Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

Counter sues Tiswas

Calls in MrDrem video evidence...

Tiswas is a numpty

drops case

picks up case and hands it back to brave.

I think you just dropped this.

Why don't you go and wash your hands 40 times to pass the time?

those aren't pillows

He was obviously annoyed at your road position or speed, as other people had mentioned, he had good visibility a clear road ahead and a hazard (you) in his normal lane.

He had a what now? A* hazard*? I thought what he had was another road user in the lane in front of him. Pesky cyclists riding their bikes on the road and being hazards to impatient drivers. How dare they.

Are drivers more patient with people who happen to be pedaling a two wheels than everyday cyclists? I nearly got killed on my way home today because the driver didn't see me but the cyclist in front of me??? We were both heading straight and this woman driver was waiting before the give way line (or whatever it's called), she stopped and waited for that cyclist in front of me to pass but not me, as soon as I got in front of her, she moved... I was only a meter or so behind that cyclist in front of me. Surely she saw me as well as the cyclist in front or me. For a sec, I thought that driver was on a mission to kill me... She drove away calmly. How did that happen? More importantly, how did some people even manage to pass their driving tests at the first place?

Because passing a driving test is a piece of piss. And there's no limit to how many times you can take it. Failing 5 times should really give them the message that they're just not god enough. But no, it is their right to drive no matter what happens they're going to drive

I don't know, I was going maybe about 15/16mph and she was going quite a bit slower coz I remember I was just about to take over her, so maybe the gap was less than a meter.

Because passing a driving test is a piece of piss. And there's no limit to how many times you can take it. Failing 5 times should really give them the message that they're just not god enough. But no, it is their right to drive no matter what happens they're going to drive

True, very true. I think cyclists should know how to drive and drivers should know how to cycle. Then maybe the world would be a better place. Or not...

Nah, my brother's a shit driver despite cycling since about 6yrs old. You'd think he'd see it from the cyclists point of view but no. He even ignores the ASL, the most basic of things to adhere to.

^ bedwetters.

no harm no foul.

this.

HTFU

Some of these posts...."no harm done", "HTFU", "stop being so petty"...etc..etc...what's that all about?
The road marking show that overtaking is not allowed at that point. Its irrelevant whether there was any oncoming traffic. I think the OP was right to try and report the driver, because the next time said driver tries a dodgy move like that who knows what might happen.

Nah, my brother's a shit driver despite cycling since about 6yrs old. You'd think he'd see it from the cyclists point of view but no. He even ignores the ASL, the most basic of things to adhere to.

Fair enough. I guess it very much depends on if you are a careful person or not. I can't drive but sometimes when I am on the bus or someone's car, looking at other cyclists on the road, I ask myself how could I do this day in and day out. It looks more dangerous from inside a car.

But peds are the worst of all, they are like little pests come from anywhere. I once near hit a woman in a red long coat with red shoes hiding between 2 red double decks, and that was my fault for nearly running into her, according to her "Fuck you". A long day after work, a fuck you was just what I needed to finish the day.

See if I was in a car and someone was up my ass like that I would be pissed unless I was being a dick and sitting in the fastlane at 70ish while there was plenty of room in the other lanes, but I digress. In a car on single carriage ways I slow down when someone decides to sit on my ass. The way I look at it, I will slow down to a speed suitable for the distance they are leaving. Still I digress.

On a bicycle I don't cycle within the law. I jump red lights sometimes. It pisses me off that so many taxi drivers don't fcuking indicate, but what right do I really have to moan?

Is cycling a meter behind another cyclist on a public road at 15mph safe/wise?

I think you get a little too caught up with that 1 meter distance I said, I didn't have a ruler with me, it was just a rough guess. The road was relatively quiet, I was just about to take her over because I felt it was safe to do so. And I wasn't exactly behind behind her. Do you suggest I should just slow down and cycle patiently behind her when she was wobbling her way? Coz this is exactly what I did mins before that in Peckham, that other guy did a sudden stop twice because his many shopping bags were falling off his shoulders / handlebars etc etc. That I did give him was more room because it was wise to do so and the traffic was a lot busier so it wasn't safe for me to take over.

So I don't really understand what you are asking here.

Some of these posts...."no harm done", "HTFU", "stop being so petty"...etc..etc...what's that all about?
The road marking show that overtaking is not allowed at that point. Its irrelevant whether there was any oncoming traffic. I think the OP was right to try and report the driver, because the next time said driver tries a dodgy move like that who knows what might happen.

because something like that happens all the time...

because something like that happens all the time...

That's because the roads are largely unpoliced. I see far more illegal and dangerous behaviour on the roads than anywhere else. Helmet cams are redressing the balance. It tells you all you need to know that the burgeoning use of filming commutes is among cyclists- the ones most at risk after motorcyclists.

Some of these posts...."no harm done", "HTFU", "stop being so petty"...etc..etc...what's that all about?

I think some people are responding in this way because they have a greater tolerance for danger. Everybody's different, after all.

Road markings / signs / Highway Code etc are designed to keep people within limited confines of danger so that other road users can (theoretically) predict each others' behaviour and not end up in accidents. Some people choose to ignore them because they make a "risk assessment" that it's safe to treat them as optional guidelines. Unfortunately people quite often think that their driving (or their cycling) is several orders of magnitude better than it actually is. Fuck 'em. Driving like a maniac around a vulnerable road user for no reason other than you want to get to a queue so you can wait in it for longer deserves a visit from Plod.

because something like that happens all the time...

indeed it does happen all the time....as does a lot of crap cycling which is endlessly mentioned on this site, usually with a bucket load of expletives, about some "nodder who wobbled and nearly made me fall off my bike, WAC"

Because passing a driving test is a piece of piss. And there's no limit to how many times you can take it. Failing 5 times should really give them the message that they're just not god enough. But no, it is their right to drive no matter what happens they're going to drive

This. I'm a seriously shit driver, but still managed to pass the test first time.

At least you admit it. I find it genuinely scary when people think that there's nothing wrong/strange about their driving.

In Los Angeles it's now a crime for a driver to threaten cyclists. Cyclists can even sue drivers who yell at them.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/07/los-angeles-bikers-bicyclists-bicycle-rights-law/1?csp=34money

I like how that article made it sound like they're upset they can't yell at them anymore.