What is it with Cabbies?

Not worth it. Not worth the trouble, at all.

Some people like spending their time polishing their cranks.. others like to spend it pounding the ass of whitevanman's missus..

lol!

asm I was overtaking some buses outside waterloo station the other day, couldn't have been in the middle of the road for more than a couple of seconds (and the alternative was going into the back of a bus), and a white van driver pulls onto the wrong side of the road in relatively heavy traffic just to yell "DO YOU THINK YOU'RE A CAR OR SOMETHING MATE?" before pulling back in front of me and breaking sharply.

Er, no. No I don't. I was more amused at his stupid comment than angry at his stupid driving so I just pulled up alongside him at the traffic lights chuckling with both my middle fingers up before doing the old cycling really slowly trick.

The next time someone shouts at me, i'm going to throw this at them:

htay i'm seriously thinking about keeping a couple of copies of that in an easily accessible pocket from now on.

most of the time cabbies don't bother me, it's maybe because i ride with intention and try to get eye contact. or the fact i don't stop and just keep on pedalling, like down the middle of marylbone rd in heavy traffic or down the median strip or opposite side of the road most of the time.

just call him/her a shit cunt?

"your cunt is shit!"

"Not only are you a cunt, but you are terrible at it!"

Shout "My other bike is your mum"

why throw insults when you can throw bricks!

dogsballs or the fact i don't stop and just keep on pedalling

like most of us here then..

hippy If he is smaller you beat his face to a pulp, rob his van and shag his sister/wife/mum.

You mean his sister/wife or his mum/wife or his mum/sister.

That's a thought: seeing as my hack bike's an On-One Inbred, I could point out to an errant cabbie etc that they're related to my frame :)

I meant a foursome with his sister, wife and mum.. coz I'm dirty and the cabbie usually deserves it. :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7246779.stm

Painting all with the same brush? Nice work there.

fucking rapist taxi drivers!

man that is a fucking scary story, agree with vb tho

• my $0.02 to Velocity Boy and Clefty - surely using this isolated incident as 'a reason to hate cabbies' is no different to a driver hating all cyclists because he nearly hit one once.
  
  

How about the time a former flatmate of mine in distress (her own doing by way of over-indulgence, but that's irrelevant) was picked up by a cabbie who got her home safely and walked her to the front door of our place in Hackney, knocking and waiting for me to come down and answer and refusing to let either of us pay him for the fare?

Don't get me wrong, the majority of cabbies are aggressive drivers and quite a few are mildly racist (to put it... er... mildly), but lumping them all in with a rapist seems a little harsh.

In my ignorance I thought the rule (the law???) was that empty cabbies could NOT use the bus lane, only cabbies with paying passengers could. Nevertheless I see tons of passenger-free cabbies on bus lanes... am I wrong? is that kosher?

Ride near the middle of the bus lane then.

You are wrong.

Ride near the middle of the bus lane then.

yep, defensive riding in the primary position is going to make all those taxi's just "poof!" away.

Oh you mean they don't have the capability to overtake?

Ride near the middle of the bus lane then.

So is that left or right of the middle of the bus lane then ?