total lack of road manners

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What is it with teenage girls and lack of manners while riding on the road? Twice this week I have passed a group of teenage riders whose response to my slowing down and ensuring they have plenty of room has been to snarl and draw their eyes off me! When did they stop teaching kids basic road etiquette? I'm on the verge of becoming the sort of embarassing person who stops the car to give them a row!!
 
The trouble is teenagers haven't learnt the rules of the road in the same way those that have learned to drive have - its absolutely no excuse however - but it is why courses like bhs ride and road safety exist - at my last yard there were a number of teenagers who were just as rude as these you've experienced - one was that oblivious she walked straight through a t junction when she should have given way - a car narrowly avoided taking both horse and rider out - her mother was told! I witnessed this myself
 
What do you class as 'teenagers' and why limit it to girls? Being 20 myself I've ridden since I was six and I have always known how to ride on the road safely since I was 8, when I was allowed to ride for 1 mile by myself. I am currently teaching a 14 yo gurl how to ride outside of a RS. IMO RS are shocking places yo learn, the ones round here are anyway, they do it all for you, so they don't actually teacg, I think it's awful! I taught this girl how to signal, say thank you, stop, slow down etc, I was really surprised!
 
Unfortunately there are a number of horse riders that appear to have no manners or common sense when riding out on the road. This creates bad will on behalf of other road users who then see all horse riders as being both rude and arrogant.
 
I nearly always drive with my windows open, so if somebody doesn't say thanks or acknowledge me, they get a very over exaggerated "THANK YOU!!!!" with a questioning hand wave from me. Most are shamed into saying thanks back...
 
Thats True Elbie some adults are just as bad !!! however the main difference is teenagers generally haven't learnt to drive yet - or had limited road experience - so don't appreciate all hazards. Also there are just as many teenagers out riding on roads that are considerate as there are inconsiderate ones - unfortunately it's the inconsiderate ones you remember
 
im 17 and have always known how to ride on the road.. its common sense.
came straight out of a riding school, never done bhs etc etc but if you have good manners and road sense its not hard.....
 
I am one of those people who stops and tells riders to say thankyou or acknowledge it when a driver slows down. I tell them that I am a rider and that in order to encourage cars to slow down they must always, without fail, at the very least, smile and nod when someone slows for them. Usually they are very polite and rather startled.

They won't learn (no matter how old they are) learn if it's not pointed out to them...
 
You I don't get all this at all riders are a huge range of people they will have different temperaments and different manners .
If I pass a rider having not done anything startling like stopping or slowing right down it does not bother me if they don't say thank you.
If I make the comparison with cyclists I am nervous of cyclists when I am driving I tend to treat them a bit like fast moving horses some acknowledge you some don't some make it damn right hard for you like one who drove for three miles down a single track road bang in the middle while I was behind him towing a large trailer and I followed him at 8 mph for three miles now that was rude if I had had a car behind me on that road while towing I would have let it past, I though rude s*d but it did not make me want to run the next cyclists I saw into the ditch.
Those who will purposely speed will be unlikely to amend their behaviour because of some polite riders.
We all use the roads we all have a duty to drive ride cycle walk a responsible way kind manners while nice should not have anything to do with it.
 
Goldenstar said:
You I don't get all this at all riders are a huge range of people they will have different temperaments and different manners .
If I pass a rider having not done anything startling like stopping or slowing right down it does not bother me if they don't say thank you.
If I make the comparison with cyclists I am nervous of cyclists when I am driving I tend to treat them a bit like fast moving horses some acknowledge you some don't some make it damn right hard for you like one who drove for three miles down a single track road bang in the middle while I was behind him towing a large trailer and I followed him at 8 mph for three miles now that was rude if I had had a car behind me on that road while towing I would have let it past, I though rude s*d but it did not make me want to run the next cyclists I saw into the ditch.
Those who will purposely speed will be unlikely to amend their behaviour because of some polite riders.
We all use the roads we all have a duty to drive ride cycle walk a responsible way kind manners while nice should not have anything to do with it.
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had something similar while driving the other day, but 2 cyclists cycling 2 abreast chatting to each other on a one way road so couldn't get passed- was behind them for at least a mile until they realized I was there.... then completely ignored me and carried on doing what they were doing!:mad:
 
^^ my daughter is the same flaxen :) if there's 20 cars coming past at once, every one gets a thank you. She also wears hi viz every time, much to the amusement of her friends. The difference is, she did her bhs road safety at aged 12, her friends never have & its always been drummed into her how to behave on the roads. Im a firm believer that everyone should take the bhs exam before being allowed to ride on the roads. The amount of adults I see out riding with no hi viz, too busy chatting, not aware of a thing going off around them is far more than the teenagers!
 
blackandwhite said:
draw their eyes off me!
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What does that mean?

By far the rudest horseriders I've come across when driving were the two middle aged women who started shouting abuse at me for slowing down to around 5mph as I passed them. The gist of it was that I should have halted my car completely, as one of them was on a young and nervous horse. Notwithstanding, the horse in question stood very quietly as this person continued her torrent of abuse at me. I really had been driving very very slowly and stopped as soon as the shouting started, it was baffling but the most unpleasant experience I've had with fellow horseriders.
 
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