What are the worst cars for cutting too close?

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  • maximus69
    maximus69 Posts: 347
    from riding motorbikes years ago, volvos were always the ones to watch, but i watch all of them now!! stay out in the road a bit so that they cant squeeze through, make em wait!!
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  • chrisinleedsuk
    chrisinleedsuk Posts: 106
    All Golf drivers are @rsehole$, well nearly all. And over here drivers of Holden Utes and Falcon Utes are out to kill or at least maim.
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    biondino wrote:
    The Porsche Cayenne is the most disgusting car ever, though.

    Thankyou!!! This has been an argumnt of mine for ages now, and the Carrera... As a kid I loved Porsche.. what ever hppened the them? And ferrrrrrrarri. :lol:

    For me the worst car is anything and everything. I have met a***holes in VW, white vans/transits, audis, beemers, anything with four wheels.

    Yesterday I was nearly driven into by a div in a white transit at a chicane (I had right of way on the left, he was supposed to wait behind the chicane - he tore right infront of me at the last second and I had to dive to the left at the curb to avoid him. He seemed to think it funny :x )
  • karl j
    karl j Posts: 517
    downfader wrote:
    ... was nearly driven into by a div in a white transit ... He seemed to think it funny

    Yes good ole WVM, he rarely fails does he
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    karl j wrote:
    downfader wrote:
    ... was nearly driven into by a div in a white transit ... He seemed to think it funny

    Yes good ole WVM, he rarely fails does he

    Its 50/50 here if I'm honest. Some drive like a silly sausage but I have encountered many nice ones who'll let you pull out of a junction and give you space. 8)
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Honda Jazz 1.2 - average driver age is 76 years (probably)

    Tricked out Cios are bad too.
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    This speak of the elderly....

    ..last year I was riding home from work and came up behind this old dear in a little red renaut of some kind. She was doing about 15mph and I was right behind her for ages it seemed. :lol: She kept looking back anxiously at me in the rear view or over her shoulder. :lol: She could have just driven off - nothing else around. :lol: (Perhaps her car was pedal powered too)
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Aylesbury: ChavChariots, eg Vauxhall Corsa c.1996, lurid paint, blacked windows, monster stereo, exhaust you could use as a sewer, turbo'd to near extinction, driven by spotty little oik who thinks he's Lewis Hamilton

    London: anything with drive to all 4 wheels, esp. (apols for sexism) if driven by ladies...
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  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    passout wrote:
    Honda Jazz 1.2 - average driver age is 76 years (probably)
    I have to take exception here, I drive an Honda Jazz 1.4, (that's when I drive) lovely car, 54mpg, and I am nowhere near 76years.
    Generalisations are generally wrong.
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  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Dirk Van Gently wrote:
    passout wrote:
    Honda Jazz 1.2 - average driver age is 76 years (probably)
    I have to take exception here, I drive an Honda Jazz 1.4, (that's when I drive) lovely car, 54mpg, and I am nowhere near 76years.
    Generalisations are generally wrong.

    Well, you must be keeping the average age as low as it is! And yes, a fine car in many respects, but the drivers........?

    PS Do you have a blue rinse?
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Parsnip49 wrote:

    If someone came out with "all roadies/hybrid riders/MTBers are gimps" there would be an outcry and a lynching on this forum, but to do it to a driver solely because of the brand of car they drive is somehow ok???


    If someone came out with "all bike couriers are gimps" I'd be down with that ;)
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  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    passout wrote:
    PS Do you have a blue rinse?

    I am of the understanding that for a blue rinse, I would require hair, of which I have little, very little :D
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  • spursn17
    spursn17 Posts: 284
    German car = German mentality, need to cross boundary's and invade others space :lol:


    JOKE, it was a joke. honest.
  • chrisinleedsuk
    chrisinleedsuk Posts: 106
    Black Golfs and Volvo estates!
  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    Other cyclists!

    Also any car with 'ICE' and bangin toones bruv, you get me? Dem merkin me regularly. SW16 blud!!

    Also airport cabs and BMW X5s.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    buses and non black cab taxies, at lights bikes can be bad, had one tool slice in and stop after the stop line infront of me, wouldn't be so bad if he'd took off like a scaled cat...

    i took great pleasure in getting to the other end of the junction before he'd clipped in and doing my impression of the starship enterprise.
  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    Surf-Matt wrote:
    Audis - they have taken over BMWs as the "angry repmobile" of choice to the "upwardly mobile" driving spacker.

