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

Saw this in Putney - encouraging.

or on a 1:1 ratio on a granny ring where they can't accelerate as quickly as someone on a normal SS/fixed gearing.

Nah blud, they'll accelerate the shit of of you on that gear.

I do like that sign.

Still true.

Another welcome sight - police talking to driver in ASL.

And of course there is always the argument that it is not the job of anyone on the road to make sure that they go fast enough that the person behind them can't hit them.

Yeah this is my gripe.

I would definitely agree you're more likely to accelerate slower with fixed gear vs gears, but the above quote should make it completely irrelevant. And an officer should definitely not be highlighting it in my opinion.

I would say how quickly you can clip in to your pedal is usually a bigger factor for acceleration than what gear you are riding. And if you're trackstanding, its no contest...

I out accelerate all the things on my polo bike.

Until you reach 4mph.

I reckon about 12, but yeah. The same as when I used to drive my mini and beat anything else up to 30.

Heh, used to have a Mini Clubman with a 1.4 Morris Minor engine dropped in.

It could beat mosts cars from standing start for about 15 seconds...

It didn't brake very well however.

Brakearedeath. My 1275 was like a little rocket.

^ Oh... Cooper S?

Nah, that would be a 1.3, always wanted a cooper but never managed. It was like this but with minilite alloys.

And extra lights.

The guy from the mini garage I used gave me a lift back in his mini van, it was a beige and rusty coloured job from the 60s that had a very non standard engine in. It was loud as fuck and stupidly nippy. Great fun.
Car thread >>>>>>>>>>>

**R63 MKO, old blue hatchback. They dropped something when they almost took me out so I'd love to know where they are parked so I might return it to them.
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Almost immediately after some L plate scooter plonker tries to do the same (did I accidentally wear Harry Potter's invisibility cloak?) and then further down the road a mid-life crisis shades-wearing old fuck in a Jag tries to race through a right turn on the A413 as I rocket down the hill like a fat lycra santa claus. Fuck you buddy, your eyes and glasses are too old for your speed, dip shit.

Overtaken by an L plate scooter? Ain't them things limited to 30mph? Must try harder.

Don't be silly. No, just after blue hatchback had almost taken me out, this scooter prick came from a u-turn lane, so wide he rode straight at me. When I yelled at him he actually seemed to look where he was going.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=uxbridge&hl=en&ll=51.537989,-0.471943&spn=0.001401,0.003484&sll=51.528642,-0.101599&sspn=0.717666,1.783905&hnear=Uxbridge,+Greater+London,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=19

There's a pinch point here due to parked cars as well as the U-turn lane coming from the easterly direction. Combine that with the fact Uxbridge is full of cunts and you have fun times every weekend.

Scooter can be modified by a chip legally to make them go over 30mph.

You can drive 125s with Ls if you do the prelim test and have a driver's licence.

It doesn't matter, he was doing about 5 mph. It's the fact the little grommet didn't even see the large lump of red-jacketed fury. If he was any closer...

E-mail send to SQS.

Hello,

I'm afraid to report a very close call from one of your tipper driver (with a co-pilot) between Balham and Tooting Bec station on the A24 southbound at 8:50am, after 150 metres from setting off from the junction, I look behind and saw the SQS tipper, eventually I heard a almighty squeal from heavy braking, only to look back and seeing a massive green tipper almost centimetres away from my rear wheel.

I will confess to that point I got really angry and freaked out by how close I was from getting under the truck, and got shouted at by the co-pilot.

It was driven rather aggressively, trying to take the smallest gap, accelerate firmly between traffic light and honestly, it felt incredibly threatening to be around.

I am perfectly aware that this individual does not represent your company as a whole as my colleague have positive experience from working with you, given how tipper are responsible for quite a lots of fatalities in London, I thought it's best to inform you before the individual cause fatalities on such busy morning through a London high streets.

Regards.

E. Scoble

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-25624978 not in anyway supporting what this driver has done but why's he paying a victim surcharge?

It's mandatory for all community sentences.

http://sentencingcouncil.judiciary.gov.uk/sentencing/victim-surcharge.htm