We were shouted at by an obese red faced person in her obese red car as she exited Lizzie brice roundabout this morning. Plenty of room and we were huddled together to be easier to pass. And to protect our comrade who is a partially disabled man returning to cycling post accident. This driver most definitely voted for brexit. With some people you cannot tell but with her it was obvious, red face, spit coming out of her mouth when shouting etc.
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Infrastructure
Today's rubbish and unnecessary shouting
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Grim.
Did I tell you about my 2014 UKIP encounter? Only time I've ever seen a man actually foam at the mouth. Lord knows what he does now. Flames maybe.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Did not detract from overall fun as we had 37mph freewheelin from harperrig to kirknewton turn on the way back.
She went home and had a cardiac arrest because some cyclists had the temerity to cross Liz brice roundabout as a group
Posted 7 years ago # -
I was shouted at by an idiot youth on a bike yesterday while out with son. Our crime was to ride 2 abreast in the bike lane which thwarted his attempt to ride "no hands" all the way from tollcross to MMW.
I contemplated persuing him, but wouldn't have been a good example to my son.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Somebody just shouted 'Dinnae forget yer feet ya b*****d!' at me from a passing car.
Sage advice in troubled times.
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Waiting to turn right at the end of my road a ratty transit with the windows down was forced to not cut the corner as a result of my ultra primary.
Passenger looks across and roars 'Would ye f***ing look at that!'. There's a whole host of reasons for shouting stuff like that at me, but I'm pretty sure that in this instance he was upset about his pal having to turn the steering wheel a bit more than usual.
Water off a duck's back though, eh?
Posted 6 years ago # -
I never cease to be exasperated by people who seem reluctant to exert the tiny amount of upper body effort involved in turning their f****ing steering wheel (or, indeed, flipping their indicator stalk). Some of the corner cutting I see just at the junctions on my street makes me wince. Road positioning in general seems to be treated as a wildly approximate science by far too many.
If people who can't be *rsed to drive properly had the privilege withdrawn for a period of time then they might find themselves a bit more grateful for being allowed to do it at all, and take a bit more effort to do it within the laws and regulations drawn up specifically to help everyone get along safely together on the roads. But I suppose that would require a body of people responsible for policing the behaviour of road users. Oh, hang on...
Posted 6 years ago # -
So I'm going down the High Street to meet the council and the High Street is jammed. A dude has stopped to do some urgent Transiting on the double yellows, a guy driving his heavy goods vehicle the other way up the medieval centre of the UNESCO etc and a big faux by four have all got wedged in tight. 4x4 starts backing out straight into me so I boot his bumper to indicate my presence and go round him through the bike-sized gap that has developed.
HGV man opines that I am a 'f***ing bell-end', a proposition few who know me would spend too long arguing about. Not sure the situation was totally my fault mind.
Posted 6 years ago #
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