One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4

[AlexRS2782]

nonsequitur said:

HTP99 said:

nonsequitur said:

Dozy driving instructor giving a lesson in a busy supermarket car park. When I consider all the potential hazards in such a location, not acceptable IMO.

How else are they going to learn to navigate such a scenario?

A few years ago a large supermarket chain banned such activity because of the delays and potential hazards.

The security at the local combined M&S / Tesco near me tend to keep an eye out and move them on where possible. About 6 months ago a Mini, belonging to a local driving school, side swiped 2 Audi Q5's whilst a pupil was attempting to reverse park. Fair bit of damage and pretty impressive going considering how large a Q5 is - i thought it would have been a decent target to avoid hitting, but hey ho.

Most of them have now decamped to the Sainsbury's down the road but you still get the odd instructor hoping not to get noticed by security.

Back when i was learning in '97 i still got taken to car parks to practice parking but was never instructed to use other parked cars as a "marker". You were just directed to reverse into the white lines in a quiet area. I passed my test and have never hit any cars whilst reverse parking. Not sure when it became a thing to use other cars as target practice tbh.

[ashleyman]

Kuji said:

Yup. Definitely no contravention lane there.

But, it was a pretty good try at blame deflection all the same.

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[KerwinRobertson]

Chavvy kn*bhead in a black Subaru Impreza STI. Waiting at traffic lights in a residential area, just before a roundabout, he comes screaming up alongside me, anchors on, and screeches to a halt with 3/4 of his car over the stop line. Then sits, bouncing the engine off the limiter for the next 15 seconds until the lights change, where he 'launches' off into the sunset. Just total Kn*bbery of the highest order.

[GOATever]

Quickben said:

Cretin.

He probably doesn’t like all the broken glass and dog st, that’s almost certainly all over the place on the path. I know it’s a tough concept for some ‘special’ motorists to understand, but here it is, IN THIS COUNTRY, HE DOESN’T HAVE TO USE A PATH JUST BECAUSE IT’S THERE

[GOATever]

Slaav said:

I saw that black cyclist with all the lights, horn, cameras front and back on Pall Mall/West End on Friday! He looks a proper plonker.... 'Road Angel' or something he calls himself - cycling around trying to Police the roads with his Go Pro and 'got you on camera' cries!

Traffic droid. Yes he doesn’t do himself any favours.

[Liquid Knight]

GOATever said:

Quickben said:

Cretin.

He probably doesn’t like all the broken glass and dog st, that’s almost certainly all over the place on the path. I know it’s a tough concept for some ‘special’ motorists to understand, but here it is, IN THIS COUNTRY, HE DOESN’T HAVE TO USE A PATH JUST BECAUSE IT’S THERE

Also shared cycle lanes and footpaths come under the footways and bridal paths act with a speed limit of 12mph (slow trot). If a cyclist is going faster than that they have to use the road.

[Blown2CV]

Liquid Knight said:

GOATever said:

Quickben said:

Cretin.

He probably doesn’t like all the broken glass and dog st, that’s almost certainly all over the place on the path. I know it’s a tough concept for some ‘special’ motorists to understand, but here it is, IN THIS COUNTRY, HE DOESN’T HAVE TO USE A PATH JUST BECAUSE IT’S THERE

Also shared cycle lanes and footpaths come under the footways and bridal paths act with a speed limit of 12mph (slow trot). If a cyclist is going faster than that they have to use the road.

we don't know the condition of the cycle path. We do know the guy is cycling very slowly.

[Dr Murdoch]

Liquid Knight said:

Also shared cycle lanes and footpaths come under the footways and bridal paths act with a speed limit of 12mph (slow trot). If a cyclist is going faster than that they have to use the road.

If thats the case I'll be annoying lots of drivers from tomorrow, I average 18mph on my commute (not TdF material, but quicker than a slow trot). I do use them where possible, if they aren't used by pedestrians.

Shared footpaths are generally only useful though for families/kids out for a ride, Daisy going to uni or Doris collecting her pension. Those who want to go from A - B quickly its not good (safe) for the pedestrians nor the cyclists.

[yellowjack]

Fermit and Sarah said:

Master Bean said:

Thesprucegoose said:

Looks like a bellend, probably is a bellend.

Bellend indeed. The irony is that he is probably more likely to be hit, as drivers try to read what he's stuck to his back.

All through PH we have threads popping up with monotonous regularity having a pop at cyclists for all sorts of perceived (but not actually offenses) offenses.

among the complaints?

They should wear silly plastic hats so that they aren't killed when I'm too stupid to see them and avoid knocking them off their bikes.
They should wear high visibility clothing so that I'm ever so slightly more likely to glance up from my phone and see them to avoid them.
They should look behind them before they carry out a manouevre. So mirrors wouldn't be a bad idea.
They should stop at red traffic lights, like what every car always does, and no cyclist ever does. Oh. Wait...
They should avoid wearing ‎Lycra® clothing, or at least cover it up so as not to offend my delicate eyes.

And yet someone who appears to have swallowed wholesale the PH Non-Cyclists' Guide To Safe Cycling is instantly called out as being a bellend.

I've been studying the available evidence, and it's becoming clear that the problem doesn't lie with the cyclists, as no matter what they wear, and how they behave with regard to the law and good road sense, they can't please the morons who are frothing at the mouth with inexplicable anti-cycling rhetoric.



