I had put my nose in front of a white hire van at the lights,(potential suicide I know) knowing I’d pull off faster than him for the upcoming left hander. As I pulled off I lifted my foot and it hit something, quick glimpse showed white van man was now right on my back wheel, twisted the throttle to open my gap. Looked back after the corner to see him tearing up my tail again. Seeing the traffic slowing ahead I increase my gap again then filter through the traffic to get away from this moron.
We both get stopped at the next set of lights and he must be at least 15-20 cars back, in my mirrors I see him jump out of his van and come running down the line, I put the bike in neutral put the side stand down but remained on the bike watching him. As he got next to me, he grabbed my jacket shouting “who’s the w!$%er now”, the reply didn’t come from me.
It came from the copper sat in the car next to me, “I think you’ll find you are sir”, genius. The guy had seen red so badly he’d completely missed the hi-viz focus next to me. Which was the only reason I hadn’t moved to a more defensive position. I don’t think they did too much with him as the told me to go, but I’d like to think that he’d think twice before being such a tw@t
I had put my nose in front of a white hire van at the lights,(potential suicide I know) knowing I’d pull off faster than him for the upcoming left hander. As I pulled off I lifted my foot and it hit something, quick glimpse showed white van man was now right on my back wheel, twisted the throttle to open my gap. Looked back after the corner to see him tearing up my tail again. Seeing the traffic slowing ahead I increase my gap again then filter through the traffic to get away from this moron.
We both get stopped at the next set of lights and he must be at least 15-20 cars back, in my mirrors I see him jump out of his van and come running down the line, I put the bike in neutral put the side stand down but remained on the bike watching him. As he got next to me, he grabbed my jacket shouting “who’s the w!$%er now”, the reply didn’t come from me.
It came from the copper sat in the car next to me, “I think you’ll find you are sir”, genius. The guy had seen red so badly he’d completely missed the hi-viz focus next to me. Which was the only reason I hadn’t moved to a more defensive position. I don’t think they did too much with him as the told me to go, but I’d like to think that he’d think twice before being such a tw@t[/quote]
Fanf*ckingtastic! I would love to have seen the look on that tossers face!:D:P
Oh the face was classic, the voice was clearly a coppers, not wanting to generalize but If we were to imagine it we’d all come up with something familiar. But he hadn’t quite worked it out as he turned.
Thats hilarious! I wish I could have been there or that the police had a camera running!!!
Road rage is rife here - a guy couldnt be arsed turning the wheel on his massive car so nudged my bike on the way past to a pump at the petrol station. He had his window down so I told him that he had hit my bike. He kept saying he couldn’t hear me (I had my helmet on) so I said “okay” and carried on putting my gloves on. He then parked up and came stomping over and threatened me by saying “I am going to kick you down, kick you and that bike down!” This was followed by a lot of grief for not being from here (now he was black with a caribbean accent and I am brown with a scottish accent so dont know who loses that argument! :P) and he said that I was wasting time by putting my gloves on. I put the side stand down and said “go on then…if it will make you feel like a big man, fecking kick me down then!” Fortunately he didnt and he walked into the shop leaving me to ride away. It amazes me how crazy living in London makes people :crazy: I also cant believe he started a fight with a girl - he was twice my size!
Quality, and priceless. You just have to love life sometimes when things like that happen. People just don’t expect it.
I remember when I was filling in a load of forms, and there was a girl sat next to me. She didn’t understand them and asked a question and from her accent was obviously foreign. The guy had patience and replied with the patronising quote “they are very simple, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist!”, to which she replied “I am, and also have a degree in Nuclear Physics and these don’t make any sense.”
Nonsense, I wouldn’t worry about it to much, he is obviously a bully and thinks that everyone should have “respect” for him. No doubt he gets a massive ego boost for pushing around people smaller than him. His type are becoming far to common and cause to much trouble.
Someone cut in front of me yesterday, so I braked sharply and gave him a toot of the horn. Well, he went mental !
I could see him bouncing around in his seat - his arms were waving around and he was obviously shouting at me in his rear-view mirror. All that for a little “Oi, I’m here!” beep.
Some people are just crazy. They’ll probably die of stress-related heart failure at 50.
My fave story like that was leaving BM a few months back and when you come out of the back street I turned right towards Westminster. At the big set of lights up ahead I pulled up waiting to turn left and about 3 other bikes, scoots and cyclists are there with me. Light goes green and we all move off, and I kid you not, ALL 4 of us were doing front wheel stoppies as a HUGE Volvo driven by an utter VULVA blasts through the red light nearly killing all of us.
Naturally lots of swearing and gesturing, and as I’m going left, I follow this TART to the next traffic jam and pull up next to him. I tap on the window, he kindly winds it down and screams “F**K OFF you CN*T” in my face… at which point I get a tap on the shoulder. Right next to me is a van CHOCK Full of plod who’d seen the WHOLE thing.
Magic
I slowly turn back to look at the guy whose now white, shaking and looking very very very sorry. I wave to the copper, he winks at me as I roll off and I can hear the hair-dryer tearing this guy a new arswhole as I ride off laughing. “What kind of driving do you call that sir?!? Pull your vehicle over to a safe spot right now and get out!! I want to see your insurance, and your driving licence RIGHT NOW!!”
fella tried with my mate one morning in rush hour, he actually leant into my mates car and slapped him round the face…what he didnt bank on was when my mate stopped and got out the car he realised matey is 6’5 and 18 stone:w00t:
oops!..
