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Thanks, yeah it did shake me up, and I really didn't want to confront them, you never really know how they will respond/react. I am yet to tell anyone, i will talk about it later with the family. I will take the reg should it happen again, like you said there isn't much to report at the moment.
Thanks for your help, i do feel better having shared.
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Let your people know what time you're leaving work and what route you tend to take. Don't mean to spook you of course but its a pretty standard thing to do if you're riding late and have reason to feel a bit nervy about it.
They're almost certainly just a couple of bellends, you'll never see them again.
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I've been followed home before, a long time ago now.
I told my dad, who called the coppers, who (surprisingly- maybe it really was better in the old days) picked the guy up.
Apparently he was a known bike thief and the assumption was that he was following me home to see a) where I lived and b) where the bike was kept.
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Cheers Wrongcog, i do usually text home when i am leaving so they know when to expect me, and they do know my route home. I have been riding this route for at least 1.5 years late at night, and this is the first trouble i have had. You get plenty of crap drivers around, but i've not come across this before.
Also good point Dammit, i wasn't keen at all on them knowing where i live, and they could well have being trying to find out.
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These are my favourites ^^
"I can't spare 5 seconds to overtake you safely - But I can spare 25 mins for a detailed and angry discussion about it afterwards"
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So he crosses a solid white into the bus lane to undertake the car in front and then goes on about it being an offence to touch his car. Chump.
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These are my favourites ^^
"I can't spare 5 seconds to overtake you safely - But I can spare 25 mins for a detailed and angry discussion about it afterwards"
This really grinds my piss.
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That reminded me - I once picked up a copy of a magazine for taxi drivers as they sat in a pile by a taxi rank outside a train station.
It had an advert in it for dash cams or some kind of related service for taxi drivers.
The advert was a photo of a cyclist on the ground in front of a taxi, with a guy dressed as a judge standing over him, with a guy in the black cab looking particularly smug. Wish I kept a copy.
Found it, not quite as bad as I remembered, but still:
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Found it, not quite as bad as I remembered, but still:
Amazing. Surely it's (at best) like having a witness. Unless the camera is also going to wear a wig, argue your case in court and shout things like 'objection' and so forth.
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Had a browse through a couple of issues of taxinewspaper.co.uk (all downloadable as PDFs from the site). If the attitude of utter contempt towards pretty much all other road users, in particular cyclists, AL and other minicabs, buses and pedalos, their martyristic attitude towards how awful everyone is to them, is representative of the views of Taxi drivers throughout london, then that's pretty worrying to say the least.
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TfL’s 20 point shopping list of demands for cyclists is escalating the war on the motorists
STEVE MCNAMARA LTDA General Secretary
CYCLE
CONFLICT
More readers than the rest put together! 20 AUGUST 2013 | TAXI 3
impact on the majority.
I recently wrote to the Secretary of
State for Transport, Patrick
McLouglin, requesting that he reject
the cycle lobby calls for the
decriminalisation of Advanced Stop
Lines (ASLs) which would have
enabled Transport for London (TfL)
to issue tickets via CCTV. I was
pleased to receive a response
informing “That DFT has no plans to
change the enforcement regime for
either ASLs or mandatory cycle lanes”.
However, since then, TfL have now
officially written to the minister
with a long shopping list of
demands for cyclists that include a
request to create a specific civil
offence for the infringement of
an ASL by motorised traffic
(that’s you!).
Many of the requests on the list
are sensible, but a few including the
one about ASLs and additional cycle
lane restrictions would, if approved,
have a major impact on our trade;
and I have again written to the
minister requesting that he rejects
any further demands that would
escalate the war on the motorist. n
The recent Ride London event
polarised views on cycling
and provided the media with
an almost perfect divide of opinions;
the cyclists, who thought it was
fantastic, or just about everyone
else, who thought it was an
unnecessary and costly
inconvenience. It was interesting to
be reassured that cyclists are still
very much in the minority, and that
the vociferous cycling lobby groups
inevitably attract attention and
coverage far above what would
normally be expected of such a
small representative body.
It appears to me that there are two
types of cyclists, those who are
sensible and obey the rules of the
road and, what appears to me to be
the increasing majority, those who
don’t. The second group are also the
most likely to be the ones calling
for everything from lorry bans to
cycle exemptions from traffic
signals and one way streets.
They exaggerate their numbers and
importance and insist on trying to
force their minority demands on
Londoners, irrespective of how they impact on the majority -
The funny thing is it's not drivers who use cameras, is it? I wonder how many drivers bought Westminster Insurance and got a camera? And why's the cyclist black and the wigged fellah being so horrible and unsympathetic? Driver looks pissed. Ripped to the tits on molly.
Why shouldn't the cyclist be black? There's a whole lot wrong with that advert but the ethnicity of the rider didn't even register until you pointed it out.
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So in summary to this guy's opinion, there are three types of people:
Cyclists who obey the rules of the road, keep quiet, know their place and don't get uppity about issues like 'safety'.
Cyclists who flagrantly abuse the rules of the road, and these are the types who campaign for better conditions for cyclists and escalate the 'war on the motorist' (is that even still a thing?).
Non-cyclists, who all universally hate both of the above and anything done to benefit them.
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Why shouldn't the cyclist be black? There's a whole lot wrong with that advert but the ethnicity of the rider didn't even register until you pointed it out.
I just wondered why they set the scene up that way. Another advert there has a dolly-bird housewife making a gasping face beneath an advert saying "Been rear-ended?"
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I just wondered why they set the scene up that way. Another advert there has a dolly-bird housewife making a gasping face beneath an advert saying "Been rear-ended?"
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On page fifteen, this image:
"Surprised housewife". The advertisers know their demographic, how are you supposed to interest cabbies in insurance without implying anal sex?
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Sounds like it shook you up though George. Definitely an intimidating and unnecessary thing to do. Have you mentioned it to friends etc? I would struggle in your shoes to avoid pulling over and asking them what they're playing at. Not sure that's a good call though. If they show up again I think you should definitely take a note of the model / number plate and call the cops.