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that's another thing that doesn't help. Giving pejorative nicknames to other users. We're all in this together! ;)
 
Orang Utan said:
that's another thing that doesn't help. Giving pejorative nicknames to other users. We're all in this together! ;)
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Tried that approach. Won't listen.

All drivers are cagers are cunts.

Cyclists come in many categories, ninjas, lycra louts, etc. All cunts.

Pedestrians are cunts.

Anyone who gives gentlegreen advice he doesn't want to hear- goes on ignore.

Yet we all have to looks at his idiotic behaviour on those videos. Luckily youtube is blocked on my work computer.
 
Just cycled home from work. Quite side road, plenty of visibility, a van driver came screaming out of a side road took a glance right (straight at me or so I thought), then left, then pulled out right in front of me at the last second before I had a chance to react. Had a slam my breaks on and swerve round him. I never react angrily even though I want to, but gave him the briefest of glances like 'what the fuck, you almost hit me'. He went fucking NUTS. Followed me down the road and drove alongside me screaming, calling me a cunt, how fucking dare I etc etc...I don't usually get shaken up but it properly got my adrenaline going, thought at one point he was going to ram me off the road. The fuck is wrong with people? :(
 
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spacemonkey said:
Just cycled home from work. Quite side road, plenty of visibility, a van driver came screaming out of a side road took a glance right (straight at me or so I thought), then left, then pulled out right in front of me at the last second before I had a chance to react. Had a slam my breaks on and swerve round him. I never react angrily even though I want to, but gave him the briefest of glances like 'what the fuck, you almost hit me'. He went fucking NUTS. Followed me down the road and drove alongside me screaming, calling me a cunt, how fucking dare I etc etc...I don't usually get shaken up but it properly got my adrenaline going, thought at one point he was going to ram me off the road. The fuck is wrong with people? :(
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Heat, being locked in a metal cage all day. Drives people insane. Hope you're ok, sounds awful. I don't suppose you got his number plate? For all the good it might do... Wonder how many complaints of dangerous driving are investigated. Need witnesses I should think.

Just for the record: WANKER!!!!! is what that man is, the heat is just an excuse to let his evil out.
 
They don't make it easy:
Thank you for your submission to Roadsafe London regarding the incident that occurred in Peckham on 15/07/2013. I understand that you are not satisfied with the response you received in connection with your submission to Roadsafe London. I appreciate that you have taken the time to report the matter via the Roadsafe London website, but this forum is for passing intelligence to the Metropolitan Police Service regarding poor driving etc. We use the intelligence gained to target our patrols more effectively.

As the website states, this is not the correct platform to report driving incidents. The information below is copied from the Roadsafe london web page

Roadsafe London is not :-

A replacement for 999 and is not designed for an emergency response. Should you wish to report an incident that requires an immediate police response then please call 999.
A means of reporting crime for further investigation. Please attend your nearest police station.
A means of reporting collisions. This must be done on official documentation available here on the Collision forms and reports section of the site.
A means of reporting bad driving with a view to prosecution, please attend your nearest police station to do so. You must be prepared to make a statement and attend court and give evidence.

A means to report an abandoned vehicle, or if you have any issues with local parking, these concerns should be directed to your local council, details can be found here Direct Gov's Council A-Z
A means to report a vehicle without a current tax disc. This should be done by way of a call to the DVLA on 0800 032 5202 or you can report this online
http://www.met.police.uk/roadsafelondon/

I have attached a copy of an Incident Reporting Form, for you to complete and take to a Police Station. Please provide as much detail as possible so that the Metropolitan Police Service can fully investigate the incident. Can you ensure that you give the correct registration number and a full description of the vehicle, eg make, model and colour, so that we can identify the vehicle and trace the driver at the time of the incident.

I cannot give details of the check carried out on the registration number you gave, suffice to say that it did not come back to a Highways vehicle, or indeed any type of vehicle that would be involved in that type of work. Although we do have various sytems available to us, they can only work with the information inputted
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It's this bit that's annoying me at the mo:
Please provide as much detail as possible so that the Metropolitan Police Service can fully investigate the incident. Can you ensure that you give the correct registration number and a full description of the vehicle, eg make, model and colour, so that we can identify the vehicle and trace the driver at the time of the incident.
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Surely if I have the number plate, that is sufficient! How am I supposed to know how to identify a make or a model of a car, let alone a van?
 
