• Yeah... What a cunt.

  • Minor clip in Brixton, young driver, brand new motor, refuses to stop, calls out "You're fine!"

    Not my clip:

    Brixton bump - minor cycle accident with driver of LF13 GGO then trying to to escape - YouTube

    If she's just passed her test leaving the scene would be a ban and re-test, I think, Johnny Law are chasing her.

    she clearly fucked up big time but i dont really like his inference that because he signalled right he was in the right to just pull out around the bus, plus he didn't let the pedestrian finish crossing the road when the lights changed as he pulled away. seems like both of them were in a bit of a hurry.

  • It also apparent that he was reluctantly inbetween the lane for a prolonged period of time, which tend to encourage impatient people to try and nudged through the gap.

    Signal, look behind and move into the next lane, rather than riding on between the lane for five second.

  • Welcome back to London! Cycling from St Pancras (after touring C. Europe) to Camberwell, I was going south down Waterloo Road, approaching the lights with the Cut/Baylis Rd. Queue of traffic held on red. I pass to the right well over into the opposite lane. With no signal one of the cars in the right turn lane suddenly pulls out (likely to turn into that little street between the station and the pub) as I'm passing him. Evasive swerve, which would have worked if not for the pannier full of sleeping bag and tent. He;d started paying attention again and had slammed the anchors on, so it was pretty low speed and I stayed upright easily. Stopped and turned making the unavoidable WTF gestures.

    The driver rolled the window down and was very apologetic. His passenger was all shouty and "you should have been on the left". The driver seemed to tell him to shut up. He acknowledged his error and was apologetic and I was desparate for the loo, so I just carried on. I probably should have reported him, but we all know nothing would have been done and hopefully my repeated "check your blind spot" will sink in.

  • Last night a bus drove at me twice, I have the details and I probably should report it, but what's to gain - nothing seems to change and I just end up wound up.

    I finally reported it this morning, let's see whether anything comes of it.

    So, following this I got the standard rubbish email from Roadsafe in return and didn't hear a thing from TFL. After tweeting them several times I phoned them today - they couldn't find a record of my complaint (though did find the one they've still never replied to from April last year) and I left all the details again. Apparently they'll get back to me by the end of the week... I'm not exactly holding my breath.

  • major clip in Brisbane
    http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/cyclist-hit-by-car-challenges-police-over-fine-video-evidence-20130906-2tb68.html

    Fucking fuck.

    This seems to happen way too often worldwide. What kind of law enforcement seems to think it's fine to charge drivers with the most minor offenses - if at all - for hospitalising a cylist? What kind of person goes through this process thinking what they are doing is totally fine?

    Obvious LFGSS answer: "a cunt".

    Seems many parts of the world have police with a severe problem of institutional cuntiness.

  • So, following this I got the standard rubbish email from Roadsafe in return and didn't hear a thing from TFL. After tweeting them several times I phoned them today - they couldn't find a record of my complaint (though did find the one they've still never replied to from April last year) and I left all the details again. Apparently they'll get back to me by the end of the week... I'm not exactly holding my breath.

    I reported a bus to TFL and got the same treatment. Not much point going through all the hassle really!

  • Some kind of water delivery van with a stupid sounding name tailgated me then called me a moron for taking primary in the very short stretch of bethnal green road heading W immediately after the junction with cambridge heath road....

    At the time I remembered the company name and plate, and was all keen to #takenoprisoners but after a day at work I can't remember shit.

    /csb

  • Fucking fuck.

    This seems to happen way too often worldwide. What kind of law enforcement seems to think it's fine to charge drivers with the most minor offenses - if at all - for hospitalising a cylist? What kind of person goes through this process thinking what they are doing is totally fine?

    Obvious LFGSS answer: "a cunt".

    Seems many parts of the world have police with a severe problem of institutional cuntiness.

    If there was an accident in a workplace - a factory, say - where one employee had their leg broken by another, there'd be hell to pay. But on the road? Meh...

  • There is actually a strong movement to extend the sphere of industrial responsibility to the public realm.

    Like many 'new' ideas, it may take some getting used to, but that's never stopped anyone who was passionate about improving life.


  • Driver of Ambulance (not emergancy, one of the drop-off-pick-up ones for old dears) EU09 ENX, you sir are a Cunt. Running me off of the road, by coming alongside me and then closing in, with me banging on your side telling you to get out and give me space, as you slow down and speed up to stay alongside me... GAH.

