I am not suprised by much when it comes to drivers in London these days. With so many uninsured drivers on our roads I am not suprised that so many of them have so little regard for the laws of the road and for the rest of the road users. However I have now had enough!
A regular feature of my ride to and from work is through semi suburban roads with speed humps and with cars parked on either side of the road and enough space for two cars to pass with care. What gets my goat is drivers who straddle the middle hump as they believe that it will save their cars suspension but do it as I try to pass thereby forcing me into a tiny gap between them and parked cars. This I am used to and look out for every day, tonight though was different.
Two cars having a little race up a suburban road towards me, nothing strange there, 1st car starts to move over to staddle the hump and I think “uh oh”. Start to slow down when driver number 2 sees the fun and moves almost completly onto my side of the road with a broad grin on his face. Why do people do it, do they think it’s fun, do they think it’s cool?
Having sh*t myself I continued on my way home nursing a slightly sore knee.:crying:
The driver will have to look for a new wing mirror.
Moral of the story, I no longer care about bad drivers as I am going to start my own “kick a c*cks wing mirror group”
I once dented a front wing on a Lexus when he decided to straddle two lanes on Hanger Lane gyratory and park his car on my foot. One swift punch to the panel got his attention and he move forward and took his wing mirror out on my handle bars.
He got the hump and wound his mirror down to which I left loose a barrage of abuse about his stupidy, manhood, driving ability and the level of his intelligence. He drove off when the lights turned green without saying a word.
yep - funny how even despite their big metal box, a well directed stare, gesture or verbal torrent from a fairly exposed individual in comparison, can really put them on the back foot… One guy started trying to cut into the lane that I was in and force me out the way so he could turn at the next junction - I’ve never seen quite such a funny reaction as him showing actual fear when I turned to face him and all he would have seen was his dumb-ass reflection in my silver iridium visor… :w00t:
Welcome to the club… now that will be £20 in membership dues… but well worth it once you consider the satisfaction you will be able to afford on a daily basis.
Yes when I lived in London it was normal to rack up 3-5 mirrors a day in commuting from home-work-home… nothing new there.
Now I am in Madrid, they are a bit more lax but still manage an occasional mirror on the way to work and back. My best one was one of the “famous” Madrid taxis… should have seen the look on his face when a) it went backwards (towards the front of the car) and b) at that point pushing down slightly it snaps!.. next time use the flucking thing and you wont have it removed T@wt…
anyway.,. am sure that you will come up with many games to play with your new found joys of biking!
ironic that by removing their mirros, they then will be even less likely to see when you’re filtering sometime.
i had a range rover SHB 53 cut me up on the A23 about 4 months ago, i kicked his front wing as i went through and then the geezer stated chasing me, his passenger was hangin out the window trying to smack my head with a crooklock thing :crazy: Fair **** myself i did, and was thankful that i can get through small gaps!!!
Lol. You should know better than to mess with a Range Rover in that part of town! Trouble is the Rangy you mention uses the A23 every day- I see him regularly, and if he wasn’t before he is certainly now looking to scare the wits out of any ptw he sees. Bad news for you and for the rest of us.
tbh, he scared me so much i did my DA in order to get a new vehicle and bought a new lid the next day in a different colour
he deliberately tried to run me off the road in the first place, then his passenger tried to assault me with a crook lock, but yeah, in order to save everyone any hassle next time i’ll just carry on and let him go without saying a word.
A cager winds you up, you get an adrenaline rush, you kick his mirror off, he’s now mad as hell with all bikers and you are in a very dangerous frame of mind for riding, your concentration on what really matters has gone to pot.
Better by far to just chill and shrug off all the mindless things others do - there will always be twats on the road, just spot them before they take you out. So just take a deep breath and consciously keep concentrating on the road and traffic ahead. No-one has been wound-up, and you are a far better rider for it.
My best one was one of the “famous” Madrid taxis… should have seen the look on his face when a) it went backwards (towards the front of the car) and b) at that point pushing down slightly it snaps!.. next time use the flucking thing and you wont have it removed T@wt…
