Your rants here.

MadammeMarie

TO ALL PEDESTRIANS IN CANARY WHARF:

Since when it's OK to cross the road in the middle, without looking? Who the hell do you think you are? Who told you that the entire world stops because you are crossing the f***ing road? I do hope you know that if you get hit by a car/bus/motorbike/bicycle and you get hurt, you don't have a leg to stand on. Specially since I'm filiming you and I can show the police how f***ing stupid you are!!!!

TommyEss

MadammeMarie wrote:

TO ALL PEDESTRIANS IN CANARY WHARF:

Since when it's OK to cross the road in the middle, without looking? Who the hell do you think you are? Who told you that the entire world stops because you are crossing the f***ing road? I do hope you know that if you get hit by a car/bus/motorbike/bicycle and you get hurt, you don't have a leg to stand on. Specially since I'm filiming you and I can show the police how f***ing stupid you are!!!!

Um - yes they do (providing you don't chop them off in the collision ;-)) - all road users must give way to pedestrians on the carriageway - even if they're being total dicks!

Sorry!

Wallace1492

To the Nedtastic Boy Racer in a souped up car with a horrible airfoil on the back who pulled out to overtake a couple of cars as I was going in the opposite direction. He thankfully saw me, locked his brakes, and skidded back to his side. I then proceded to get a "V" salute from him as well as my near death experience.

To you Mr Neanderhal ned, may your car skid off the road and over a very high cliff, with just you in it. People like you should not have a licence.

Wallace1492

Wallace1492 wrote:

To the Nedtastic Boy Racer in a souped up car with a horrible airfoil on the back who pulled out to overtake a couple of cars as I was going in the opposite direction. He thankfully saw me, locked his brakes, and skidded back to his side. I then proceded to get a "V" salute from him as well as my near death experience.

To you Mr Neanderhal ned, may your car skid off the road and over a very high cliff, with just you in it. People like you should not have a licence.

To the motorcyclist that overtook me later in the same ride, doing about 70-80mph, quite close, and pulling a wheelie as he passed, please note that a fellow motorcyclist was killed 1 mile futher up the same road last Tuesday. Its not big, its not clever.

suzyb

Wallace1492 wrote:

To the Nedtastic Boy Racer in a souped up car with a horrible airfoil on the back who pulled out to overtake a couple of cars as I was going in the opposite direction. He thankfully saw me, locked his brakes, and skidded back to his side. I then proceded to get a "V" salute from him as well as my near death experience.

To you Mr Neanderhal ned, may your car skid off the road and over a very high cliff, with just you in it. People like you should not have a licence.

Just point him in the direction of the countryside. He'll soon end up upside down in a field.

Unfortunately Daddy will only end up buying him a new car so he can do it all over again

MadammeMarie

TommyEss wrote:

Um - yes they do (providing you don't chop them off in the collision ;-)) - all road users must give way to pedestrians on the carriageway - even if they're being total dicks!

Sorry!

Well, that's too bad. I can't read people's minds, so I can't guess when they are going to pop out from behind a parked van, checking their iPhones or crossing as if they were all on their own in the middle of nowhere! So, unfortunatelly, if I end up hitting one of those, I just get back on my bike and ride off.....? I don't think I should be penalized for somebody else's stupidty. What were they thinking? That the parked van was going to protect them?

TommyEss

I disagree - you CAN read people's minds...

(Un)fortunately, you do develop a kind of idiot-radar after a while commuting - it's not just pedestrians either.

If there's a situation you can see, and you think it would be really dumb for someone to step out, pull out, pull over etc. etc. right there, right then - then you can bet your bottom dollar that's exactly what will happen.

So when you come alongside the bigger vehicles in a queue of traffic, the one's that offer the pedestrian no chance of seeing you - those are the ones you crawl past whilst covering the brakes...

And when you come up to a junction and parked cars obscure your view of what might be coming out of the junction - those are the ones the idiots come out of really quickly...

You just have to ride defensively - and be prepared to stop - you know the trouble spots, you can spot the situations where people are likely to be really dumb - so ride accordingly. You can't just ride full tilt and expect no trouble, even if you are SCRing.

Keep an eye on the peds on the pavement too - read their body language - when you see them looking across at the lane of traffic coming towards you, and you see that they see there's a gap, guess also that they can't hear an engine coming behind, so will step out with their gaze fixed firmly on the oncoming car they're aiming to walk behind - so you then know they're going to step out...

The ball's then in your court - you can yell - but that risks them doing the rabbit in the headlights which is bad, or the left-right, yes-no dance - which is even worse - or, you can just slow down, let them go, and try and catch their eye after you've gone round them, shaking your head/glowering etc.

