Your rants here.

mudcow007

to be honest i think i have mostly all of that info!

road name, bus number, reg (of bus), bus company etc

i will phone them tommorow. i dont like getting people in trouble....

it just annoyed me the way he pulled out as i was along side him, its happened to me when i have been in my car aswell

i will let you all know how i get on

nation

EKE_38BPM wrote:

As a private citizen, you cannot request the footage. Any request must come from your insurance company, your solicitors or the Police.

Not so. Bus companies are notoriously unco-operative when it comes to footage anyway. When I request it (I work for an insurance company) I tend to either get ignored, or sometimes get a response that says "We've reviewed the footage and feel your client is at fault" with no accompanying footage. Maybe a couple of ambiguous stills. First Group are the worst for this.

I've had most success getting people to contact the operator in question, finding out who administers their CCTV (usually I'll do that for them), and getting them to make a Data Subject Access Request under the terms of the Data Protection Act. They can take up to 40 days to comply with such a request and can charge a fee of up to £10. You also need to provide sufficient information that it is practical for a person checking the footage to find the footage of you.

See: http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/ ... ities.html

bibib

mudcow007 wrote:

just been coming home along here bus is sat at the bus stop, im probably going about 20 -22mph when he decides to indicate an pull out as im alongside the bus.

so im pedalling along side until i reach the cab an shout "what are you playing at" he shouts back "its a f**king bus stop"

anyways he slows down to letme get in front the he over takes me to get stuck in traffic about 400 yards down the road.

i ride over to window an say "open your window" he shouts back "im pressing my button to call the police"!

writting it down on here doesnt seem as bad to be honest but at the time i thought i was going to be squished i got all the details of the bus, shoul i report him?

he obviously didnt look in his mirror when he pulled out or thought "its only a bike"

That's fairly standard for bus drivers really.

It happens a lot with me. They don't look and just assume everything will get out of the way when they pull out.

I'm not that sure what to do in those situations. In the odd chance that they do indicate, should I suddenly slam on my brakes and try and stop? Or just go around the outisde and hope that they have seen me.

Another grip is when buses pul in to pick people up but do it on a angle and end up sticking out accross 2 lanes......... aah.

thelawnet

Just trying to cross the road with my two small children, pushing a bike and carrying a scooter, there's no crossing (coucil says it's too expensive to build one) and there's traffic coming all the time; I'm waiting in the exit road for a block of flats, there's a car waiting behind me, quite patiently but still off-putting.

Car in opposing lane signals right and turns to enter flats, so I start to cross the road but the oncoming old duffer in a Volvo on the near side doesn't even slow. Three more cars swerve around me before someone has the decency to stop and let me cross.

nich

Bring back winter please. So many red light jumping dangerous cyclists about today. One idiot almost off'd me at a junction.

jzed

To the feckwit at VB lights who just as the lights go green comes from nowhere at a 45 degree angle across my path from the right - go feck off - you're going to end up in A&E nodding around like that. Normally I wouldn't mind (ok I lie) but I was at the ASL line slap bang in the middle of the first lane - there was tonnes of room elsewhere to wobble into, where the feck did you come from.

georgee

It was more satisfying than annoying. having seen a proper cyclist (low weight and shaved legs) but on a cheap mogoose singlespeed, cut through the lights last miniute in Kingston, I came across him and had him draft me a good portion of Putney/Fulham to watch him then jump all the lights on the Fulham Road. Nearly everone else were behaving themselves, only he was sticking out like a proper c*ck

rolf_f

I was waiting at a red light this morning. Just before it changes, a bloke on a rattly looking hybrid draws alongside me and uses his little momentum to get past. Now I know that FCNs etc are no guarantee of performance but a rattly hybrid is going to have to be ridden pretty well to keep ahead of a carbon road racer. It took me about 3 pedal strokes to pass him. I mean, why would he even think he stood a chance of keeping up? In what way would he not think "I can either wait behind this bike which is obviously twice as fast as mine, or I can just pointlessly get in his way and achieve nothing whatsoever"? I daresay this happens all the time in London but it is the first time I've had it.

