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Two lanes becoming one: it is a type where both lanes have equal rights (no sign that any of the lane cease to exist). He hooked my left side at the rear end of the car, as I was stationary and he just rolled onto me.
Without knowing any details here, it could be (claimed that) that the car pulled out in front of the lorry giving it no chance to slow?Dog Breath wrote:How can it not be his fault? He was either not paying attention, or driving too close.
He said I cut him up but he had about 5 second (doing around 3mph in the traffic jam) to stop.
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Two lanes becoming one: it is a type where both lanes have equal rights (no sign that any of the lane cease to exist). He hooked my left side at the rear end of the car, as I was stationary and he just rolled onto me.
Without knowing any details here, it could be (claimed that) that the car pulled out in front of the lorry giving it no chance to slow?Dog Breath wrote:How can it not be his fault? He was either not paying attention, or driving too close.
He said I cut him up but he had about 5 second (doing around 3mph in the traffic jam) to stop.
Well he didn't.
If he was behind you, then the onus is on him to prove his innocence.Ben
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Biking related rant: 3 drivers who don't think the cycle land boundary at a t junction applies to them. Pull across it, and the bus lane, and wait there for clear traffic, and the car behind pulls forward as well, leaving then no space to reverse. Brilliant behaviour when it's lomg wait traffic lights that's stopping the main traffic . The last one today got a right earful of c*ckwamble at the top of my lungs as he was on his phone as well.
Non biking related, finally get a fpv kit up and running for a rc car, and turn a corner a little to fast and smash it all up, and the lipo catches fire and torches the car and 2 day old fpv kit. Great day :-(Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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1. People on social media spouting the usual tripe about "every cyclist" running red lights, not carrying lights etc...
B. Cyclists who run red lights, don't carry lights etc....giving everyone else a bad name and more ammo to the morons who use it as an excuse for poor driving.
I really try not to get caught up in that sort of discussion but sometimes it's like a red rag.
They don't pay road tax you know..........0 -
I had a similar scenario, thankfully without the contact. Approaching a small roundabout wanting to turn right. Shoulder check confirms that a car is (well) behind me. Indicate (arm out) and move across to take position. Hear the revving as said car chooses that exact moment to floor it, squeeze by me and dive back to the left to go the other way.[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19708947#p19708947]Snakebite the 2nd[/url] wrote:I got side swiped this morning.
Turning right at a mini roundabout the car behind me tried to over take on the run up to the roundabout, cut in at the last moment hitting my out stretched arm then coming in further to make contact and pushing me to the left.
More luck than judgement that I kept upright.
Tried to catch him but as the lights were green further up the road he got away.
Reported to the police, who tell me I have to go in personally and report it as well :roll:
I suppose I should really, but I'm more in favour of waiting for him tomorrow and putting his teeth down his throat. :twisted:
Probably the only justice he'll get.
Fortunately, the manner in which the driver passed me telegraphed her intention so I was able to take evasive action. Cue some quiet muttering to myself (I'm not a great ranter!).0 -
Just had 1st experience...
Edge 510 connector tabs broken off the back, so fill in the return form on the website. Then get a reply saying they will need to replace & I will need an RMA#, click this link to get one. So I do & it just takes me to the same page I originally filled out. I notice it says you have to email toget an RMA#, so I reply asking for one. I get a response saying a colleague is dealing with my request....
Then today I get another reply saying I have to phone to get an RMA#!!!
All this to pay £45 to get a new 510 that will prob break in a year :evil:0 -
so fill in the return form on the website. Then get a reply saying they will need to replace & I will need an RMA#, click this link to get one. So I do & it just takes me to the same page I originally filled out. I notice it says you have to email toget an RMA#, so I reply asking for one. I get a response saying a colleague is dealing with my request....
Then today I get another reply saying I have to phone to get an RMA#!!!
yup - their website for returns is a joke - I had to get an RMA# via phone - they need to take payment and they don't have a mechanism for doing that online - so it has to be via phone ... which is ok, I don't mind - but FFS don't send us to the website to start with!
I've had a couple of replacement units - 800 leaked, the second one the power button became U/S (replaced FOC as it was less than a year after previous replacement - had to argue that one though). Then we had an 810 fall off the bike (don't know how, but it must've been knocked) - completely knackered unit ....
Once you've got an RMA it's a quick service ...0 -
I think people only see what they want to see.
People who don't like cyclists always seem to quote the "MAMIL" as being the scourge of the cycling breed, jumping red lights and cycling on pavements and scaring pedestrians.
Now, I'm not saying that no lycra-clad cyclist does these things, but in my experience these types of activity are generally done by those cyclists in civvies or in baggies. May be I'm just a hypocrite and also only see what I want to see...0 -
I think people only see what they want to see.
