This morning's commute and other commuting stories

What is it with motorbike riders revving at shit?

have you watched the South Park episode with the motor cycle gang? sums this up perfectly.

Yeah, I always have 'handbags.gif' in mind when they do that. It's like a toddler tantrum, only s/toddler/FatPowerRanger.

57 times more likely than a car driver to be KSI

Oh, of course it happens. I'd love to have seen the look on my face when the grey-haired (like more grey than me) old dude just rode past me up that hill in RP like I was going backwards while he was sat up like on a Dutch bike. Obviously I then crushed him but it was the first time I think I'd seen an electric bike that was fast. I've had a few fly past on fUxbridge only to be outmaneuvered and outsprinted later, because like I said, not happening.

To let cars (maybe cyclists) know they're there.

I watched something the other night where the stat was mentioned but couldn't recall the exact number. I wrote 30x but then changed it so as not to make people think I knew the actual figure and then have it quoted.

It's pretty fucking cuntish.
Yesterday on my street some prick was revving at all sorts of non things.

And this morning some prick playing fucking shitty "Chorley FM, coming in your ear", revved at me while I moved over to pass some shitty road shit.
FAT FUCKING BMW RIDING PRICK.

Well, depends how it's done, but I see how they use it in traffic and it does work so probably a decent tactic. I tend to ride wider and slower if people do dumb shit like you're talking about re: road obstacles or just doing it at the lights to be a prick. Yes, I'm basically asking for a confrontation.

Everyone likes a good biffo

With me?
You want a fucking confrontation with me?
Jesus.
I think you need to do more training. You're not tired enough. Or you're too tired.

It is effective at getting people to look around. As an Englishman, I do not believe it is the most polite way of making a point.

(baits hook)

I used to use it instead of a horn, to let cars know i was there. or so that people on phones driving cars can't hear the conversation they shouldn't be having.
But not to be a dick, to be safe. Unfortunately, like a horn, you can't tell who its directed at so its likely to be misunderstood.

Riding home from work yesterday & an ambulance comes up behind. I pull into the left & the bus driver in front of me pulls into the right lane to let it pass. When it's set off I rejoin the carriageway & the bus driver pulls into the left lane without indicating practically on top of me.

Met them at the next set of lights & told the driver that they almost drove on top of me, they looked completely bewildered & said that they have no idea what I'm talking about. So infuriating. Set a new PB riding off in anger.

As an Englishman

Reported to the Daily Mail. Bloody immigrants coming here claiming to be English.

That's not what I wrote. Let me try again... I will slow down when cunts rev unnecessarily behind me (ie. I'm taking the full lane because it's dangerous for them to pass or I've ridden around a road obstacle that they probably can't see) and I'm not worried about risking confrontation. Handy tip, make a point of noting their rego.

But since you asked, yeah, let's step outside mofo!

:-*

I punched the second van that passed too close this morning. I'd say I'm not proud of my actions blah blah but that's horseshit, I don't give a fuck, it's my fucking life the prick is risking.

If I know there's a moto behind me and I can move over to let them through I normally do. I rarely get grief from motos but there's the odd cunt who thinks because he's riding an 1100 in the Superbike World Commuter Championships he's got more right to the section of road than I do, they can get fucked. I've been to enough drag races, speedway meets, supercross races to not jump out of my skin when some 18yo organ donor hits the rev limiter behind me so they get a little upset when I don't move. Probably think I'm deaf or something and get on with their lives. I dunno.

OH I C.
I AM HARD OF READING TODAY.

As always.

Outside? There's a weatherspoons. Can we go in there first?

Fuck yeah! Should we start with shots or ease into the session with a pint?

Pints.

sneaks in double whisky order

saw a cyclist-bus driver disagreement at london bridge last night. Couldn't tell what the issue was but it ended with the bus driver being called a "thundercunt". Did lol.

Stealing that nugget

FatPowerRanger. heheheh.

Anyway - commuting in at 11am is fucking terrifying. 5 (FIVE) really close passes, at least two of which were deliberate. Oooh Road.cc are getting some emails tonight (also rozzers..)

Enter your text here...

But joking aside, I expect that rather than cause a scandal (which probably would happen if there was a tragic death related to their use), there are probably already plenty of people lobbying for a lifting of the legal limitations on e-bikes, as they hope this would accelerate sales (which, unlike in Germany and the Netherlands, have never yet taken off here). After all, it is a motorised mode, quite fast, and 'sustainable', with an emerging industry attached to it. I expect that if all that happened, helmets would become compulsory for e-bikes, though.

I think they just annoy me as they're lazy cheats who can't be bothered to get fit and ride a bike properly or pass a test, get insurance etc and be in some vague sense responsible like an actual motorbike rider. It's only a matter of time before one of them has a nasty crash.