This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Am still laughing about an incident that happened about an hour ago was happily pootle along the A21 near Farnborough common when I heard a car honky behind me, shoulder checked see its a massive BMW thought nothing more of it, plenty of room for them to overtake. They keep honking, I turn around again and have a proper look, turns out it's an elderly couple, lady driver can barely see over the steering wheel but is gesturing for me to move out he way, meanwhile the old fella is flipping me the bird. Had to laugh they looked like they had escaped from somewhere and were on a rampage.

Countdown comes before red man. After 5s of red it's always green traffic. Or have I misunderstood you?

The pedestrian crossing on Oxford Street just opposite TCR tube station counts down to 0 then immediately the traffic lights turn green. This causes plenty of issues as the road is generally half full of pedestrians as soon as the lights turn green, and plenty of people - cyclists and drivers alike - all head forwards regardless.

I bet they voted to Leave but will be upset about the price of spare parts for their imported fucking beemer. Cunts.

Wonderful story. I'm surprised he didn't have a tow hitch and some rope to do the job himself. After all, that's something 4x4s are, erm, for, right?

Ha, sounds as if standards have slipped since GwGs left. :)

Sounds like a fairly desperate attempt to cram all the phases in that junction (which has lots of other issues).

No they don't

No they don't

Yes they do. I see it happen almost every day, and have been caught out by it more than once myself.

It may seem so, but they don’t. There’s definitely an all red phase between the stages, trust me on that.

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Extreme weather always brings the goods

Doored on the way home. Filtering towards roadwork lights, fortunately left foot unclipped and on the brakes. BMW diver pops the door and I'm about a bike length away. Cue endo-style stopping, proper swear-fest, flopping onto the bonnet of the car pulling up next to me. Slightly tragi-comic given low-speed and the fact the car that I landed on stopping car meant no falling flat into the road (the driver's face was a picture!) Beamer driver looked like she was going to shit herself and was pretty mortified. Shook hands, moved on. Patron saint of cycling, really owe you one.

Lovely morning this morning, only slightly marred by a close-call that was totally my fault. Distracted by a ped lady falling over I accidentally pulled out into a T junction in front of a fellow rider coming from the right.

His sarcastic "Oh, thanks!" was well-warranted. Sorry, friend!

On a different note, I rode home really late (about 10:30pm) last night. Am I imagining it or is the standard of driving noticeably worse at that time compared to regular commuting hour?

Counts down then red for everyone for about 5 seconds then the traffic gets a green light.

The problem is that people just run out the station and across the road with their eyes closed.

5 hours more drinking, innit.

Ugh, people are the worst.

Oxford St needs crossing guards like Kimmy Schmidt

anyone enjoy the taxi protest on london bridge last night? was quite surreal.

You have a very valid idea. I've taken out a girl there because she just stepped out in front of me and I had no where to go.

Someone is going to get killed there by either a car bus or bike.

Parking wardens / Police should have dished out tickets to them all.

Getting tired of cunts parking at the end of the bike lane in Acton, opposite the police station. It's got fucking posts to isolate it from the road and then beemer cunts just back up to it. I should've just ghostied my fucking bike into the back of the cunts car and then kick his face off for parking there.

I wondered what was going on! I was heading southbound luckily and in a bit of a rush so didn't clock what was happening.

Don't forget to shit on their bonnet.

https://youtu.be/BIyvSKCnBnk?t=7

Not my commute but my wife always takes a cut the wrong way down a residential one way street when she cycles to the station to avoid a right turn across a junction she hates; today she pulled in between some cars to let someone go past but they blocked her in when they got level with the bike and an old woman apparently started yelling at her until she had to get up on the pavement and go around.
On the one hand I try to avoid doing this because it does piss people off way more than you'd expect but on the other I kind of want to find and key the fuck out of that car because the woman sounded totally vile.

Is there a calorie count for that in my fitness pal? ;)

Cuntish parking, one of my pet hates.