Cage drivers and their mobiles

This is a huge bug bear of mine.
I do not understand how drivers still happily natter on their mobiles whilst driving.
Can they be reported?
And how?
I am no angel when it comes to road using, mostly speed related, but I find that I am at my sharpest the faster I go.

buy a 136db horn, fit it to your bike, and hold your thumb on the horn button while riding alongside them.

works a treat!!!

I do that with my Akrapovic Makes me laff

I know the feeeeeling!!!

I hear ya…

with ya there m8, totally pisses me off, more so when i am in the car and ya see some1 infront talking and tryingto drive in traffic, seems the new law has done fvck all to stop em.

Wot gets me too is ya get police stops etc for cars driving with no tax/insurance (which is cool) but i have not seen 1 just specific for phones, if they done it down jamaica rd 4-6 pm i am sure they will get loads od the b@stards.

Police should have a site where if you see a phone/driving offender ya take a pic with ya phone and can send it in, as long as you get reg number in pic too they can send a dont do it again letter, they do this for speeding where ya get volunteers/civilians with a speed camera.

Maybe could do a londonbikers thing with the police at side of road taking pics with plates etc etc.

Women cant drive at the best of times let alone with a phone stuck to their ear, lol.
i gonna get it in the ear now, lol.

I too hate cagers on mobiles while moving, i usually shout at them saying that it is illegal to do what they are doing, loud enough for others to hear and try and shame the cager. You`ll be suprised how many put the phone down in shame.

so we start a petition… for cops to do something for once!

that’s right, as usual,…blame the cops!.
it’s the government you should be aiming this at & not us don’t you think?.
after all, even we, the police are governed by their legislation.

:slight_smile:

If I’m right the OP was in 2007 and here we are 5 years later and still the same old story. Had a very hairy moment yesterday coming home when a talkative young cager swerved over in front of me as I was overtaking her (not speeding). screamed and shouted at her and she looked back at me like I was talking Swahili and shrugged her shoulders.
I would love to find a system where you wore a camera or foghorn on your left forearm and you could use either if you spotted someone on the phone.
Anyone else got any solutions - for me a smart smash on the wing mirror normally wakes them up!

Even when they are stationairy at lights or wherever, it’s still illegal. Punch the window and watch them **** themselves :slight_smile: It bugs the hell out of me.

Lets not bother the goverment ,lets keep it to street justice . I think it has potential for more interesting threads in the future .

Cops aren’t to blame, the attitude of “no one else is important and I know what I’m doing so piss off” is the problem…

But to change that, you need to change about 2000 years of British history…

Look on the birght side tho… most (not all, but most) people now wear seat belts and agree that drink driving isn’t acceptable… so there is hope… (disappointment too, but hope feels better to cling on to desperately… clinging on desperately to disappointment would just be too miserable I reckon :wink:

saw a woman reading a book today…

Really? That happened to me too this morning.

I yelled at her & she pointed to the “Silence” sign above the bookcase & then the librarian came over & threw me out… :ermm:

One of the few that can read…

To me it sounds like an easy problem to fix - just resource up the police enough and have lots of them out 'n about on the roads (on bikes) - cost’s money I know…but oh well.

Just think how many they would catch (think how many you see on your daily commute).

If they did this on a daily basis it would soon put the fear into cagers 'n over time they would stop.

Or give me some blue lights and a taser :slight_smile:

Judging by the number of drivers on the phone and generally dring like knobs, you’d think that a bike cop would pay for himself twice over in fines collected.

I guess the cash flow isn’t as simple as that though.

Still, I’d be happy to join the blue lights and taser street justice team :smiley:

“I find that I am at my sharpest the faster I go”

Dickhead

Really?? The ‘Great British Public’ normally just give me the finger or tell me to go forth and multiply :angry: