This morning's commute and other commuting stories

They're not very prominent in the inner cities. Most use is by tourists or elderly people out for leisure, i.e. out in the countryside. They're also used for long inter-city commutes.

Motorbikeists can GTFO of the ASL box

It could be a safety issue so I'll continue to disagree rather than abandon.
I'm not advocating accelerating or cycling dangerously at any obstacles. I said that best practice is to maintain a line which is established early, whilst prepared to slow down if necessary.
I agree that we should give way if it avoids an accident (highway code is quite explicit about this). But I don't agree that slowing down every time traffic needs to pass a bus is the safest approach. Nor do I believe it's safe to pull out to within inches of flowing traffic (which may or may not be prepared to stop).
For the same reason, in RTCs blame is not always apportioned to the person who is behind. Other road users changing lanes/position is typically accepted as an exception.

Ultimately I agree with JWestland. I'll take my lane and be prepared to slow if somebody moves into my path.
Open to discuss it privately if you'd prefer or this gets popcorny.

That's made my afternoon!

No popcorn here, we're always cool mate. <3

I think you're approaching this thinking of someone just swinging out from your left without looking which is always dodgy and I'm with you on that being dangerous and you don't manoeuvre without checking it's safe to do so.

I'm talking about when I'm riding primary behind a bus in line with the right hand light cluster waiting for the space to open when it pulls into the stop so i can overtake within the lane/between lanes. where due to proximity I have to slow, to give me time to make the manoeuvre and also check it's safe to do so. Whereas people further behind can use their increased distance to immediately veer right without having to decelerate as much, so rather than match the speed of prevailing traffic and allow the people ahead to navigate the obstruction safely, they decide that they will maintain speed and force their way past (overtaking someone already overtaking).

if the road is narrowing from an entire lane to 2ft wide space and someone's first thought is to try and overtake the person in front of them in the tiny gap the only person they're considering is themselves and that's always going to be dangerous.

Got honked at by a driver in a shiny BMW who was urging me to move even though I was behind 5 cars all of which had stopped at the lights. Turned and shrugged my shoulders for which he gave the wanker sign and then he drive up the wrong side of the road and through the red lights. What a cu*t up there with the two fellas who had pulled into the petrol station and stopped in the entrance to have a chat so no other cars could get in when the lady behind them honked them, one of the blokes got out of his car and was threatening her she ended up driving off. Class bellend.

I remember riding along with @Skülly once and we were going to overtake a bus. Well, I say riding along with, it was more he was waiting for me at the end of the road like he did every morning back in those days and then he'd follow me around telling me where I'd gone wrong in life and how I should think about 'the Spanish'. In fact he was on an electric bike, well, electric bike is not quite right, what it was, he had a car battery in his napsack and he'd wired it up to his testicles so every time he wanted a boost he'd press a little switch and he'd shoot forward like the proverbial. He did smell something rotten of singed pubic hair but Skully being Skully he didn't mind.
Where was I? Oh yes, we were riding along, Skully giving out about the Spanish and we came up behind a bus that was pulling in to let a party of pensioners on. Thinking about it now, that might be what started it because Skully always had this thing about old people. Did I mention I first met him when he had just done a ten stretch for burning down a Help the Aged shop?
Well, there we were, coming up behind this bus, with the pensioners queueing up and suddenly. Hold on a second, there's someone at the door, be right back.

I think I cycled over his penis the other night. It had fallen off from underuse combined with too much air-wanking. Karma's a bitch eh?

Hahaha poor Skully

Love you too.
You're right. I misinterpreted your original post. My mistake sorry.
We're on the same page :)

yay!

We're on the same page :)

Pagination fail.

Whoever was throwing drawing pins around on the Mawbey Road cycle lane back in September seems to be back at it as I ran over two in the dark this morning on Old Kent Road northbound before Asda

My commute this morning featured this:

[video removed at the request of Roadsafe]

I'm very comfortable with scooters being banned outright.

Unless you are a Mod, then you get a Mod License

What's the problem... they didn't dive off the bridge :)

Cs6 going north was a shower of shit this morning.

Took a longer route in this morning: 25km including a start in the dark and hail, before some blissful canal towpath. Kicking myself for not having ridden the towpath before now.

that chicane past Holborn Viaduct and Smithfield tho. The only time I really feel ALIVE : )

This is all I think of when I hear the words "Teddington Lock" (only people of a certain vintage will get the connection).

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Teddington Lock

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g528818-d8722228-r322571878-Teddington_Lock-Teddington_Richmond_upon_Thames_Greater_London_England.html

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AICMFP

Well done. No £5s here, but you can have this.

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I am sick of the ASL at the top of St James Street crossing with Piccadilly. There’s a big slippery manhole cover right in the middle where you want to position yourself to go straight ahead. If you stop to the left of it, you get in the way of trucks turning left, as their lane is too narrow. Getting to the right of it is usually impossible because of other traffic.

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https://www.fillthathole.org.uk/hazards/report

Hippy is fond of filling a hole