I hate

don’t have some some stressed-out, raging middle-aged asshole behind the wheel trying to prove they can do 0-60 in 4 seconds all the time.

This sounds a lot like a skip lorry.

Single cell organisms, skip lorry drivers.

Re: "Sando". This.

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e-Brompton riders and parents with kids on Tern e-bikes. They are the distracted Range Rover Evoke drivers of the cycling world.

And so the backlash begins

Plus anyone riding a full suspension mountain bike on a canal towpath

full suspension mountain bike

Lol, amateurs

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The number of cars and the lack of effective cycling infrastructure in London.

Even in an area with supposed LTNs, it is so hard to ride evebln a couple of miles with a five year old and seven year old on their own bikes.

We ought to be able to ride safely and without stress right across the city. Why do we put up with this?

Spare a thought for those who've commited half their disposable income to Nissan Qashqui ownership. It's not like they're gonna walk the length of Chatsworth Rd

Some quick googling says that in the UK we spend £40bn per year on car finance, £18bn on car insurance, £30bn on maintenance and servicing, £55bn on diesel for domestic cars, £28bn on petrol for domestic cars, and £5bn on road maintenance. For a total of £176bn. More than we spend on either our education or health care system.

Ban domestic cars.

Yeah, but what about the £350M PER DAY we'll save when leave Europe? We can easily spend it on that.

People who, before they take a left turn, do a massive and unnecessary swing out to the right first regardless of what is coming the other way or, in the case of 2 lane roads, what is coming past them.

Yes! Even though it's just a corner and your power steering assisted shit wagon can turn on a sixpence, you still think you need to take the fucking "racing line"

Also people who can't turn into a road on the left side, they have to drive across the right at 45° too, presumably because they're too weak to turn the steering wheel more.
If you happen to be turning right and prevent them from doing this....

I think it’s more like they see all the other non drivers hopping the curb so they’ll go the other way and drive like they have a 53’ flatbed behind them.

Or they're just going too fast to get enough steering angle/don't like being thrown around.

Either way, shit driving.

Do this on the bike to make a bigger circle and maintain speed. Drivers need to slow the fuck down.

also in the wet you're less likely to skid out your front wheel if you hit anything slippery when on a bike if you hit it at a more direct angle.

People turning right when there is a perfectly usable, car sized area to move into before turning so that people behind you can carry on whilst you wait for a gap in oncoming traffic, who either ignore the car sized area or pull over it at a 45° angle blocking people behind.

People turning right who must turn at the absolute earliest possible opportunity so as not to lose half a second on their Waitrose trip, cutting across the giveaway point of the junction they're turning into on the wrong side of the road.

People turning into roads and not knowing that highway code rule 170 is a thing.

Cunts.

aka the rule every "I'm an expert driver" 100% does not know.

highway code rule 170

I thought the change in the highway code was supposed to firm up this but it only says "you should" give way to pedestrians crossing or waiting to cross. And wasn't that always the case?
Why is it not "you must"?

Because that would have required new legislation, rather than just a rewriting of the HC

"You must" indicates a legal necessity, as opposed to "you should" which is merely guidance (that may be prejudicial in the event of an accident).

nearly got taken out by a dickhead doing just this at end of my walk with the dog just now, crossing a side street off a short street off a rat run, no car audible or visible even turning onto the adjacent road when we step out yet they manage to make two turns and nearly clip my heel before i've even made it past the lane marking in the middle of the road. i'd be clearly visible as soon as they turned into the first road yet I heard the engine rev up as they approached as they were accelerating. they were also literally driving into an empty industrial estate which is more pothole than road surface so would have had to slow the fuck down anyways, cannot fathom what the fucking point of it is.

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