Cyclists are exposed to more abuse than just about any other road user except the elderly and partially disabled road crosser.
You might say some deserve it, but, the overwhelming majority of collisions between cyclists and motorised vehicles are the fault of the vehicle driver.
There are loads of numbers on this, look around.
Drivers, or at least a significant number, run their schedules so tight that almost any hold up, from a milk float to a set of lights on red, is enough to put them out.
Who gets the stick though, is it the slow wagon struggling up the hill, nah, he’s too big for you to try swerve into the gutter, is it the JCB, nah, same again and you won’t even scratch the paint, is it the horse, sometimes yes - but you worry as you twat your arseholemobile past with your horn blazing that the animal may do something unpredictable and damage your shiny shitwagon.
Ah, but cyclists, they slow you down also, but they can’t hit you back, they can’t catch you if you act like a total and utter cunt, so you force them into the gutter, rev your engine whilst following, cut them up when you are turning, ah what the hell, they are not in the same hurry as you, fuck 'em.
Basically fucking car drivers such as these are simply the stereotypical bullies, take on someone who they percieve as vulnerable, and leave the big machinery alone.
You can rant on about the antics of a minority of cyclists, and I’ll find a hundred things that the minority of motorists do, and I’ll label all motorists the same.
I’ve seen the comments stating “Oh, I really meant to say things about those naughty minority of nasty cyclists” but fuck you with a Saguaro cactus, a big old centurian, because it’s clear to me that you posted without regard to most of us being perfectly law abiding, and now it’s justifications after the event.
What you may not notice is that cyclists are people, and some are dicks, but, the majority are not.
What you are talking about are the ones who you see in towns and cities, perhaps going to work, whatever, and absolutely every single time you ride a bicycle in such an environment, some, nay many, fuking arsehole shithead wanking car driver, usually on their mobile phone, will cut you up, overtake and brake hard in front of you, try to simply shove you off the road, throw shite out of their windows, honk their horns when there is nowhere for the cyclist to go to get out of the way, or fail to understand that it takes loner for a cyclist to get through a junction than a car, especialy against the wind, and that is why the Amber on traffic lights means stop, not fucking go, you blasted idiots.
Its called due consideration, and once a cyclist has been shown very little of it, than you wouldn’t be surprised to find the cyclist in turn shows little of the same stuff when the twat head car driver gets out of his mobile loan payment vehicle and becomes a self righteous pedestrian.
The cyclist gets this hassle every day, many times every journey, but the roads are not yours, nor are they mine, we share them, and that means cooperation.
If the car driver were more patient, they would still get to their destination on time, but with a lower blood pressure.
Fuck me, I’ve come across car drivers who pulled out in fornt of 48 ton artics and in the ensuing discussion with the nice policeperson, claimed they never saw the wagon coming!
Car drivers get defensive in their shiny shitmobiles, they treat them as part of their empire, a castle that must be defended against any imagined slights, they think that everyone around them is interested in what they drive and the image that their vehicle conveys, its this little Napoleon attitude that car drivers have that causes them to be such cunts.