JamieRa

mercedes drivers.

rant over

Cuchulainn

JamieRa wrote:

mercedes taxi drivers.

rant over

Fixed that for you

JamieRa

JamieRa wrote:
mercedes taxi drivers.

rant over Laughing

Fixed that for you

Paul E

Rolf F wrote:

I was waiting at a red light this morning. Just before it changes, a bloke on a rattly looking hybrid draws alongside me and uses his little momentum to get past. Now I know that FCNs etc are no guarantee of performance but a rattly hybrid is going to have to be ridden pretty well to keep ahead of a carbon road racer. It took me about 3 pedal strokes to pass him. I mean, why would he even think he stood a chance of keeping up? In what way would he not think "I can either wait behind this bike which is obviously twice as fast as mine, or I can just pointlessly get in his way and achieve nothing whatsoever"? I daresay this happens all the time in London but it is the first time I've had it.

You get used to it. Sort of.

jomoj

anti cyclist rant coming up:

old fellow is attempting to cross road to bus stop, very doddery on his feet.
Female roadie approaching, all the gear, going full pelt on the drops - a good clear line of sight to the bloke from about 75m at least.

Old fellow is about 2 m from reaching the kerb but Ms. Roadie cuts between him and the kerb at about 20mph while shouting at him at the last minute. Poor bloke nearly has a heart attack.

You, madam, are an absolute tit and I pray the puncture fairy is a constant and unwelcome companion until you learn some bloody manners.

prj45

Well, had a nice run in with somebody this morning that passed way too close (IMO).

I was pulling away eastbound from the junction on embankment at horse guards (had stopped at the lights), guy passed me really very close at a fairly high relative speed and cut in. I'm thinking clearly he thought I was in his way, he wanted to maintain forward speed, I was going too slowly so he'd thought he'd make a point by buzzing me.

So I shouted after him "too close", I mean, he was simply too close.

I could then see he was slowing down (maybe to apologise I thought) and when I passed him I got "Were you talking to me?", obviously a set up for a bit of a set to!

What happened next was hilarious. He was on a cycle BTW.

So I said, "yes, you passed too close".

Then from that point all the way to Mansion House he buzzed me. He started by telling me he didn't pass too close. Then he started on me being a new cyclist (I told him I'd been cycling in London for 20 years) but he insisted I only started cycling last week, and this was clear as I wasn't wearing the "right gear" and that I wasn't wearing a helmet. I did point out to him his chin strap wasn't tighted so the helmet he was wearing was probably just going to fall off if he fell anyway which may not have helped!

All the time I just kept saying, "but you passed too close", well, what else was I going to say?

I asked him what the highway code said about passing cyclists, he said it stated that they should be given one metre (curse that give me space campaign) and when I said it said "give as much room as possible" and that he gave me much less than a metre anyway, he then said that that only applied to cars (!). At which point I suggested if he had clipped me we'd have both have been in a lot of trouble whether he was in a car or not, but apparently according to him it would have been just me that would have crashed (nice!).

He said I was wobbling, I asked what the highway code said about cyclists who were just starting off (i.e. give them more room as they tend to wobble), then he started going on about "angle of deflection". I said I've never heard of this and this was met with a sneer. He said it was the wobble that you get when a cyclist pulled away, more evidence that I'd never cycled before apparently!

Then it was how close motorcyclists passed and that if I'd been on the road before I'd be used to that. I said I would've had a word with a motorcyclist that passed me that close as well (or indeed a car).

Well all that and a load of other personal insults mixed in as well!

We parted at Mansion house. Nice start to the day, glad I said something though as he clearly knew he was in the wrong given the amount of verbal I got from him!

iPete

Returned home to find a big Shimano box containing my new race wheels.

Brilliant.

Oooooo so shiny.

Put the first tyre on, pumped to 110 PSI and got started on the second when





Wheels back in the box. £5 down and a near perforated ear drum.

Have to wait till new tubes arrive now.

nich

Set of this morning and stopped a few yards further down the road.

Hmm...a hissing sound, dammit puncture!

So I looked at the front wheel and gave the tyres a few squeezes. Hmm...the hissing is loud, but it's not going down.

I spin the wheel and keep checking. Hmm!!

ARGH!! !FSKING water bottle. I have some lucozade and it's fizzing out the top!

My number 2 rant is about annoying cyclists, again.

The usual, pulling in front of me, setting of slower, completely out of lane, way out in front of the ASL, some jumping lights, some attempting to then deciding not to and wobble about.

It's not like these guys and girls look like nodders, they look like proper cyclists with all the lights and lycra, but they appear to lack common sense, and in the end all just get confused and bunch together.

I would love there to be more policing in London, sort this out once 'n for all.

mudcow007

rant at my self, forgot to shoot home yesterday an bring my shirts to work. so im sitting here in my riding gear....i think i need to nip home

or do i just embrace the look an make people admire my "stunning" calf muscles









good choice i'm just nipping home!

nation

Chain slip while sprinting out the saddle to join a roundabout.

