This morning's commute and other commuting stories

I ride a full circle around everything I pass.

Amateur, y u no bunnyhop?

Duh.. long distance TTer... extra mileage

it sounds like you're trying to justify your crappy riding by getting someone else to admit to sharing your bad habits. Good luck with that. It's been explained to you why it's a dangerous, dickish move, so take it on board, sack-up and get on with it. boosh.

"You've been... (drumroll) ...undertook"
(To the melody of ACDC - Thunderstruck. Yes I will sacrifice grammar in favour of a bad joke...)

Yeah yeah yeah undertook!

a low point for acdc if ever there was one.

synthdrums?

I mean futher out to the line than the cycle path, so yes not room to safely pass

Then how do cars get past?

I ride "far enough out to undertake" by your shit judgement and bad habits. If I come up on a pothole or other danger I can safely move left out of danger rather than right towards traffic. The blue/green/red paint is just that, learn to position yourself safely not in relation to a dashed/ignored line.

cars don't get past. If I cant safely get past how would they?

@legomartian
I think what he is saying is cars all undertake cyclists safely all day long. No wait that's overtake you ride like a dick.

Had a numbnuts undertake me a month ago coming up to the old kent/new kent road roundabout from the Roebuck (cant remember road name although I use it every day). Before I got to the roundabout there is a bus at the bus stop. Shoulder check and indicate pulling out around parked bus. Cyclist behind me (winter gloves, some rattly mountain bike) squeezes past me on the left side between me and the bus. I'm taking it easy as am still recovering from a dislocated clavicle and catch up to him at the roundabout. Call him out, his response: "you indicated you were going right".

Who are you quoting? I don't think I wrote that. And yes I also ride far enough out to the right to be undertaken a lot of the time. I think you have the impression I just nipped by him with half an inch to spare. Like I said, he was closer to the centre of the road than the cycle path. Anyway, just answering your questions. I was just trying to be nice and let him know I was there.

@legomartian
Have you not had exactly the same word for word from a motorist who has just made a punishment pass? Riding too far out, not even in the cycle lane, get in the kerb and so on? Obviously a motorist doing that it would need to blast the horn as they pass "to let him know I was there" which I guess makes it perfectly safe? You could undertake while dinging a little bell instead of shouting as you did that be safe right?

Christ, give the chap a break. "You ride like a dick" is really going to get someone to see your point of view isn't it?
Just as using 'cycle training ' as a stick to beat someone with is really going to encourage them to do cycle training.

Have you considered working as a cycling instructor?

No, actually. I did almost get run over whilst riding in primary though. The guy in question didn't give a reason though. - sorry in reply to clockwise.

I've only been undertaken three times. I remember each one vividly.

All three felt my wrath...

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I've never been passed by anything, ever. Obviously. Totes.

Is it cos your biek is red?

nah, he's just too fat for anything to squeeze by.

oooof

This mornings promuting steed, I got some seriously dirty looks from other cyclists at traffic lights. #amidoingitright

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Dumbstruck and slightly in pain from last night's comumte home. Going over London Bridge from the city, coming up to the lights I need to move into the middle lane from the left lane. Big fella on a MTB looks over his shoulder, good he seen me, start to over take he pulls across me leaving me no option but to bounce off the bus, luck for me the bus was stationary. Good for him he made it through the poxy lights. Then pulling upto the lights at Borough tube station guy on another MTB wearing a basketball shirt cycling on the pavement, jumps into the road as the lights change causing me and another fella to crash straight into him. Again I ended up on the deck on my right knee. Woke up this morning with what looks like a golf ball under my skin on my right knee. Painfull cycle in I can tell you.

So I reiterate, none of you ever undertook?

Never, it's dangerous, it's always safer to look behind, overtake, and get back into primary.