Doesn't i just....

[fossyant]

This.

Any frustration is ironed out by exclamations of what I assume is envy leaking from the cars I pass, at least I think I they're noises of envy...

Oh yes. A friend posted on Facebook this morning a picture from their car of a very long traffic queue - mainly aimed at her partner who works from home. I am tempted to say 'get a bike'

Don't get mad, get even !

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Oh yes. A friend posted on Facebook this morning a picture from their car of a very long traffic queue - mainly aimed at her partner who works from home. I am tempted to say 'get a bike'

Don't get mad, get even !

Don't get mad, get peddling!

 

[benb]

I get annoyed when in a queue of slow moving traffic, but not quite slow enough to filter past, they still overtake you! There's barely a car's length between you and the vehicle in front, so when they overtake and pull back in you're forced to hit the brakes.

Idiotic.

 

[Arjimlad]

Oh yes - but then I am sometimes tempted to cycle through the modes on my front light, including the mega flashy one, whilst stopped directly behind them. Then of course you can usually filter round on the right.

It's even funnier when they have to come to a halt with one half of the car blocking the opposite carriageway because the numskulls didn't notice the traffic queue in front. Always makes me laugh.

 

[thefollen]

What winds me up is when I'm driving and late for a meeting and need to push on...

I see a bicycle ahead but need to make a left turn just past where he is. I speed up to get past, make a good overtake and then brake hard whilst hitting the indicator and try to swing left before contact becomes an issue.

More often than not I make the turn without incident (apart from the usual foul-mothed tirade one can expect from cyclists and their non-Road-Tax-paying bretheren).

When I don't make a clean swing left, it turns into some absurd and melodramatic anti-motorist witch-hunt.

Try paying Road Tax and people might start taking your views more seriously, I say.

I like that approach but I prefer to drop into second gear, gas it up to 40mph, then just at the right time do a fast quarter turn of the wheel whilst pulling the handbrake. If executed correctly you can skid round the cyclist and into your corner without any contact. Girls love it, but I don't recommend doing so if heading back from a supermarket with any breakables in the boot such as eggs, or a loosely packaged lasagne for one.

 

[HovR]

Had someone do this to me a few weeks ago, right after they gave me the opportunity to test my brakes. Should have seen their face when I just went around the other side of them, it was like they hadn't realized that was possible!

 

[paul04]

I find some bus drivers funny, its like a game of cat and mouse, they just have to get in front of you, then pull into the bus stop right in front of you.
They can't wait 5 seconds while you pass the bus stop,

 

[markharry66]

easy enough like it says above filter on right except if there is a long que of stationary traffic sit in front of them. I do that if I am not in rush being an idiot is not part time job its a way life

 

[addictfreak]

It gets me when drivers accuse you of doing something that you are not!

I was out on Sunday with two friends we were passing a line of cars parked on the left in single file, with me in the middle. I hear a bit of a commotion behind me and then I'm passed by a guy in silver a car who is giving us the middle finger and shouting something. Anyway I return the abuse (as you do). Then I can see the car stopping and the driver removing his seat belt and getting out. So all three of us stop next to his car, and ask what his problem is. He starts ranting about us riding three abreast! I reply what the hell are you talking about, we were clearly in single file.
He rants a bit more, before being told to shut the f**k and f**k off!

 

[gbb]

Oundle Road, headed towards town, there's always a long long slow queue of traffic i used to delight in filtering past in the cycle lane, usually minimum of a mile of it. I had a BMW overtake me in reasonable time, but he was only going to join that queue.
He slowly pulled up...and quite slowly and deliberately pulled into the cycle lane, i could see him looking at me as he did so in his mirror.
So i just jinked round him on the right , his window was open, as i passed, i said ' dunno why you bothered mate ' and sniggered off into the distance.

What was going on in his head ? is he so inadequate ? or is he overly full of self importance ?
Fcukwitishness i call it.