DOOR!!!

[snapper_37]

Well, this is what I say when I get door openers.

The one this morning really pissed me off. He passed me, then pulled in at a shop, then immediately opened his door - onto a cycle lane. Crap design too, that.

Luckily, I'm used to numpties doing it here, so was more than enough in primary. He looked at me like I was mad...

What do others shout?

 

[Aperitif]

"You cad sir!" or 'Cripes, that was a close shave...I nearly damaged your door madam!"

Actually - nothing much unless it is a congested situation and speed is low enough to have a word.

 

[dudi]

Never had it happen...
But when other things happen I normally just mutter expletives under my breath rather than shout...

 

[eldudino]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UT02--Ijdc

 

[HLaB]

I don't think I've ever had it happen to me as I ride out of the door zone, so I've never had to shout. The club peleton can sometimes pass a bit too close to doors for my liking though and folk there have had to shout and you can sometimes get a funny reaction from spooked drivers not expecting to see 30 bikes.

 

[02GF74]

Can't remember the exact phrase I use but the F-word appears quite a few times.

 

[Plax]

It has only ever happened to me once in near stationary traffic when some numpty decided to get out of his car. I just shouted "watch it!" and cycled off.

 

[sheddy]

has anyone ever chosen to ride into the 'soft' driver instead of the 'hard' doorframe ?

 

[the reluctant cyclist]

For me it's just a standard "watch it"!! ... but said more at a "WATCH IT" level!!!

"Watch it" has saved me on a few occasions (non door related) but when I actually got doored there was no saving anything!!! Dooring really is split second timing!!

 

[ColinJ]

I had a woman nearly door me a couple of years ago. I was climbing a hill at the time. I could see her in her car, she was looking in the rearview mirror and putting on lipstick.

It was a narrow road and there were oncoming vehicles so I couldn't really get out of door range but I thought that I was safe because the driver was busy on makeup duties.

I was wrong. As I came up to the car, in the course of about a second the woman put the lipstick back in her bag and threw the door open in front of me. I swerved and missed it by about a centimetre and the car coming the other way missed me by about half a metre.

I'm not proud of what I shouted at the woman...

(Kind of along the lines of "I say young woman, kindly be more observant in future!" only put slightly more forcefully... )

 

[Amanda P]

I've never actually been doored, but...

When I go into town, there's a passage of road with several newsagents along it. There are some car parking spaces opposite, with - guess what - a cycle lane leading you straight through the door zone.

Every time I go by, there are people opening doors, getting out or driving off without loooking. I don't use that cycle lane.

Anyway, this one time, I can see a - shall we say, bulky - woman getting out of the front of her car. Plenty of time to avoid her. She opens the back door of the car and bends over to fiddle with something inside. She finishes just as I'm passing and reverses herself, arse first, out of the back of the car. Except that to avoid banging her head, she doesn't just reverse clear of the car, but several feet out into the road and into my path, still bent over double.

There's a car passing, so I have little choice but to stop, face to arse, so to speak.

What do you say to a fat arse?

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

I've never actually been doored, but...

When I go into town, there's a passage of road with several newsagents along it. There are some car parking spaces opposite, with - guess what - a cycle lane leading you straight through the door zone.

Every time I go by, there are people opening doors, getting out or driving off without loooking. I don't use that cycle lane.

Anyway, this one time, I can see a - shall we say, bulky - woman getting out of the front of her car. Plenty of time to avoid her. She opens the back door of the car and bends over to fiddle with something inside. She finishes just as I'm passing and reverses herself, arse first, out of the back of the car. Except that to avoid banging her head, she doesn't just reverse clear of the car, but several feet out into the road and into my path, still bent over double.

There's a car passing, so I have little choice but to stop, face to arse, so to speak.

What do you say to a fat arse?

Nothing. But you could have used it as a bike stand, maybe?

 

[Arch]

I once had to brake to avoid a door opened by a passenger as I filtered down the left (slowly, which is how I stopped ok). After the initial warning "Oi!", I said "Why don't you look in the mirror before opening your door?" He replied "Cyclists don't!".

He's right you know. I've never once looked in my mirror before opening the door on my bike....

 

[Arch]

What do you say to a fat arse?

Hello, brother in law....

That's unfair, he's not so very fat.

 

[Lisa21]

Colin J.... I had a woman do EXACTLY that to me recently...only difference was I was on a horse not a bike He spooked badly and kicked her door in