cycling but to be fair that s a little annoying when you have 2 cyclists side by side and you can’t overtake them. The driver was an asshole but i can understand his frustration.

    • mondoman712@lemmy.mlOP
      377·
      3 个月前

      If there isn’t space to overtake two cyclists side by side, there isn’t space to overtake one cyclist. If there’s another car coming towards you while you overtake, you’d be endangering the one cyclist.

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
        3·
        3 个月前

        1.5m to overtake one cyclist brings you only partially onto the otherside of the road.

        1.5m to overtake two cyclists astride brings you fully onto the otherside of the road

      • LovesTha🥧@floss.social
        11·
        3 个月前

        @mondoman712 @felykiosa it depends a little onthe road in question, there are roads with a sinple lane wide enough that a single file of cyclists are passable without crossing into oncoming traffic, but two abreast isn’t.

        But we all know this isn’t what happened here. Driver just wanted to let his priveledge show.

    • linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml
      124·
      3 个月前

      if there isnt enough space maybe just wait a bit untill there is, is getting to the next stop light faster so u can spend more time waiting there rally that fucking important.

      • felykiosa@sh.itjust.works
        53·
        3 个月前

        I live in rural area the next stop is in 5km , just said that it is annoying when two cyclist are side by side that all.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
      61·
      3 个月前

      Sounds like you should talk to your representatives about getting protected bicycle paths in your city so that they’re out of your way