People who don't like cyclists always seem to quote the "MAMIL" as being the scourge of the cycling breed, jumping red lights and cycling on pavements and scaring pedestrians.
Now, I'm not saying that no lycra-clad cyclist does these things, but in my experience these types of activity are generally done by those cyclists in civvies or in baggies. May be I'm just a hypocrite and also only see what I want to see...
As I travel about London, red light jumping is very evenly spread about the tribes of cycling, and other anti social behaviour. About the only thing that tends to be one tribe is the drafting/overtaking very closely which is a roadie thing. But they all do dumb and anti social stuff.0 -
Cyclist of SE London - please get some poxy lights it's dark in the morning and I've seen some very near misses because no one can see you.Moda Prima 2013
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Almost collected a commuter on my bonnet this morning. Can totally understand the hatred directed at us when I see the actions of guy's like him.
At a small roundabout, nothing coming from the right so car in front pulls out and I follow. From the left a bloke on bike sails down the outside of the traffic waiting to join the roundabout and carries straight over the roundabout between me and the car in front. Because it's a small painted roundabout and the golf ahead was going right and I was going straight on there was only about 1m between me and the golf. We (both cars) had to take avoiding action and how he knew the golf wasn't doing a u-turn I'll never know.
Hope for his sake his brakes had failed or was caught out by the wet, but by the look on his face he knew what he was doing. He won't last long.0 -
Eight Thirty monday night - it is very wet and dark. Some complete plonker with no lights, no helmet, black clothes - but I noticed him cos of the red LED on the camera attached to his handlebars. Get your priorities straight!0
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Talking of back-ending... Nearly ended up all over the back of a school-run SUV / 4x4 this morning in Twickenham.
There's a zebra crossing immediately after a mini-roundabout: I'm following her over the r/b and she starts to accelerate away the other side, as do I - admittedly closer to her rear bumper than I should have been.
But then, directly from accelerating, she slams on the brakes - and I mean SLAMS, like a full-on emergency stop.
Because some woman pushing a pram has poked her head around the back of a bus which is sat on the zebra crossing. Pramwoman wasn't moving, and hardly visible, and we were pretty much on top of the crossing - it was a ridiculous and dangerous bit of braking.
How I managed to brake and slip down the inside channel, heaven knows.0 -
Almost collected a commuter on my bonnet this morning. Can totally understand the hatred directed at us when I see the actions of guy's like him.
At a small roundabout, nothing coming from the right so car in front pulls out and I follow. From the left a bloke on bike sails down the outside of the traffic waiting to join the roundabout and carries straight over the roundabout between me and the car in front. Because it's a small painted roundabout and the golf ahead was going right and I was going straight on there was only about 1m between me and the golf. We (both cars) had to take avoiding action and how he knew the golf wasn't doing a u-turn I'll never know.
Hope for his sake his brakes had failed or was caught out by the wet, but by the look on his face he knew what he was doing. He won't last long.
I see loads doing this coming from Waterloo Bridge onto the IMAX roundabout - they just seem to sail straight on as if they have a filter lane. Saw one guy on a fixie cut me right up as I crossed, then get irate at a driver who cut him up slightly later on down Stamford Street. Hard to have sympathy with someone who rides like a chopper.0 -
Properly got my blood boiling this morning. Not the fact I nearly hit him, just the fact I know the next time I cop some abuse or a near pass it's because of prat's like him.0
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Rant at myself.
Junction Atlantic and Brixton road. Cyclist watching pedestrian lights change, not road lights, pulls out when peds still crossing road moving between them and starts shouting at a motorist emerging from the right, who has done much the same thing as he sails through either a burnt amber or a solid red. I pull away and as I pass cyclist and driver more or less stuck in middle of junction i say a bit rich of cyclist to moan at driver. Not enough time to say 2 wrongs dont make a right...I know, sanctimonious git. Cyclist catches up with me, every other word a swear work, f***, c*** etc. I realise should have kept my mouth shut but unfortunately take high ground saying he a plonker, give us all a bad name, and he offers me out. Not on a date mind, he just wants a fight. Wants me to take my sunnies off, so I do. Looks me in eye and carries on, lots of swearing, threats, so i ask him to join me across the road, pointing out that just to our right is Brixton PS. More swearing, others try to intervene to calm things. By now i am not calm. I am swearing too.Annoyed with myself for saying anything to him and not just backing down.
Lights change, we pull away, he rides like a chopper all the way to Kennington, filtering dangerously, cutting across everyone, no shoulder checks, nothing, then jumps a red to filter off to E&C.
