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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If there isn't space to overtake two cyclists side by side, there isn't space to overtake one cyclist. If there's another car coming towards you while you overtake, you'd be endangering the one cyclist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

1.5m to overtake one cyclist brings you only partially onto the otherside of the road.

1.5m to overtake two cyclists astride brings you fully onto the otherside of the road

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

exactly, either way you need to make sure there isn't any oncoming traffic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, so you only partially hit the oncoming car. Great.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

depends how deliberately badly you're both driving I suppose

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

??? You expect the other driver to drive on the fucking shoulder because you can't wait literally half a second to pass a cyclist??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, so walk me through this. This is what I got.

Guy: You have to wait just as long to pass one cyclist as two abreast.

You: I only take up half a lane to pass a lone cyclist.

Me: So you have to wait until the lane is clear.

You: No, I am a good driver.

Me: WTF?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

(that was a reluctant "no" gif I posted above)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

@mondoman712 @felykiosa it depends a little onthe road in question, there are roads with a sinple lane wide enough that a single file of cyclists are passable without crossing into oncoming traffic, but two abreast isn't.

But we all know this isn't what happened here. Driver just wanted to let his priveledge show.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you just lie on the Internet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Which part of what I said do you disagree with?