I get that we all have to share the road, and that people ride at different speeds and have different levels of competency. What shits me is being shoaled by someone I keep riding past.
Just chill out and ride behind me. I tried to overtake a guy last night who was riding slowly until he realised commuter cup points were on the line, so then when he was riding at what I thought was a desirable pace, I sat on his tail and let his competitve streak tow me home.
Shoaling itself doesn’t worry me, it’s when the shoaler takes off but doesn’t give you any room to overtake, that irritates me. :x
Almost as much as people who ride with their helmet hanging off their handlebars…
Don’t worry I won’t - fix ie riders usually ride too slow for me :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
LOL all that bouncing on the saddle in lady jeans.
Hey! They’re men’s jeans!
But I’ll be happier if you overtake me.
amen.
nothing like getting stuck up against the gutter boxed in by a car, the gutter and some wobbly beardo with paniers that pull him all over the shop cos they are so unbalanced.
if it’s some grokl who can’t do the above, i cut in for my own safety.
and sometimes i’m naughty and shoal when i see another fixed rider and want to pull up next to them and check out their bike.
split lanes > shoaling
That was going to be my rant for today… I commute to Williamstown, and at some point it never fails that I’ll have some wannabe TDF rider on my wheel down the docklands highway. WTF? Shit or get off the pot, I’m not here to pull you home. I do think it’s funny when “geared” riders do it when there is a 40km headwind. Furfuckssake, pull me along in a headwind like that, I’ve only got one gear.
I’m with you on shoaling cars and quite a few intersections… often I’ll sit in the queue a few cars back from the light, I don’t see the need to go to the front every time, same thing in turn lanes.
the question has to be asked… why the fuk are any of you stopped at the lights in the first place?
I stop at red lights because I don’t want to die.
If there’s room, I’ll move down the side of the cars and in front of the first one. They can then see me.
Because it would be a contradiction in safety to wear a hi-vis and run red lights.
What? And give up the chance to bust a trackstand? :?
If you haven’t seen Shirts in action then it’s worth the plane fare up to Brisbane just for the show. I suggest to get the train from the airport on a Friday afternoon and sit at the Grand Central station hotel which faces out onto one of the busiest roads in the Brisbane CBD, Ann St.
At approximately 5 you’ll hear the horns start beeping in the distance and shortly after be witness to a man dressed only in shorts weaving a bright pink track bike on it’s rear wheel past about 500 angry motorists, ciggy hanging out of the corner of his mouth and ipod blaring away.
While I don’t condone the behaviour, this my friends is how Shirts rolls…
Every city has one.
