There's a small section of road works on gilmore place at the moment. Yesterday evening as I was on my way to work in Leith I was cycling through these road works I became aware of a car behind me driving very close. The driver started honking me so I turned my head to have a look only to see the guy gesticulating and mouthing the words "hurry the f**k up" (I'm no lip reader but I think that's what he was saying). anyway when the section of road works ended the guy accelerated past me so close that I extended my arm slightly off the handlebars and he hit me with his nearside wing mirror so hard that it folded in towards the door. He then drove in front of me and pulled his handbrake sweeny style so the car skidded to a halt at a 45 degree angle with the pavement. He jumped out the car and tried to grab me off my bike so I cycled a wide bearth round him and he got back in the car and roared up behind me I honestly thought he was going to hit me but then we were at the lights. He screached to a halt and jumped out to grab me again but once again I evaded capture by hammering the pedals and blasting past him then the traffic was to thick for him to catch me and I was gone......but the question remains....WTF???? It all happened so fast that I didn't get the reg or the make of car but it was a small black hatchback with an angry cockney behind the wheel!
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Road Raging on Gilmore Place
(18 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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If you recall the time check with LRT if any of their buses passed this car on the way and caught the reg (or the incident) on their front mounted CCTV cameras?
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Horrible and nasty! those roadworks are a bit annoying (and that turny bit of road is often a bit of a chokepoint) but surely not that bad.
I go down Gilmore place fairly regularly, but if going to town, have been trying Fountainbridge instead (except that I have yet to correctly judge the one-ways). Am fairly sure that it works better to go that way from Yeaman Place and then come out lower down past the worse of Tollcross. Definitely a better return trip.
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I don't even know what to say. That is horrendous. Glad you got away okay.
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I think thats why Kyrptonite invented the New York lock... People like that are just asking to be beat around the head a lot!!
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I managed to get through the whole incident without saying a word to the guy. I think my heart was beating too fast to talk.
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Wow recombodna that's awful. Well done on keeping your temper.
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I felt slightly paranoid going through Gilmore Place last night and this morning.
If I do encounter any bad guys, I will try to emulate you and just get away (I usually make the mistake of telling people what I think of what they did).
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Christ that's awful - well done for staying out of trouble. 'WTF' indeed!
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I have to say I haven't had an Inccident like that for a very long time.My first thought was 'I don't have time for this I'm late for work" then I seriously thought the guy was a pure nutter and would inflict pain and damage upon me so self preservation took over.The thing that gets me is one minute you're in so much of a hurry you can't wait 2 seconds for a cyclist to pull in to the left, the next minute you've got time to stop for a fight??
Funnily enough....ha ha ha ....the last time somthing like that happened was just along the road about three years ago as I was turning right into Polwarth place with the kids in the trailer and a van over took me and clipped my front wheel.I caught up wth the guy and said "what was that about?" and he jumped out and punched me in the face and drove away. I got the reg that time and the police had a wee word with him. Luckily he didn't spoil my rakish good looks.Posted 14 years ago # -
"Horrible and nasty! those roadworks are a bit annoying"
Lights might have held car up, bike would hardly make any difference!
"(and that turny bit of road is often a bit of a chokepoint)"
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In these photos the works have moved to the other side of the road.At the time of my altercation they were longer and on the left side of the road.
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"In these photos the works have moved to the other side of the road"
A moving problem then!
They were taken yesterday.
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Yeah they moved them early thursday morning.
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I've not been held up at the light at all this week - it seems to change very quickly. Last time there was a similar set up, it was much more obstructive.
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There are people out there who really shouldn't have a driving licence.
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Pleased to report that roadworks now gone. Idiot doubtless still on the roads though!
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@recombodna - the cockney nutter is at extreme end of behaviour but is a reminder that insane people drive cars - recollect that a Glaswegian gangster was recently out for a drive with a few bottles of buckie etc and weaving across the M74 in his van, a passing motorist [who may or may not have interacted with him about his driving] was then pursued for three miles, rammed off the road after three miles and killed. I remember this just after I have flipped the bird to some white van diver on the lanrak road who has tried to pass me with one millimetre clearance whilst I am wearing the only Tunnocks Teacake Top on the Lanark Road. Another thing I try to keep in my head when subjected to bad driving is Russian Mafia.
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