On your left...on your left

[dougp]

It also means that the bikes are only going by at ~ 5 - 7 MPH faster.

I ride a little under 20 mph on the canal trail near me and no one ever passes me.

I ride around 14-17mph unless I have tailwind, which I can push up to 30mph. Headwind sucks here in Houston ...

This guy is just being a jackass.

 

[Krazy4Real]

lol @ OP

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I agree with you, calling out "on your left" when I am already on the right and not in your way is useless and annoying after hearing it 15 times in a couple of hours.

lol you poor sensitive thing.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

20 bucks to the person who tailgates leftyman on their bike for an hour instead of passing

 

[Blackjack200]

I'll match it if they sing "Eye of the Tiger".

 

[Bacstar]

What makes it worse is I see a lot of people with headphones or earbuds on listening to their mp3 players, so gaining their attention almost requires a blast from an airhorn. Sometimes I have no choice but to slow down and pass wide...

 

[sourn]

Sounds like you're just a whiny little brat.

O noes these guys gave me a heads up TO THE FORUMS!

 

[PlanetJosh]

Perhaps they are attempting to sign to that Beyonce song but got the words a little bit wrong "To the left to the left..."

I thought of the song when I first saw the thread title.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

"On your left" is a warning to let you know a cyclist is coming up on your left and to stay to the right if possible.
That's it. No need to be a douche about it.

 

[DrPizza]

Butthead, no one is going 40mph. Shit, Tour riders in a pack don't get 40mph except in rare circumstances.

The average cyclist can barely maintain 15mph. 20mph is fast for them.

Depends on the type of bike. Road bike, I feel the average cyclist can maintain 20mph on a paved trail. Mountain or hybrid, slower of course due to the higher rolling resistance of the tires. If you can't maintain 20mph on a road bike riding on a paved trail or road, I don't think you're a "cyclist."

I agree with you, calling out "on your left" when I am already on the right and not in your way is useless and annoying after hearing it 15 times in a couple of hours.

And if they didn't, after being passed by someone going 25mph without forewarning you, and having the crap continuously scared out of you, you'd be making a thread here, "why don't those damn cyclists have little jing-jing bells to alert people that they're coming?!"

excuse my error, I run 6-7 minute miles and I race competitively 5k,10ks and halfs...not profesionally.

I used to run... competitively. If your miles are anywhere near 7 minutes in a 10k, like the rights to the term "cyclist" I posted above, I don't think you've got the right to use the term "competitively." Anything above 6 minutes per mile, and you're not finishing anywhere near the front (for a male, under 40).

 

[ElFenix]

i yell out 'passing' because about half the time i yelled out 'on your left' people would move left.

 

[DrPizza]

i yell out 'passing' because about half the time i yelled out 'on your left' people would move left.

I used to experience that as well. Back when I lived in the city with bike trails, I had to quite riding in the early morning - old people. They couldn't hear me coming or hear me yelling "passing."

 

[leftyman]

Depends on the type of bike. Road bike, I feel the average cyclist can maintain 20mph on a paved trail. Mountain or hybrid, slower of course due to the higher rolling resistance of the tires. If you can't maintain 20mph on a road bike riding on a paved trail or road, I don't think you're a "cyclist."


And if they didn't, after being passed by someone going 25mph without forewarning you, and having the crap continuously scared out of you, you'd be making a thread here, "why don't those damn cyclists have little jing-jing bells to alert people that they're coming?!"



I used to run... competitively. If your miles are anywhere near 7 minutes in a 10k, like the rights to the term "cyclist" I posted above, I don't think you've got the right to use the term "competitively." Anything above 6 minutes per mile, and you're not finishing anywhere near the front (for a male, under 40).

Im 51 and my average speed for 5ks is in the sub 20 minute range depending on the course, 10ks around 39-40 minutes and only have run 2 1/2 marathons and still getting used to the distance. I usually place in the top 5 for my age group and usually in the top 10% overall. So yea I'm competitive.

 

[highland145]

^^^
Get off his lawn.


Yeah, I'm 49 and shit just pisses me off because it does.

 

[brianmanahan]

let me guess, you rage at cars beeping to alert they are passing you as well?

 

[highland145]

let me guess, you rage at cars beeping to alert they are passing you as well?

My damn new fridge beeps at be....it should be glad the 12ga is up stairs.

 

[leftyman]

let me guess, you rage at cars beeping to alert they are passing you as well?

Why would you beep at someone you are passing?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Why would you beep at someone you are passing?

To piss them off?

 

[leftyman]

To piss them off?

I though it was out of overwhelming concern for the persons well being..

 

[highland145]

To piss them off?

This. My bro passed me one day, beeped, he got the finger before I knew who it was.


Hell, he gets that a lot anyway.

 

[Schmide]

I think OP needs hormone replacement therapy.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Off topic, but I think I saw JulesMaximus today. It was a heavily-balded middle aged man riding his bike against traffic into an oncoming green light. He stopped in the median and judging by his furrowed eyebrows (he was wearing sunglasses) he just glared at all the traffic coming towards him, occasionally lowering his head to shake it in disgust at the unwashed masses that failed to yield to him.

 

[Sluggo]

Off topic, but I think I saw JulesMaximus today. It was a heavily-balded middle aged man riding his bike against traffic into an oncoming green light. He stopped in the median and judging by his furrowed eyebrows (he was wearing sunglasses) he just glared at all the traffic coming towards him, occasionally lowering his head to shake it in disgust at the unwashed masses that failed to yield to him.

Was he screaming incoherently about those D-Bags in SUVs?

 

[DrPizza]

Im 51 and my average speed for 5ks is in the sub 20 minute range depending on the course, 10ks around 39-40 minutes and only have run 2 1/2 marathons and still getting used to the distance. I usually place in the top 5 for my age group and usually in the top 10% overall. So yea I'm competitive.

Good time for your age group then. (I did qualify it by age above.)