Three times beeped
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PJ79LIZARD
Über Member
- Location
- WEST MIDLANDS
Do like I did, buy yourself an airzound and blast them back!
400bhp
Guru
Yes, and we are talking semantics. I didn't say ignore and i agree with what you are saying.
It would benefit a lot of people to take an advanced motor test.
corshamjim
New Member
- Location
- Corsham
Not in the slightest.
Glover Fan
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Almondsbury, Nr Bristol
Sounds like an invite of the graham norton variety to me!I just lift my backside off the saddle and point to my anus ... they get the message what I'm thinking about them
woohoo first ride without BEEEEP for a while this afternoon!
cheers for the advice anyway, i guess that what you would do in those situations depends on your riding style, but if I sat at the back in some of the queues around here in rush hour then it would be stop start 5mph like the motons for 2 out of 4 miles of my commute. Plenty of mopeds/mcycles filtering in a similar manner on these roads at rush hour.
cheers for the advice anyway, i guess that what you would do in those situations depends on your riding style, but if I sat at the back in some of the queues around here in rush hour then it would be stop start 5mph like the motons for 2 out of 4 miles of my commute. Plenty of mopeds/mcycles filtering in a similar manner on these roads at rush hour.
MrHappyCyclist
Riding the Devil's HIghway
- Location
- Bolton, England
It's only fair. Each vehicle has its advantages. Cars use their superior power-to-weight ratio to get past us, and we use our narrower width and greater manoeuvrability to get past them. It all evens out in the end.
pshore
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Last contour N of Cambridge
My way of dealing with being beeped is just to wave back cooee style like its a friendly greeting.
Re the filtering, try to get to the front rather than get caught between lanes where it is dangerous.
Also, trying to merge with just moving off traffic is something I do on my motorcycle but less on a bicycle. If you slip in without the person behind dabbing the brakes they won't care. On a bicycle, the least annoying thing you can do is slip in, move to the left so they can overtake but if you hold them up they will be frustrated and return with bad behaviour.
One day, motorists will realise that its all the cars taking up the space.
Re the filtering, try to get to the front rather than get caught between lanes where it is dangerous.
Also, trying to merge with just moving off traffic is something I do on my motorcycle but less on a bicycle. If you slip in without the person behind dabbing the brakes they won't care. On a bicycle, the least annoying thing you can do is slip in, move to the left so they can overtake but if you hold them up they will be frustrated and return with bad behaviour.
One day, motorists will realise that its all the cars taking up the space.
pfft, thats why i suddenly had my 'damascan moment' sat in a q watching bikes go past 'hang on,, i could cycle that far'...
was okay in the summer anyways
and until the job went pear shaped 
Leaway2
Lycrist
- Location
- Manchester (Sale)
Isn’t it just Lady motorists showing appreciation of manly thighs and legs. I always assume that.
Very funny in the right circumstances...... Pull up alongside and state "Guess what I've also got a horn and can use mine inconsiderately as well...."
Then let rip!
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Smile and wave......
CAn you not be fancied by men as well then?
I once had a white van man drive alongside for about 50 yards beeping and making obscene gestures.
Then sent the video to the company......... stating that I was impressed that the company's was enlightened enough to employ staff who felt thatthey could display their sexuality so openly. However though as an "older man" I was flattered with the attention, did they really feel that their employee should be sexually propositioning total strangers on company time, this activity should surely be restricted to off duty hours.
Then enclosed a number of leaflets on safe sex and the hazards of promiscuity amongst male homosexuals.
Got an apology and assurance that such an event would not reoccur. Have passed the driver several times since, and he simply scowls!
niggle
Senior Member
- Location
- Cornwall, near England
I left the following message on the Western Greyhound bus company complaints page last Sunday evening (there are separate fields to identify the time, bus ID, etc.):
"I was riding my bicycle through Hayle along the B3301 at about 15-20mph when I heard a vehicle give a short honk behind me. I looked over my shoulder and saw a green double decker bus and the driver then sounded the horn again. Following this they passed me and then shortly afterwards turned down Lethlean Lane, I followed as I hoped to speak to the driver but then the bus stopped due to traffic and the situation was unsuitable for a conversation, so I passed the bus and carried on my way via Brookway.
