Pet Peeves Among the Pedals

Not about pedestrians, not about motorists, just about our fellow cyclists. We are all so different that stuff is bound to frustrate when we approach riding in such different ways, explain to those we think are less experienced, etc. Ok, tell us your stories, tell us your pet peeves, we're all friends! 

I'll start out with a pet peeve of mine... The cyclist that blows past me so close to me I felt the wind of their SWOOOOOSH as they fly past me but they say nothing to warn me. We're in tight quarters in the bike lane. Buy a bell and/or tell me you are there! 

p.s. sure, your pet peeve may be the forum post that's been done before but I kinda feel like this tucks into other topics so this time I'm giving the pedal pet peeve front and center.

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Permalink Reply by BikeScnhook on June 29, 2017 at 10:31am

Well,that problem doesn't seem to exist in the city of Chicago -- the fact that we have so many forms of mass transit kind of quashes that belief at least on a municipal level.

But even so -- the way to make change is *not* to ignore stop signs and potentially put others in danger. (Confession: if I'm a billion percent sure that 1) there's no way anybody will get hurt and 2) I'm pretty sure nobody's looking, I'll Iowadaho stop myself; hell, I ran a red light once.)

Permalink Reply by Rena Church on June 30, 2017 at 8:27am

Agreed. Also, I always blow through red light when there is no cross traffic so I can get as far ahead of the cars coming up behind me as possible.

Permalink Reply by Irvin Steinert on July 2, 2017 at 6:29am

 I reside in your camp for the most part. The responses in opposition here are not strong and I believe are seeking to justify emotional actions with weak logic.

Permalink Reply by Heléna Klumpp on June 29, 2017 at 8:06am

Shoaling by guys who assume they're faster than me -- you know, because they're guys, so they must be.

Permalink Reply by Kate on June 29, 2017 at 8:28am

Oh god yes, this happens every single day of my life. Usually I basically yell "on your left" at them when I do pass them because I am faster. 

Permalink Reply by Heléna Klumpp on June 29, 2017 at 8:45am

YES. THIS.

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on June 29, 2017 at 9:16am

LOVE!

I would add mansplain to the man-shoal. You know, the dude that feels compelled to assume I don't know anything about bikes/my bikes/cycling and needs to mansplain it all to me. ugh.

Permalink Reply by Heléna Klumpp on June 29, 2017 at 12:12pm
I always expect those comments to be puctuated with "little lady."
Permalink Reply by Irvin Steinert on July 2, 2017 at 6:57am

I don't think that men shoaling women are purely sexist. It sounds like, from this statement, that you might. Every day, every hour, a woman shaols a man is or a man shaols a man or a woman a woman. Is it not simply selfish and ignorant? I think that people doing this are not really thinking about it at all and/or it is simply a transformed behavior from driving.

It is perhaps sexist to think that one sex would know more about one subject than  the "other" sex. (BTW, is there only two? I think we as a society have clearly established that the defining lines are subjective)

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on June 29, 2017 at 9:21am

Now that I'm on DIVVY, I never shoal anybody. :-)

Permalink Reply by Argonne69 on June 29, 2017 at 9:24am

Lol. Well, except maybe other Divvy riders.

Permalink Reply by Alex on June 29, 2017 at 8:44am

gross. i regularly ride with my girlfriend, and the worst is when dudes shoal her, but not me (man). wtf? as if plain shoaling was bad enough, the sexist part is even shittier.

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