Idiot Drivers

dilemna

riderjam wrote:

:idea: Somebody should make a bike version of the horn from a Merc 600D!

..........you own such a vehicle by any chance???

Stewie Griffin

dilemna wrote:

riderjam wrote:

:idea: Somebody should make a bike version of the horn from a Merc 600D!

..........you own such a vehicle by any chance???

Are you try to suggest he might be a commie despot?

It would do though, 5mins 20 in :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Pw2NtIoLA

Soni

frenchfighter wrote:

Blimey, that is pretty scary to think about Soni.

Today, riding back from Box Hill, a large 4x4 went passed me pretty close but behind he was towing a horse trailer which I wasn't expecting so it really shocked me (it was also closer as it was wider than the car). I shouted in pure surprise then swore.

The driver pulled over and got out his car and started towards me shouting as I was coming round. Luckily there was nothing coming in the other direction so I was able to pass without him being close.

Not leaving anything to chance I slammed it in the big ring and went for broke. You never know whether they would run into the back of you or something. Luckily I had a tailwind and there was a huge tailback after 500m so I was able to 'escape'.

The way riders are so quick to get out their cars and be aggressive is worrying. Only the other day coming down Fleet St, a Taxi thought it clever to ride literally less than a metre from my wheel then when we stopped and I glared at him he proceeded to get out his car.

It is not worth stopping to confront these people (I have learnt the hard way after been assualted twice!), despite the fact they are clearly in the wrong.

Frenchfighter, so the moral of the story is if the car doesn't hit you the trailier will, and if the trailer doesn't hit you then the driver will! Its a crazy world we are living in now, the government want us to all be healthier and greener, yet if we comply then the average maximum age will decrease to around 30 years!

Also, i can't actually believe you ride along Fleet Street! :shock:

You wouldn't catch me riding anywhere in Central London, i spend most of my time around that area doing surveys and attending meetings, and the amount of riders i've seen nearly killed is astonishing!

At Christmas me and some work colleagues went for a Chinese along Tooley Street and as we were coming out of London Bridge tube, we heard an allmighty shout, looked around, and witnessed a taxi which had pulled over to let a passenger off at the side of the road, then he put the taxi on full lock and literally put the thing on full throttle to pull around quickly to beat the traffic coming towards him, but he performed this dangerous menouvre whilst a cyclist was just starting to pass his taxi whilst at the side of the road, the cyclist nearly went over the bonnet, he shouted so loudly and had to swerve steeply out of the way. :evil:

Porgy

Soni wrote:

At Christmas me and some work colleagues went for a Chinese along Tooley Street and as we were coming out of London Bridge tube, we heard an allmighty shout, looked around, and witnessed a taxi which had pulled over to let a passenger off at the side of the road, then he put the taxi on full lock and literally put the thing on full throttle to pull around quickly to beat the traffic coming towards him, but he performed this dangerous menouvre whilst a cyclist was just starting to pass his taxi whilst at the side of the road, the cyclist nearly went over the bonnet, he shouted so loudly and had to swerve steeply out of the way. :evil:

Tooley street is pure evil - it's built on an old indian burial ground or something. bad stuff happens along there everytime i try to cycle along it.

I'm seriously considering going the long way round it instead.

Soni

Porgy wrote:

Soni wrote:

At Christmas me and some work colleagues went for a Chinese along Tooley Street and as we were coming out of London Bridge tube, we heard an allmighty shout, looked around, and witnessed a taxi which had pulled over to let a passenger off at the side of the road, then he put the taxi on full lock and literally put the thing on full throttle to pull around quickly to beat the traffic coming towards him, but he performed this dangerous menouvre whilst a cyclist was just starting to pass his taxi whilst at the side of the road, the cyclist nearly went over the bonnet, he shouted so loudly and had to swerve steeply out of the way. :evil:

Tooley street is pure evil - it's built on an old indian burial ground or something. bad stuff happens along there everytime i try to cycle along it.

