Your rants here.

northstar

X133 BPA

Mouthing "f*** off" at me after failing to give way to your right and thus nearly mowing me down at a mini roundabout won't make your case any better, have fun with the police.

davis

northstar wrote:

X133 BPA

Mouthing "f*** off" at me after failing to give way to your right and thus nearly mowing me down at a mini roundabout won't make your case any better, have fun with the police.

Where was that, and what vehicle? I'm sure that numberplate rings a bell, but that could well be my invented memories taking over...

northstar

It was a light green saloon type car, i didn't get the make as we was travelling in different directions and I had traffic behind me.

edit: it was at the the mini roundabout as you come down off the Coombe Lane flyover towards Raynes Park.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Coombe+Ln,+London+SW20,+United+Kingdom&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=15.425044,53.569336&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FbJ3EAMdjVv8_w&split=0&hq=&hnear=Coombe+Ln,+London+SW20,+United+Kingdom&z=16

(The Westcombe Avenue junction)

davis

Ah, ok... I must be fabricating memories; haven't been round there for a fair while..

Sailorchick

To the lady in a blue peugeot 206 around 8.15am approaching the traffic lights at the bottom of Athelstan Road. Can I suggest you actually use those little mirrors on the side of your car before changing lanes.

I really appreciate being shoved into the path of oncoming traffic by you changing lanes without checking whilst I am alongside you. Thankfully other traffic was more aware than you.
Also, you may want to check your hearing as everyone else around heard my shouts of Oi!!! trying to get your attention. You did eventually realise what you did but then jumped the red light to avoid dealing with me. grrrrrrrrr

Kieran_Burns

Rant or anti-rant?

To lady in the black Honda Accord who took exception to me safely filtering past the line of the traffic in Ruddington this morning:

I know it can be annoying watching someone get in front of you, despite your concerted efforts to block said person (me) even thought it is perfectly safe and legal for them to do so.

I do hope you enjoyed the friendly smile and wave as I went past.

I also hope the double buttock clench I gave you while track-standing in front of you gave you a vicarious thrill during your morning commute 8)

Boy my karma is over-flowing today

W1

To the Plumbers van in Putney - it's mirror, signal, manouvre. Not the other way round.

rjsterry

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Rant or anti-rant?

To lady in the black Honda Accord who took exception to me safely filtering past the line of the traffic in Ruddington this morning:

I know it can be annoying watching someone get in front of you, despite your concerted efforts to block said person (me) even thought it is perfectly safe and legal for them to do so.

I do hope you enjoyed the friendly smile and wave as I went past.

I also hope the double buttock clench I gave you while track-standing in front of you gave you a vicarious thrill during your morning commute 8)

Boy my karma is over-flowing today

With reference to your other 'FREEDOM' thread, you'll cause an accident doing that!

asprilla

On Sunday I was in the car waiting to turn left into Homebase car park. I was indicating, I checked my mirrors and started my manouver only to have a bloke on a bike hove into view on my left. I slam the anchors on, he has a go at me for not looking and then rides off.

Now admittedly I didn't check over my shoulder, but YOU DONT RIDE UP THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF A VEHICLE THATS INDICATING LEFT AND THEN COME OVER ALL SANCTIMONIOUS WHEN YOU NEARLY GET HIT.

Old git.

Aidy

Damn motorcyclists.

They're rapidly overtaking private hire cars as my most hated road users. The good weather seems to have brought out a whole stack of them, and they're almost all awful riders.

They pull up next to you in cycle boxes, then swerve in towards you as they move off. Then they have the nerve to say that you aren't giving them enough space.

That's not to mention the poorly executed overtakes, undertakes, and random hand gestures to indicate you should be anywhere else, just not in their path.

