Was it HGV, Van and big effing vehicle day today?

DonDaddyD
DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
I get to the lights at Haydons road junction (I'm on Merton Highstreet between Colliers Wood and South Wimbledon Tube). I'm in the right lane waiting to go sraight (the left lane is for tunring left) and a HGV - a fully loaded articulated Optimus Prime Transformers Generation 1 looking one complete with mini 'autobot base' trailer - pulls up beside me.

Now, how anyone would want to get beside or infront of one of these intimidating feckers is beyond me. It's not nails, its just crazy. But a certain irony came over me. I'm beside and slightly infront of it - ot from my own actions and I've been preaching on bike radar.

I think to myself that 'Optimus Prime' isn't going straight, its in the left lane and will turn left like all the other vehicles do. Nope lights go green I power along and suddely a shadow has covered my everything. I look up no clouds, I look behind and its the mighty large vehicle chasing me like the Liquid metal Terminator in that truck chasing John Connor on his bike in Terminator 2. Oh how I hoped a strong armed Eastern European would come and save the day. Nope.

I rode and rode like the clappers, couldn't allow that thing to overtake me too risky, couldn't go wide right oncoming traffic was too heavy. So I rode.

I hate HGV's

Share your tales. I have more - A bus forced me to mount the curb....
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A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game

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  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    No responses :?
    OK here's one, I was nearly run down by a coach with a big 'Leo's Coaches' sign. I thought that was ironic, my name being Leo and all...
  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    DDD, you might want to include 'blue cars' in your subject heading :(

    I was almost (deliberately) knocked off my bike by a blue car this morning. I know it's not a 'large' vehicle but it's big enough.

    Checked with the police and will report it at my local station this evening, as I got his reg number, the barsteward.
  • LDN-Flyer
    LDN-Flyer Posts: 97
    Yup, they were everywhere, god i wish they would ban em in rush hour.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    I think there needs to be a tonnage limit for vehicles allowed in cities at rush hour.
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • posh_pedaller
    posh_pedaller Posts: 124
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I think there needs to be a tonnage limit for vehicles allowed in cities at rush hour.
    Good idea, but a) pretty unenforcable and b) the muppets wouldn't be able to follow it anyway, they already fail at not hitting bridges.
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I think there needs to be a tonnage limit for vehicles allowed in cities at rush hour.

    one of the things i've had to get used to is HGV's as before in rural wales they would have little reason to be on a road i'd be walking/riding on.
  • benno68
    benno68 Posts: 1,689
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I think there needs to be a tonnage limit for vehicles allowed in cities at rush hour.

    Nah, 250 kg gross weight limit would be fine :wink: - in a perfect world.
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