Getting angry about it doesn't help.

And FWIW - no - if you do hit one you stay on the ground and wait for someone to phone the police and an ambulance - treat it like any other RTA.

MadammeMarie

TommyEss wrote:

I disagree - you CAN read people's minds...

(Un)fortunately, you do develop a kind of idiot-radar after a while commuting - it's not just pedestrians either.

If there's a situation you can see, and you think it would be really dumb for someone to step out, pull out, pull over etc. etc. right there, right then - then you can bet your bottom dollar that's exactly what will happen.

Three sets of traffic lights on this road. Three.

So when you come alongside the bigger vehicles in a queue of traffic, the one's that offer the pedestrian no chance of seeing you - those are the ones you crawl past whilst covering the brakes...

No queue of traffic. Just a parked van.

Getting angry about it doesn't help.

It's a "rants thread".

And FWIW - no - if you do hit one you stay on the ground and wait for someone to phone the police and an ambulance - treat it like any other RTA.

If the people around don't kill me first. We are so popular these days....!

TommyEss

MadammeMarie wrote:

It's a "rants thread".

My bad - as you were!! :-P

Paul E

Did a run into work and back as I am about to start commuting in at last and I wanted to get my fitness up a bit after being on holiday, 3 cars decided to try and turn across me 2 on OKR, one of them the nice "lady" decided I was in the wrong for being on the bit of road she wanted to do

Then on the way back I had a nice oldish man call me the C word because he was walking across the road and I was cheeky enough to be within 4 metres of him as he was in the road, I made my thoughts known what I thought about being called that for no apparent reason.

Then on shooters hill road, a guy in a bmw 1 series nearly pulled out of the petrol station on the left but stopped and did gesture like he hadn't seen me and was sorry, not like I wasn't wearing a bright yellow jersey or anything and it was dark lol.

Apart from that it was a good run, bleedin hot though.

Porgy

This is aimed at the beardy tw@t on a single speed pulled in to my left while I was stopped at the bank of england junction in the City. I was intending to go straight on - and at speed as there is about a micro second to get across the junction before the lights on the other side change.

You showed no intention of turning right and as you stopped on my left - and as I was in the middle of the lane there was plenty of space on my right - also plenty of time to signal you were going right - or just check to see if I was intending to go straight on as I obviously appeared to be - I had to assume you like me were going straight on or turning left.

then the lights change and I go - and you go - and you immediately turn right in front of me forcing me to brake sharply and I nearly fucking hit your back wheel - wish I had, my bike was considerably cheaper than yours. I point out your error and you call me a w@nker. I let it drop becasue I was supposed to be in a meeting in 20 minutes.

But anyway - 10 stone ignorant beardy tw@t on a trendy bike who can't ride - next time I won;t let it pass as easily as that. :evil:

nich

I tend not to understand all this ranting business as my commute is usually very plesent and I never run into any mishaps.

This seems to have changed since last night.

8pm last night, van comes speeding past me and turns left into a side-road. I apply some brakes and almost skid into the side of his van. Thanks chap. Sorry for the abuse that came out of my mouth later.

7:20am, chap walks out in front of me, even after looking at into my eyes and soul. Nevermind, I let it go as he said sorry and seemed a nice chap.

7:30am, bus starts pulling out into several cyclists, we all swerve. There's some braking going on a few skids. ****er #1

7:50am, Pootling down a cycling lane on the left, coming to a set of red lights. Van on my right decides he's going to park in the cycle line, indicates, then just starts turning into me. Saw me at last minute. Gave him a few choice words. ****er#2

I hope from now on all car drivers are nice to me, I've had enough of my share for today thankyou!

gbsahne001

sounds like a normal commute to me

MadammeMarie

Rant of the day: f***ing headwinds!!!! :x

coopster_the_1st

This is a rant at myself:

On Monday morning when you feel fresh learn to pootle this commute rather than ride at full pelt. Also do not add 5 miles and try to TT them 'beacuse it is a nice day for it and you are running early'

Made the ride home last night into the headwind really slow :roll: . So slow that I thought I had a brake rubbing!

And legs were too tired today so I took the car :!:

A real newbie error :oops:

Cafewanda

TommyEss wrote:

I disagree - you CAN read people's minds...

(Un)fortunately, you do develop a kind of idiot-radar after a while commuting - it's not just pedestrians either.

If there's a situation you can see, and you think it would be really dumb for someone to step out, pull out, pull over etc. etc. right there, right then - then you can bet your bottom dollar that's exactly what will happen.

