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• #1077
In an organisation as big as Addison Lee there is bound to be at least one driver who isn't a homicidal maniac with a particular dislike for cyclists.
Steady on, old chap! Let's not conclude a pattern of sensible driving! I suspect this bloke was just having a quick break from mayhem. Mayhem is very tiring.
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• #1078
Maybe the driver was distracted, trying to think of a way to run you over?
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• #1079
Bad drivers always get there come uppance, Riding along the mall to visit the Queen (obviously) Guy pulled out from parked with no indicators and whilst txting, He stopped at the lights there so I talked to him abut his driving embarassing him infront of his slag missus, then he wheelspan away from the lights into a stationary taxi. :) Oh how I laughed
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• #1080
Bad drivers always get there come uppance, Riding along the mall to visit the Queen (obviously) Guy pulled out from parked with no indicators and whilst txting, He stopped at the lights there so I talked to him abut his driving embarassing him infront of his slag missus, then he wheelspan away from the lights into a stationary taxi. :) Oh how I laughed
eh?
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• #1081
Bad drivers always get there come uppance, Riding along the mall to visit the Queen (obviously) Guy pulled out from parked with no indicators and whilst txting, He stopped at the lights there so I talked to him abut his driving embarassing him infront of his slag missus, then he wheelspan away from the lights into a stationary taxi. :) Oh how I laughed
Pretty much the only thing keeping me in London is not wanting to miss the inevitable and oh-so-sweet moment when two black cabs take each other out dramatically (but non-injuriously, obv). I shall be sad if I move away and this immediately happens on my commute.
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• #1082
so annoyed with myself for not reporting this but was very nearly involved in a really bad accident on way to the GF's on friday after work.
Was riding down colliers wood high street at about 6.15pm in the CS7 smurf lane matching traffic speed on the downhill (prob 22-25mph) when the car one car length ahead of me brakes sharply, throws on her indicator and pulls up across into the CS lane to park up.
Cue heart in mouth, front brake clamped on, rear wheel locked into skid and thankfully I slowed just enough that I didn't go into the rapidly closing v-shaped wedge between kerb/car and I stopped half a yard off their rear bumper.
body flushed with adrenaline I felt a bit dizzy/woozy at how close I'd come to a very nasty high-speed collision. In my confusion I thought, not far to the missus' just get home.
as I ride around the car, the driver who having finally realised she had nearly killed someone wound down her window a crack and meekly says sorry.
wasn't til I got back to Emma's that the adrenaline wore off and I realised I didn't even get the number plate. am still incredulous how someone can be that ignorant of the blue cycle lanes. I mean she must have been driving right next to it for a while, surely she would have passed other cyclists/they passed her and reinforced it's purpose. how do you not at the very least check that you're not about to weave a cyclist into the pavement before you pull over erratically to illegally park in what is essentially another lane of traffic.
doesn't fucking help that tfl have peppered the lanes with parking spaces out of rush hour so people get used to the idea of being able to park in them.
Glad you're ok. Sounds horrid. And yes, TfL have a lot to answer for.
Poor DJ encountered some terrible drivers when out with me this weekend. What scares me even more than deliberately obnoxious drivers is those who just don't seem to be aware of what they're doing. Not fun. -
• #1083
Had an almost exact same encounter on my way to Emma's in tooting yesterday at about 10am.
luckily this was much lower speed and I was on full-alert so a sharp tap on the brakes, shoulder check and a swerve and I'd overtaken him on his right before he'd finished pulling over. but to be honest riding the full length of cs7 on a saturday morning is probably more difficult than trying to do the same journey on the pavement, there'd be less obstacles at least.
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• #1084
CS7 is not in operation for 18 hours a day, so that make it useless.
Frankly, I never rode on them for that reason, especially with parked cars, still some driver understood why when they see shitload of parked car on an obviously blue bicycle lane.
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• #1085
What scares me even more than deliberately obnoxious drivers is those who just don't seem to be aware of what they're doing. Not fun.
Whenever I have a rant about drivers to my wife she just puts me straight by saying I am really overestimating the average persons abilities (she is face to face with general public everyday).
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• #1086
Fuck me.
LIIB VTV
White Fiat 500. Fat Female Glasses.What a fucking cunt. Nearly knocked me off at Brixton Hill.