Oh, and they do have mirrors. Which makes you wonder why. None of them bother checking them before they decide they're going to swerve all the way across several lanes of traffic in an attempt to get through a gap that they clearly don't have room to squeeze through.

always_tyred

To the chap driving the mobility vehicle delivery van - I suspect that you somehow managed not to see me when you dropped the clutch when I was right in front of the junction you were trying to pull out of... however, when I then give you the calm down signal as you pull alongside me at a pinch point, please don't feel that it is necessary to swing your vehicle at me, due to the temerity of my actions.

I do hope that the chat you had with your boss, who considerately advertises his company on the weapon you were driving, went okay.

Cafewanda

Asprilla wrote:

On Sunday I was in the car waiting to turn left into Homebase car park. I was indicating, I checked my mirrors and started my manouver only to have a bloke on a bike hove into view on my left. I slam the anchors on, he has a go at me for not looking and then rides off.

Now admittedly I didn't check over my shoulder, but YOU DONT RIDE UP THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF A VEHICLE THATS INDICATING LEFT AND THEN COME OVER ALL SANCTIMONIOUS WHEN YOU NEARLY GET HIT.
Old git.

I thought that was standard behaviour for many cyclists. I've been wrong all this time? :shock: :roll:

always_tyred

Young lady on the gleaming racer, with the gleaming fakenger bag, gleaming shoes and gleaming new bike kit, who pulled up next to me whilst I was waiting at an ASL, before sprinting off at a substantial cadence:-
That's fine, I really don't mind waiting while you pull back in and until I can then overtake you. But just so you know, the rate that the pedals are going around only correlates to any great bicycle speed if the gear you are in requires you to press down jolly hard as well.

asprilla

Grrr, I want to invest in a helmet cam so I can record all these idiots who try to kill me on a daily basis, but that's not the justification I can use to the Mrs; she worries about me cycling enough as it is.

This morning:

I enter the 40 limit between Walton and Molesey and some arse in a Porsche Penissubstitute takes this to mean he should put the hammer down within 2 feet of me. I reckon he was going 60 when he passed me.

200 me further on I'm going though a pinch point with bollards in the middle of the road, but that doesn't seem to stop the truck that wants to be passed me. I could touch the back of his trailer. I caught up with him later at the junction with Hampton Court bridge and told him he was too close. He shrugged and said "So?"

Inbetween my incident and meeting with the truck I had another event; I'm approaching some pot holes and there is loads of traffic coming the other way at around 40. I look over my shoulder and there is nothing there so I move into the mittle of the road to avoid the rough surface. I then look up and see a green VW Passat has decided he doesn't want to follow everyone else doing 40 in the 40 limit and since there is only a cyclist in the other lane he may as well drive at 60 towards them........ If the car at the front of the queue going the other way hadn't slowed something terrible could have ahppened and I don't think I would have been around to tell you about it.

Apart from that it was a great commute in.

benno68

To the pr1ck in a certain bike shop in Cardiff.

If I want to buy parts online and fit them myself to save money and avoid my bike being off the road, that's my choice. I have just spent £70 on tyres at your place when I could have got them cheaper online and I actually spend more of my money with another LBS than I do on the web - they just happen to open Sundays which is my only day off.

The guy you work with (a nice guy) told me that a service on my rear wheel would be done within a day and to just drop it off, I wasn't "asking for favours" by asking if it could be ready by Friday.

I hope you were just having a one off bad day - if this is your usual attitude towards customers and I was your boss, you'd be out on your ar5e!

If you have the same attitude towards me on Friday, you may well have that Shimano cassette I've ordered shoved up ................

waddlie

We're all a bit ranty this week, considering the glorious weather.

Retch

Dear chappy in the Royal Mail van indicating to go left off Queenstown Rd, into Silverthorne Road.

Feel free to change your mind and not turn left. By all means do. But when you reach this conclusion, don't just immediately jam your foot down and pull back into the carriageway.

Perhaps a quick glance to see if anything's overtaking. Y'know. After you slowed practically to a stop to turn. As it happens there were only a couple of bikes and a car waiting for you to collide with them.

