We get regular outings by several local cycle clubs each week and they ride in packs of up to 25 riders and sometimes more. They ride up to 3 or even 4 abreast so basically take up half the road, never ever ride in groups of just 3 or 4 leaving adequate room for cars to get past and act as if their "peleton" has every right to take up half the road. Utter inconsiderate w#nkers the lot of them.
As a cyclist myself, this past few years I've noted a real shift in the attitudes of most car drivers as our roads become ever more crowded with bikes, lorries, cars, horses and farm traffic all competing for space here, much as everywhere else. Car drivers are more intolerant generally speaking I think of large groups of cyclists and more tolerant of lone or small groups out for a cycle or commuting. I took the decision to sell my road bike a year ago and just ride trails now because 1) it's gotten too dangerous on the roads and 2) I don't want to be lumped in with the ****s in lycra that ride in large groups.
They are the most intolerant of all road users imho. I cut in amongst a very large group of them, perfectly safely a week or so back and my dash cam footage snapped what happened after I did that. There was a small, and most likely unintentional gap between two large groups with the rear group obviously catching up to the back of the front one. I nipped past the rear group safely and tucked into a clear gap before a corner only to be met with loads of verbal abuse by the lycra mob. In no way had I put any of them in danger. I had my family in the car and the language coming from that group was foul. They are just scum on wheels and I'm afraid in my book anyway, deserve all the attitude and condemnation they get by car drivers. The police will do nothing even with dashcam footage. I know, as I submitted it and there was no interest in what was clearly dangerous, aggressive and careless riding with plenty of abuse towards us.
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