    As for the four police officers... Why where you not in th gutter? Thats where cyclists should be, why else do they put cycle lanes there? NARGH!

  • Non-emergency ambulances are, in general, some of the most badly driven vehicles on the road.

    One was causing chaos this morning trying to make an illegal right turn, stuck right in the middle of the junction of Farringdon street and Ludgate Hill this morning.

  • Non-emergency ambulances are just white vans with a splash of paint.

  • I've just reported a psycho MTS drain truck (GN57 MYK) to the police and to his employer.

    I'd already seen him bomb through a red light at the pelican crossing outside Kings College on the Strand.

    Ten minutes later (and after echanging greetings with a noisy Vince) I was coming off the eastbound ramp off the Bricklayers Arms flyover (still in the narrow right hand lane of the New Kent Road) when he hurtled past me with seriously about 3 or 4 inches of space between us. In 20+ years of cycle commuting in London I've never had such scary pass.

    And then as I was heading along New Kent Road, in the place by the ambo station where it's just gone down to one lane (after the right turn to Pomeroy) he appeared on my shoulder, pulling across in order to occupy the lane i was in. Thank god he had second thoughts and slammed his brakes on, allowing me and another cyclist to breath another day.

  • riding down morden high street last night I'd taken the roundabout onto it with no traffic anywhere near me, I get about halfway down and i'm riding in the left of the two lanes in secondary and i hear a rev and there's a car pulling across from the outside lane straight into me with his indicator on, I shout and accelerate and he keeps coming at me until he's inches from my rear wheel so that i have to ride up onto the pavement at the dropped kerb for the pedestrian crossing just to stop him from hitting me, the cunt then speeds off round the corner 30yds up the road.

    I was so fucking angry it took me about 15 minutes to calm down, given it was nearly midnight and not one other car was on the road it was clear he was trying to knock me off for no reason other than I was riding along the road and he was driving along the same road as me. if he was just turning left he had literally 50 odd yards to overtake on an empty two lane stretch of one way road.

    cunt cunt cunt. didn't get his number plate either because I was busy trying not to crash as i went up onto the pavement to see it before he turned, couldn't even tell you what the car looked like apart from a compact-mid sized car.

    edit: i was pretty much where the grey car was here (http://goo.gl/maps/Qgdgv) , and he pushed me into the kerb all the way up to the pedestrian crossing, then turned at the set of lights after that.

  • Similar name, similar attitude, but I think not the same company. MTS vehicles seem to be yellow with blue lettering, but who knows? M T Drains seem to be based iin Hastings but cover London and the SE, MTS are in Rochester but certainly cover London - they jetted out our shared sewer free of charge a couple of years back.

  • didn't get his number plate either because I was busy trying not to crash

    since discovering this thread my ability to remember number plates has increased remarkably, :-)

    (but only if then stored on the phone quite soon after whatever misdemeanour occurred!)

    ps. from venturing south of the river last night to SE beers my impression of the quality of driving was that it was a bit lacking; somebody almost pulled across me - but stopped about half-way through the manoeuvre; then, as driving past with a horrific look on my face, the white ruffian-looking male-driver gives me impassioned energetic middle-fingers, amusing recollected just now, :-)

  • Are the G4S security vans allowed to use routes other vehicles aren't? One went down the Narrow Way (Mare st) this morning, I presumed to make a stop at a cashpoint but actually just carried on. Driver was clearly a prick as he nearly changed lanes into me without any sort of indicating under the railway bridge too.

  • I think the local authority can exempt certain commercial vehicles from some of the traffic restrictions they impose when they are in the course of carrying out their service.

    This came up in a thread about the cash delivery/collection vans parking in annoying spots.

    Of course, if he was just using it as a shortcut, rather than making a stop, that is probably not allowed.

  • This plum did a classic "I'll turn right without having any regard for oncoming traffic" manoeuvre on Oxford Street on Thursday afternoon. Having been to A&E on a previous instance of this ol' chestnut, I have to confess to directing a salty oath at the driver, who was kind enough to reciprocate. Seriously man, it's broad fucking daylight on a straight road with clear line of sight with oncoming bike doing no great velocity. The guy didn't even look. This is the kind of shit that kills motorcyclists.

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  • wac etc etc

    I presume from the thread title you reported him?

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