I'm seriously considering going the long way round it instead.

Interesting stuff, i like hearing about stuff like this, i'm going to do some Googleing!

Thanks!

Porgy

Soni wrote:

Interesting stuff, i like hearing about stuff like this, i'm going to do some Googleing!

Thanks!

I was joking

you knew that right? :?

mind you - if you do find anything I'd like to know.

northumbrian1

I was reading Soni's post about a Black golf coming down a lane filled with teenagers. Some of our lanes have been given over to cyclists and at least two to the Sustrans (Sustrans is a charity dedicated to Walkers and Cyclists) NCR (National Cycle Route) Network, which means that cyclists can when available, drive off road on a tarmaced surface with Steel bollards along its length, to stop Motor-cycles and Golf's from getting in there and causing havoc !

Soni

Porgy wrote:

Soni wrote:

Interesting stuff, i like hearing about stuff like this, i'm going to do some Googleing!

Thanks!

I was joking

you knew that right? :?

mind you - if you do find anything I'd like to know.

Thanks very much, i had to give my father-in-law a lift home tonight and told him that Tooley Street was built over an ancient Indian Burial Ground, he probably thinks i'm a right tit now!

Soni

northumbrian1 wrote:

I was reading Soni's post about a Black golf coming down a lane filled with teenagers. Some of our lanes have been given over to cyclists and at least two to the Sustrans (Sustrans is a charity dedicated to Walkers and Cyclists) NCR (National Cycle Route) Network, which means that cyclists can when available, drive off road on a tarmaced surface with Steel bollards along its length, to stop Motor-cycles and Golf's from getting in there and causing havoc !

Oh i see, we have a similar thing about 10 miles from where i live, over the Rochester Bridge they have a similar thing, i didn't know what it was until now, i've never rode over the bridge but have drove over it many a time, especially at night, because i've said to my mrs that its dangerous for cars because its not lit up, and because it has an area of road the other side of it, you could quite easily at night-time hit the kurb and cause a serious accident thinking that you can move further over to the side of the road.

But from a cyclists point of view, anything that will keep cars away from them has got to be a good thing.

whydoesitalwaysrainonme

eh wrote:

Yesterday a Ferrari crept up behind me sat there for a few seconds before dropping a gear and overtaking with full throttle and disappearing down the road. Epic noise, but I nearly fell off with surprise.

An idiot in a Lambo did that to me a while ago, made more scary by the fact that he stepped the back end out as he pulled back in! Like yourself I did have to laugh at someone flooring it in a super car to pass a bike doing around 20mph, pathetic small willy waving it really is.

There's a bloke who lives near me who has an orange lambo, he's a really well paid banker, and he went past me and i can tell you that thing sounds like a beast, also i think you'll find that lambo drivers will drive the car fast in most places otherwise it defeats the object of having one and they might as well go and buy a vauxhall vectra :shock: .

jimmypippa

http://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/chapel/Practical-joke-was-an-assault.5330675.jp

My local paper:

Published Date: 04 June 2009
A MOTORIST threw an egg at a cyclist as part of a "practical joke that went seriously wrong" a court heard on Wednesday.
The cyclist had been riding towards Chinley and was near the viaduct when a car began to overtake.

It was only after he stopped and jotted down part of the registration of the Vauxhall Corsa that he realised he had egg running down his back.

Fancy it being a Corsa.

All the pirates round here seem to drive those, they seem to have trpelaced the pimped up Saxo.

northumbrian1

I'm one of those guys in Sustrans called a volunteer Ranger. I put up signs showing where you can go (for cyclists, walkers and wheel-chairs). Just Google Volunteer Ranger or Sustrans and they'll give you it chapter and verse. I like what I do cos it helps people like me (cyclists). :P I thought it would be difficult to drive a Golf down a cycle track - but some nob 'might' just try it if they wear their brain in their trousers