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One did this to me going up Tulse Hill the other week, cut in a bit soon, and very nearly ran me into the curb. I was feeling argumentative, so I stopped and pointed out that he could have maimed me, and he had the nerve to retort that I deserved it for overtaking him 100 yards back. I wish I'd realized at the time that this could reasonably constitute intent to injure.
Last week, Bishopsgate.
Woman cyclist ahead, bus agressively overtakes me and cuts her right to the curb at a bus-stop (and i mean really cuts her up, almost hit her)... Next set of lights, I sit in middle of road, bus behind, lights change and honking starts. I stay in middle of second lane, woman cyclist by the curb, im deliberately slowing the bus down.
Suddenly the maniac behind the wheel, complete with racing gloves, forces the bus between me and the female cyclist and then trys to shove me over into oncoming traffic.
I fall back and give chase, intent on revenge. Half way down Bethnal Grn Rd, I swing for his mirror with my lock and miss, pull down a side street then follow again. Throughout the pursuit the driver is swerving all over the road and using his bus (with worried looking passengers) as a multi-ton blockade.
Almost at Mare st, I swing again and "smash". :) Then i look to the right and, oh dear... Police car with the coppers looking right at me...
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I have noticed that very few indicate when pulling out of bus stops though, which is annoying - We can't tell if there are still people getting on and by the time you start to overtake there's a fair distance to cover before you clear the bus. Meanwhile he starts pulling out...eeek
it's quite simple if you see passengers on the pavement queuing to get on, then they are still getting on, if there is no one, (or they are all leaving the area) safe to assume they are about to pull out.
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Someone I know takes great pleasure in using the 'emergency engine stop' button on buses that cut her up. It's less illegal than bashing them with your lock, and more effective, as the driver has to get out of the bus and walk round to the back to get it started again, giving you plenty of time to disappear.
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I HATE that, thankfully not all of them do it. I've had some beep me to warn me of cars too and one even slowed down overtaking me to tell me me light had fallen off 50 yards previously.
In Wimbledon, I was cycling down to Tesco on the Boardway/Merton Road, there's a bus that's behind me refusing to overtake, even thought there's no car and the bus stop must've been 10 bus length away, but he still drive slowly behind me not overtaking just to get to the bus stop.
when I slow down to says a quick thanks since I don't think I've seen a bus driver this considerated before, and he replied;
"people are human"
before drivng off to the bus deport, that actually touched me for a while there, even thought it's a bit of a strange sentence.
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Someone I know takes great pleasure in using the 'emergency engine stop' button on buses that cut her up. It's less illegal than bashing them with your lock, and more effective, as the driver has to get out of the bus and walk round to the back to get it started again, giving you plenty of time to disappear.
Almost guaranteed to have no positive effect at all though. If the driver didn't have any anti-bike prejudice before he probably will afterwards, likewise any passenger on it who realised what happened (unlikely though)
Just a thought - driving a bus isn't the greatest job on earth and they do get a lot of stick from the great public, so don't automatically assume they're all cunts, some are like in every walk of life but sometimes some of them just like the rest of us will just be making a mistake.
And, if one's done something seriously dangerous, note down the registration number and the depot plaque number thingy (slide-in plate on either side by the front) if you get it and report it to TFL - if people don't there's no record of a particular driver being bad and no comeback on them.
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Just a thought - driving a bus isn't the greatest job on earth and they do get a lot of stick from the great public, so don't automatically assume they're all cunts, some are like in every walk of life but sometimes some of them just like the rest of us will just be making a mistake.
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Almost guaranteed to have no positive effect at all though. If the driver didn't have any anti-bike prejudice before he probably will afterwards, likewise any passenger on it who realised what happened (unlikely though)
Just a thought - driving a bus isn't the greatest job on earth and they do get a lot of stick from the great public, so don't automatically assume they're all cunts, some are like in every walk of life but sometimes some of them just like the rest of us will just be making a mistake.
And, if one's done something seriously dangerous, note down the registration number and the depot plaque number thingy (slide-in plate on either side by the front) if you get it and report it to TFL - if people don't there's no record of a particular driver being bad and no comeback on them.
(Just had to point out that this is really "someone I know", and not me.)
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Almost guaranteed to have no positive effect at all though. If the driver didn't have any anti-bike prejudice before he probably will afterwards, likewise any passenger on it who realised what happened (unlikely though)
Just a thought - driving a bus isn't the greatest job on earth and they do get a lot of stick from the great public, so don't automatically assume they're all cunts, some are like in every walk of life but sometimes some of them just like the rest of us will just be making a mistake.
And, if one's done something seriously dangerous, note down the registration number and the depot plaque number thingy (slide-in plate on either side by the front) if you get it and report it to TFL - if people don't there's no record of a particular driver being bad and no comeback on them.
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From my experience Bus Drivers are generally very considerate of cyclists. I'd assume they're more pissed off with idiots drivers parking in the bus stop bay, etc. They're more patient than Taxi drivers for example, they don't get paid by the passenger or have anywhere to get to (relatively) quickly.
I have noticed that very few indicate when pulling out of bus stops though, which is annoying - We can't tell if there are still people getting on and by the time you start to overtake there's a fair distance to cover before you clear the bus. Meanwhile he starts pulling out...eeek