This morning's commute and other commuting stories

fucking SPOILERS!

fuuuuck.

I did wonder...

France won the World Cup

#spoileralert

2 out of 3 ain't bad.

Yes. Quieter. Although beardsman in a hoodie, trousers round knees, RLJing like crazy between Stockwell and Farringdon kept things super +twitchy+

Shouted at a twat in a van on a phone as he veered towards someone on a Boris bike.

Then grassed them up to the copper in the car emerging from a side road, using my best sign language.

Plod puts in the blues and twos, and pulls the van over.

smugsatisfaction/10

Was sitting at the lights in Lewisham waiting for them to change this morning. They changed and before I could get up onto the pedals, got an almighty horn beep from a gent in a car with Atkinson McLeod estate agent livery on it. When I looked back, he was holding his hands up giving me the wanker sign. Caught up with him about 20metres up the road at the next set of lights and asked him what his problem was. He looked a bit flustered as I don't suspect he was expecting any confrontation and said that I was weaving all over the road. Good one mate, I was stationary at the lights. Have a partial plate. Now, this cunt has rattled me. I'm a big boy but suspect he's the sort of guy that would beep at my children/your nan too.
What's the best way of reporting these cunts? Tweet his employer?

Eff those cretins that wheelie about in London in heavy traffic and pull out from between stationary cars looking the wrong way so i have zero time to react and crash into them! And eff hitting the inside of your thigh on some part of the bike and having one of those invisible but effing painful bruises.

Twitter shaming is probably the way to go

Yes that or email them @7ven I got punish passed/beeped by some twat at a junction in Holborn once and got a hand-wringing apologetic reply from them when I wrote a measured email saying that's not a smart thing to do.

Whether these companies do actually pull their drivers/employees up on it is impossible to know, really, but if we don't report them nothing will ever change.

people that behave like dangerous cunts in liveried vehicles... what do they think's going to happen? if anything, report them just so their employers realise they've employed a fucking a liability - you'll be doing them a favour.

Yes, this. Employers don't want a maniac driving their van, earning the hatred of the public, claiming on the insurance, putting the van out of action in the event of a crash, etc.

Worked for me when it happened by an estate agent in a Foxton's mini did something similar on Southwark Park Road. Made even worse by the fact that she had a potential customer sat in the passenger seat. Filed complaint with local office, got call back from manager, and emailed confirmation that driving course was undertaken by said employee

Really not sure what the point of having the bike lights at traffic lights, sat at the junction of Rosendale Rd and the South Circular, the little bike light turns green I set off to be immediately over taken by the car that was next to me. Driver sees a green light and off she went.

Had to double take when I saw this outside of Asda at Clapham Junction

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I'd also say contact them. Worked for me when a Greyline Services van actively forced me into oncoming traffic on fleet st just so he could swap lanes faster. I emailed them saying that I've roadsafed 'em and got a reply back saying that the driver has been disciplined. I'll never know if they did it but at least its on their radar that the driver is a c*nt. I was almost minded to ask for a personal apology from the driver but thought that might be taking the piss haha.

Nice - that's a proper Dutch-sized bike! Haven't seen a town bike with hydraulic brakes like that before either, and those bars suggest the owner may have a bad back?

(Edit - it seems Hartje is a German manufacturer, and the Livorno is one of their trekking models, which would explain the hydraulics.)

To be fair those lights at that particular intersection are crap. They only give you 1 second before the car lights change. Others seem to give a few more seconds

Fucking hell I got wet on the way home

Likewise. Quite enjoyed it.

It was pleasantly warm. Did the water seem....'soapy' to you? There was a lot of bubbles in Kentish town

Love a bit of twitter hate. Do it.
Video replay really handy in these cases.

bloke indicated to turn left in front of me tonight, I went over the bars as I braked.

I've got a few scrapes but I'm ok and the bike's alright.

However, my watch got smashed as I hit the floor, how should I sort this out? I've got a phone number and car registration and we spoke afterwards. No witnesses, but I could go and ask the shops near where it happened.

quick edit: I texted him about my watch and he has called so say that he doesn't think he is responsible.

thoughts please

thanks in advance

another edit: reported to road safe, will probably spend $21 on an aliexpress screen and fix the watch myself

Aggressively overtaken by a hot hatch today - wing mirror clipped my bars and over I went . They didn’t stop . Got some grazes and a stiff neck - lucky really but mostly just fuming about shitty suburban drivers. Swear I felt safer when i was going up and down the Holloway Road every day. Fuck zone 5

Yeah, the suburbs are full of cunts, because their speed isn't reduced by loads of lights. I always get shitheads out from Southall onwards who underestimate my speed, don't look, don't indicate or are just outright malicious. Took my missus to Hillingdon last night and was on high-fucking-alert.

Did you get their rego?