This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Commuting by any other means will put you in contact with similar cunts for a more protracted period of time. Hard to just fuck off away from someone if you're stuck on a tube/train carriage or bus with them.

I am guilty of getting way too pissed off about things but am more and more trying to take a leaf out of Dammit's book when he wrote about an incident with some bell whiff - "I have to experience your cuntishness for a few seconds, you have to live with the fact that you are a cunt" - I'm paraphrasing.

I must interact with thousands of other road users daily but it is the dangerous/selfish/entitled few that will stick in my memory.

fuck this town and the vast majority of its inhabitants.

Fuck off back where you came from then you fat cunt.

Did you give them abuse over their phone use?

true - however people on the train aren't generally driving the train at your face.

if you call telling someone to perhaps 'not drive whilst using a fucking phone, you thick cunt' abuse, then yes.

Yeah, I realise my post may of come across as "chill out, duuude". Hard to find youre inner zen when 6 tonnes of metal are about to rip you a new one.

Got mildly annoyed by a couple of RLJing ladies today, but they had mad shoulder rocking going on, indicating poor core strength therefore I win haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

A woman walks across the road on a green light for me outside Tottenham Court Rd station I lock up and she just stands there looking like a possum caught in headlights. Completely take her and land on top of her. As I'm getting up and asking her if she is OK an old man pipes up "bloody cyclists" after making sure the girl was ok. (Pretty sure she wasn't but was saying she was) I mentioned this is why you look at the lights to see if you can cross to which she agreed and apologised. Then i proceeded to yell at the old man that thought that it was all my fault even though he wasn't stupid enough to cross to road into oncoming traffic.

I have a sore shin.

First time this year I've got my bib shorts on, fucking hell this is GLORIOUS

Caught a couple of blokes early doors so did a bit of 3-up action for 20 miles before they peeled off.

How far ahead of you was she when she stepped out?

A woman walks across the road on a green light for me outside Tottenham Court Rd station I lock up

Have you considered cycle training?

First cycle commute in a while today as I've been studying on the train for professional exams. I stepped out of the front door to sunshine and birdsong and rode in with a grin on my face the whole way. Absolutely beautiful.

You should report it. AS you say, you'll probably not see any result, but if it's reported, it adds to the statistics (which if they get big enough, they have to do something about), and it goes on that drivers record. So if they fuck up in the future, the police will see it's not the first time they've been a shit driver.

What would cycle training do when someone steps out in front of me when they shouldn't?

What would cycle training do when someone steps out in front of me when they shouldn't?

It's a standard response on here to any accident but it may teach you:-

• to anticipate that such things can occur and to moderate your speed/positioning accordingly. Yes, this can mean not going as fast as you'd like, but it may help you avoid future incidents.
  
• correct braking technique (body positioning especially) so you don't lock up and therefore stop in a shorter distance.
  
• many other useful things you may not realise you needed to know.
  

I was through the intersection and she was about a meter or so off the curb that intersection is already bad enough with the potholes so I was only going 20kph so could have been much worse.

Granted they have they have the construction going on there so its a blind spot for them if they look both ways BUT that said don't cross the road when your not suppose to.

Pity there isn't pedestrian training then!

Sod CT..

Just tackle them from the bike, rugby style.

Counterintuitive..

Perhaps your tact will change slightly after reading this:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/281897/

Great commute, new headphones came and I was on the 27.5+ bike so very stable, no hands most of the A23+A10 and maybe dancing a bit with my arms making people smile.

I knew of this which is why I instantly made sure she was ok and got her off the road and hung around for a while talking to her and offering her help. It was more the old man's comment that wound me up.

Remember that if everyone drove/rode/walked/etc as the Highway Code et al decrees then there'd be no incidents.

So the only incidents are going to be if you and/or another party diverges from that behaviour. If it's you (alone) then you've only got yourself to blame, if it's the other party then it's going to be up to you to avoid it. The moral high ground is useless when you're lying hurt on the road with a mangled bike (and possibly mangled person).

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got the train in due to elbow being fucked (hopefully temporarily) after snowboard-related stupidity last week. i got a seat, which was nice. other than that it was shit.

I am actually gutted that I have no job to go to in this weather. Ah well guess I'll ride out early evening and go to the pub.