Taking off the door mirror...

[Linford]

Once again someone comes up with 'you are liable to come up with an irate driver'.
People spout that mantra as if cyclists should just put their head down and run/ride away and that they shouldn't confront motor thuggery. Well whoop de bloody doo.. I tell you what, a car driver purposely endangers this cyclists life then you can be sure that this cyclist will be more irate and angry then any car driver will ever be. I will not be bullied, I will not be forced off the road. Car drivers have absolutely no right to intimidate, act aggressive or bully cyclists off the road. I am not talking about some crappy close pass I am talking about pure aggression by a car driver, aggression that can kill.

The scariest pass I've had was nothing to do with aggression, and everything to do with not thinking and not considering that I don't like a car overtaking me at 120+mph (BMW M3)...he wasn't that close (as in brushing my elbow), but the differential was intimidating...I'm just convinced that all he was looking at was the position of the needle on the speedo.

The majority of close passes I would put down to people not appreciating precisely how close their nearside is to a cyclist, or that we may have to change our road position for a pothole or drain.

Sure there are people on the road who have a sense of entitlement to be there and to always have priority, but I would wager that they feel this irrespective of what mode they use.

 

[Mugshot]

The scariest pass I've had was nothing to do with aggression, and everything to do with not thinking and not considering that I don't like a car overtaking me at 120+mph (BMW M3)...he wasn't that close (as in brushing my elbow), but the differential was intimidating...I'm just convinced that all he was looking at was the position of the needle on the speedo.

The majority of close passes I would put down to people not appreciating precisely how close their nearside is to a cyclist, or that we may have to change our road position for a pothole or drain.

Sure there are people on the road who have a sense of entitlement to be there and to always have priority, but I would wager that they feel this irrespective of what mode they use.

What are you on about?

 

[400bhp]

What are you on about?

It's sounds like it was the internet version of not listening.

 

[Linford]

What are you on about?

A cock in a BMW who doesn't think....

 

[GrumpyGregry]

A cyclist being close-passed at more than 120 mph? Really?

Years ago there was a clip on one of those Police! Camera! Action! which shows where a bloke on a shopping bike on a DC gets passed by twunt in some racey nissan who gives him a foot. Whilst being chased by an unmarked police car which made quite a good fist of a decent pass. I'm sure I remember reading that Mr Shopper lost control in the slipstream and tried to sue the police.

 

[Mugshot]

A cock in a BMW who doesn't think....

Did you get his mirror?

 

[Linford]

A cyclist being close-passed at more than 120 mph? Really?

Yes, around about HERE coming down off Racecourse Hill
The road is narrow enough for that to be fairly scary...why would I make it up ?

 

[Linford]

Did you get his mirror?

No, he got caught on the lights further up, but by the time I was up there, they had changed and he was gone...I had some choice words lined up though..I was very peed off.

 

[Mugshot]

No, he got caught on the lights further up, but by the time I was up there, they had changed and he was gone...I had some choice words lined up though..I was very peed off.

So you were going to get his mirror?

 

[Linford]

So you were going to get his mirror?

Did I say that I was going to take his mirror off, or did I say I had some choice words lined up ?

 

[Mugshot]

Did I say that I was going to take his mirror off, or did I say I had some choice words lined up ?

Ok, In which case I'll try again. What are you on about?
BTW I'm impressed that you nearly managed to catch up to car which had previously gone past you at 120+mph.

 

[Linford]

Ok, In which case I'll try again. What are you on about?
BTW I'm impressed that you nearly managed to catch up to car which had previously gone past you at 120+mph.

We were approaching a set of red lights which run a cycle. I was doing about 30 down there at the time....I still didn't catch him as I've already stated.
Are you surprised that I didn't want to remove his mirror ?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I caught and passed a whole stack of cars that had previously passed me, on a DC when they were doing 85+ mph, a couple of weekends ago.

 

[Linford]

I caught and passed a whole stack of cars that had previously passed me, on a DC when they were doing 85+ mph, a couple of weekends ago.

I don't disbelieve you!

 

[Mugshot]

We were approaching a set of red lights which run a cycle. I was doing about 30 down there at the time....I still didn't catch him as I've already stated.
Are you surprised that I didn't want to remove his mirror ?

That's fantastic!
I'm trying, and failing, to understand what you are saying in your post in the context of a thread about the rights and wrongs of removing a vehicles mirrors.