Ha, serves you right!

essex-commuter

So there I was enjoying my relatively traffic free (England playing) commute home when a woman driver decided to squeeze past me and cut in just before the traffic bollard in the middle of the road.

She missed me by about a half a metre but it must have been pretty tight because all of a sudden..BANG! She hit her wheel on the raised kerb and her tyre exploded. She continued on in front of me and then pulled over to the side of the road. As I went past I noticed the flat tyre and the wrecked alloy wheel...her window was open so I just said "it would have been a lot quicker and cheaper if only you had waited a couple of seconds"...and I rode off.

Waiting for a cyclist, short-term loss, long-term gain.

1-0, and not just England.

fnegroni

freakybacon

jimmypippa

EKE_38BPM

I had a similar thing happen to me once when I was driving.
Some dickhead who had applied superglue to his car and driven through Halfords (collecting every piece of rubbish they sell to idiots), was itching to overtake me. He eventually blasted past me uphill on a curve. There was no way he could have known what was ahead of me and that was proven by him swerving to avoid ploughing into a traffic island, not quite making it and clipping the kerb.
Cue the loud bang but he still drove down the road like a chump.

A few metres down the road I passed him as he looked at his flat tyre and wrecked alloy.

I wound down the window, laughed at him and drove off.

MadammeMarie

prj45

I was coming round a corner in Islington a while back, left hand side of the road, BMW behind me desperately trying to get past me.

As the road narrowed he clearly felt trapped and went to try and squeeze past, but there was a lorry coming across from lane two as the lanes joined.

Wheel nuts of said lorry ripped up the side of his car up good and proper, it was one of the worst noises I'd ever heard.

And all he had to do was hold back a bit.

spen666

instant karma

lost_in_thought

I love it when that happens.

Then I feel bad for loving it.

redvee

Had a transit behind me as we got to a traffic island, next noise I heard over the engine was the tyre squealing along the kerb of the traffic island a the engine revs changing. Carried on with said transit behind me and as they overtook me the passenger leant out of the window with some weird hand signals.

Jay dubbleU

lost_in_thought wrote:

I love it when that happens.

Then I feel bad for loving it.

+1

But I don't actually feel that bad

fossyant

Awesome..........just waiting for this to happen some time !

Kieran_Burns

Jay dubbleU wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

I love it when that happens.

Then I feel bad for loving it.

+1

But I don't actually feel that bad

I sometimes feel bad, but then I realise it's just wind.

Wrath Rob

spen666 wrote:

instant karma

+1

chigman

essex-commuter wrote:

So there I was enjoying my relatively traffic free (England playing) commute home when a woman driver decided to squeeze past me and cut in just before the traffic bollard in the middle of the road.

She missed me by about a half a metre but it must have been pretty tight because all of a sudden..BANG! She hit her wheel on the raised kerb and her tyre exploded. She continued on in front of me and then pulled over to the side of the road. As I went past I noticed the flat tyre and the wrecked alloy wheel...her window was open so I just said "it would have been a lot quicker and cheaper if only you had waited a couple of seconds"...and I rode off.

Waiting for a cyclist, short-term loss, long-term gain.

1-0, and not just England.

I had a childish grin on my face reading that. Nice one 8)

Steve

mediamonkey

Amusing perhaps, but also worrying - if these drivers have such little spaicial awareness who's to say next time they're not going to be scraping their alloys over your your bike rather than the kerb? :?

Mike Healey

Couple of years ago our spring ( ) hostel weekend ride had to ride through flooded section in the Dales, pretty much hub deep in places to the youngsters (9/10 upwards) when plonker passes Jim (oldest member) at some speed and soaks him to waist (March). Jim smiles - road dips just round corner :twisted: . Sure enough car is strranded in water well above door sill.

Plonker opens door :roll: .

Water rushes in

Jim waves in friendly fashion and asks him if he's ok.

Perhaps Dawkins is wrong and there is a God