White Van Man this morning

Clever Pun

was behind me and saw that I needed to move out to pass parked cars, he held back and then overtook when there was plenty of space

Good start to the day!

Remember the silent majority of nice road users people, the ones you don't notice are great.

Wallace1492

Likewise car driver that went to overtake me, was alongside me, realised that road narrowed with roadworks, then hung back allowing me to take primary. Thank you sir!

spen666

Clever Pun wrote:

was behind me and saw that I needed to move out to pass parked cars, he held back and then overtook when there was plenty of space

Good start to the day!

Remember the silent majority of nice road users people, the ones you don't notice are great.

Also - remeber that most of the people who cut you up/ drive to close, pull out infront of you are not deliberately trying to hurt you, but have made a mistake

il_principe

Clever Pun wrote:

was behind me and saw that I needed to move out to pass parked cars, he held back and then overtook when there was plenty of space

Good start to the day!

Remember the silent majority of nice road users people, the ones you don't notice are great.

The ones that don't notice you are cnuts.

lost_in_thought

Thank them!

I always (to the amusement of others) thank drivers who've made my life easier in any way, whether intentionally or not...

And Spen's right - the vast majority of people aren't out to get you.

R_T_A

lost_in_thought wrote:

Thank them!

I always (to the amusement of others) thank drivers who've made my life easier in any way, whether intentionally or not...

+1

Glad to see I'm not the only one that does that

rupertm1

Had a pedestrian appear in the middle of Camberwell New Road from between two white transit vans...I was over taking on the right. He told me he was sorry and didn't look as I picked myself up off the floor.

Me:
In Day glo orange vest.
Bike with lights on in the daylight! two flashing one static.
I guess you can't make people look!

Him:
Did apologies and admit it was his fault.
Was about 50 meters from a perfectly good pedestrian crossing ( I look out for people randomly in traffic by buses and crossing but wasn't expecting some one to leap out from between two vans in the middle of the road.

Bike.. all good except for a scuff on my Brooks! which smarts more than anything else.

Coriander

lost_in_thought wrote:

Thank them!

I always (to the amusement of others) thank drivers who've made my life easier in any way, whether intentionally or not...

And Spen's right - the vast majority of people aren't out to get you.

+1 Me too - if only to try and convince drivers that not all cyclists are thugs.

suzyb

I think the vast majority of people are just lazy sods tbh. They're too lazy to move over, to actually manoeuvre their car more than a slight change of hand angle would entail.

And it's particularly frustrating when it's a bus that does it because those things cause a hell of a draught.

oxonmackem

Agree with lost in thought and Coriander, any chance to show we are not thugs, also appreciate it when people take time to hold back etc,gets good reaction when you acknowledge this.

El Gordo

I too thank people you show a bit of courtesy and thought.

Imagine my horror when I heard a car hang back then as it came to overtake me in a safe place I raised a hand in thanks only to see it's a black Range Rover Sport with big alloys and tinted windows. I spent years perfecting my prejudices and irrational dislikes only to have this chap ruin it for me.

Mr_Cellophane

El Gordo wrote:

I too thank people you show a bit of courtesy and thought.

Imagine my horror when I heard a car hang back then as it came to overtake me in a safe place I raised a hand in thanks only to see it's a black Range Rover Sport with big alloys and tinted windows. I spent years perfecting my prejudices and irrational dislikes only to have this chap ruin it for me.

I have done that, waved thanks to someone only to see they are on the phone

Clever Pun

lost_in_thought wrote:

Thank them!

I always (to the amusement of others) thank drivers who've made my life easier in any way, whether intentionally or not...

And Spen's right - the vast majority of people aren't out to get you.

yup always do he got a smile and thumbs up from me

SmellTheGlove

You never can tell what a fellow cyclist on a day off from the commute will be driving... but a Range Rover sport?

Keep giving the thumbs up/wave etc, everyone's a winner.

ride_whenever

well to counteract all this lovely road traffic, I had 5 pedestrians step out in front of me in the space of a mile, i just don't think they're looking where they're going ever. One of these day's i'm going to hit one of them.

lost_in_thought

ride_whenever wrote:

well to counteract all this lovely road traffic, I had 5 pedestrians step out in front of me in the space of a mile, i just don't think they're looking where they're going ever. One of these day's i'm going to hit one of them.

Ah, but how many pedestrians did see you coming and waited courteously until you'd passed? Hmmmmmmmmm?

ride_whenever

3, including the one who expected me to jump a zebra crossing that she wasn't on yet, but i stopped to let her go.


:P

jweston

I've been knocked off twice at different junctions, both times it was their fault and they had simply made a mistake. They were both 'nice' people really horrified at what they had done. It was easy to forgive them at the time, and the police decided to take no action.

Neither of these people were 'out to get me', but ultimately I think it was wrong for the police to let them off so easily. They should have been given a careless driving charge shouldn't they? They had after all driven carelessly and caused an accident.