spacemonkey said:
Just cycled home from work. Quite side road, plenty of visibility, a van driver came screaming out of a side road took a glance right (straight at me or so I thought), then left, then pulled out right in front of me at the last second before I had a chance to react. Had a slam my breaks on and swerve round him. I never react angrily even though I want to, but gave him the briefest of glances like 'what the fuck, you almost hit me'. He went fucking NUTS. Followed me down the road and drove alongside me screaming, calling me a cunt, how fucking dare I etc etc...I don't usually get shaken up but it properly got my adrenaline going, thought at one point he was going to ram me off the road. The fuck is wrong with people? :(
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sorry to hear that mate!
nightmare when that happens, luckily rare but still
does really shake you up and for a few days i've found

take it easy and hope you don't cross paths again
the massive WANKER BASTARD
 
spacemonkey said:
Just cycled home from work. Quite side road, plenty of visibility, a van driver came screaming out of a side road took a glance right (straight at me or so I thought), then left, then pulled out right in front of me at the last second before I had a chance to react. Had a slam my breaks on and swerve round him. I never react angrily even though I want to, but gave him the briefest of glances like 'what the fuck, you almost hit me'. He went fucking NUTS. Followed me down the road and drove alongside me screaming, calling me a cunt, how fucking dare I etc etc...I don't usually get shaken up but it properly got my adrenaline going, thought at one point he was going to ram me off the road. The fuck is wrong with people? :(
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This is the thing about people, you never really know how they are going to react. I have seriously thought (when i was cycling in London) about fixing a crowbar to my frame with some heavy duty velcro or something.
 
Didn't commute today as I had to take my car into the car hospital as it's very poorly. I spent the day getting things ready for a bike ride starting this weekend.

However I did put the commuter bike in the back of the car so I could ride back home from the garage.

I appear to be a bit fitter than usual. Fast? Fucking yeah! :D
 
i had to drive this evening from islington to tooting.
Its good to see it all from the drivers point of view.

the blue paint seems to just be dangerous.
 
I'm still on holiday, so not technically commuting, but was in London today and had a few rides (Paddington - Kennington, Kennington-Soho & back, Kennington to Shoreditch and then Kings Cross). I was around for a few days a couple of weeks ago too.

Observations on London cycling:

1. Your bus lanes are very narrow compared to Leeds (and other cities I know), being just wide enough for a bus and nothing else. My local lanes generally have enough room for a bike to squeeze past without going into another lane. Narrow lanes are a bit shitty and you can get stuck if you're not planning ahead (kind of got used to the overtake bus shoulder check).

2. Buses are actually some of the worst driven vehicles in London, I even had one that seemed to be deliberately intimidating (kept pulling into the advance box then cutting in on me straight after the lights, almost immediately pulling up at a stop, did this three times on CS7).

3. It's dead nice riding when there are so many other cyclists around, especially when you all group up at lights and filter back in to the traffic flow in a slightly chaotic order. Feels like being part of a big gang or something, cycling up north is a lonely affair.

4. People jump the lights way more down here. This is quite a hazard for cyclists as people are coming at you from all sides when you're going through a crossroads. I like that little apologetic type manoeuvre people do when they sort of edge to the side a bit and sneak across, as though it makes them look any less of a dick.

5. The wealthier the area (Westminster, The City), the shittier the roads, some horrible potholes about.

6. Nobody tried to steal my bike. Probably nobody wanted to steal my bike, a victory for dishevellment.
 
Oh, and I was looking particularly stupid today as I bought one of those plastic crud catcher back mudguards at a boot sale on the weekend (for my normal commute bike when required) and for want of a better place to carry it I had it fixed to the seat post of my Pashley, which already has nice big chunky yellow mudguards. This probably looked a bit odd to other cyclists.
 
Finally got KoM on a Strava segment close to my house. I've been the 45 to 54 age group KoM by a mile for ages but have really struggled in the overall classification. Annoyingly the segment ends just past the top of the climb after a turn on to another road. This morning I decided just to fly out of the climb and make the right hand turn without slowing down or stopping to look. Got KoM by 1 second and did 300W+ all the way up. Totally worth the risk of being killed. I did this on my 525 framed TI-Raleigh Team Replica so I reckon I could knock off another 3-5 seconds on a CF framed bike.
 
Orang Utan said:
It's this bit that's annoying me at the mo:

Surely if I have the number plate, that is sufficient! How am I supposed to know how to identify a make or a model of a car, let alone a van?
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It's almost as if they are trying to put people off from reporting things isn't it? As if they are trying to reduce their workload. Don't give up though. Go to the police station - number plate, white van, time, should be more than enough.
 
I got fucking soaked on the way to work then literally as I arrived some dickhead in a white van pulled out of the road I was turning into and missed me by about a foot. He definitely saw me too, I made eye contact with him as I was signalling. He was just making his little point. Arsehole.
 
weepiper said:
I got fucking soaked on the way to work then literally as I arrived some dickhead in a white van pulled out of the road I was turning into and missed me by about a foot. He definitely saw me too, I made eye contact with him as I was signalling. He was just making his little point. Arsehole.
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Bad experience, but the important thing is that you're OK.
 
No commuting for me next week. I'm just about to set off for Loughton in Essex for the Start of the London Edinburgh London ride. The ride doesn't start 'til Sunday but I'm helping out on registration day (Saturday)

If anyone's looking for something to do Sunday morning there's a prologue ride starting at 6am outside Buckhingham Palace. Riders on LEL are starting in groups from 6am to 10.30am.

My start time's 8.30am. You can follow my progress here - http://www.londonedinburghlondon.com/lastseen/?rider_no=M66

And I'll endeavour to keep people updated via Twitter here - https://twitter.com/SirWobbly

The main ride's 900 miles if anyone fancies tagging along :)

Wish me luck...
 
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