Which do you think is more annoying? Cyclist or horse riders?

As a cyclist

both

I often see huge crowds of Lycra-clad old men on their roads bikes huffing and puffing along, but literally they insist on riding 4 side-by-side rather than single file-freaking idiots

Horse-riders are pretty annoying also, loads of them ride horses which are easily "spooked" and start thrashing about on the road which is dangerous for both passers-by and the rider. I also wonder why not cleaning up after your pet dog is a something you get fined for, but not cleaning up after your horse is totally Ok

As a horse rider and a cyclist: cars are most annoying. They speed past horses and come too close to both horse riders and cyclists. And they're the ones who are polluting the planet.

This, it's absolutely terrifying to have an overtaking car give you about a foot's space on a country road with blind corners and pot holes everywhere.

If I come off my bike because of a pot hole when you're overtaking me and not leaving enough room, you'll kill me.

Car drivers.

As somebody who believes in the superiority of trains and likes the bicycle i believe that car drivers are the enemy.

The worst bit is when you try and be a responsible driver and wait to overtake people behind you then start overtaking your car AND the cyclist on blind corners. Its like seriously now I've made the situation even more dangerous!!!

Yeah, then half way through they realise that they've done something stupid and try to cut in too quickly

More importantly, where would they put it?

I cycle a lot, don't mind horses. Most cyclists are good road users, it's the arses that stick out like sore thumbs


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All the people complaining about cyclists riding two abreast, please read this: http://ukcyclelaws.blogspot.co.uk/p/the-laws-according-to-highway-code.html

Also, incidentally, I have seen mounted policemen riding their horses two abreast...

Still doesn't mean we can't complain about it... it may be legal but it's frowned upon.

Cyclists are more annoying. Every horse rider i've come across goes single file and in the side of the road. Cyclists will happily ride 8 abreast in the middle of the road. Also it's much easier to overtake a horse, it's similar to stopping and moving round a stationery object, cyclists go that little bit faster so unless you're on a main road it can be tricky to overtake them.

However when i'm out running it's definitely horses which annoy me because they get spooked when they see someone running at them and it scares me a tad, cyclists do not get spooked.

Or just crash into an oncoming car as I witnessed the other day. Pretty scarred by it O_o especially after having a crash myself at Christmas!

Wrong. Most people will be riding a safe horse or will be good enough to calm the horse if the driver is passing 'wide and slow'. You're probably just driving wrong.

And do you think horses are just born unafraid of cars. They need a good rider to show them that cars aren't scary. So you will get some car-shy horses on the road but if you don't spook them they soon turn into not car-shy horses.

they have no place on the road, if you don't own enough land to ride them on yourself, don't get a horse

Nobody has a divine right to the road, everybody shares it, everybody is equally entitled to use it. No one set of road users are more important than another.

Then horse riders should be charged road tax and have to hold permits for their horses