Rab said:Yikes
Just watched that, I have to say that was horrendous
Clearly this driver does not watch the Scottish News
Or maybe he saw this as an opportunity to get on TV!
Rab said:Yikes
Just watched that, I have to say that was horrendous
Clearly this driver does not watch the Scottish News
tdr1nka said:Drivers simply hate cyclists filtering.
If I'm right Mag, you filtered between the lines of traffic to remain in view of drivers and establish you were continuing straight on?
I tend to hold a primary space in a queue like this, wait my turn for the lights and no longer race to the front as I once did in my youth, although I don't think that would have mattered a jot in this instance.
The driver is quite evidently out to prove a point by getting in front of you
as soon as they damn well can.
Well held and yes, report it.
Crackle said:OK I'm going to stick my neck out and sound a note of dissent, so battlehats on.
What you did was cut in front of him at the queue same as the taxi driver clip. Now you may call that filtering I call it impolite and inconsiderate.
Consider if someone had done that in a car, you'd honk and beep and be rightly pissed off. Now I used to do it on a motorbike but then I'd accelerate faster than the traffic, not slower. On a cycle, I'd filter but move out of the way and once moving get back into the traffic stream. I never filter and push into the queue, not in a car, not on a motorbike and not on a cycle.
That does not excuse his driving by the way but quite honestly doing what you are doing is wrong in my view and if anyone says it's not, I very much doubt I'd agree with them.
magnatom said:Or maybe he saw this as an opportunity to get on TV!
Crackle said:That does not excuse his driving by the way but quite honestly doing what you are doing is wrong in my view and if anyone says it's not, I very much doubt I'd agree with them.
Sh4rkyBloke said:The guy was an arse... if he was p*ssed at you for 'cutting in front' (which IMO you didn't) he'd have beeped at you and some gesticulation would also undoubtedly have ocurred... this was a simple case of him having no brain cell and being a sh*t driver.
Report him.
Insist it is taken further.
I'd have been tempted to chase him and give him a piece of my mind (and perhaps my cleats... but I wouldn't condone such behaviour though!!)
domtyler said:Crackle, I can't be bothered to read all of that garbage but if you are saying that cyclists shouldn't filter then you must have received a nasty bump to head lately, the ability to filter through long queues of traffic is one of the main benefits of cycling you arse. I may agree about where he stops though, I wouldn't ever stop like that unless the lights changed. Just go straight to the front where you can control what is happening better.
Crackle said:I'll condense it for you dom: Filter but don't put yourself in a position where you're in the f@@kin way of a possible numpty.