Woman with achip on her shoulder!

[Blackandblue]

dam this forum, sometimes you post reply and it looses the message. anyway will try again....

Grrrrrr, what gets me and a lot of other cyclists is when you pull up to the red light on your fast bike and clunky clanky mtb's come around you and pull infront. What is all that about?! sometimes a whole herd of them (is that the correct term?) Its god dam annoying becuase they dont have the speed to get away from the lights so you end up get snarled up in their traffic, it can be hard to overtake too as cars are now bearing down on you from behind. Its like a morris minor pulling infront of a ferrari. I know its comical to watch their little legs peddeling at a million times a second as they try to get away from you, but its frigging annoying to the max. Sometimes I've made a point when they do it, to leap frog them when lights are still red. infuriating. STOP IT! (rant kinda over)

On the bright side, they are at least stopping at the red.

But I know what you mean. I've been tempted to ask them whether they drive their car like that.

 

[Jake]

yes i guess. maybe its a reaction by them to the ammount of cars and MB's that just pull into the ASL's now and not the white lines. I know i should relax a little bit more, but some things really get to me on the roads. who about you

 

[thomas]

Put a smile on my face

On my last day at work before coming back to UNI I got overtake by some (obviously, very fit) roadies when I was on my reasonably heavy mtb. I was quite happy to take advantage of their slipstream all the way home...at one point I felt I could have overtaken them, but didn't as I probably would only have made a fool of myself. I did get to freewheel behind them for a bit too which was nice.

I drove to the fish shop the other night. When I came out, there had been a fight and I saw there was a chip on my windscreen.

I heard about that on the news! Apparently two fish got battered.

 

[Blackandblue]

yes i guess. maybe its a reaction by them to the ammount of cars and MB's that just pull into the ASL's now and not the white lines. I know i should relax a little bit more, but some things really get to me on the roads. who about you

I increasingly find I am able to let things go. Not always easy but I am conscious that when I mouth off I am no better than an angry motorist. And it ain't my job to be vigilante on the roads. And I find it does nothing to calm me down - it only agitates me more and then I later feel bad for mouthing off.

 

[Jake]

On my last day at work before coming back to UNI I got overtake by some (obviously, very fit) roadies when I was on my reasonably heavy mtb. I was quite happy to take advantage of their slipstream all the way home...at one point I felt I could have overtaken them, but didn't as I probably would only have made a fool of myself. I did get to freewheel behind them for a bit too which was nice.



I heard about that on the news! Apparently two fish got battered.

groan

 

[Jake]

I increasingly find I am able to let things go. Not always easy but I am conscious that when I mouth off I am no better than an angry motorist. And it ain't my job to be vigilante on the roads. And I find it does nothing to calm me down - it only agitates me more and then I later feel bad for mouthing off.

yes i guess. how about times when you dont mouth off, or other things like RLJs, cars in ASL, potholes, cars/mbs using cyclelanes, and the dam wind at the moment lol

 

[thomas]

groan

Sorry!

 

[JediGoat]

A few years ago (when I didn't wear a helmet for commuting) I got an earful of abuse from a 'fellow cyclist'.

I had stopped at some traffic lights (somewhere between Oxford Street and Holborn), and was in the cycle lane (couldn't get any further forward as a car was blocking the advance stop box and indicating left). So I sat there, holding on the the railings, waiting for the lights to change.

Next moment, some guy behind me starts screammng at me, "FFS, get out of the f***ing way." And he then starts to squeaze his bike alongside mine, which meant I had to get right in the gutter. He continues on at me as he squeazes past, "You should be wearing a f***ing helmet, you're a f***ing liability and you're gonna get yourself f***ing killed".

Slightly surprised by his outburst, I was almost reduced to tears, of laughter, as he proceeded straight over the red light with car horns blaring at him.

 

[Tenorman]

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I heard about that on the news! Apparently two fish got battered.

There was blood all over the plaice!

 

[Jake]

darn fool cyclist! I maybe wrong, but on the Top Gear race through London, doesnt hammy hamster hammond get shouted at by some women when he is waiting at a red light, who undertakes him through the red light?

 

[Blackandblue]

Saw a funny incident this morning. A Motorcyclist having a go at a scooterist. I may have missed an earlier misdemeanour but as far as I could see the scooterist had pulled alongside the motorcyclist at a zebra crossing and pulled off a bit sharpish before the person crossing the road had got to the pavement. The motorcyclist beeped the scooterist, then raced after him, revving his engine and sitting on his rear wheel. The scooterist pulled over to let him past and he cut up the scooterist to turn left. Except he then had second thoughts and rejoined the carriageway and chased after the scooterist again who had stopped in traffic at some red lights. He was having a go at the scooterist when I cycled through between them.

The silly thing about motorcyclists and scooterists having a go at each other is that you can't understand what they're saying through their helmets and they can't hear you through their helmets.

Crazy scene. People should really calm down.

 

[Jake]

grrrrrrrrrrrr at scooterists

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

There was blood all over the plaice!

you still carping on about that?

 

[Jake]

i dont belive it, the whole thing sounds fishy to me

 

[Arch]

darn fool cyclist! I maybe wrong, but on the Top Gear race through London, doesnt hammy hamster hammond get shouted at by some women when he is waiting at a red light, who undertakes him through the red light?

I think she came up just as the lights changed, so could just sail on by, when he'd had to stop...

I had the thing with someone pulling past and sitting in front the other week - it's a wide junction at the crest of a very slight hill, and the proper stop line for bikes is not quite up at the top, so you have a hill start if you wait there (which I do). This chap (middle aged, on a hybrid) sailed past me (quite close), over the line and then stopped at the crest of the slope, to avoid having to hill start.

Once the lights changed, I'd passed him before we got to the other side of the junction...

And then at the next junction (he was going the other way to me there, so our little battle ended), I waited in front of the a Citroen Chavmobile, and as the light sequence started to change, I heard a siren coming from the side. Lights change, I hang back a bit, chavmobile hares off past me, then has to slam on the anchors to avoid police car coming across red light from the side.

I felt very smug that afternoon....