    Oh +1+1+1+1+1+1

    Audi wants to kill me
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  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Any driver wearing a hat
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  • Furbes
    Furbes Posts: 289
    flattythehurdler wrote:
    Surf-Matt wrote:
    Audis - they have taken over BMWs as the "angry repmobile" of choice to the "upwardly mobile" driving spacker.

    Oh +1+1+1+1+1+1

    Audi wants to kill me

    :shock: Maybe i should have kept the 406 & not bought the A6 :!: :!: :!:
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Surely the worst cars for cutting too close are those driven by the worst drivers?
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  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    linsen wrote:
    Surely the worst cars for cutting too close are those driven by the worst drivers?

    Yeh, especially those who drive too close :wink:
    Pictures are better than words because some words are big and hard to understand.

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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,714
    Lorry drivers who either don't realise how long they are, or how fast I'm going.

    The cab passes me 6' away. All good, no problem. By the time the end of the trailer's passed me, I'm on the brakes hard to avoid being taken out by the 30 tonnes of steel heading quickly for me...
  • Gedoxski
    Gedoxski Posts: 13
    Chavs in Corsa's/Astra's/Vectra's are complete muppets.

    Over the past few months,if an incident has occured like cutting up,dangerous overtaking,etc its nearly always a chav in one of these.

    Anyone else had the same experience?

    :roll:
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  • ince
    ince Posts: 289
    I had a close call with an Ice cream van on the way home yesterday. Had to push past as I was moving past some parked cars. Must have had a pressing meeting or an ice cream emergency.

    About two hours later I here the plesent tone of an ice cream van coming down our road. Same van, unfortunatly I couldn't get out to highlight the errors of his way before he left. :cry:

    Maby I will get a chance again tonight...

    The should no better was an ambulance that pushed pased on a blind right hander. I started curseing as soon as I saw the front of the van next to me, couldn't believe it as he passed and realised it was an ambulance, and no he was not in a rush to get some where.

    As for the worst cars, 20 odd yearold sales reps in Golfs and A3's I find always come too close in the the overtake.
  • Aguila
    Aguila Posts: 622
    woodgob wrote:
    4x4's (mostly X3 or X5) absolutely no contest.

    Oh...and agree about Cayenne. What were they thinking???

    The worst cars currently available.

    Nothing says "I am a co*k" quite as effectively as owning one of these.
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  • billy whippet
    billy whippet Posts: 171
    black cabs - lethal
  • DiggingDeeper
    DiggingDeeper Posts: 225
    Mr Parsnip,

    Chapeau sir................................

    DDD haven't you got a Beemer, don't fret so have I. A dirty great big one too.

    It makes a lovely ornament outside the house. Scraped the cobwebs off this am to take nipper to kids club.

    Done 100 miles this week so far on the bike. 3 miles or so in the motor. I know most people are just having a laugh and I was a Beemer knocker till I got one.

    Skidded sideways to a halt 6 inches off his *rse this morning as some hopeful in a people van (don't know the make) tried the bus lane then thought otherwise.

    This is BikeRadar, surely all drivers are vermin. But most of us drive so we can't possibly admit that.

    I am an average driver, I am an average rider. At least there is a cart load of people worse than me.

    If pushed for an answer.............................Audi drivers .........obviously
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Parsnip49 wrote:
    my grandad is the worst driver on the planet and your "d*ckhead in a beemer" radar wouldnt spot him - thats the point im making, all brands of vehicle can be driven by inconsiderate bad drivers, the make of car has very little bearing on it.

    Sarcasm, on an internet forum??? Whatever next...

    My Aunt's ex husband only came third in the Find New Zealand's worst driver competiton (information from a round robin letter)

    If you have seen the driving in NZ, this is still some sort of achievement.
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  • doog442
    doog442 Posts: 370
    Nissan micras

    its a Dorset thing :wink:
  • tptvmbircn
    tptvmbircn Posts: 782
    BMW's Mercs and general nob end's i find cut you up, in fact this eveing i found it quite funny how i was about to undertake a nissan bluebird, he dropped a gear and it sounded bad.

    The things people do to not be humiliated by cyclists haha

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