Thanks.

angry_bird

To the dozy cow in her little red clio who can't read/drive/i want to kill

When you're wanting to turn right at a T-junction with a STOP sign its generally frowned upon to go straight out into the road at around 15mph, particularly when there is no visibility until you reach the white line at the junction. hence the big STOP sign...

furthermore it isn't clever to do this when...
a) there are school kids just about to cross the road
b) there's a bus stopped in the lane you're trying to turn into
c) I'm slowing down and in your way because a group of kids have run across the road

shouldbeinbed

Not quite cycling but I'm thoroughly p'd off as i've just turned my ankle on the stairs at work and it's now twice the size and absolutely killing me. Bang goes my bike for a bit.

cjcp

RLJers. Grrrr. Work on your flippin' bike speed instead.

asprilla

cjcp wrote:

RLJers. Grrrr. Work on your flippin' bike speed instead.

Loads went past me as I waited to turn left onto Priory Lane on the way home and I was thinking "Right, you'll be mine". I love chasing down RLJers.

Not today though, bleedin PF hits me as I turn the corner. Arse.

cjcp

Asprilla wrote:

cjcp wrote:

RLJers. Grrrr. Work on your flippin' bike speed instead.

Loads went past me as I waited to turn left onto Priory Lane on the way home and I was thinking "Right, you'll be mine". I love chasing down RLJers.

Yep, a classic place for RLJers.

FrankM

To the man on the road bike between Archway and East Finchley yesterday evening. If I catch you up and you don't want to be overtaken then either speed up when I let you know that I'm behind you or let me pass and then you can overtake me and speed up. Please don't decide you'd rather I didn't pass you while I am in the process of overtaking you because it's ****ing dangerous when there are cars waiting to overtake me and other cars coming in the opposite direction.

Sailorchick

Just whose bright idea was it to put temporary traffic lights on the steep part of Athelstan Road!

There are roadworks on Peartree Avenue and part of the traffic control includes a traffic light about 2/3rd the way up the steep part of Athelstan Road. Cars struggle to get going again when stopped here so I'm not exactly going to have much luck getting back up to speed and taking a good position to turn right at the RAB!

Got to the bottom of the steep part last night just as the lights turned red, crawled up the hill (not that I get up there fast normally) praying for the lights to change as more and more cars pulled up too. No chance, so sorry to admit it but I jumped the lights instead.

Mr Sworld

To the lass on the red racer on Lewes Road this morning.

Don't RLJ all the way from Bear Road to Elm Grove junctions and don't look so shocked when I draw alongside to speak to you. RLJ'ing just means car drivers hate us even more than usual!

The Rookie

To the stupid bint in the silver Mini Cooper (AB03 BNY) who near enough hit me (no more than 6" clearance) while passing this morning, and by explaining her incompittance by rapidly hanging up and hiding her mobile as I pulled up next to her at the next junction.

However a thanks to her for proving conclusively why you shouldn't drive while on the mobile!

Simon

benno68

Waddlie wrote:

We're all a bit ranty this week, considering the glorious weather.

I think you spoke too soon Waddlie

No rants for me today...yet.

georgee

Not sure how this stacks up...

heading towards a line of stationary traffic, about to filter up the left hand side as there is a good amount of room. Tool in an Q7 (practical little town car?) pulls out from a side road to block both my path and sit half over the juction. If you can't pull out, WHY PULL OUT!

northstar

AD08 ODK, enjoy your high blood pressure over a cyclist moving over to turn right, you were way off in the distance when I shoulder checked, enjoy explaining your aggressive behaviour to the police.

kurako

northstar wrote:

AD08 ODK, enjoy your high blood pressure over a cyclist moving over to turn right, you were way off in the distance when I shoulder checked, enjoy explaining your aggressive behaviour to the police.

What kind of car was it? I wonder if it is taxed. You can check here in 'Vehicle Enquiry'

http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/