Hitting Cars

I was passed very close by a Land Rover last year and he clipped my with his wing mirror which promptly fell off into the road and smashed. Deciding that this was my fault he anchored up and opened his door shouting all manner of obscenities, I rode around him and tried to ride off only to be overtaken and pushed into the kerb. He then got out of the car and came at me with a crook lock. Fortunately I was wearing my Carbon soled roadie shoes and slipped to the floor whilst trying to dodge his swipe. I then Kicked him in the knees he beat me with the crook lock (on the helmet which I didn't wuite understand) and he left. I had his Registration and it was all caught on CCTV. He was done. Hard.

That's the case for wearing helmets i've ever heard.

I 'accidentally' knocked the drivers side mirror off a Bentley.

The road was quiet and he came up and past me really fast with his horn blaring (I was 4ft from the curb and he had a whole other lane to the right of me to pass in). He had to brake straight away for a red, so I came past him and stood next to him. He then started revving his engine and shouting (none of which got his point across because his windows were up). I actually couldn't help but smile... and fold his mirror in as I left the lights.

Except those '90s Bentleys can't have been very well made because the mirror just fell off.

Years ago, when I lived in Durham as an undergrad, I managed to knock the driver's side wing mirror clean off a Fiesta on my way into the city centre on a narrow street popular with wasted students wandering back to the colleges after a night out. Being a big believer in karma but having nothing to write on, I went into the local shop, got a pencil and paper and left a note on the guy's windscreen with my number. A few days later, he called me up and asked me if I knocked both his mirrors off since both were missing when he came back to town (both were there when I knocked the first off)... Due to it being a package deal for the pair, for which I paid half, the guy that knocked the other one off at least saved me a few quid.

I have seen it from both sides - having touched a mirror and instantly apologising & getting thanked - to -

(embankment north side of Vauxhall Bridge) moving towards the right to completely clear the cycle lane - waiting at lights - then had a lovely lady barge past on her bike forcing the mirror to fold - on mentioning a certain lack of care on her part, I was given a nice mix of expletives - she was clearly having a bad day & I left it at that

i broken a couple of mirrors on purpose many years ago when skating and drivers have almost run my over running reds... i broke a guys mirror by accident a few months ago as he stopped quick and didn't leave enough gap to get through even though he'd just over taken me, went to leave but he asked me for details so i gave him my best mate in high schools... coped a guy the other day purely by accident and did no damage but it was a very nice shiny car and i apologised and told him there was no damaged but he wasn't very happy...

I knew reading this thread would curse me.
on the way to the Arsenal last night heading from camden approaching Holloway road i was riding on the outside lane where the lane filters out into two. when some black mountain of a man in his black BMW decides to squeeze the nose of this car in a gap nearly a foot to small... maybe he was worried someone might squeeze in and get ahead of him. maybe he thought his car changed width dynamically.. maybe it was to impress his powder coated blonde missus looking blank in the passenger seat.. who know.. maybe, just maybe he had no fucking idea how to drive in traffic.
Either way i wasn't in the mood the stop so he got new go faster stripes down his shiney paint work
i got the impression he wasn't happy but to be honest i wasn't over impressed. shame he wasn't quick enough to make the lights to talk through it with me, but kick off was 7:45 so didn't really have free time

My favourite mirror moment was getting into a race on Camberwell New Road. Some lycra'd fool with a Camelback couldn't cope with being overtaken by a guy on a touring bike with double panniers and kept trying to overtake. I kept drawing him through bottlenecks to piss him off and getting up to Camberwell Green I had to duck a white van mirror that I scraped lightly with my helmet. The next thing I heard was a crack and a bang because the other guy had hung up on his Camelback and bounced onto the pavement.

Nearly hit a moped because I was laughing so much.

On the few occasions I've bumped cars I've stopped to apologise. Except the car full of wideboys who came close while overtaking and one of them slapped my shoulder. I pulled up next to it and dropped the bar end of my MTB into the front door before riding off.

Good time - I'm approaching cars stopped at a red light, filter through and my handlebar catches a wing mirror and pop it backwards. I stop and shimmy backwards and pop the mirror baqck into position, I ask if I've put it back properly and the driver tells me
"No move it a bit further back",
"Is that ok?",
"Nah a bit more forward",
"How about now?",
"Back a bit",
"Now?",
"A little bit more forward",
"You're winding me up aren't you?",
"Yeah mate don't worry about it" laughs and drives off and I laugh too.

On my motorbike I kicked a BMW's off-side mirror off on the motorway after the driver nearly killed me by pulling out in front. Figured that if he wasn't using it he didn't need it...
Never got any come-back...

Bad - Riding along a two lane road with a divider in the middle, I'm alongside a car, a bit back and to the right and I can see the drivers face in the wing mirror (I like to be in this situation as you know when the driver has seen you) and there is a car 3 metres behind me so I'm commited to staying where I am on the road for now. The cunt to the left of me starts changing into my lane, indicates about a second after moving and starts to push me right over into the divider, I accelerate for my life (quite literally) place my left foot resting on top of the handlebars and take his wing mirror clean off. Cue him overtaking me and stopping in my path to which I simply stated that as he wasn't using his mirrors I didn't see that he needed them anymore.

i clipped a dude once, but i didnt bother apologising beacuse the cunt just randomly stood half way in the "narrow" cycle lane while in a traffic jam. He had no reason for not staying in the car lane like any other tens of cars in front and behind him.

I just kept on going and didnt quite squeeze throught without that small damage to his mirror.

(Here's my broken-leg wing mirror story, realise no-one else is interested but needed to get it off my chest.)

Smashed a wing mirror off a cab a few years back after being deliberately squeezed off the road, 20 mins stand up row ensued, if it hadn't been outside my work and another cabby intervened it would have ended in fistycuffs, would like to think I'd react differnetly now that I'm a bit older, life's too short for that shit. (spineless twat in the back of the cab can rot though. cnut).

Repostioned plenty of other wingmirrors I've nudged -normally with my bag.

it happened to me..filtering between the kerb and a mini.She decided to do a left turn without indicating or checking her mirrors.I took her mirror off and scraped her door.I bruised my arm and grazes.At first she was very sorry until she saw the damage to her car and then she became foul mouthed and called the police shouting at me..i calmly got on my bike and rode off.

it depends on alot of factors, if its their fault (they where over to far, in the bike lane, stopped for no reason, pulled out towards me, ect.) i hope i broke something and ride off. If its my fault i generally stop, the execption to this are 1. if I'm drunk, then its any thing goes, 2 if I'm in a bad mood they should realize that the world exists solely for my entertainment, and that i now feel better having broken something, they should be glad to play a part in the meaning of life. 3, its a rough hood, sorry buddy I aint stoping in The Bronx/ Canarsie for nothing. 4 if its a cab, fuck you buddy.

I allways stop if i ding privite cars in midtown, beacuse living well is the best revenge.

ahh chris, you're such a new yorker now.

ahh chris, you're such a new yorker now.

Lies. Anyone can speak the lingo.

I was riding anti-clockwise around the outer perimeter of rejents park, coming up to the right hand turning to Camden, that had a que of cars turning right.

I was on the inside going round the park when a car overtook and on seeing the que of cars ahead, started moving over squeezing me into the pavement.

I tapped on the side window and the shock of me doing this caused the driver to swerve right.... I heard a bit of commotion behind and it seems the car may have gone straight into the stationary que of traffic