I really don't know what to say...

[magnatom]

What the &*&*^ is going on at the moment! Honestly I am really, really .

One really serious and one fairly serious incident with large vehicles in the month is plenty thanks. Then this @^%&^% happens.

Traffic queue up ahead, no oncoming traffic to avoid and I'm crusing along at about 20mph.

I know a bus is approaching and whilst I understand itmight be stupid and overtake, I didn't realise it would do this.

It was only when I saw the bendy bit in the middle that I realised that there was more to come. That is why my pitch rose. Probably only justover a metre between the bus and the kerb at the end and I was in between.

Now I challenge, seriously I challange anyone to suggest this was my fault, my road position was blah, blah, blah. Can you tell I am really angry about this. And yes, her contempt was rounded off with two fingers at the end.

Don't worry, I have had dealings with First in the past, and they know me and worked with me. I'll deal with the complaint.

 

[BentMikey]

Blimey!! That's pretty p1$$ poor driving.

 

[Crankarm]

The clip wouldn't play past 12 secs for me. So will have to take your word that it was bad. You do seem to be having a rather bad time of cycling recently Mags. Why do you think this is?

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

now i'll agree, that was bad!! bendy buses are a nightmare. i'm sure boris has already banned them or is going to ban them from the capital. nice customer relations. customers on board and he's flicking the v's.

 

[Cubist]

Jeeeeeeeezus!

What an arrogant bitch! Empty bus, no witnesses...... she can do exactly as she pleases and f*ck the consequences. Go for it Mags, she wants off the road.

 

[BentMikey]

More interestingly, Crankarm, why do you think he's having a tough time of it at the moment?

 

[Crankarm]

More interestingly, Crankarm, why do you think he's having a tough time of it at the moment?

Dunno BM that's why I asked him ? Do you?

 

[HJ]

See, I said they are out to get you...

 

[Svendo]

Just read your other recent Bus related thread, and whilst people seemed to have found some debatable points regarding that incident , this is unequivocal unprompted and patently unneccesary shite and dangerous driving .
Flicking the Vs is just the icing on the cake.
Good luck with the compaint.

 

[swee'pea99]

What a scumbag. I'd involve the police. If that's not dangerous driving, I don't know what is.

 

[Fly]

I had one of them pulling into me at a red light while ago .

he's a bit close ....closer.....closer Bendy bit! mount pavement!

think he forgot we were there...

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

I had three first buses today...(all non-bendy, that particular menace has left Sheffield's streets)

One passed me on a 2-lane road, by pulling right out into the other lane, as if I were a car.

Second pulled well enough over to be a safe overtake.

Third just drove in a straight line, despite approaching a traffic queue and, since the Olive Grove bus depot was left at the next lights, would need to turn left.

He got a Paddington Bear stare as I pulled my bike perpendicular to the kerb in the gap between him and the next bus driven by one of his safer colleagues, to ensure that when we set off, I would be in primary and not in left-hook zone.

Unexcusable in a normal single-deck bus.

With bendy buses, I wonder about the training that is given to drivers before unleashing them upon us in those articulated monstrosities. Perhaps not forgetting that anyone else is there, but forgetting that the extra length behind the bendy bit is there....

A wave of apology would be more apt then, however. I sometimes get some right idiots at work, and the more idiotic, the more indignant they are, but if I swore at or abused them, it would not go down well.

 

[levad]

Calm down dear ..... it's only an advert.
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for how not to drive a bus.

I hope the complaint gives the desired result. I am so glad I don't have to commute in towns and cities.

 

[betty swollocks]

That was a terribly dangerous overtake and you are understandably angry, BUT, do you not think you took a risk going up the inside to remonstrate with the driver?

 

[just jim]

Dunno BM that's why I asked him ? Do you?

Oh but do you?