Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

If a driver offers you cash in hand, could you not just take it to the insurers anyway? What proof have they got?

(Out of interest that is)

huh - assuming your rear wheel was damaged (?),

take registration number, insurance details, name, address and inform her that this will be passed onto solicitors etc..., surely take cash-in-hand if offered (!), else, pursue in the courts via the LCC Solicitors no????

RoadSafe seems to be for logging driver misbehaviour, for the police to have visibility of a driver's real-world record (!), from my experience, i'd have thought that if a driver/car has a certain amount of negg's that they might get in touch with that person and give them the creepers! (given that they 'ran checks' on a vehicle after just one logging of anti-social driving!)

No visible damage, she drove off, I started to go through the reporting process and just lost the will to live- the coppers would have said "any witnesses?", I'd have said no, they'd file my report in the bin.

No visible damage, she drove off, I started to go through the reporting process and just lost the will to live- the coppers would have said "any witnesses?", I'd have said no, they'd file my report in the bin.

This is why I have a camera.

Police: 'Any witnesses?'

Me: 'Yes Officer, my camera, it's all on high quality HD. Here's a DVD with it all'

Police: 'Wow!'

I had a horrible incident coming home early hours on Sat night. Twat private hire ended up running over my bike.

Time for camera, me thinks. Do people rock front and rear or just the one. If one, front or rear?

Sorry to hear that Festus- what happened?

I sewed a little harness onto my bag that accepts a camera, tested it but then never really used it after that- I should do, as the Police never believe a cyclist without camera evidence.

Are there any cameras that don't stick out like a sore thumb? If there is something that is sleek and not sticking out of your helmet I might be tempted to get.

The Contour Roam is pretty inconspicuous if you mount it on the frame or on helmet side vents.

There is, removed helmet and put the camera on a strap.

The Veho ones are about the smallest. Having had the Atom, the battery life on them drops rather sharply over a year, I'm tempted to try the mini or mini pro as a helmet cam though...

Camera ninja...

Police won't do anything, I was riding up by Russell Square midday, and there was a silver Peugeot 306, husband and wife in it, was cycling next to them till the lights.
At the lights I was going straight, was in the correct lane etc, but this stupid couple were in the wrong lane, meaning to save myself getting hit I had to swerve round with them, and they did almost hit me for the record, gave the car a good hard kick on the bumper and a slap on the window before speeding off, police never care unless you get hurt.

Yesterday evening Oz and I had a bit of an altercation with a lorry driver – heading east on the south circular, coming through Wandsworth and giving ourselves quite a lot of space on the turn up East Hill, a Co-op lorry decides that we’re in the way and first drives super close to Oz’s wheel, then swings in front of me as fast as he can, leaving me with that scary ever-diminishing-road-oh-my-god-the-side-of-that-lorry-is-inches-from-my-face feeling. At the next lights I stop next to the lorry and have the following exchange:

Me: Dude, you need to give cyclists a bit more space than that!
Dickface lorry driver: Fuck off! You’re all fucking mental!
Me: What? You need to drive more considerately.
DFL: Fuck you! You shouldn’t be in the road, fuck off! Fuck off and die.
Me: …
DFL: You should be wearing a helmet anyway
Me: That’s irrelevant. You really need to be more careful.
DFL: (revving his lorry) Fuck you!! Did you hear me, FUCK OFF!
Me: You know I have your licence plate, right? I am going to report you.
DFL: Fuck you!

Although he had quite a limited vocabulary, it still wasn’t particularly pleasant and I felt a bit shaken up by it. All the way home I was wondering what the hell makes people act like that. If he hadn’t seen us (which would be difficult to do, given that we were riding in front of him, in primary, in ALL THE BRIGHT COLOURS) then a “sorry” might have been nice. And if he had seen us, and drove like that anyway, then… I don’t know, is that sociopathic? Is it acceptable that people can drive massive lumps of metal around, scaring the shit out of other road users. I guess he was pissed off, it was a sunny Sunday and he was sat in a hot lorry. Yeah, and that makes it okay to shout abuse at people…

This morning I called the Co-op Head Office and made an official complaint, and got an apology and a promise that this will be thoroughly investigated. I hope he gets in serious shit. And then I hope he gets haemorrhoids.

Fucking hell. I worry about people.

Sorry to hear that Festus- what happened?

I sewed a little harness onto my bag that accepts a camera, tested it but then never really used it after that- I should do, as the Police never believe a cyclist without camera evidence.

He drove like he'd just bought his license from ebay. There was an incident inc him driving over my bike. Cops turned up. They called an ambulance for him and gave me a lift home.

He drove over your bike and then needed hospital? Impressive.

ambulance for him?

He drove over your bike and then needed hospital? Impressive.

I can only assume that he needed parts of the bike surgically removed by a highly skilled proctologist.

MG - if he coughed, did that apply the brake?

I serve coffee to a lot of the people from coop head office on Wednesdays and kinda know their head cycley guy, I can chase this up for you if you want.

Cheers snotters, apparently someone in charge of dispatch is going to call me.

Let me know if they're shit and need chasing.

"Fucking hell. I worry about people."

Wearing a t-shirt saying just that.

Just had to tell a co-op driver to put his lights on. He was more pleasant driver than yesterday and was rather apologetic but I think I'll be giving co-op lorries a wide berth for now

Some drivers spacial awareness and what's around them is truly shocking. I was going up Upper Woburn Place with the intention of turning left onto Euston Road. I was on the left lane, it was about 15 meters or so before the red light. The driver from the middle lane slightly behind me decided to come into the left lane with no indication and started pushing into the lane as if I didn't exist. I very nearly got knock over. When we both stopped, I knocked on her window and asked rather politely if she saw me or not, and if was necessary to push me out of the way. She gave me that innocent + slightly shocked look and started saying god knows what without even bothered lowering the window. As I started chatting with a fellow cyclist who was behind me and saw what happened about drivers and how they like to be ahead of us, she continued to probably having a monologue of how she didn't do anything wrong. Surly she saw me as I was practically in a prime position and in front of her...

She'll see the thousand flaming monkeys of doom you've summoned from the depths of hell though, right? #motherfuckingwizardsbeupinthisjoint