Cycle Lane Etiquette

It was such a nice afternoon in Dublin today that we decided to hop on our bikes and head along to the Grand Canal Dock for a drink. The road along the canal has a continuous cycle path, but it’s not really wide enough for a great deal of overtaking.

As we trundled along we came up behind a fairly slow-moving young woman on her bike and, during a break in traffic, passed her. However as we waited at the traffic lights, she went past the line and stopped in front of us, so that when we set off again we were stuck behind her, and had to wait for another gap in the cars to overtake. And, annoyingly, at the next lights she did it again. We overtook again, and then at the next lights she did it again.

We turned off the road at this point, but I was pretty pissed off with this girl. She seemed to have no regard for any other cyclists on the road, and certainly no sense of good cycling etiquette.

I would have thought that it was only good manners, when pulling up at lights, to wait behind those ahead of you – especially if you know them to be faster riders than you.

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