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Baronage-Phase
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Yup.
..hope he's an organ doner.
Anyone doing something that thick should at least have the decency to carry a doner card.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Good job they can’t do brain transplants, can’t imagine his is up to much.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Baronage-Phase
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Donor....I meant Donor.
Sun getting to me.
I couldn't resist. Well, I did, for ages, but then I succumbed!Baronage-Phase
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Jesus fucking Christ, 20 minutes ago I came within a smidge of featuring in the memorial pages.
Half way up this hill from where the picture was taken to the brow, doing 50 which is the limit, a transit van crests the hill on my side of the road, overtaking a Fiat 500 which was also doing 50, so the van was doing around 70 (at least according to Fiat driver). Slamming on the anchors whilst steering towards the ditch on the left, the van didn't move back to his lane at all, he didn't react in time. Had I not done so I would have hit it at 120mph.
Skidmarks on the road and in my pants.
The Fiat driver stopped, the van didn't.
Stay safe peoples.
Half way up this hill from where the picture was taken to the brow, doing 50 which is the limit, a transit van crests the hill on my side of the road, overtaking a Fiat 500 which was also doing 50, so the van was doing around 70 (at least according to Fiat driver). Slamming on the anchors whilst steering towards the ditch on the left, the van didn't move back to his lane at all, he didn't react in time. Had I not done so I would have hit it at 120mph.
Skidmarks on the road and in my pants.
The Fiat driver stopped, the van didn't.
Stay safe peoples.
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Or at least didn't spend the next hour ranting in his head about idiot car drivers not getting out of his way, because he does, after all, Own The Road.
One way or another, if he's making a habit of this, he's going to come unstuck - not everyone's going to be quite as good at getting out of the way as Mr Strasse. The only sadness is that, when people learn by their mistakes in this way, they usually take someone else with them.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
They’ll be praying you didn’t have a dashcam. Give it a couple of years and these will be pretty standard/common, I wonder what that might do to the level of dickheadery on the roads? Though given the police tend not to be terribly interested in offences captured by cyclists, will it be any different for car camera footage? Will idiots in a rush/red mist think about doing stupid shit knowing they might be caught on camera, or are they likely to carry on safe in the knowledge that the police will make their usual excuses not to do their job?
hash tag
Books, not bombs
I like this, but only in the North East for now https://inews.co.uk/essentials/life...t-text-campaign-dangers-mobile-phone-driving/
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Anybody caught using a phone whilst driving should be banned for a minimum of 2 years (with a jail term for repeat offenders), and a minimum £5000 fine. As it stands, the punishment is far too lenient, and worthless as a deterrent.
BigTom
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If enough people have dash/head cams and police prosecute regularly from such video evidence, then drivers would assume that anyone else might be filming and they will get done for their failures on the road. The massive group of drivers who do not follow rules or pay proper attention because they do not fear getting caught will disappear, and some of the shit drivers who are currently on our roads will have their licences taken away, sooner or later any loon driver will get caught and prosecuted. That then leaves the mostly ok but fucked up that time drivers who it's really hard to stop in any way, since that's basically anyone at some point or another (regular training/testing is probably the best imo).
weltweit
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I just had a moment myself today.
Approaching a T junction with a larger road but on a corner.
A 4x4 coming from the left indicating to turn right and cross my path but they stopped early as if to let me out of the small side road.
Nothing else coming from right left right again, I started to pull out when a car arrived from the right going at a pace. As soon as I had clocked him I stopped and hadn't emerged from my side road so he went past without issue, but looking to the right earlier I hadn't seen him. Could have been nasty.
Once he had gone the 4x4 stayed back as if to let me out, which had been the issue in the first place, so I went.
Not the most elegant of navigating the roads there has ever been.
Approaching a T junction with a larger road but on a corner.
A 4x4 coming from the left indicating to turn right and cross my path but they stopped early as if to let me out of the small side road.
Nothing else coming from right left right again, I started to pull out when a car arrived from the right going at a pace. As soon as I had clocked him I stopped and hadn't emerged from my side road so he went past without issue, but looking to the right earlier I hadn't seen him. Could have been nasty.
Once he had gone the 4x4 stayed back as if to let me out, which had been the issue in the first place, so I went.
Not the most elegant of navigating the roads there has ever been.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I managed to pull out on two people today coming onto dual carriageways, one in the blind spot and one just going mentally fast. Both moved into other lane so wasn’t that close, but still. Slip roads in Portugal can be ridiculously short which makes it even more difficult driving a RH drive car here.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
^^^ On the roads is the only time I could ever wish to be a filth.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Some bike cops are actually OK... for cops.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Brilliant
BigTom
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Stuff happens from just after 1minute in (and also nothing more happens at the end there's just extra at the start and the end because this was submitted to police who want that.)
I've lost the tweet this came from but the cyclist themselves was on twitter and said they were issued an FPN for the RLJ and no idea what was happening with the driver, and the police said were trying to contact the bus company and no-one was calling them back, I assume he will be prosecuted for this.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Yeah. As much as I'm ACAB, road traffic plod are generally OK, as they are obsessed with not having to knock on parents' doors to deliver the news that their kid is dead. And the bikers mostly deal with other bikers, so have an affinity.
All of them would still smash your skull at Orgreave though, never any room for complacency.
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Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I’d want to be a plod that smashes up raves and arrests the cunts that organise them.
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