Bellends yourselves!

[shost]

The knob who turned right out of side road to my left onto the NSL road I was travelling on, in the dark. Driving a medium sized 7.5T flat bed truck. Only he was also towing a trailer. Oh I lifted at first. Then thought I’d better brake. Oh no. He is still there. st. Brake hard. Swerve round back of the trailer (Towing a digger). That would hurt. Why did that happen? Why did he not complete the manoeuvre of pulling out in front of traffic?

Oh he is performing a massive U-turn to return to the side road.

The reason he didn’t move out of the way was because was waiting to complete the second half of the U-turn to avoid crashing into me head on. So just assumed I’d guess he was doing a U-turn and letting me crash into the side of him by putting his orange beacon on. tt.

[Liquid Knight]

Towing a trailer along the A1(M) and this Audi owner...



...got a bruised ego.



Bless.

[rxe]

The cock in the lime green Lambo on the M4 around Junction 14 - 16 at 7:45 this morning. It was a nice car (good). It was going fast (good). It was tailgating all and sundry (cock). Note that despite driving like a demented bellend, you made zero progress over all the other drivers who were driving normally.

I suppose you can’t expect more from an Audi driver.

[anonymous-user]

The Merc and BMW who came through our village (30 limit) yesterday at 20.15, past a parked bus with passengers about to cross the road, at in excess of 80mph. Absolute dicks.

[fatboy18]

Grahamdub said:

The Merc and BMW who came through our village (30 limit) yesterday at 20.15, past a parked bus with passengers about to cross the road, at in excess of 80mph. Absolute dicks.

That would be "Reckless Driving" in my book!

[anonymous-user]

fatboy18 said:

hat would be "Reckless Driving" in my book!

It seems to be getting more regular too. I'm all for "making progress", but there are limits.

[Zetec-S]

yellowjack said:

Fermit and Sarah said:

Master Bean said:

Thesprucegoose said:

Looks like a bellend, probably is a bellend.

Bellend indeed. The irony is that he is probably more likely to be hit, as drivers try to read what he's stuck to his back.

All through PH we have threads popping up with monotonous regularity having a pop at cyclists for all sorts of perceived (but not actually offenses) offenses.

among the complaints?

They should wear silly plastic hats so that they aren't killed when I'm too stupid to see them and avoid knocking them off their bikes.
They should wear high visibility clothing so that I'm ever so slightly more likely to glance up from my phone and see them to avoid them.
They should look behind them before they carry out a manouevre. So mirrors wouldn't be a bad idea.
They should stop at red traffic lights, like what every car always does, and no cyclist ever does. Oh. Wait...
They should avoid wearing ?Lycra® clothing, or at least cover it up so as not to offend my delicate eyes.

And yet someone who appears to have swallowed wholesale the PH Non-Cyclists' Guide To Safe Cycling is instantly called out as being a bellend.

I've been studying the available evidence, and it's becoming clear that the problem doesn't lie with the cyclists, as no matter what they wear, and how they behave with regard to the law and good road sense, they can't please the morons who are frothing at the mouth with inexplicable anti-cycling rhetoric.



Bellends yourselves!

[Blown2CV]

Companies that blatantly spend time and effort designing their van livery to look like a police van. No one is impressed. You look like children playing a game instead of professionals. You won’t win any business because if it. Ultimately you’re only pissing your own staff off and reducing their productivity as everyone will just drive slowly around them when they’re out and about.

[KerwinRobertson]

Self appointed road captain in the grey golf.

Road opens up to 2 lanes, 50 limit, long uphill stretch. Golf pulls out to overtake a slow moving vehicle, I follow at a safe distance (2 second gap), we both get past, Golf sits at 40, brake checks me (wtf?), then straddles the white line. I'm maintaining my 2 second gap.

So we now have Road Captain up front, me, and 3 cars right up my chuff, wondering why we are going so slow.

By this time the last guy in the line has been caught up with the slower moving vehicle, so has to back off and fall in behind it as the road filters back to a single lane.

We go into a 30 zone, Road Captain stays at 40.

Rant over.

[BrassMan]

Liquid Knight said:

GOATever said:

Quickben said:

Cretin.

He probably doesn’t like all the broken glass and dog st, that’s almost certainly all over the place on the path. I know it’s a tough concept for some ‘special’ motorists to understand, but here it is, IN THIS COUNTRY, HE DOESN’T HAVE TO USE A PATH JUST BECAUSE IT’S THERE

Also shared cycle lanes and footpaths come under the footways and bridal paths act with a speed limit of 12mph (slow trot). If a cyclist is going faster than that they have to use the road.

ashleyman is a fast walker if he was doing more than 12mph, but it did allow him to dominate the pavement.

[GOATever]

People really trying / putting in an unsustainable effort to get past, which entails exceeding the 20 mph limit, whilst there are more than one fully marked, highly visible plod cars patrolling that particular bit, whilst cycle commuting, then almost instantly ‘blowing up’ and getting in the way (particularly through Richmond Park).
Also people overtaking whilst car commuting, breaking the speed limit ( which I was adhering to ) to do so, then getting stuck in the queue at the red light ahead, whilst simultaneously blocking the entrance to the left filter, I was heading for. The first one is just amusing, the second one is bloody irritating.