What was the "disappointing incident"?
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(11330 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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This was a bus trying to squish me out on the way to the southbound Elm Row stop, changing lanes towards me before it had passed me )or even begun to pass me).
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@wingpig I had a similar thing happen to me on Slateford Road this morning. Lothian bus moved to pass me and started to move over for the bus stop whilst level with me. At least the driver eventually realised he wasn't going to get past me before the bus stop and dropped back. It was a pointless manoeuvre though, he should have just hung back from the start.
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Private Pseudotaxi ST05 MVU, possibly plate #21, who must have been the person beeping me on George Street and who shared his misguidr misguided views about "cycle facilities the council has spent thousands implementing" which I wasn't using but "should be in", from his vanatage point beside me in the advanced stop zone
I was toting a wingpiglet in the seat so shall do him the honour of writing to the license people.Posted 8 years ago # -
That's a novel viewpoint - did you point out that he was IN a cycle facility?
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I pointed out that it was not mandatory for me to use the advisory cycle lane, particularly if I need to be in the right-hand lane, but that in all fairness it was also not mandatory for him to stay out if it, unlike the solid white line he had just crossed, on a red light, in order to burble coarsely at me, in the presence of a two-year-old.
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Numpty with lane discipline problems at Picardy Place, shouted at me to "get insurance". I couldn't get him to elaborate on how he had determined I didn't have any.
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'Next time' say "I'll show you mine if you show me yours"!
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Don't forget, even if you don't have 'bike insurance' you may well have some third party through other policies.
(I don't think I made that up - though it may only be with 'more expensive/comprehensive policies.)
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I've got third party through CTC membership I believe, so he was wholly wrong. Maybe I should start shouting similarly baseless accusations? "Oi you muppet, get a TV licence!"
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@chdot you didn't make that up. Many home insurance policies have it. Read the small print and you'll see you're covered for damage caused to others by basically any means other than a car.
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Ta
(Who reads the small print...?)
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Read the small print? Some of us have had to write the damned stuff....
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A guy in a VW hit the rear end of my Brompton this morning at the wee roundabout in Badgeddie. Looks like the luggage rack took the impact and is bent into the wheel.
I'll drop it off with Ben at the weekend and have it checked.
Not very exciting video edited for unparliamentary language.
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@wee folding bike - hope you were ok and the bike can be repaired.
I cycled up Leith Walk last night and it was a total disaster. One short section of the road with many many incidents!
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The people in their cars were going at it like puddings this evening. The weather at home time was horrible. Several drivists seemed to be blissfully unconcerned for anyone not on four wheels. Even having in front of them 300kg of enduro motorbike and rider doing 25mph in 30mph limits they thought nothing of tailgating me into the wind and rain.
The closer you drive to me, the slower I'll go.
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Switched on the tv to see that The One Show have a thing where people are sending in footage of themselves miming along to songs.....when driving in the car. Lots of people showing off to camera and clearly not concentrating on the road.
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I hate The One Show. At least the short bit I saw (while switching the TV on to watch something else) was John Sargent telling drivers to use their wing mirrors to check for cyclists.
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@wee folding bike, hope you are OK. I had something very similar happen to my Brompton, though fortunately the only damage was a bit broken off the rack (still meant the whole rack had to be replaced...)
@CJC while not condoning the rest of the driving you filmed, surely the driver that stopped next to the parking place was setting themselves up to parallel park?
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Weefolding, what a pain. Glad you weren't taken out by that driver. I noted that the exhaust from the VW was still very steamy, suggesting they weren't long out in those conditions and should've been taking even more care.
A new Brompton rack isn't a cheap thing, either. :(
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During one of the many biblical downpours last week I was cycling along Corstorphine Road at around 5:45. Dark, windy and heavy rain. Much of the green lane had turned into a lake so I skirted along the edge of the water - still well inside the lane.
A taxi (T337 AAH I think) beeped me as he overtook aggressively, causing me to veer into the water and hit the kerb.
As is so often the case, his aggression didn't benefit his progress. I caught him up at the lights at Western Corner and asked why he'd been so aggressive.
"You should have been in on the left," he said.
"Did you see lake of water?" I asked.
"It's the same for all of us," he said, from the comfort of his air-conditioned taxi.
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If you are confident about most of those digits I'd report it.
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A council-logo-winged white van didn't like me staying in primary over the Sandport bridge yesterday morning so passed at considerable speed over the half-blind summit with an inch to spare. Didn't get the fleet number but have the registration, which will hopefully be enough for identification of the specific driver, though I'll request they make sure all their drivers are told to behave.
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@Firedog - sorry to hear about that - I experienced almost exactly the same on Lauriston place. It's unbelievable how unappreciative of others' situations being inside a warm car can make you. Hearing "The same for all of us" would have made me see red I think.... I'm sorry to say that reg isn't recognised...
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Yeah I've got a couple of digits wrong - but the driver was quite distinctive. I'd have got my phone out but the weather was too wet and miserable.
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@fimm not parallel parking, I stopped at the next set of lights and looked back - the driver left their car where it was, in the bus lane parallel to the space.
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@firedog it's a fairly distinctive registration, it shouldn't take the taxi officer long to match it to a list of registered black cabs.
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On the issue of picking up a car reg in the heat of the moment, with no time to get phone out.
I came across a Divers slate and pencil, which I was considering getting, cutting down the slate a bit to fit on handlebar. Perhaps ideal for the recent conditions.Posted 8 years ago # -
On the issue of picking up a car reg in the heat of the moment
This is how I know that the people who demand that cyclists should have registration plates have never really been in fear for their lives before.
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If you check the video from Wednesday you'll see me move out of frame just after the car hit my bike. I was photographing the number plate. I wasn't in fear of anything, had he hit it faster I was ready to jump onto the hood.
Arelicat, yes, I think he had been in Bargeddie to see his parents so would have just started.
Taking it to see Ben tomorrow and then off to the Common Wheel's annual sale.
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