Friendly Cabbie...

To be honest the wrath of Jen is probably much worse than that of Aram, you don't see Aram picking fights at Wests do you? =P

Maybe I can get DJ to lend me a hand.

I'd still bet on Jen =P

I actually did meet a really friendly cabbie once,

spinning along my driving license fell out of my pocket, guy got out of his cab, picked it up, caught up with me and gave it to me with a big cheery smile, lovely chap altogether!!

Your guy was a cunt though ;)

All these 'nice' cabbies can be nothing by rapists.

in my experience they arent all bad, but some are ridiculous.once had a fight with one because he didnt like where id left my bike on the pavement!!

AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH - psychotic Bloomsbury cabbie FUCKING CUNTING FUCKTARD CUNTARD!!!

Thanks, I feel better now.

wow that was a delayed rage!

A man learns to control premature exclamations as the years pass.

We need city horns like they have in asia, you can beep all day and no one minds.

Hey, i'm turning right BEPP BEEP BEEP BEEP
Hello BEEP BEEP BEEP
Can you see me BEEp BEEp BEEp
Of course you can Beep Beep Beep

Etc

Was coming back into town from doing an Essex loop. Cabbie pulls up alongside me and starts shouting and swearing. I looked at him in a puzzled fashion and said "Er, what?"

He looks me in the eye and looks embarrassed and says "Really sorry mate, I thought you were someone else!"

Maybe I just look different with longer hair and a beard.

He obviously didn't recognise your new look

Me and a friend had just come back from the ECMC's in Edinburgh last year, still smashed, a taxi turned left on us on a back street... we started giving him shit and he said "sorry boys.. yeah that was my fault, I didn't see you" to be fair we were riding about 300 meters to the pub so we didn't have lights on so we apologised as well...

all in all he seemed genuinely sorry haha

Me and a friend had just come back from the ECMC's in Edinburgh last year, still smashed, a taxi turned left on us on a back street... we started giving him shit and he said "sorry boys.. yeah that was my fault, I didn't see you" to be fair we were riding about 300 meters to the pub so we didn't have lights on so we apologised as well...

all in all he seemed genuinely sorry haha

I think you forego your right for rage at SMIDSY if you're not wearing lights at night.

Friday night I had a cabbie come up beside me at the lights and say 'bike lights and not jumping the lights your giving cyclists a bad name!' I laughed. Later that evening came off my bike on a slippy corner an Addision Lee cabbie stopped to check I was alright.

What is the world coming to?

I think you forego your right for rage at SMIDSY if you're not wearing lights at night.

In our defence it was in a very well lit, mainly pedestrianised area, where taxis are only allowed in after 8pm

Still yeah, drinking for 3 days straight in the rain... didn't exactly have my best head on... bad enough even being on a bike!

I have reported London cab drivers for this sort of thing before (I had a "Your mum's a C**t" once....) - through the official route. Without video evidence nothing will actually happen (you do get e reply though) but I'd like to think that if they make a record of the events that perhaps, if there is a large number against a particular individual, that the Hackney carriage office would take some action - perhaps at license renewal time. Wishful thinking I know.

Friday night I had a cabbie come up beside me at the lights and say 'bike lights and not jumping the lights your giving cyclists a bad name!' I laughed. Later that evening came off my bike on a slippy corner an Addision Lee cabbie stopped to check I was alright.

What is the world coming to?

Cabbies eh? Can't even say nice things in proper English.

I have reported London cab drivers for this sort of thing before (I had a "Your mum's a C**t" once....) - through the official route. Without video evidence nothing will actually happen (you do get e reply though) but I'd like to think that if they make a record of the events that perhaps, if there is a large number against a particular individual, that the Hackney carriage office would take some action - perhaps at license renewal time. Wishful thinking I know.

Where did you report them? I reported a black cab to TFL for physically ramming me off the road at a set of traffic lights not long ago and they didn't even bother to acknowledge the correspondence.

^ that's disgraceful not even replying, though from many accounts perhaps it's not a surprising response from TfL who seem to have trouble remembering to breath in and out