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• #1087
So I want to report something to this Roadsafe site but the box for typing what happened seems extremely limited in character count...?
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• #1088
And I heard London was cycle friendly
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• #1089
it is, it just doesn't appear so when this topic is all about the bad drivers.
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• #1090
So I want to report something to this Roadsafe site but the box for typing what happened seems extremely limited in character count...?
I found this too. ended up having to leave off half the details last time I used it. bloody stupid.
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• #1091
So I want to report something to this Roadsafe site but the box for typing what happened seems extremely limited in character count...?
When I used it I found that was the case with Firefox but it worked ok with IE.
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• #1092
So I want to report something to this Roadsafe site but the box for typing what happened seems extremely limited in character count...?
When I used it I found that was the case with Firefox but it worked ok with IE.
cheers for that - all seemed a bit weird that it was so restrictive. I'll email them and tell them to get compatible.
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• #1093
Ouch - 256 character limit on the text areas. Hopefully they're using larger database fields and can tweak the form because that's pretty dumb.
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• #1094
The Cycling Silk has written about the apparently changing priorities of the RoadSafe campain. A month old, but still interesting
http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.com/2011/10/metropolitan-police-consultation.html
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• #1095
A few weeks ago, was cycling along reasonably slowly when a Mercedes slowly drifted into the bike lane right in front of me, then out, then back, pushing me closer and closer to the curb. Looked in on the driver, and surprise surprise he's on his phone. Then i remembered the car immediately behind him is a police car, quick glance round at them, point exaggeratedly at the merc and then make the hand sign for 'phone'. The traffic speeds up a bit and the merc goes fully past me, the police car draws up next to me, confirms that it was the merc, then whacks the lights/sirens on and promptly pull him over. Cycled past as he's being questioned, nice feeling of justice.
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• #1096
cheers for that - all seemed a bit weird that it was so restrictive. I'll email them and tell them to get compatible.
Dear XX,
Thank you for your feedback with regards to the Metropolitan Police
form.We have made some amendments to the form which reflects to both IE and
Firefox.I appreciate your feedback and hope you find the website more useful in
the future.Regards
e-Communications Team
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• #1097
I'm honestly not saying anything to bad drivers on the road anymore. Only shook my head at a white van completely blocking the green box and lurching forwards for him to follow me and rant about how he can tell me how the road works. Thought he was going to punch me off my bike! Lesson learned today, just put up with shit driving...
Also saw a car nearly wipe out a courier today though and giggled when he threw whatever was in his water bottle over the windscreen of the car.
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• #1098
"Got an interesting story for you: a videoed roundabout jumper is managing to avoid prosecution by hiding from the police for 6 months. Once they've done that -and refused to identify who was driving- they can't be prosecuted for the driving offence, only failure to provide information, which also expires"
What is the point?
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• #1099
Don't think it has a time-limit but if you're sent a summons in the post you can deny it was you driving anyway.
Not sure what a 'roundabout jumper' is though, unless they went through red lights on a roundabout.
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• #1100
GV11 EFG, Honda CBR 600F
Northbound on Borough High Street, at the light controlled junction just before the Union Street/Borough interface, 08.20, 07/11/11
The chap on the motorcycle approached the red light controlled junction in the bus lane, heading north/toward London Bridge as the light was red.
He went past the advanced stop line, and stopped in the middle of the ASL area, on the left hand side/bus lane side.
A bus pulled up behind him, and cyclists started to arrive in the box, eventually there were quite a number of cyclists all around him, due to his location in the ASL area, in the left hand lane/bus lane.
When the light went green he was hard on the throttle, then hard on the brake to avoid running straight into the woman on a bicycle in front of him- extremely aggressive, making the bike lurch forward with lots of engine noise, then hauling on the brakes whilst doing that "shakes head" exaggeratedly thing that motorcyclists do when they consider that other road users are being inconsiderate.
If the female cyclist had panicked when the motorcyclist was threatening her, and fallen off her bike he'd have run her over.
When he finally bullied his way through the cyclists and into the right hand lane he opened the throttle and roared off up to London bridge.
I reported this one mainly due to the "shakes head" thing, which was a smashing piece of hypocrisy to witness on Londons famous London roads this morning on my way to get a coffee.
In an organisation as big as Addison Lee there is bound to be at least one driver who isn't a homicidal maniac with a particular dislike for cyclists.