Why does any mild criticism of cyclists on Irish sub reddits result in personal insults and aggression from so many accounts?
Looking through the comments on videos here and you see what I mean.
Across all Irish subs it’s the same, any sort of mild criticism and it’s jumped on and turns into person attacks and a flood of comment screaming about how cars are worse and cyclists can’t do any wrong.
I remember reading. Post about a group of cyclists on the way to glendalough who were riding in a group of 6 but spaced out so much they couldn’t overtake and one rider would move out to blocked the opposite lane when the road was clear and of course it was personal attacks and know it alls telling people they should “try cycle” or “just wait”.
Even the other day I was downvoted for saying I thought it was a dumb idea to build a cycle lane on a road near me that doesn’t link up with the main road on one end and just ends and the road on the other end is only really used to get to the motorway.
Naturally voting and “what are you talking about” and just pure gaslighting that the road doesn’t lead to the motorway or just end on one stage. And then claiming they “didn’t narrow the paths or roads” which is blatantly untrue, along with claiming they can now let their kids cycle to school, despite the cycle lane not being linked to the school at all.
I had a post removed from ask Ireland before, asked why cyclists don’t use hand signals, apparently it “set them off” and was too hard to moderate.
Same with posts about not stopping at pedestrian lights, it’s their right to “keep themselves safe” and it’s justified to put pedestrians at risk.
Same goes for all the threads about how they love to “defence cycle” and stop anyone overtaking them or passing because they don’t like it.
Why does Reddit get so many of these entitled arrogant arsehole cyclists?