This morning's idiots
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To the flatbed truck driver who suddenly turned left across a bus lane without seeing me or caring causing me to almost go over my handlebars, into the side of your vehicle and possibly under the wheels; I apologise for not being able to mutter anything more than "WHOOOOAAAAA WHOOOAAAA" followed by a loud "PRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!". Your intent concentration on the map you were holding in your hands obviously meant that you were lost and I should have offered you directions rather than ranting incoherently at you.
Dear ped, Borough Market.
meandering aimlessly across the road is not a goof idea, doing so wearing Ipod earphones that are presumably blasting out Euro deep trance is even dafter and meant you had to jump when you eventually noticed 13 stone of cyclist behind you, having not heard the increasingly frantic bell.
meandering aimlessly across the road is not a goof idea, doing so wearing Ipod earphones that are presumably blasting out Euro deep trance is even dafter and meant you had to jump when you eventually noticed 13 stone of cyclist behind you, having not heard the increasingly frantic bell.
wafflycat
New Member
- Location
- middle of Norfolk
Friday afternoon, taking Wafflycat Minor & his kit up to Norwich, to do a spot of decorating in the house he'll be living in come next term back at uni...
I was waiting to turn right into the back lane of the property. A couple of cyclists were at the junction of the lane/road I was on. The road is on a slope. They were doing everything right, checking to see if clear to pull out, as limited visibility due to number of cars parked along each side of the road. Then a twunt on a bicycle, with child on crossbar of said bike came hairing it down the slope (freewheeling), on the pavement, straight into the side of the cyclist waiting to turn out on to the road from the lane. He knocked the cyclist off (she was ok) and the kid on his crossbar had an expression of mixed terror and surprise. Apart from surprise, luckily said kid was okay. No you moron, you don't freewheel down a sloping footpath straight into the side of the cyclist on the lane in front of you, and you don't do it with a small kid on your crossbar. Moron.
I was waiting to turn right into the back lane of the property. A couple of cyclists were at the junction of the lane/road I was on. The road is on a slope. They were doing everything right, checking to see if clear to pull out, as limited visibility due to number of cars parked along each side of the road. Then a twunt on a bicycle, with child on crossbar of said bike came hairing it down the slope (freewheeling), on the pavement, straight into the side of the cyclist waiting to turn out on to the road from the lane. He knocked the cyclist off (she was ok) and the kid on his crossbar had an expression of mixed terror and surprise. Apart from surprise, luckily said kid was okay. No you moron, you don't freewheel down a sloping footpath straight into the side of the cyclist on the lane in front of you, and you don't do it with a small kid on your crossbar. Moron.
jezhiggins
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Cycling with my eight year old, yesterday. We're going along a road with cars parked on both sides, leaving enough room for one car up the middle. This road is always like this. If you drive along it, you expect to have to move into the gaps between parked cars to let other traffic through. Except if that oncoming traffic is two bikes, obviously. The guy who drove towards us yesterday had a space on his left he could move into, while we had nowhere to go. He continued straight on. He wasn't going overly quickly, but he made no sign of having noticed us at all. His engine note didn't change, he didn't deviate from his path at, even when I moved out a bit more and waved cheerily at him. He just stared fixedly straightahead. I have a suspicion he had just come out of church, so perhaps he felt he had God on his side.
Shortly after we left the road as planned, and did twenty miles ped-dodging on NCN 5
When my children do something silly or dangerous I, once I've calmed down a bit, tell myself that they are only eight and four years old and so can't really be expected to know better. When I encounter adults, with jobs and mortgages and the right to vote and children of their own, I have no such solace.
Shortly after we left the road as planned, and did twenty miles ped-dodging on NCN 5
When my children do something silly or dangerous I, once I've calmed down a bit, tell myself that they are only eight and four years old and so can't really be expected to know better. When I encounter adults, with jobs and mortgages and the right to vote and children of their own, I have no such solace.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
To the Police car chasing two joyriders in Salford. When they do a left turn off the main road and you don't have your blues and twos on, spare a thought for the cyclist approching the same junction in a cycle lane before you over take and cut him up without indicating. He nearly fell off as you were so close.
To the cyclist in the duffle coat on the side road in Manchester. As you approach a main (40mph) road at speed and there are give way lines it pays to have a quick look to your right to check for approaching traffic before doing a left turn onto the main road. It is fortunate for you that I anticipated that you wouldn't stop and gave you space to take your racing line out into primary. Most other drivers would have integrated your bike frame into your anatomy for you. I bet you didn't even notice that I was a car's length from you when you cut across my path.
To the cyclist in the duffle coat on the side road in Manchester. As you approach a main (40mph) road at speed and there are give way lines it pays to have a quick look to your right to check for approaching traffic before doing a left turn onto the main road. It is fortunate for you that I anticipated that you wouldn't stop and gave you space to take your racing line out into primary. Most other drivers would have integrated your bike frame into your anatomy for you. I bet you didn't even notice that I was a car's length from you when you cut across my path.
Keith Oates
Janner
- Location
- Penarth, Wales
I was coming home tonight when a white small truck (yes in Vietnam) cut across me into the cycle lane at some speed and threw up a load of road dust into my face. I was angry but could do nothing, however two corners later he was stopped at a police road search van and several police were talking to him. I'm sure it was nothing to do with my incident but I did smile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Riding in Circles
Veteran
- Location
- EDINBURGH
To the bus driver that pulled alongside me then decided to pull in to the buss stop and near crush me this morning, don't worry about explaining the big dent in the side that I made reminding you I was there, before you stopped and then shouted abuse at me. I have just finished a meeting with your boss at the road development committee and he will be catching up with you to discuss your future employment this afternoon.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
Not sure that is in the spirit of this thread....Maz said:To the lady stopped in the Audi near the ASL box this morning...oooh you've got really nice legs.
....but did you get pictures!
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
spindrift said:
An ideal opportunity to use an Airzound to the benefit of the pedestrian, I feel
Sh4rkyBloke
Jaffa Cake monster
- Location
- Manchester, UK
Hope that's true. The part about meeting his Boss, I mean. That'd be a great result.Catrike UK said:
