http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Things drivers have said to me... en Sun, 31 May 2026 22:32:48 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-70006 Thu, 10 May 2012 19:30:59 +0000 recombodna 70006@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>People often say to me ......... "hey you what are you doing in my garden?" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-70004 Thu, 10 May 2012 19:15:12 +0000 crowriver 70004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Excuse me, do you mind if I pointlessly overtake you, before cutting you up 50 yards on at the traffic light which is at red?</p> <p>I wish they would say that, then I could answer Yes, I do mind, I mind a great deal! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-70002 Thu, 10 May 2012 19:05:48 +0000 cc 70002@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>if I do speak to them usually it is just to tell them to have a nice day - it really galls them</em></p> <p>and</p> <p><em>It is ALWAYS a nice day for cycling.</em></p> <p>Thank you thank you! I should be much less upset the next time it happens to me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69961 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:22:06 +0000 crowriver 69961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ha ha! Well said wfb! True Scots grit!</p> <p>Which reminds of the other thing drivers always say (usually when you meet them socially, out of their cars, not on the road).</p> <p>"Oh, you wouldn't catch me out on a bike in this wind/rain/hail/frost/snow/fresh breeze/slightly chilly air/somewhat less than Mediterranean sunshine." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69959 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:20:29 +0000 Stepdoh 69959@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think Claggy Clog defines it well (if flipped) as 'Dogma Excrement'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69955 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:09:39 +0000 wee folding bike 69955@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Not a very nice day for cycling.<br /> </em><br /> <u>NO</u>. It is <u>ALWAYS</u> a nice day for cycling. Even when the schools were closed for that hurricane I was out on my bike to get some stuff for the memsahib. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69951 Thu, 10 May 2012 15:58:38 +0000 crowriver 69951@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!</p> <p>Get off the road! </p> <p>What's your problem, you radge?</p> <p>Are you on drugs, mate? Ha ha ha! (After the TdF doping scandals)</p> <p>Waaaaaaaaaaaankaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Ha ha ha! (usually a van passenger or car load of yoof)</p> <p>Are you trying to get yourself killed, pal? !*#*!ing cyclist! </p> <p>Oh, sorry I didn't see you.</p> <p>Are you alright? You gave me a fright coming out of nowhere like that.</p> <p>(continues, ad nauseam) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69950 Thu, 10 May 2012 15:55:46 +0000 Smudge 69950@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"you should be in the cycle lane" (repeat until bored)</p> <p>"I've had to overtake you umpteen times" - From a car driver who spent a couple of miles thrashing past me before sitting in the back of the queue for traffic lights (visible from the last set of lights) as I cruised past to get to the ASL's </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69944 Thu, 10 May 2012 15:40:56 +0000 Min 69944@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>""You're supposed to keep over to the left""</em></p> <p>This is what the guy who tried to deliberately run me over at Picardy Place roundabout said. This is a three lane roundabout that I was turning right at. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69941 Thu, 10 May 2012 15:24:11 +0000 Claggy Cog 69941@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Man in pick-up truck with two other workmates in the cab shouting and gesticulating wildly and rudely at me that I should have stopped at a priority to oncoming traffic point - this was when I was more three-quarters down the length of it and they were at the bottom... i.e. nowhere to be seen when I started the manouevre - oh yes I forgot I am supposed to be clairvoyant too and should have known that he had just turned into Kingston Ave, where even with the best will in the world I could not have seen when I hit the give way. Doh!!</p> <p>Other than being told on various and so many occasions that cyclists should not be allowed on the road - period. That I am holding up traffic and should not be on the road because I am too slow. I don't pay road tax. We are all pavement cyclists and red light jumpers, that is all of us.</p> <p>I do try very hard not to engage in conversation with any burk that is in the ASL, runs red lights, drives really badly/erroneously...in fact I find it best just to wave at them and smile with the odd two's up or the give them the bird - or if I do speak to them usually it is just to tell them to have a nice day - it really galls them. I find giving them the opportunity to speak to you usually means you have to listen to the usual excrement/dogma/predjudices and I really cannot be bothered. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69925 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:38:22 +0000 chdot 69925@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"You're supposed to keep over to the left"</p> <p>That's what an ENews van driver said to me when the roundabout at the bottom of Broughton Street said when it still had the red 'cycle lane' round the outside.</p> <p>CEC took it away (good thing too)&gt;</p> <p>STILL a very dangerous roundabout. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69923 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:33:46 +0000 Stepdoh 69923@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>vi... that's why you should go to the barbers :P </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69918 Thu, 10 May 2012 14:16:49 +0000 Tom 69918@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"You're supposed to keep over to the left" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69906 Thu, 10 May 2012 13:35:36 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 69906@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>vi. Legally you have to wear a helmet to cycle don't you? (from my hairdresser but she <em>is</em> a driver)</p> <p>vii. The drinking limit is the same for bikes as for driving (from an ex-cop, for the record there actually isn't a 'drink-riding' limit, but you can be done if, in the opinion of the h'officer, you are drunk in charge of a bicycle) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69900 Thu, 10 May 2012 13:31:23 +0000 Uberuce 69900@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fifth) It's a British Waterway byelaw that you have to dismount under the canal bridges</p> <p>For the sake of completeness, I can't guarantee this chap was a driver since I met him in the barge for the Harrison Park improvement team thingmy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69888 Thu, 10 May 2012 13:01:53 +0000 splitshift 69888@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"where did you come from,?"<br /> From the driver who had just overtaken me and left hooked me at a mini round about !<br /> closely followed by, whos gonna pay for my door ?<br /> size 9 steel toe caps v doorskin : ) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69874 Thu, 10 May 2012 12:24:13 +0000 Smudge 69874@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"What do you know about driving", (from an incompetent in a small hatchback) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69869 Thu, 10 May 2012 12:11:28 +0000 SRD 69869@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I meant 'incorrect things' they have said....amazes me the level of blagging/ignorance out there. do they really think people buy it? bet they get away with it at home/work and think that's how the world works. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69868 Thu, 10 May 2012 12:09:07 +0000 DaveC 69868@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Toot!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69864 Thu, 10 May 2012 11:59:36 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 69864@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Touch my van again and I'll break your @#&amp;*ing arms" after he'd squeezed me against some railings.</p> <p>His van was one large dent. And a strange orange colour, sort of like rust. And he was balding, middle aged and fat. I laughed at him.</p> <p>Trying to think of something that actually fits in better with the OP. There's the usual, "You're supposed to ride to the left" I guess. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69855 Thu, 10 May 2012 11:45:43 +0000 spytfyre 69855@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Usually drivers don't say anything to me, I'm probably too big and scary</p> <p>Oh I have had two SMIDSYs a van and a car, car driver was very apologetic given that I was lying on the road holding his ex-wing-mirror </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6511#post-69852 Thu, 10 May 2012 11:38:52 +0000 SRD 69852@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>1. ASZs don't operate after half-six (a stop-line is a stop line people!)<br /> 2. You're allowed to load/unload on double red lines (nope!)<br /> 3. Motorcycles allowed in ASZ's (nope, but I don't usually care, except this guy was being seriously aggressive and cut in front of me) </p>