HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
When I get a good pass, when its obvious they have held back untill it was particularly safe. I like to give a thankyou nod but I'm not sure if they actually noticemagnatom said:
Not the official close pass...
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HLaB said:When I get a good pass, when its obvious they have held back untill it was particularly safe. I like to give a thankyou nod but I'm not sure if they actually notice
Indeed. I do also. I can't remember if I did for the first two cars or not. I might have been concentrating on something else at the time, possibly the parked cars.
I think the third car did see my thanks though.
BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
- Location
- South London
I never said you were at fault for the last one Maggers, come on, I said that you weren't at fault. I think your line was better this time round, and you had more reasonable drivers. The real test is what would that blunt of a taxi driver have done in the same situation.
BentMikey said:
I wasn't aiming this at anyone on particular, and certainly not you BM. Just thought I would show how this exit normally works. (and others have suggested I was at fault, look at the discussion on the original video for example!)
One other thing of note that I have realised on looking back at the footage and having cycled the route a few times since. There are actually two pinch points here. The one on leaving the roundabout (which I never mentioned in the original thread) and the second one that was already part of the discussion. The time to leave the first (edge of the traffic triangle) and coming up to the second is 6 seconds.
As for what the taxi driver would have done, I am sure he would have held back, though possibly tailgated and hit his horn. That I can deal with better than the type of pass that actually happened.
BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
- Location
- South London
LOL, yeah, beeping can well mean that you've done everything right, and that the driver has seen you. ;D
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I thought that a lunch time; I got what I considered a friendly beep carefully pulling over from the bus lane on the left of 4 lanes to on in the middle of the 2 outside ones, in acres and still not delaying WVM progression to the red lights. 5 secs later he goes by slowing down and mouthing lots of abuse, guess what the light was still red when he finally got to itBentMikey said:
BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
- Location
- South London
LOL! And did you still go in front of him? Not really the most sensible thing to put yourself in front of an angry neanderthal, but I'm sure we've all done it at least once in this sort of situation.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Yip because he was 15m back and due to the road layout it was only when he passed me in the left lane, perfectly OK there that he slowed down and started to shout abuse before that other than what sounded like a friendly beep he didn't seem to react. I just thought heart attack victim.BentMikey said:
Edit it this section of road. I moved from the Lothian Road Bus Lane (top of the screen on the left heading south to the Earl Grey St bus lane (middle of the screen).
Riding in Circles
Veteran
- Location
- EDINBURGH
I worked out what was different, on the latest run, your wife had put an APB out telling people what a git you are. 
Riding in Circles
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magnatom said:Oops. Easy mistake to make their Catrike, She said Golf Oscar Delta, not Golf, India, Tango!
Is that what she told you?
