Today's wanker

[Simon Proven]

Coming around blind corner, in primary riding position for obvious reasons. Arsehole overtakes
anyway against oncoming traffic and forces me to swerve (he came within a few inches and was still
moving leftwards). He'd actually started swerving into me when his front wing was level with me.

Half of me wishes we'd actually collided, in the hope of being able to take it to the police.

Yours cathartically,

Simon

[Colin Blackburn]

In article <pwEQa.11535$nP.4718@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net>,
simon.proven@ntlworld.ptang.com says...
>
> Coming around blind corner, in primary riding position for obvious reasons. Arsehole overtakes
> anyway against oncoming traffic and forces me to swerve (he came within a few inches and was still
> moving leftwards). He'd actually started swerving into me when his front wing was level with me.

This happens to be regularly on one bend in Durham. It never ceases to amaze me that some drivers
are prepared to consider driving head-on into an oncoming car, their only escape route being to
knock off a cyclist.

My "Today's Wanker" was the guy who sort of overtook me on a roundabout. It's a smallish (but not
mini) roundabout. My approach road in one lane widening to two at the mouth. I want to right and so
get over to the right behind the car, behind the bus, both turning right. As I see a car come to a
halt behind me I signal right just to let him know in case he is going left. As the bus goes I move
forward, the car behind me then moves to the left alongside me. The car in front goes, I wait for
the next gap and go. As I do the car alongside suddenly signals right and sets off at the same time
as me. I am now hemmed in between the car and the roundabout wondering exactly what the guy is
doing. As we go around together he decides to speed up and take the same exit we came on at. This
was lucky for me as it meant I could get off at my exit but I was considering going around twice
just to stay safe.

Colin

[Sue]

In message <pwEQa.11535$nP.4718@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net>, Simon Proven
<simon.proven@ntlworld.ptang.com> writes
>
>Coming around blind corner, in primary riding position for obvious reasons. Arsehole overtakes
>anyway against oncoming traffic and forces me to swerve (he came within a few inches and was still
>moving leftwards). He'd actually started swerving into me when his front wing was level with me.
>
>Half of me wishes we'd actually collided, in the hope of being able to take it to the police.
>

I've had that happen at a ped crossing / pinch point.

There was a Q of cars doing maybe 10mph and I'd moved out so that I was behind the towball of the
last car. Then Mr Handjob tried to pass me on my right, saw the island coming towards him and moved
left although I was beside his front wing. I suppose he expected me to mount the pavement and hit
the thicket of lights and signs around the crossing.

I was riding a hybrid with straight steel handlebar and bar-end extensions. He was moving barely
faster than me. I did a swift risk assessment and stayed on the road. Mr Handjob's mirror missed me,
but his doors and rear wing didn't miss my handlebar. The scrape made so much noise for so long that
peds on the pavement were turning round to look - yet somehow he couldn't hear a thing. He just kept
moving on as fast as he could - maybe 12mph, but he just caught the next set of traffic lights and
got away from me.

New car, too - I wonder what he told his insurance company?

--
Sue ];(:)

[Taywood]

Mine 's the old codger on a country lane riding a cheap mountain bike with a large plastic open box
on his rear carrier and with one bar end on top of another on each side of his bar. I saw him
rounding the corner ahead in a sitting up stance.

I was riding into the sun and as slowly I approached the entrance to a microlight airfield a large
tractor pulled out without slowing.

I stopped, half expecting it, the tractor turned right, in front of the old codger but the OC
couldnt stop as his hands were too far away from his brakes in such an emergency. The back of the
tractor trailer stopped him. Mike

[Dave Larrington]

Here's a fun one. I am Proceeding northbound onto the very bottom of the Leyton High Road, through,
I might add, a /green/ traffic light, when Captain Twatter decides that he *must* overtake
immediately, if not sooner. That there is insufficient space so to do makes no difference to Captain
Twatter, who merely mounts his offside wheels upon the traffic island housing the traffic lights.

Both the expensive low profile tyres on the offside of his motorcar burst, with deeply satisfying
noises. I larffed.

Someone else tried this up Forest Road in Walthamstow a couple of years back - not to me. He
struck the island an altogether more convincing blow, demolishing both the "keep left" sign and a
sturdy lamp post. *His* motorcar ended up lying on its back, pleading to have its axles tickled. I
larffed again.

Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
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[Dave]

"Dave Larrington" <legs_larry@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Here's a fun one. I am Proceeding northbound onto the very bottom of the Leyton High Road,
> through, I might add, a /green/ traffic light, when Captain Twatter decides that he *must*
> overtake immediately, if not
sooner.
> That there is insufficient space so to do makes no difference to Captain Twatter, who merely
> mounts his offside wheels upon the traffic island housing the traffic lights.
>
> Both the expensive low profile tyres on the offside of his motorcar burst, with deeply satisfying
> noises. I larffed.
>
> Someone else tried this up Forest Road in Walthamstow a couple of years back - not to me. He
> struck the island an altogether more convincing
blow,
> demolishing both the "keep left" sign and a sturdy lamp post. *His* motorcar ended up lying on its
> back, pleading to have its axles tickled.
I
> larffed again.
>
> Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
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> Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter
> http://www.bhpc.org.uk/
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Sounds bloody satisfying, has to be said ;-) Guess you were lucky it didn't just deflect him back
across the road at you...... Dave.