little fvcker playing chicken with me
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I had images of the incident becoming a harry flashman moment. Some tt in camden decided to walk out in the road before me with a stupid smile on his face, step back, then step forward. So I thought fk this, didnt change my course or speed at all, and went straight into him with my shoulder.
He went down like a sack of spuds, and then evinced an intention to kill me. If I hadnt been late for an appointment I would have probably gone back and taken great pleasure in stoving his moronic face in with my D lock.
If it had been a smaller person it probably would have knocked them off their bike. Be careful out there people.
He went down like a sack of spuds, and then evinced an intention to kill me. If I hadnt been late for an appointment I would have probably gone back and taken great pleasure in stoving his moronic face in with my D lock.
If it had been a smaller person it probably would have knocked them off their bike. Be careful out there people.
After several near misses through london. Many of which involved me shouting in public to get them out of the way; I bought a bell.
Fair play though, what's the best angle of approach? A colleague once took out a pedestrian and ended up going over the bars and made quite a mess of his face. The ideal scenario would be to be able to keep going.
Fair play though, what's the best angle of approach? A colleague once took out a pedestrian and ended up going over the bars and made quite a mess of his face. The ideal scenario would be to be able to keep going.
more by luck the anything else that I didnt come off. It's all well and good that he did it to me and I'm a big lad and it did me no harm - but if he had done it to my missus on one of our sunday excursions, there is no doubt I would have done him some serious harm. No doubt at all.
Again, a further reason to discourage her from cycling to work...
Again, a further reason to discourage her from cycling to work...
Well done. People like this are tts.
I am a pretty bad cyclist in as much as I have a short temper, and people playing games like this need to learn not to be s.
Today in fact, some guy coming the other way on hammersmith bridge pretended to swerve onto my side of the road then laughed. I turned round followed him down to the traffic jam he was stuck in and asked if he wanted to get out of his car and tell me what was funny about his actions. Surprisingly he declined.
I am a pretty bad cyclist in as much as I have a short temper, and people playing games like this need to learn not to be s.
Today in fact, some guy coming the other way on hammersmith bridge pretended to swerve onto my side of the road then laughed. I turned round followed him down to the traffic jam he was stuck in and asked if he wanted to get out of his car and tell me what was funny about his actions. Surprisingly he declined.
Run him over and kill him, I believe you'll only get a £2000 fine at the most.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/england/beds/bucks/...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/england/beds/bucks/...
Edited by KrazyIvan on Thursday 24th March 09:32
KrazyIvan said:
Run him over and kill him, I believe you'll only get a £2000 fine at the most.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/england/beds/bucks/...
2 grand is value to do my bit to clean up the gene pool non? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/england/beds/bucks/...
Edited by KrazyIvan on Thursday 24th March 09:32
What I really hate is when peds look at you coming then walk across blithely.
It happens when driving sometimes, which would indicate that people must have a basic lack of imagination or faith in my good nature, but in that instance I don't run them over so I guess they win.
So I try to do the same on my bike, i.e. not kill them.
Sometimes if I've feeling particularly aggreesive I mutter or shout something about the red man, buy since I am daily witness to swarms of cyclists swerving around peds as they cross on the green man they probably scoff at the irony.
It happens when driving sometimes, which would indicate that people must have a basic lack of imagination or faith in my good nature, but in that instance I don't run them over so I guess they win.
So I try to do the same on my bike, i.e. not kill them.
Sometimes if I've feeling particularly aggreesive I mutter or shout something about the red man, buy since I am daily witness to swarms of cyclists swerving around peds as they cross on the green man they probably scoff at the irony.
I was going through a light on amber, the red man was still lit. Some thespie looking bloke with a cravat jumped out and told me to stop. I swerved and told him to fk off. I've seen some people hammer through a red just about dodging people on the crossing so I suppose some people tar us all with the same brush.
In the case of people looking at you and still working I reckon it's just that they underestimate the speed you can get up to.
In the case of people looking at you and still working I reckon it's just that they underestimate the speed you can get up to.
Dont get me wrong, if I thought that he was just trying to cross the road and he got it wrong (which is easy enough to do), I would have of course gone around him or slowed. However since the little fecker clearly wanted to play games I thought I would join in.
Just be careful out there people - the peds are out to get us!
Just be careful out there people - the peds are out to get us!
Sorry to be a dissenting voice but regardless of the rights and wrongs of what he did I'm not sure deliberately riding into the bloke is to be commended. Let's say you catch him wrong, he falls badly and smashes his head in and witnesses say you took no avoiding action. Seems you're a solicitor, what would the law say on that?
Sorry to sound a bit namby pamby but my point is not that he didn't 'deserve' it, just that it's not really worth you taking the risk. Or in another scenario you fall off as a result of an avoidable collision and smash your own head in. Is some smart-ass tt really worth that risk?
Sorry to sound a bit namby pamby but my point is not that he didn't 'deserve' it, just that it's not really worth you taking the risk. Or in another scenario you fall off as a result of an avoidable collision and smash your own head in. Is some smart-ass tt really worth that risk?
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