So, apologies to anyone who witnessed or heard. Not my finest hour. A bit frightening to be honest that someone can loose it so quickly.0 -
Rant at myself... A bit frightening to be honest that someone can loose it so quickly.
I think (we all) a lot of us find this - unless you are a pootler or other extreme oddity you have to build up a certain "head of steam" to venture out onto the streets of london on a bike. In any pressure situation you risk overload.
In order to counteract my tendency to overreact I think of that dickless wonder (there is photographic evidence) who was ranting at a cyclist in Richmond a few months back; I do not want to look like that fool even if initially I am in the right.0 -
Mr WVM, while I'm going up and over a (very) hump-backed bridge, it is not a good idea to overtake me when you cannot see what the fudge is coming up the other side.
Yes, you were distressed to see the car speeding towards you, with the driver's hand held down hard on his horn (ooh err) , but that does not mean you should then suddenly swerve in towards me and try to crush me against the brick wall.
All you had to do was to wait behind me for 3 or 4 seconds.0 -
Visit from the PF on the way home yesterday.
Broken glass on the path also littered with leaves so nicely camouflaged. Heard the hiss, but at first thought it was leaves caught in the mudguard, unfortunately it was not.
Thought about changing tube there. Chickened out, called for backup, fixed at home instead.
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Had to take PT this morning as I'm out tonight after work. Got to the station and had to wait for 10mins to get in as there was 'congestion' in the ticket hall. Managed to get a seat on the tube but some dirty bugger nearby spent the whole journey letting out incredibly smelly farts. Disgusting. I'd much rather have my lungs filled with fumes from buses, HGVs and taxis 0
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bruntHad to take PT this morning as I'm out tonight after work. Got to the station and had to wait for 10mins to get in as there was 'congestion' in the ticket hall. Managed to get a seat on the tube but some dirty bugger nearby spent the whole journey letting out incredibly smelly farts. Disgusting. I'd much rather have my lungs filled with fumes from buses, HGVs and taxis
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I'm afraid your name makes me think you were the culprit.0 -
Back lights that magically fall off in front of you. Last night heading south near E&C girls back light falls off as I am gently overtaking, I skip it with the front wheel but the back rides straight over it, cue light goes pinging across road into oncoming traffic, and is duly squashed. Female cyclist with earphones has no idea, and is upset that her rear light is now bin worthy. C'mon people it takes two second to check your light is clamped on proper, and if the clamp is faulty then buy/bodge another one! If nothing else it would keep my heart rate down0
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CYCLIST IN FRONT, TWO WORDS......'SHOULDER CHECK!!!!'I ride with God on my mind and power in my thighs....WOE betide you!
I know I'm not the fastest rider on earth BUT I KNOW I AM NOT the slowest!!!
If you Jump Red Lights in order to stay ahead you are a DISGRACE!!0 -
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Back lights that magically fall off in front of you. Last night heading south near E&C girls back light falls off as I am gently overtaking, I skip it with the front wheel but the back rides straight over it, cue light goes pinging across road into oncoming traffic, and is duly squashed. Female cyclist with earphones has no idea, and is upset that her rear light is now bin worthy. C'mon people it takes two second to check your light is clamped on proper, and if the clamp is faulty then buy/bodge another one! If nothing else it would keep my heart rate down
it wasnt mine...but honestly Ive had that happen twice now where I swear Id checked my rear light, and it uses a belt clip it doesnt strictly clamp into anything, was seated correctly in the saddle bag loop and the damn thing has still defeated gravity and managed to worked itself back up to a point that its then fallen off into the road, fortunately it still works and hasnt been crushed
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Tried to get Sunday off work cause of this but not possible. There is a possibility of popping out of the building and watching it go overhead, our place is under the flight path.
Not sure of the weather - but if it is nice like today I may take a ride to get under the flight path; North Weald Airfield is on a nice ride for me0 -
Back lights that magically fall off in front of you. Last night heading south near E&C girls back light falls off as I am gently overtaking, I skip it with the front wheel but the back rides straight over it, cue light goes pinging across road into oncoming traffic, and is duly squashed. Female cyclist with earphones has no idea, and is upset that her rear light is now bin worthy. C'mon people it takes two second to check your light is clamped on proper, and if the clamp is faulty then buy/bodge another one! If nothing else it would keep my heart rate down
How is that relevant?www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes0 -
And he doesn't repost the pic.Condor have just tweeted a picture of my new bike! Its soooooo pretty!
Honestly... :roll:
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And he doesn't repost the pic.Condor have just tweeted a picture of my new bike! Its soooooo pretty!
Honestly... :roll:
And I can't tell the difference between twitter and instagram!
https://instagram.com/p/8mzgvtq-Bh/?taken-by=condorcycles
linky above- no clue how to embed!RIP commute...
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