Later, at approximately 2.15pm, I was climbing the steep hill on the B3301 up from Godrevy to Hells Mouth, at a slow pace of about 6-8mph, and about two thirds of the way up I was again aware of a large vehicle following, which again gave a single honk of the horn, and then after I had looked over my shoulder again honked a second time. Yet again the bus was able to pass shortly after as the road widened. It was the same bus on both occasions, and I made a mental note of the registration number then recorded it on my mobile phone when I stopped at the top of the hill shortly after the second incident.
I am not sure why the driver felt the need to use the horn at all, and particularly for the second time on both occasions after I had looked round, when my riding position was 'by the book' throughout at about a metre from the kerb, what is known as 'secondary position', and besides which a bus driver's opinion of a cyclist's position does not give them the right to use the horn aggressively, see highway code rule 112.
I feel I should have an explanation and apology from the bus driver concerned, as it is very intimidating having someone drive a double decker bus close behind you sounding their horn at you repeatedly in an aggressive manner, though at least the passes had been satisfactory."
I received a letter in reply later in the week, in which, after some preliminaries about taking complaints seriously and training drivers to high standards, the explanation offered was that "after a previous incident which has made her nervous, our driver was simply being cautious and tried to make sure that you were aware that she was driving behind you. She did not mean for this to come across as being rude, and conveys her apologies if this is the way it seemed."
I shall maybe write back and suggest she does not continue beeping once a cyclist has very obviously turned round and clocked the big green bus behind them.
In general a car beeping behind is a sign that my road positioning has been effective, they have seen me and are objecting to me taking my rightful place on the road instead of the gutter and/or I have succeeded in stopping a risky overtake at a pinch point. There is, as pointed out, the danger of a 'punishment' close overtake following later, but that is relatively uncommon IME.
"I was riding my bicycle through Hayle along the B3301 at about 15-20mph when I heard a vehicle give a short honk behind me. I looked over my shoulder and saw a green double decker bus and the driver then sounded the horn again. Following this they passed me and then shortly afterwards turned down Lethlean Lane, I followed as I hoped to speak to the driver but then the bus stopped due to traffic and the situation was unsuitable for a conversation, so I passed the bus and carried on my way via Brookway.
Later, at approximately 2.15pm, I was climbing the steep hill on the B3301 up from Godrevy to Hells Mouth, at a slow pace of about 6-8mph, and about two thirds of the way up I was again aware of a large vehicle following, which again gave a single honk of the horn, and then after I had looked over my shoulder again honked a second time. Yet again the bus was able to pass shortly after as the road widened. It was the same bus on both occasions, and I made a mental note of the registration number then recorded it on my mobile phone when I stopped at the top of the hill shortly after the second incident.
I am not sure why the driver felt the need to use the horn at all, and particularly for the second time on both occasions after I had looked round, when my riding position was 'by the book' throughout at about a metre from the kerb, what is known as 'secondary position', and besides which a bus driver's opinion of a cyclist's position does not give them the right to use the horn aggressively, see highway code rule 112.
I feel I should have an explanation and apology from the bus driver concerned, as it is very intimidating having someone drive a double decker bus close behind you sounding their horn at you repeatedly in an aggressive manner, though at least the passes had been satisfactory."
I received a letter in reply later in the week, in which, after some preliminaries about taking complaints seriously and training drivers to high standards, the explanation offered was that "after a previous incident which has made her nervous, our driver was simply being cautious and tried to make sure that you were aware that she was driving behind you. She did not mean for this to come across as being rude, and conveys her apologies if this is the way it seemed."
I shall maybe write back and suggest she does not continue beeping once a cyclist has very obviously turned round and clocked the big green bus behind them.
In general a car beeping behind is a sign that my road positioning has been effective, they have seen me and are objecting to me taking my rightful place on the road instead of the gutter and/or I have succeeded in stopping a risky overtake at a pinch point. There is, as pointed out, the danger of a 'punishment' close overtake following later, but that is relatively uncommon IME.