Idiot bus drivers

I'm guessing we've all experience some sort of bus driver human being failure, but I had my first one today and I guarantee I'll never beat it.

Riding (crawling) down Oxford St about 6.30 tonight, stopped at the lights and felt a nudge against my back wheel, then my whole bike suddenly go stiff.
Turn around and a double decker has parked right against my back wheel and managed to pin it to the floor. The bumper squeezed the tire enough on the top so it acted like a wedge, absolutely no way I could move forward or back.
So I asked the driver pretty firmly if he would back up an inch to release my wheel (I could see it wasnt buckled, so wasn't that pissed off at first) but the complete twunt just shrugged his shoulders and looked ahead again. Miffed, I banged on the window and shouted "You've run over my wheel, reverse the bus a little bit". Shrug, can't/won't, not my problem. I'm fucking livid at this point, I can't move my bike, if he goes forward any further he'll total my wheel, people walking on the pavement are starting to shout at this knobhead bus driver trying to help me to get him to move back. Finally he does back the bus up, I hear an old lady call him an imbecile, which made my day, and I carry on my way.

Any one else had a bizarre bus or car experience, other than the usual near miss?

never had this happen to me but this guy sounds like a complete inconsiderate cunt. hope your wheel is ok

what a twat.

idoit

i mean idiot!

It was you, wasn't it?

Report it as a road traffic accident to the Police and see what happens.

Serious emotional trauma

I had one as a passenger rather than a cyclist.

On the 76, between Waterloo and Hoxton he managed to use his horn 17 times (after I started counting). That tells you all you need to know about his style of driving.

On the 76, between Waterloo and Hoxton he managed to use his horn 17 times (after I started counting). That tells you all you need to know about his style.

Clearly a boast-post...

Clearly a boast-post...

What?

i've heard something about bus drivers not being allowed to reverse, i'm guessing because of the poor view they have out of the rear.

one of the things Ken did, which has worked out to be a total mistake, was to try and make the bus king of the road, this meant squeezing in bus lanes where there really isn't room for them, increasing the frequency of bus stops , investing in lots of new vehicles and creating driver's jobs. Clearly the training these drivers get before being let loose on the road is inadequate, most of them act as if they are driving their own car and in a hurry to get somewhere, rather than providing a public service designed to ferry people smoothly and steadily between stops.

I never understand the "bus driver in a hurry" thing, several times I've explained to them that dangerously overtaking a cyclist is pointless, as they are stopping only another 30 yards up the road.

personally, i generally find bus drivers in the city to be very well trained. you can tell they've been taught how to deal with cyclists because they all seem to drive exactly the same i.e always leave a lot of room when overtaking, always indicate for a couple of seconds before pulling out.

idoit

i mean idiot!

I like 'idoit'. Sounds like someone who's a po-faced idiot.

I'm going to start using it, with French pronunciation - /'eedwah/

i've heard something about bus drivers not being allowed to reverse, i'm guessing because of the poor view they have out of the rear.

I think they're not allowed to reverse with passengers on board, and did think this afterwards. Saying that, I did only need him to move back an inch, not reverse J-turn the thing.

They're all cunts, end of

personally, i generally find bus drivers in the city to be very well trained. you can tell they've been taught how to deal with cyclists because they all seem to drive exactly the same i.e always leave a lot of room when overtaking, always indicate for a couple of seconds before pulling out.

yep generally fine, it's just the one or 2 cunts out of thousands you remember though isn't it.

get his number and report him

Regular bus drivers seem to be pretty good on the whole.

Fucking tour bus wankers can rot forever in a pit of burning tar.

personally, i generally find bus drivers in the city to be very well trained. you can tell they've been taught how to deal with cyclists because they all seem to drive exactly the same i.e always leave a lot of room when overtaking, always indicate for a couple of seconds before pulling out.

Which city is this? I want to move there.

Most of them seem to be okay, have had a few incidents that have required a "chat" to the driver.

I did have another problem when I was on a night bus - driver stopped and ordered everyone off. He said the bus was not working, sat in his booth and refused to say any more. We were all stranded late night in Wandsworth, then he started the bus and drove off.
I contacted bus people to complain - they denied all knowledge of this and said there was no evidence. I sent them a photo I took of the stationary bus (with registration) - bit of a concern when you need to produce evidence and jump through hoops to make them even listen to you.

Every day around the aldwych on the way to work at least two buses pull out on me to then stop 30 metres down the road. Then I ride past about 10+ buses on Fleet street with about 3 people on. It seems to me they follow the cabbies rule of 'im bigger than you so get out of my fucking way'.

Regular bus drivers seem to be pretty good on the whole.

Fucking tour bus wankers can rot forever in a pit of burning tar.

It's not just Central either, every 6.20pm on a Wednesday night the same convoy of 3 or 4 German tour coaches do their best to wipe out every cyclist on Brixton Road. Driving in the cycle lane and and stradling the white line at 50mph, moving across 2 lanes without indicating, and bowling through red lights to keep up with the coach in front is all fine apparently...

Driving in the cycle lane and and stradling the white line at 50mph, moving across 2 lanes without indicating, and bowling through red lights to keep up with the coach in front is all fine apparently...

I've seen cyclists doing that though, albeit not at 50mph