This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Front rim brake?

... and Jebus.

Footjamming ftw

#keepinitreal

Nice beaver.

Had a strange one this morning - riding up Moorgate, through the roadworks, tons of cyclists about, not much room. I go past a car that's just sat in the middle of the lane and as I pass him he suddenly accelerates and nearly hits me. I look round and see he's on his phone so clearly just looked up, realised traffic had gone and hit the accelerator without looking. I wait until the next set of lights and come up next to his window and start waving - he's so engrossed in his phone that he doesn't notice me waving not 10 inches from his face, I need to actually knock on his window to get his attention!
It's then I realise that he isn't sending a text, answering a call, or checking directions - HE'S READING THE DAILY MAIL! To be fair to him after I called him an idiot and a threat to other road users he did admit that what he was doing was really stupid and we actually shook hands with him promising that he would stop, but still, reading the daily mail, on a phone screen, whilst controlling a 2 tonne vehicle may be one of the most moronic things I've seen a driver do (this week).

bro, yor mudguards don't w0rk. pth pthui

I don't see significantly more of them over here in Ams than I did in London, other than assisted cargo bikes. Mopeds in the bike lanes are a bit of a nuisance, and teh car ones are even worse

now wash your hands

Wearing gloves -50/50 over whether to burn them.

Funny one this morning, motor bike called me a dickhead upon passing me. Stopped at lights and asked him if he’d calmed down. He hadn’t - kept calling me a dickhead for not looking before going passed a bus that was pulling in - I did look. He seems to think I didn’t. Kept calling me a dickhead and that we cyclists moan when motor vehicles are killing cyclists - but he appeared to suggest it was the cyclist fault.

Anyway, I told him I’d only talk to him once he calmed down. He said he didn’t want to talk to me, but then called me a dickhead again and drove off!

Dickhead/10

You are a dickhead to be fair

cyclists and motorbikes are shit at allowing people ahead of them around obstructions. They seem to fail to grasp even if they have 'the line' there's no magic lanes they are just overtaking someone in the same lane.

If you can see a bus indicating left and can't anticipate that the road user ahead of you will manoeuvre around it and adjust your speed or you fail to even see the bus, then it's unequivocally on you if there's a near miss.

Fucking hate doing a shoulder check to move a foot further out around a bus only for some Strava prick and his peloton of nodders to all just zoom past within inches without even thinking about their brakes.

Anyone who disagrees how do you feel when a car overtakes you as you go around a parked car?

Fair point.

Good point.

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Disagree here. I always take it as my responsibility to take the 'lane' early before going around something. Ideally I'll be have pulled into an overtaking position without slowing anyone behind me.
Conversely, if I want to move out, everyone already in the 'lane' I want to be in has right of way. It's my responsibility to shoulder check for awareness and wait for other road users to pass.

Well, as any road user you are responsible for anticipating.

So you have to both anticipate the slowdowns/overtakes in front of you...and anticipate the people that don't anticipate any of this/don't look and will take you out if you don't shoulder-check when you move to the right.

It's sort of an anticipate inception.

Mororcyclists* need to calm the heck down. I’ve had a fair bit of aggression from them recently.. I think they find cyclists v annoying as we can occupy the same parts of the road that they consider ‘theirs’ but get in the way of them going at their absurd speeds.

#notallmotorcylists

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

Cool!

(new page fail)

I agree. Overtake staying wide and covering brakes where there might be non-anticipators obvs.
But I would never move out to the right if I had to expect another road user to slow down for me. They have greater right of way and it's safer for everyone.

I seriously can't be fucked to argue but your premise is completely off and you're falling for that same nonsense that drivers do that see's them accelerate at pedestrians rather than slow down when they're in the road because they feel they have the greater right way.

if something is happening in front of you causing traffic to slow down that requires traffic to behave differently slow your arse down too, don't try to maintain speed and force your way past it. you don't have greater right of way and it's not safer, you're much more dangerous as now there's two hazards approaching from directly opposite directions. there's a reason why blame is apportioned to the person who hits someone from behind in a car.