Cycling UK Forum

gaz545 wrote:All because people want to get in front of the cyclist that is traveling slow that them.

I think that is true.

But I think also insecure people can feel a sense of inferiority at seeing someone doing something they wouldn't/couldn't do. The insecure person thus seeks to save face by belittle what that person is doing, so that they no longer feel inferior. And this leads them to treat you with disrespect and lack of identification with the situation you are in.

On the whole I have very few "incidents" on the central London section of my daily commute. But one day last week I had 3 separate incidents of people pulling out into my path from side roads within about 5 minutes, and the one I was nearest to hitting was another cyclist...

In London I nearly always find it is cars that slow me down!

My job takes me to town half a dozen times a month. Boris bikes have liberated me from the purgatory that is peak time tubes and gridlocked buses. My strida comes along sometimes if I'm going outside the boris zone or when the weather suggests it will tip down.

I used to cycle commute in S. London for a few years in the early 00's.

A couple of points, other road users have got used to us, most London cyclists have no clue where anywhere is off their regular A to B daily route(I'm rarely going to the same place twice in a month) and are paid up members of the heads down and big ring it rlj'ing brigade. I 'dress for the destination not the journey' and no way am I going to work up a sweat. So I chillax, make lots of eye contact and smile my way across our nations capital when on two wheels. Every journey I try to do a bit of exploration as well going off my direct route to plot a mental map of the Great Wen and having a bit of fun, even getting lost or going around in circles

Oh, and cycle route signage in London. Complete joke.