My first road tax comment

[400bhp]

Cycling home here tonight-minding my own business.

Get beeped by a car behind who goes past then swerves in and out a bit. I'm not joking when I say that the queue for the gyratory ahead starts about 200 yds (just past Massey Rd).

I knew instantly what the reason was. Go past, knock on the window-chav types driving and passengering-clapped out Peugeot drop top. I ask "do I know you". Conversation went that I should be in the cycle lane and "we [meaning him] pay for the road". I couldn't be arsed retorting with any kind of sensible argument back so I just said something along the lines of [manc accent] I have a race car and an M5 sat on my drive and pay more road tax than you earn in a year.

Crap retort but couldn't be bothered dealing any more with morons. Cycled off.

I could hear them behind me about a mile or so down the road-I think they were trying to get my attention but I ignored and they must have turned off (surprise surprise).

Problem is they had wound me up and unfornutately took it out a little on another driver near the end of my commute, for something that I would normally let pass.

Never had such a pish poor pointless comment before.

 

[fossyant]

Kiss my fat ass !



Try that.

 

[fossyant]

PS Educated conversation. Don't Work !

 

[ianrauk]

Cleats make nice scratch marks and dents on car paintwork.....

 

[ColinJ]

Cleats make nice scratch marks and dents on car paintwork.....

And some drivers murder cyclists for damaging their cars ...

 

[Pauluk]

It so frustrating when ignorant motorists behave in this way, I was compelled to yell at one today who cut across my path without looking (was a good shout as well cus their windows were down), but as time goes by I'm coming to the realisation that its not worth responding. Rising above it allows me to forget incidents quicker and doesn't get me worked up as much.

 

[ianrauk]

And some drivers murder cyclists for damaging their cars ...

Yes quite..
I'll take my chances thanks Colin.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

What's the matter with drivers when they see a cyclist on the road? Even my supervisor, a nicest woman you can't find, she told me that she does not like it when cyclist don't stay in their lane, it makes her nervous.

 

[potsy]

What's the matter with drivers when they see a cyclist on the road? Even my supervisor, a nicest woman you can't find, she told me that she does not like it when cyclist don't stay in their lane, it makes her nervous.

My work mate is the same, nice bloke but an awful driver, hates passing cyclists as he has to 'change lane'
Always easy afterwards to say you should let these incidents go, at the time with the adrenalin pumping it's easy not to.
Certainly not worth letting the morons spoil your ride, or day

 

[BentMikey]

"Yeah, I don't pay for sex either."
*look at passenger*
"looks like I'm two up on you then."

 

[400bhp]

"Yeah, I don't pay for sex either."
*look at passenger*
"looks like I'm two up on you then."

Bast - you see, always think of great retorts after the event.

I should have just said "yeah it's effin great isn't it" when he came out with "you don't pay road tax" type comment.

 

[BentMikey]

Someone posted that one on URC years ago, and it's so good I always remembered it.

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

And some drivers murder cyclists for damaging their cars ...

In all fairness, there is a very good chance you won't get murdered though

 

[siadwell]

Crap retort but couldn't be bothered dealing any more with morons. Cycled off.

Actually, I think it's a good retort. The driver thinks he has more right to use the road because in his tiny mind he is paying for it. You shot him down in flames. Although BM's comment would have been the cherry on the cake.

Probably made more of an impression than telling him road tax was abolished in 1937 blah blah blah.

 

[smutchin]

Wasn't involved in but witnessed a nice bit of motoring moronism yesterday. I'd just pulled up at the lights* when moments later a van pulls up alongside me in the ASL zone, which was my first clue that it wasn't the brightest spark at the wheel. Then a few seconds later, a cyclist** pulls up and starts remonstrating with the van driver over something that had obviously happened back down the road.

The van driver's retort: "It's no wonder you's lot get knocked off."

On another occasion, that kind of idiocy might have made me angry enough put a brick through his windscreen and/or skull, but I wasn't in the mood for a fight so just shook my head ruefully. I meant to ask the rider what it was all about but the lights changed and he was off like a shot. Judging by the interchange, it sounded like a fairly standard case of motorist taking umbrage at cyclist just being on "his" road.

d.

*at the big roundabout at the A2 end of Gt Dover St, for those who know That London.
**Dulwich Paragon jersey - anyone here?