Drivers who block cyclists!

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  • Deadeye Duck
    Deadeye Duck Posts: 419
    Deadeye Duck wrote:
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    Animal100 wrote:
    is there an echo going on with this thread?
    I think there is
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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    I'm no fan of critical mass, but I do find it funny when car drivers moan about it blocking streets, and then they go and have their own version of critical mass TWICE A FU**ING DAY!
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  • The Chingford Skinhead
    The Chingford Skinhead Posts: 718
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Eau Rouge wrote:
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    It galls me that drivers can toy with our lives so easily and nothing gets done about it. Basically if the driver injures you or kills you the Old Bill might do something about it. However if by clever manouvering, hard braking, anticipation and vigilence, you namage to avoid a collision with a car driver breaking traffic rules they will have no comeback, even if you get his number, (as I found out last night when a 60mph BMW shot through red lights as I was going through green). Unless you get other credible witnesses.

    Without a witness it's your word against his. You can't expect the Police to go about talking to people based on nothing more than "some guy told us something almost, but didn't actually, happened" Is that the sort of country you want to live in?

    My analogy was that if the guy had a swipe at me with a knife and i managed to get out the way, would they still do nothing? And yes, I do expect the Police to do something if I report a driver doing over 60MPH in a 30 residential area, careeing through a red light. If I am lying the full weight of the law can come down upon me. We do live in a country where we should be able to keep the streets safe for ourselves and other users. You seem to belittle the close call that I had, let me assure you that it was the most frightening thing I have seen in 30 years of cycling, it was a very close thing.
    +1 - it is because the police don't take driving offenses seriously that drivers think they can abuse a ton of metal to have a pop at a cyclist or other drivers with total impunity. If I went to the police and said I'd seen a bloke with an axe running irratically down the street swinging it but without actually hitting anyone (they all ducked) would you expect the police to do nothing? There's enough CCTV for heaven's sake. And given that there are around 2700 deaths and 28,000 serious injuries on the roads each year - a far higher rate than murders - you'd have thought driving standards would be a lot higher up the police and political agendas.
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  • starseven
    starseven Posts: 112
    Wednesday of this week the driver of a double decker bus twice tried to kill me. Both times overtaking me (whilst I was passing parked cars) and then sharply pulling in, trapping me. i Once could have been a mistake, twice within 1/2 a mile was purposful. I pulled up to his window and asked him why he was trying to kill me, he said I was on a bike and he was a bus so I should get out of his way and not ride so fast that it is difficult for him to pass.

    The usual argument ensued, as a cycle commuter for ten 10 years this has often been the point when I smack the driver in the mouth, I'm now getting older though and even though the driver was being very aggresive I remaind calm, told him he was an idiot, took some details and left.

    I later reported it to the bus company who said they would investigate and get back to me, they haven't. I also reported it to the police who said they would send someone around to take a statment, they haven't.

    After calm consideration taking in all the facts,I really should have just punched the retarded f**cker, I won't make the same mistake again.
  • starseven
    starseven Posts: 112
    and......24 hours later a 16 yr old was hospitalised after being knocked from his bike by a bus from the same company in the same area.
  • Suerdusty
    Suerdusty Posts: 20
    Might be worth reporting it to the boys in blue again...............
  • mikeyboy12345
    mikeyboy12345 Posts: 187
    Mike400 wrote:
    I wish I remembered his reg but at the time I was too busy second guessing him.

    I'm lucky that I was born with this ability! I simply remember reg numbers, even if another motorist hasn't wronged me, and the next time I see the car I'll recall it in perfect detail. Sometimes it freaks me out to see the same cars in totally different contexts - I once saw a black VW passat pulling out of Tesco in Southampton, and a week later I saw it parked on a driveway in Southsea when I was in the Great South Run. This happens all the time.

    The best thing, of course, is when you spot a car that you recognise on a driveway somewhere. This happens to me a lot and, for cars that I overtake on the commute, it means I now know where they live! :twisted:

    I don't forgive and I never forget! So learn to remember vehicle regs. You can always pop round their house, say 3am, and get revenge :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    I'd not be happy about someone doing to me what the they did to the OP, and if I finally got past I'd take up the road then, or I'd continue and crash into his car, I'm happy for abit of pain if the drivers are in the wrong.
  • Uncle Bernie Love
    Uncle Bernie Love Posts: 16
    +1 for the well placed wobble. It's amazing how much room it can make for you sometimes.

    I will try the boot trick next time though :)
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    I would have loved to have tried the boot, but as the BMW was travelling at about 60MPH, decided that was not the cleverest of options.
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  • rhext
    rhext Posts: 1,639
    Best thing is to ignore it. It's not that uncommon. You'll get by eventually. Take comfort in the fact that if he can be bothered to try to block you, it will probably irritate him when you pass him. I tend to treat it as a challenge and then it doesn't spoil the ride....although clearly not the kind of challenge you want to take any risks on!
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
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  • malcsussex
    malcsussex Posts: 32
    Long queue of traffic, I was overtaking mindless motorist pulled out to try to stop me overtaking. Huh wots that about???

    Still a whils later down the queue (I was long gone) another guy had Brown Sugar playing dead load - for me it made up for the aggro of two mins earlier!
    No one told me about that hill!!!
  • tebbit
    tebbit Posts: 604
    I've had it done to me on both bike and motorbike, it never works, the worst ones are middle aged blokes, wearing collars and ties, driving crap cars, they hate everybody.

    When I was on my Fireblade I felt like a perpatrator, on my BSA I felt like a victim.

    On my push bike I just got on with it.
  • fossyant
    fossyant Posts: 2,549
    PS the boot trick doesn't work on many cars now - the locks are electrically controlled and won't open - mine is 6 years old and will bleep if the car is running. Rear door better, unless it has 'anti hijack'..i.e. one press of the remote opens drivers door......, two presses the lot.....if no passengers, that's what's likely to be used...

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