I totally relate to the road anxiety. I’ve started driving my bike to places where I can get off-road immediately. It feels like attitudes to cyclists are worse than ever😢

a few hundred meters from my door and i'm on my local cycle path that leads to all the glorious gravel forest roads, i love living in wales, i hate riding on roads

Love a good rant, enjoy your rides you have as much right to be on the roads as any one else.

YAY Just found your channel! Enjoyed it.

Thank you

I thought at first you were using Pauline because the 3T was broken. Tight country lanes and massive 4x4s always good for a jam.

Proper Job! 👏🏼

Hi Amy I get this all the time where I live in North Yorkshire. Every time I’m out I must have at least 2 or 3 very near misses like you said loads of room chevrons in the middle and still brush past. It’s not like I’m hard to see I’m 6’2” 100kilos so not a slight figure like yourself, it’s so annoying

This is why I go out really early mornings last weekend a van literally swerved at me onto my side of the road on a 60mph they obviously thought that was funny was a gnats wang from clipping me.

I am fed-up with giant SUVs... the only people that need a bloody 4X4 Range Rover, Q8, raptor whatever 'IS A BLOODY FOREST RANGER' Oh but apparently, they are essential for the school run! ...rant over. Take care out there.

Congrats on getting out on the bike. Feel the same about roads. Luckily a 90 mile long trail has just opened below my house. Bad part is coming back home is a 600ft climb at the end. Thanks for the video and stay safe out there. Take care, Al

Good luck with your new coach, you’ll be smashing rides with full confidence before you know it! Have a good weekend 😊

Well done Amy great job getting out, I know exactly what you mean i live ina very rural area, cars come so close tractors seem to be even worse at close passing and also when cutting headges they are totally ignorant and won't stop cutting while you pass danger of getting bits in your eyes also they never clean the crap up they leave it Strood all over the road. Enjoy your rides and have a wonderful weekend.

Great to see you back Amer, I was getting worried, good luck with the new coach

Nice...! Ka Adventure..😊

Totally feel the same. I rode for about an hour and a half on sheer ice on a rail trail the other day, because I didn't want to ride on the roads.

Mountain biker here who got a road bike. Didn't feel safe at all on the roads so got rid of it and got meself a gravel bike instead. So much better and no one trying to kill me.

I feel the same. I always try to ride a route with quite country lanes to get away from traffic yet they still seem to be there, mainly used as shortcuts. Hey ho. More off road to come I think. Well done for getting out 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Riding through Mordor!🤣 Close call and bad motorists are the worse! Take care, may the red force field be with you🏮! 👍🏻

It’s still wintery fo’sure so fair play for time on bike Amy. Winter cycle boots have been a bonus - bought off-season 😉 …and…did the bike get a wash😇?

Riding more off road now as the roads around me in Oxfordshire are so busy and poorly kept plus getting knocked off last year dented my confidence no end.

Rant 100% justified.. Old people still driving... Grrrr i was t boned at a junction by an old guy, whos wife sided with me that she told him 3 times to stop as there was a cyclist in front of them... Wow.. Mind boggling... Good to see you back out again 👊 summers comin.

Bloody fogeys! 👴👵 Stay safe 👍💜

After a crash in 2015, I had bad road-riding anxiety. I hope yours passes (mine did). No judgment on you. Do what works; it will be enough. (Also, hearing you lay down the law while your bike is leaning against a "No Cycling" sign is just a delight.)

I went for a long ride yesterday all the way round Bodmin Moor and ended up coming back down into Lostwithiel down the A390. So many close passes (weirdly, all from red cars!). I had one who I could hear on my tail waiting for clear road to overtake, and when they had it, they gave me a close pass. It’s terrifying. Also, the faster the road, the closer the pass - does speed make drivers feel even more invulnerable? Well done getting out - was that yesterday too? At least it stayed reasonably dry (if a little cold!)

I feel drivers are worse since the pandemic. Everyone is still super duper angry all the time.

Recently moved to the Peaks, apart from the hills giving me a kicking, same experience for me with drivers occasionally (even though its much quieter here). I now have one of those Garmin radar lights. Have you got one of those? Good choice in bike brand btw :)

i Love your Videos

Same here in Australia now and it's getting worse as population Increases. I never really ride on the road much in the UK mostly I went off-road, in Cornwall too. Might pay to get a bright Gillet on the roads

Hi really nice to see you out and about pleased your OK 👍 after your ride iam sure people just hate cyclist on the road ,some people just don't give you a inch on the road,I hate the roads to stick to mtb trails as much as possible ,don't mind the realy quite B roads tho ,take care and looking realy well X have fun 👍

Drivers scare me when I’m driving let alone riding a bike on the road so I will probably never ride a road bike mtb trails all day for me as for large 4x4’s saw a lady trying drive over a cone at birches valley car park on Cannock chase today 😂

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To be honest some cyclists don’t help themselves the other day I put my bike in the car for an audax event and where I live in the town the roads are very narrow I came up behind 2 of the all the gear no idea mob taking the whole lane up when I did get past them I pulled in to give a little advice and was told where to go 😤I think there’s a new breed of numb nuts in cycling today unfortunately

Hi be careful a few KZfaqr / cyclists have been knocked off recently , it seems nowhere is safe these days 👍

I ride with a blinky light on for every ride and try to check over my shoulder often - morons & yahoos abound