So when you come alongside the bigger vehicles in a queue of traffic, the one's that offer the pedestrian no chance of seeing you - those are the ones you crawl past whilst covering the brakes...

And when you come up to a junction and parked cars obscure your view of what might be coming out of the junction - those are the ones the idiots come out of really quickly...

You just have to ride defensively - and be prepared to stop - you know the trouble spots, you can spot the situations where people are likely to be really dumb - so ride accordingly. You can't just ride full tilt and expect no trouble, even if you are SCRing.

Keep an eye on the peds on the pavement too - read their body language - when you see them looking across at the lane of traffic coming towards you, and you see that they see there's a gap, guess also that they can't hear an engine coming behind, so will step out with their gaze fixed firmly on the oncoming car they're aiming to walk behind - so you then know they're going to step out...

The ball's then in your court - you can yell - but that risks them doing the rabbit in the headlights which is bad, or the left-right, yes-no dance - which is even worse - or, you can just slow down, let them go, and try and catch their eye after you've gone round them, shaking your head/glowering etc.

Getting angry about it doesn't help.

And FWIW - no - if you do hit one you stay on the ground and wait for someone to phone the police and an ambulance - treat it like any other RTA.

Who asked you anyway? :P

Obie

To the silver van man I let go ahead of me through the back streets of Deptford.........I rather wish I hadn't!! For your information.....A red circled road sign with a white dash through it means "No Entry"!!! And Sticking your hand out of the window to say sorry after almost forcing me into the gutter just doesn't cut it!! You Muppet!

To the Lady in the Mercades who doesn't seem to know what side of the road we drive on in this country!!! If you clip me with your off side mirror when I am as far over to the left as Humanly possible, you are on the wrong side of the road!!!! Get a smaller car, read your highway code and pay bloody attention!!

And just for the record..........I hate Plane tree Pollen!! :evil:

Gussio

MadammeMarie wrote:

Rant of the day: f***ing headwinds!!!! :x

I share your rant. Arrived at work a gibbering wreck this morning. Been a long time since the wind has been that strong.

Kieran_Burns

Errr.... wind?

TommyEss

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Errr.... wind?

Even a small alteration in diet can lead to GI discomfort. :oops:

Chicago Dave

you want my rant? fine...

we need to vote.either we all wave at each other,or we dont.

'so tired of not getting the return wave.

ride_whenever

when i'm crusing along at 20 in a twenty zone just left of the center of the lane, please don't try to bimble past me in your tin box whilst staying under the speed limit.

Especially don't crab into me, if you're passing close enough for me to hit your car then you're too close. Next time i won't be so happy about things and will stop, take your car keys and hide them inside you, and not in a fun way. :evil:

Porgy

Chicago Dave wrote:

you want my rant? fine...

we need to vote.either we all wave at each other,or we dont.

'so tired of not getting the return wave.

My vote is not.

Kieran_Burns

Chicago Dave wrote:

you want my rant? fine...

we need to vote.either we all wave at each other,or we dont.

'so tired of not getting the return wave.

You need to understand the INR

imperceptible Nod of Recognition


You waving and smiling and being generally happy makes you look a nooooooob 8)


You need to chillax and zone out... when you see a fellow cyclist acknowledge them with a small (SMALL) barely perceptible movement of the head in their direction

This makes you appear one of the crowd, a savant, a higher being. Not some grinning savage bouncing around like a kid on a sugar rush


(for the hard of humour... it's a bit of fun okay? Although the chillax comment is utterly designed to wind certain people up)

itsbruce

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Not some grinning savage bouncing around like a kid on a sugar rush

But that's how riding a bike normally makes me feel...

TommyEss

Kieran_Burns wrote:

chillax and zone out...

Muffuverfehsuckezucker.... (*in a Muttley voice)

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Although the chillax comment is utterly designed to wind certain people up)

Why you sly old dog, you... *shakes fist*

WesternWay

To the idiot in AMG Mercedes MX07EXF, it is NOT acceptable to be fiddling with your iphone on your lap whilst driving and NOT acceptable to drive your car at me revving like a moron.

*seethes and reports*

rjsterry

Good attempt at writing Muttley-speak TommyEss. A difficult one to transcribe, that.

TommyEss

rjsterry wrote:

Good attempt at writing Muttley-speak TommyEss. A difficult one to transcribe, that.

Aww shucks...! :oops:

Chicago Dave

Kieran,you have indeed shown me the way.

I would like to be savantish...

I will move on with my life now