Idiot bus drivers

Complain to the bus company. Send a copy of your complaint to TfL.

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

A cyclist isn't 14 tonnes of metal with poor mirror visibility.

What gets me is when the bus overtakes only to immediately stop two seconds later into the bus stop .
Like why do you not just wait all of 5 seconds then you will be there !

What gets me is when the bus overtakes only to immediately stop two seconds later into the bus stop .
Like why do you not just wait all of 5 seconds then you will be there !

+1 that gets me every time! it's so inconsiderate!

Exactly why the hell do they do that !

They obvious lack ability to think 10meters ahead of themselves, which is very worrying.

I think its because they have to follow a time schedule, which seems to be tighter nowdays.

I wish this never happened.

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

the way of life isn't it? no matter how many positive incident you've gone through, you'll end up forgetting them and only remember a minor negative incident.

You can get to Birmingham for a pound in 4 hours on the Megabus.

I'd like to see you do that on your fixies.

Although having said that, you are then a pound poorer and you are in Birmingham.

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

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

That's why I go through Battersea Park instead of Queenstown Road as whenever those guys overtake me I think I am about to be catapulted into the sky. They also seem to wait for me to leave work, as soon as I'm out of the garage one appears. It is freaky!

You can get to Birmingham for a pound in 4 hours on the Megabus.

I'd like to see you do that on your fixies.

Is that a bet?

I wouldnt wish it on you, Tommy. You can have the pound.

Whooo!

Profit!

I have been cut up so many times by buses that have vowed next time I come a cropper, whilst the bus is at a standstill, will use their engine cut-out switch (usually on the nearside between the middle door & rear wheel arch)...to learn them.

perhaps some are so idiotic they can only be bus drivers - more idiotic, they would fail a driving/HGV test, less idiotic... they would drive a white van

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

Last week I was turning left from Oxford St onto Portman St behind a tour bus, doing 5-10mph. A pair of peds were crossing the road and decided to keep moving rather than wait <5 seconds for him to pass. They totally misjudged his turning circle though, so the husband has to yank the wife back by the neck before her feet go under the back wheels; she then falls on her arse and hurts herself.

Two ambulances, a police car and a police motorbike later... the driver's cacking himself & being interviewed by the old bill, the bus is full of passengers all inconvenienced, and numerous passers-by are treating this halfwit woman like they're all Florence Nightingale. So I was more than happy to give the tour bus driver my details in case he needed a witness. On some level it felt like justice for idiot pedestrians who can't bear to wait on the kerb.

You can get to Birmingham for a pound in 4 hours on the Megabus.

I'd like to see you do that on your fixies.

I'd have a crack at that with you Tommy- Clefty has just lent me her Garmin 605.

Balki- do we have to do it in four hours dead, or is there some latitude?

Having just checked the Megabus website, it actually only takes 3 hour.

118 miles via the M1. Your fixie-bikes will need to travel at an average speed of 39.33mph. MEGABUS FTW!

When you get there, I can recommend a Chinese restaurant in town. Its fucking rubbish but its all you can eat.

You can get to Birmingham for a pound in 4 hours on the Megabus.

...starting in Coventry.

The Chung Ying is the best chinese in Birmingham. And I say that with all the authority of someone who last ate there about 18 years ago.

Mind you - it was better still before it moved (about 25 years ago).

Balki- from where to where?

I am guessing that it starts from Victoria coach station, then ends at a similar place in Brum?

surely a Balti in Brum ?

When you get there, I can recommend a Chinese restaurant in town. Its fucking rubbish but its all you can eat.

There's one thing I like about Brum. Its absence.

If we all started off at the same place- say the Royal Inn on the Park, then Balki had to make his way to Victoria, then the same sort of thing at the other end we might be able to make it roughly even.