Peds!

What about those guys who honk at you for no reason other than to be aggressive and force you to ride erratically in order to fully look around and check that you're not in danger?

I don't mind that. At least they know you're there

I feel as though horns should be used to alert people to dangers and get their attention though, rather than for being a twat.

What about those guys who honk at you for no reason other than to be aggressive and force you to ride erratically in order to fully look around and check that you're not in danger?

I hate this, it's like they expect me to move.
I'm going at a decent speed in a place where it is unsafe for them to overtake me so I'm not moving to the left no matter how hard you honk your horn.

I hate this, it's like they expect me to move.
I'm going at a decent speed in a place where it is unsafe for them to overtake me so I'm not moving to the left no matter how hard you honk your horn.

^This x 1000

Stay where you are, avoid erratic riding, check your shoulder and stay in primary. You're a legitimate road user, you have a right to be there and they can only pass when it's safe to do so. If you have to wiggle your arse out a little wider to make that point clear, do it, if you're ahead you're in control. Just don't be aggressive about it. Assertiveness is one thing, arrogance will fuck you over.

I was coming downhill like a badman this evening with an internal smirk as I steamed past the static traffic. The same stillness in the vehicles convinced a ped it was okay to cross the street without looking and she appeared in front of me. I braked and slowed but we still collided hard enough to put us both on the ground. My first reaction was to ask "What the fuck are you doing you stupid cunt?!", she said "Why are you swearing at me?" and I responded that it was because she was a "fucking imbecile" and insisted that she "jog on" 'cause I've heard people say that.

Wow, that isn't a very nice way to react to having hurt someone at all.

If you were going on the outside of the traffic, then she was probably looking in the direction that she was expecting traffic to be coming from i.e. not the opposite direction that you were coming from.

I once hit a pedestrian when filtering on the outside of stationary traffic - managed to slow down to not hit her hard but my momentum still left me headbutting her in the ear quite hard. I felt terrible - if anyone was to be called a cunt it was me, certainly not her.

^Oh, I agree. I was an arsehole, no doubt.

I was just after insight into what you're supposed to do when that sort of thing happens.

Last time I hit a ped the first thing I had to do was call an ambulance.

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#nothitapedfortwoyears

I hit a ped about 18 months ago. My response was to say "dude, don't just walk out into the road without looking where you're going!" His response was to punch me :(

coming off the Euston Road from the East to bend round Great Portland Street tube and north up Albany Street is a nightmare (https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.523836,-0.143565&spn=0.001283,0.002411&t=m&z=19). Lines of peds just stand in the right turn lane trying to cross the road forcing you into the traffic to your left. There are two pedestrian crossings yards away. I told one woman to use the propercrossings and she turned the air blue!

Bane of my morning commute (cue photos of Bane from that batman film thingy...).

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@privatepatterson - if you're going to steam past stationery traffic you're going to have incidents like this. The secret is not to steam past like a badman.

I got taken out on an open road. The only traffic was the van behind me and a bus on the other side of the road.

Ride as fast as you like and use them to soften your landing.

If you wanna be real badman put the boot in and finish the stupid fucking meat-pylons off properly. Don't listen to these pillow-biters, they is wasteman innit

Mmmm meat pylons... mmmm

Can we not round up all the:
Cunts who use phones whilst driving
Cunts who walk into roads without looking
Cunts who try to cycle up the inside of you
And throw them to the fucking lions?

Fuck Boris off. I'd vote for this guy ^.

I hit a ped about 18 months ago. My response was to say "dude, don't just walk out into the road without looking where you're going!" His response was to punch me :(

Fuck, you shoulda ran him over again then set the otter task force on him!

i hit a ped about 18 months ago. My response was to say "dude, don't just walk out into the road without looking where you're going!" his response was to punch me :(

what.

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I hate this, it's like they expect me to move.
I'm going at a decent speed in a place where it is unsafe for them to overtake me so I'm not moving to the left no matter how hard you honk your horn.

what.

^This

What happened?

what.

Yes, that was kind of my reaction too. He punched me just below the collarbone, which actually was the best place I could have been hit that day as I was wearing an enormous woolen scarf and he mainly just hit lots of wool and his pathetic little fist didn't do too much harm. I didn't really know what to say so just rode off. About 2 mins later I suddenly thought WTF??? and had to get off and stand by the side of the road for a while until I had worked out whether I'd imagined the whole thing.

It really was quite odd and if I ever see the tosspot again I will run over his feet.

Bizarre. I hope he cringes with embarrassment every time he thinks of the encounter for the rest of his life, and makes a pained expression every time, then has to make up a lie whenever somebody asks him what's wrong, thus compounding his embarrassment.

yes, that was kind of my reaction too. He punched me just below the collarbone, which actually was the best place i could have been hit that day as i was wearing an enormous woolen scarf and he mainly just hit lots of wool and his pathetic little fist didn't do too much harm. I didn't really know what to say so just rode off. About 2 mins later i suddenly thought wtf??? And had to get off and stand by the side of the road for a while until i had worked out whether i'd imagined the whole thing.

It really was quite odd and if i ever see the tosspot again i will run over his feet.

wac

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Durkhead.

Bizarre. I hope he cringes with embarrassment every time he thinks of the encounter for the rest of his life, and makes a pained expression every time, then has to make up a lie whenever somebody asks him what's wrong, thus compounding his embarrassment.

Those mild curses are like oil, they get in everywhere.

I have now discovered that peds can be actively, as well as passively cuntish.

Coming past King's Cross, just before Gray's Inn/Pentonville junction with a particularly annoying cabbie right up my arse, and espy three chav types crossing the road with a sort of swagger (or 'wanker's limp', as I like to call it). Chuntering along on a testy old Italian bird that needs a serious look at her mechanicals (just picked it up), I mutter/shout something like 'get the fuck out of the fucking road, you fucking fuck'. Lead chav notices my discomfort, and stands just next to where I'll pass and ten waves his hand in my fucking face as I pass. I was sorely tempted to render him unconscious by the roadside, but that's a messy business, and said cab was up my arse the whole time.

Not a fun time.

Apologies for the general sense of rage, this was about 20 minutes ago and I'm still apparently rather angry.

On the plus side, it felt like the first ride of Spring today (twat), and I found a lovely old bike shop not 5 minutes from me.