Another car vs cyclist interaction

[blackpuddinonnabike]

On a couple of my regular routes there are short, sharp hills, with blind summits and turns after them. Quite often people go past anyway, so I do make a point with the people who wait to wave them past when I can see over the crest that the road is clear.

I generally get a thumbs up or a flash of the indicators.

[clarion]

More on the tandem than at other times (maybe because we are faster than individually, and this is frequently underestimated by drivers ), I, or my lovely stoker, have used an outstretched palm to warn drivers not to overtake until we can see the way to be clear.

I find that a stoker doing 'jazz hands', or putting her hands on her head, gets a message across effectively.  The observant among you will see that Superstoker pedalled most of Freewheel with his hand behind his back, a practice he uses at other times as well.

[Ian H]

[...always used to puzzle me...

a) Most Spoonerisms are apocryphal — he never said 'em.

b) If it was 'up train' it wouldn't spoon.

[Pete]

a) Most Spoonerisms are apocryphal — he never said 'em.

b) If it was 'up train' it wouldn't spoon.

Very much OT .... One which may be non-apocryphal, is that Spooner is alleged to have, in real life, upset the salt on the tablecloth during dinner, and then to have poured wine on the salt.  A sort of Spoonerism-by-action, rather than verbal.  There's no reference to this in Wiki.

[peliroja]

I thought the recognised calls were "CAR UP!" and "CAR DOWN!" depending on whether the car is going the same or opposite direction to you

I left out the respectively since I cannot seem to learn which is which. It is probably because I am left handed.

Easy.

Car up (... your bum)
Car down (... your throat)
 
 

[Wendy]

I have long ceased any attempt at offering assistance to car drivers via hand signals to their advantage.They usually do not understand or misinterpret your intentions & resort to some form of abusive response.
It is clear howver that they all appear to understand the hand action for w*nker,d*ckhead & F. off.

Sadly this is less a reflection on drivers than on our own behaviour as cyclists.  Clearly most drivers expect anger and nastiness from us, to our shame.

[fuzzy]

I thought it was car up (up ahead) or car back.

[clarion]

No.  Car up (or down) the line.

[Riggers]

Grub, he mistook your hand gesture, and missed the first syllable. So instead of Wang-car, all he heard was Car.

What can you do, eh?

[Tourist Tony]

Read this out at work, to get the "bloody annoying cyclists" comment. All the usual stuff....shut him up by asking when was the last time he heard of a cyclist killing a car driver.

[rower40]

Since I first rode in a group, (CTC Sunday rides) I rationalised the directions of "Car Up" and "Car Down" by making the assumption that the group is always riding uphill!  Which is true about 75% of the time.

How am I meant to indicate behind my back to other riders when I'm on a 'bent? My arms don't contort that way, so I point right over my head with my left hand to indicate "Moving out".

[Regulator]

Since I first rode in a group, (CTC Sunday rides) I rationalised the directions of "Car Up" and "Car Down" by making the assumption that the group is always riding uphill!  Which is true about 75% of the time.

How am I meant to indicate behind my back to other riders when I'm on a 'bent? My arms don't contort that way, so I point right over my head with my left hand to indicate "Moving out".

Bloody 'bent riders with their funny ways, confusing everyone else!   

[clarion]

Read this out at work, to get the "bloody annoying cyclists" comment. All the usual stuff....shut him up by asking when was the last time he heard of a cyclist killing a car driver.

Though I was tempted towards that by a woman in a Volvo who thought it was OK to try forcing me under the wheels of a JCB.  I think I'd be forgiven.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Read this out at work, to get the "bloody annoying cyclists" comment. All the usual stuff....shut him up by asking when was the last time he heard of a cyclist killing a car driver.

Does he not know of Mr Larrington and his love of Vienetta?