Must confess I did a little pavement cycling past those temp lights last night in the dark.
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11333 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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Posted 8 years ago #
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oh no, someone else to try and identify for Spotted. I'm still trying to find wingpig. So far I know:
* Sometimes rides a bike near where I ride a bike
* Quite tallNot quite enough to make a positive id. Just enough to sound creepy?
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@Erob - Inspiration may be just a glance away...
</in joke>
Robert
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Oi, Erob - I'm wingpig's creepy hidden stalker. Find your own target to follow!
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Two decent (though ultimately pointless) overtakes in this. However, I really don't understand why people pull up next to me at junctions, so I'm labeling it as rubbish:
@Stickman Sorry, I didn't know the role was taken (you must be pretty good at hiding!).
I'm out of my depth anyway. Maybe I should start with an easier Spot, say, hanging out near the meadows looking for recliners.
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"hanging out near the meadows looking for recliners"
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Yet more streets familiar to me there Erob...
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Astra Estate at Redford Roundabout, white 13 plate, driver using phone pointed it out to them gave me a sheepish look, would expect so given he was a police officer.
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May have prevented a head on collision last night:
He may have seen the oncoming traffic in time (its not a very sharp bend), even without sticking my arm out.
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Pulling away from the Ponton Street lights to go west along Fountainbridge, I wobbled a bit right from my line and was startled to come way too close to one of those big heavy motorcycles with lots of panniers. The driver remarked "Easy way to get yourself killed, darling" - of course it was far too late by the time I thought to yell "Easy way to kill someone - pass too close!"
He has no right to assume that I am going to pull away i a straight line - if he thought he was going to hit me then he was too close.
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Beware small red car S something 10 ENN, whose driver came verrrry close passing me and the wingpiglet in his seat at the Constitution St/Bernard St junction, then moved even further to the left. I went around to the right and attempted to address them through their window, which was open an inch but was shut as I spoke, so I settled for making various "WTF?", small-distance and pointing-at-small-child gestures. Then they did it again along Commercial Street, the lights at the wst of which were unfortunately green, allowing them to escape.
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@Fimm - ooh and the 'darling' is just the icing on the cake
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@wingpig SG10ENN is a red (Glasgow registered) Nissan Micra - seems a plausible match. I'd report someone with that little consideration for the more diminutive of your sounder.
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@sallyhinch oh yes absolutely.
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Young driver of a silver Pug 308 was very very lucky on two counts.
The first was that in passing me on the south road in the Park, as I was doing 25mph and downhill, into a blind bend, with no fewer than three cars appearing the other way, moments after having to wait behind because an earlier car had been coming the other way demonstrating it was possible, he somehow didn't hit me.
The second was that at the end of Duddingston Village he was turning right, otherwise I'd have ripped his wing mirrors off and shoved them somewhere particularly uncomfortable.
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Someone ignoring me and steaming across from Vanburgh Place to Easter Road when I was already well on my way across to Easter Road from Duke Street.
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Silly Little Fiat 500 (HN14 GVU) with plastic wheel trims (didn't study hard enough at school to get an Esseesse?) coming up Craiglea Drive at speed sufficient to whack parts of their bodywork on the speed bumps leaves about half a handlebars width as they passed myself and micro Twinspark cycling line astern between St. Ronan's and St. Fillan's Terraces. Their rush was to park in St. Fillan's Terrace!
Balance restored by a rather tasteful Audi Q7 passing slow and wide.
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MGIF female in mini on Ardmillan Terrace attempting to get the back of the queue for the red light before me - so I filtered to the front of the queue.
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Coming up Clermiston Drive this afternoon, to a section where there are cars parked blocking most of the opposite lane. Driver behind me decides it is very important to overtake while he still can. He's getting back into the lane ahead of me with just about enough room to spare, when a van - Corstorphine Roofing/Plumbing/Something? - comes roaring up on my right, obviously hoping to make it through the same no-longer-big-enough gap. I realise there won't be space and brake sharply just as he realises he's about to hit a parked car ahead and swerves into the space about a foot from my front wheel.
Still, he made it to the T-junction a good eight seconds ahead of me, so I'm sure that was worth it.
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@calluna wow, that sounds horrendous!
For my part, I was clipped by a red fiesta who's driver decided to overtake a group of ~20. He made it passed 3 before merging into us.
SN65 PVU
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Deliveroo moped going at about 35mph along the lumpity cobbles of Rutland Place, jinking and swerving all the way.
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@calluna:
Corstorphine Roofing have previous for bad driving round cyclists.
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Thermal plumbing van couldn't wait 1 second to wait for me to turn right off Marchmont Road today and went up the inside of me and passenger within inches. I will livid and did some angry shouting - not normally like me. I told him to stop but he was too much of a coward.
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The Preston Bus driver who kept overtaking me before pulling in to stops as I cycled to the railway station just now. They then overtook me on the far side of the road on a blind corner, but then pullef in before completing the overtake and honked their horn for good measure. Reported online...
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Large black Audi (reg FIL ****) who couldn't wait the two seconds behind me to get to the junction of Saughtonhall Crescent and Balgreen Road. When I turned round to get him to hold back the red-faced, blazered driver gave me a torrent of abuse, ending with "pay some f***ng road tax".
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Driver who reversed into me waiting in the cycle box after the lights went red.
Sorry love, didn't see you there, are you OK?
I just shook my head.
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Yesterday at Perth Sheriff Court, Sheriff William Wood said the driving did not amount to “dangerous” and was in the mid-range of careless driving.
Sheriff Wood said: “It’s certainly nowhere near dangerous driving, yet it’s not simply momentary inattention, because there was 32 seconds where he should have seen the vehicle.
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Not today, but on Friday evening I counted the number of drivers on mobiles as I walked home from my local shops. In less than three minutes I counted six. That was in one direction; no reason to suppose those going the other way were any better.
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Large black boxy thing SK11 something being driven too close to me so its driver could get past me before a pinch point on Grange Road this morning. Large maroon #5 bus SE11 or SA11 something jumping the red from Morningside Road to Church Hill (which was full) and subsequently blocking half the junction.
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