http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OK but don't touch my car again en Mon, 18 May 2026 22:20:37 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184957 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 17:30:50 +0000 lorlane 184957@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@tulyar, I similarly ended up on the bonnet of a car when travelling up Chesser avenue approaching the lights at the Corn Exchange.</p> <p>Car slows down (lights red, big queue) and moves into kerb, presumably to stop me from passing on left, however then trapped me and my pedal hit said kerb and I toppled over onto bonnet. </p> <p>She resolutely refused to see me and stared straight ahead!! Don't think there was any damage at all, but still not pleasant! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184941 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:03:01 +0000 condor2378 184941@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I banged the left mirror, then to my shame, bonnet, of a new Mini which decided than rather than waiting in the queue of traffic going up Leith Street they would rather "nip up the bus lane" to get to the front. I was in said bus lane and didn't take too well to being unexpectedly sideswiped. Driver held hand up to admit mistake. It <em>nearly</em> made me feel bad about hitting his car but that passed rather quickly upon reflection. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184880 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:57:13 +0000 acsimpson 184880@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ouch, I hope you're OK and didn't have any of the trouble that winpig had extracting restitution from his [epithet]. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184875 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:18:31 +0000 Tulyar 184875@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On a couple of occasions I have made contact with cars that have been driven on a conflicting path to that I am legitimately taking. The flat slap on the roof is very effective as the roof is a fine form of drum skin.</p> <p>Gloves are a very handy detail for that and also that slight drift of the right hand off the end of the handlebar to clip the mirror that passes too close. Occasionally raising that hand above your head is required for HGV and bus drivers, who are then forced to stop and reset the mirrors, but for me at least I don't get a 'Cracknelled' head. </p> <p>But perhaps the most expensive recent event was the driver who pulled out at low speed against a red light to try in push in to the congested junction at Charing Cross as I and the drivers with the green light set off. he actually started off from being stopped, a quite unexpected move but one I just about telegraphed but was unable to totally avoid, so I rolled over the front of the car and front windscreen. leaving the bike behind - just over £600 worth of damage apparently, and new forks for the bike. Amazing what 120Kg of cyclist can do. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184862 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:40:28 +0000 ianmb 184862@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've hit a car roof before as it tried to run me off the road on Chambers Street. If it gets close enough to hit, then it is close enough to kill me so serves as a good warning. The thought of getting off my bike and using my size 10s is appealing at times but that probably takes things a little too far so I keep that thought to myself! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184844 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:06:06 +0000 fimm 184844@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I <em>think</em> it was more a case of overtaking then brakeing hard so that the cyclist came up behind me and also had to brake. I agree that if I was back there again I'd ignore Boyfriend of Fimm's comments! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184840 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:43:28 +0000 kaputnik 184840@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I think boyfriend told me I hadn't done anything wrong,</em></p> <p>I'd have to disagree with boyfriend of Fimm that close enough for a cyclist to reach out and touch is not too close. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184838 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:38:21 +0000 fimm 184838@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have had the car I was driving slapped by a roadie who didn't like my overtake. It is too long ago for me to remember the details but I do remember being cross with myself for being persuaded into an overtake by my boyfriend when I wasn't convinced about it.</p> <p>I think boyfriend told me I hadn't done anything wrong, but I must have done, people don't slap cars for no reason. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184831 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 13:08:53 +0000 paul.mag 184831@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've given a cars roof a dunt in the past as he slowly squeezed me into the gutter just so that he could stop in a queue 5 yards ahead - overtook and had a wee chat with him and to his credit he took his scolding well<br /> Also slapped a cars rear quarter window as the driver got out of the way of an ambulance overtaking stationary traffic on the wrong side of the road. Its fair enough to get out of the way of course but he had seen it approaching from about 1 mile away. Luckily I had as well and was on the brakes stopping rather than half way along his car. He didn't take his scolding very well. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184810 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:21:57 +0000 twq 184810@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I gave a knock on the window a while back to a lady that missed the green light, due to staring at facebook on her phone. It was with a gloved hand, but I had recently acquired a wedding ring, so it made quite a loud, sharp bang. Made her jump (and me too!), but maybe these morons need a shock. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184805 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:10:47 +0000 kaputnik 184805@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have absolutely no problem with slapping a car as a warning that passes so close that one little wobble on my part would take me into it. If a car is so close you can reach out and touch it, it's too close.</p> <p>It's in the driver's interest, a gouge from a bar end shifter would leave far more of a lasting mark on their precious vehicle than my gloved palm would. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184798 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:38:36 +0000 PS 184798@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I almost touched a guy's car yesterday as he failed to observe the convention of stopping to let pedestrians cross the zebra crossing at the Frederick Street/George Street (north side) junction. </p> <p>I knew he wasn't going to stop but I stepped out in the hope of giving him a fright. He just glanced at me then stared straight ahead as he kept going. I raised my hand to knock on the rear near side of the car as it went by but instinct stopped my hand - not sure if that instinct was self-preservation or the time-honoured don't touch/rub another man's rhubarb... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14620#post-184791 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:10:08 +0000 gembo 184791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Witnessed very stupid driving this morning.</p> <p>Large BMW 4x4 metallic blue X5 - if i have that right.</p> <p>At Slateford junction fully inside the Advance Stop Box in the left hand lane. ONly option there is a left turn.</p> <p>THe right hand lane has a simlar black 4X4 - only option there is straight ahead.</p> <p>There is a cyclist in the middle in front.</p> <p>I am behind all this.</p> <p>Just before the lights change the driver angles her car as if she is going left, sort of diagonal across the box. As the lights change she undertakes the cyclist going through the junction and then into the bus lane. I think he sensed she was going to do this. He was quite calm on surface. We stopped at WoL visitor centre lights so car was ahead. I asked if we should point out that the only option was a left turn. He said yes. So caught up and tapped her bonnet very lightly twice whilst looking at her and shaking my head.</p> <p>We then progressed through the asda junction and she stopped with her window rolled down, in the bus lane. I said you know you cannot go straight ahead from the left lane. She said Ok, but don't touch my car again. She then departed with me shouting You nearly killed him but I have not to touch your car pxxx off. I asked my fellow cyclist if i had been angry enough, he said yes and off we went into the Edinburgh traffic jungle that is out there. </p>