1. ASZs don't operate after half-six (a stop-line is a stop line people!)
2. You're allowed to load/unload on double red lines (nope!)
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)
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Things drivers have said to me...
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Posted 13 years ago #
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Usually drivers don't say anything to me, I'm probably too big and scary
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
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"Touch my van again and I'll break your @#&*ing arms" after he'd squeezed me against some railings.
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.
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.
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Toot!!
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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.
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"What do you know about driving", (from an incompetent in a small hatchback)
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"where did you come from,?"
From the driver who had just overtaken me and left hooked me at a mini round about !
closely followed by, whos gonna pay for my door ?
size 9 steel toe caps v doorskin : )Posted 13 years ago # -
Fifth) It's a British Waterway byelaw that you have to dismount under the canal bridges
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.
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vi. Legally you have to wear a helmet to cycle don't you? (from my hairdresser but she is a driver)
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)
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"You're supposed to keep over to the left"
Posted 13 years ago # -
vi... that's why you should go to the barbers :P
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"You're supposed to keep over to the left"
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.
CEC took it away (good thing too)>
STILL a very dangerous roundabout.
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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!!
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.
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.
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""You're supposed to keep over to the left""
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.
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"you should be in the cycle lane" (repeat until bored)
"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
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Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!
Get off the road!
What's your problem, you radge?
Are you on drugs, mate? Ha ha ha! (After the TdF doping scandals)
Waaaaaaaaaaaankaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Ha ha ha! (usually a van passenger or car load of yoof)
Are you trying to get yourself killed, pal? !*#*!ing cyclist!
Oh, sorry I didn't see you.
Are you alright? You gave me a fright coming out of nowhere like that.
(continues, ad nauseam)
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Not a very nice day for cycling.
NO. It is ALWAYS 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.Posted 13 years ago # -
I think Claggy Clog defines it well (if flipped) as 'Dogma Excrement'.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Ha ha! Well said wfb! True Scots grit!
Which reminds of the other thing drivers always say (usually when you meet them socially, out of their cars, not on the road).
"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."
Posted 13 years ago # -
if I do speak to them usually it is just to tell them to have a nice day - it really galls them
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It is ALWAYS a nice day for cycling.
Thank you thank you! I should be much less upset the next time it happens to me.
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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?
I wish they would say that, then I could answer Yes, I do mind, I mind a great deal!
Posted 13 years ago # -
People often say to me ......... "hey you what are you doing in my garden?"
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