That was annoying/terrifying.

asprilla

I took public transport today.

sketchley

No water in office. Thames water promised it would be fixed yesterday. Discovered shower fed from hot water tank so was able to get changed. Toilets not flushed since yesterday though!

Think I maybe having an early day!

Should this be in anti-rants?

suzyb

No internet or phones in office. Went down at around 11 this morning and still wasn't fixed when I left at 5 :roll:

redvee

Encountered a more knowlegdeable than me WVM today, if you can call one of these a van Coming through Bristol city centre and he's close to my back wheel and trying to pass on my right. When I stop pedalling to slow for a set of TLs he overtakes me then hits the brakes for the queue of traffic, as he passes I see the hand waving etc. At the TLs I lean on his van and ask what his problem is, adding the word sir to the question, he replies that I'm in the middle of the lane and should be on the left. I tell him I'm entitled to be there and then ride off through the traffic as the lights have changed. Luckily for him I left without fully charging my helmet camera cause his stupidty would be on youtube for posperity now.
Citylink for passing lies of as truth, they are alleged to have attempted delivery twice so far this week to me and left a card each time, have they heck. The depot says that the driver takes a handul of cards out each week and grabs more when they've un out, yesterday was the first day of the week so if he ran out yesterday then he should grab more last night for today. At the time of todays alleged delivery I was home with the radio on so would have heard the intercom buzz. Rebooked for tomorrow when me and Garmin are reunited

nation

Citylink are the worst.

At my old place in Glasgow they used to claim that they'd left cards while at the same time claiming that my address didn't exist.

redvee

Instructions now are to call my mobile but I'll be looking out the window every 5 mins tomorrow morning from 10am.

optimisticbiker

i feel the need...

motorbikes, bike lanes and ASLs... grrrr...

going down towards Kings X, stopped at the lights at pancras road and midland rd, there a left turn lane, bike lane with ASL and a straight on lane. Lights go green and I'm halfway across the junction when a motorbike comes down the left hand turn lane, undertakes me and crosses in front of me, maybe with a metre clearance if that, he must of been doing 40+ easily... big orange bastard...

get further on my commute on clerkenwell road, coming up to lights at St Johns St, was undertaken in the bike lane and clipped by a scooter. didnt come off, was just a brush but i felt it... so he stops 3ft past the 2nd ASL line at the lights so I asked him "which bit of bike lane don't you understand?' Got the usual expected "F off i pay my road tax, etc".. and then a bald headed shaven legged roadie in blue team strip stopped behind me says to me "Shut up, you're an F-ing idiot" WTF???:shock: he then pushes past, and jumps the next 3 red lights... so who's the idiot...

No sure which pissed me off more...the idiot on the scooter or the idiot on a bike?

:evil:

(for the record I pay VED - not road tax - on 4 vehicles, I choose however to cycle to work)

Drysuitdiver

idiot white Van/pick up driver who pulled out on me last night as i was less than 6 ft from him. thankfully I had the brakes covered and was anticipating hiom doing it, the disc brakes on the MTB worked as they should and i stopped. he shouted I shouldn't be on the road and should be on the pavement. .

my shiny chepo £20 vid cam came into its own and this morning i have you tubed it sent the link to his boss and had an apology all by 9.30 am . the best was when his boss called back and said the guy had denied it and was a little redfaced when the video was played to him .

redvee

Drysuitdiver wrote:

idiot white Van/pick up driver who pulled out on me last night as i was less than 6 ft from him. thankfully I had the brakes covered and was anticipating hiom doing it, the disc brakes on the MTB worked as they should and i stopped. he shouted I shouldn't be on the road and should be on the pavement. .

my shiny chepo £20 vid cam came into its own and this morning i have you tubed it sent the link to his boss and had an apology all by 9.30 am . the best was when his boss called back and said the guy had denied it and was a little redfaced when the video was played to him .

Link to the vid?

Cafewanda

To the driver of the ambulance, licence plate GN57 0MY on the approach to E&C. That kind of driving I normally expect from taxis :x

condorman

Cafewanda wrote:

To the driver of the ambulance, licence plate GN57 0MY on the approach to E&C. That kind of driving I normally expect from taxis :x

I'm starting to think that ambulance drivers now get commission!

Cafewanda

I think he was looking for a job this morning and saw me as a likely candidate