Careless drivers overtaking cyclists in Cambridge face fines

[Rich_W]

DoubleD said:

Rich_W said:

And showing off by blasting past me at 30+ faster than me, means I will sincerely hope you die of a horrible slow agonising venereal disease

Wow youre a lovely human

Do you perchance own a red faded Corsa?

Only this this morning decided to hammer past at I guess 60-70 about 2ft from me. I wouldn't mind but I was about 1' from the kerb edge and climbing so going pretty slowly. There was NOTHING coming the other way. So he did it on purpose!

Guess what, its fkING scary. And despite my gesturing for him to pull over, he chose to not do so? fking pussy!

If at that moment, the wind had caught me (and it was 20kph this morning in places) He'd be up for manslaughter/D by DD! It's not worth the risk in ANY way shape or form. 99.99% of road users are fine. Lets assume 4 thousand cars passed me this morning in my 4hr ride. Only 3 were a problem. So whilst they are thankfully a minority, its fkstains like this that I worry the most about! I WISH I had a camera! Cause he needs to have a chat with the Police imo!

I have a massive desire for him to be banned for life. Or to have his knob rot off so he can't ever breed




On the plus side, brand new 991 GT2RS in Dorking looked great!

[funkyrobot]

I do wish they would do something like this in Lincolnshire. I bike every day to work and a lot of drivers pass me far too closely. Multiple times in one day last week I had a vehicle brush past my right arm. Seems to be done by people who simply cannot wait around 10 seconds to pass me.

I also enrage a Golf R driver the other day. Passed him at some traffic lights as he was in a queue on a red light. As we rounded a corner further up the road he came up behind me at some temporary traffic lights. He then proceeded to rev his engine while we waited for the green light and when it appeared, he floored it and brushed past me as we set off.

He was probably angry because his lease is up soon and he can't afford another R.

[frisbee]

Nahh, he would have got a 6 month ban, the judge would have said "He has to live with it for the rest of his life." and they would have blamed you for not wearing a fully fluorescent outfit and 15 helmets.

And then in a thread a few weeks later lots of PHers would have got strangely excited about men, lycra, road tax and moody red lights...

[funkyrobot]

There is a traffic light junction I pass through on my way to and back from work. I can guarantee that every day I will see at least 1 driver jump the red lights. I am yet to see someone on a bike doing it.

[Rich_W]

funkyrobot said:

... a Golf R driver the other day...

Never in the history of VW has 1 car been bought by so many wkers

frisbee said:

Nahh, he would have got a 6 month ban, the judge would have said "He has to live with it for the rest of his life." and they would have blamed you for not wearing a fully fluorescent outfit and 15 helmets.

I thought that as I typed it...

Kill with a car and expect a slap on the wrist. Not just cyclists, anyone. Do you really think the s that run down those 2 young kids in Coventry will get a life ban from driving and a 25 yr custodial?

More people are killed this week on the roads in the UK by st driving that were killed in that school shooting. Funny how I don't see the media/politicians giving a fk about actually punishing people properly!

[MC Bodge]

Rich_W said:

It never fails to amaze me that some readers here are quite happy to admit publically they are ste at driving around other road users

I know, it's almost amusing, but then again, how many believe that sub 100bhp cars are dangerous (too good at driving for such low power, of course...).

I'm intrigued by what some of the people on here might be like in real life. Open-minded, intelligent, pleasant, socially-competent, fine specimens of mankind I suspect some are not

Rich_W said:

Personally I'm happy if I could stick my arm out sideways and NOT touch the car passing me, that's probably more or less enough.

True

Rich_W said:

And also don't blame me as a bike rider, for the sins of other wkers on bikes.

Agreed. I've never understood the logic of the angry types who hate people riding bikes "because some cyclists are reckless"( or maybe because cyclists are seen to be cheating at life or just riding bikes to annoy them?) and see fit to punish and serve retribution on all people riding bikes.

[DoubleD]

You get idiots in cars and you get idiots on bikes.

[TWR]

This is another way to persecute the Motorists,

I, like many notice the amount of Cycle lanes around the Cities / Towns,

I notice like a few on here the amount spent on Cycle Lanes but nothing regards Pot Holes,

I have not noticed any signs that the Cyclist are to start getting Insurance or a Road Fund tax, I wonder why they use the Road / Pavements, there are Cycle Lanes Signs put up, who pays for these do the Cyclists? although it is powered by the rider they should pay towards the usage of the roads they use, they cause damage to your cars, but do the pay.

[MC Bodge]

TWR said:

This is another way to persecute the Motorists,

I, like many notice the amount of Cycle lanes around the Cities / Towns,

I notice like a few on here the amount spent on Cycle Lanes but nothing regards Pot Holes,

I have not noticed any signs that the Cyclist are to start getting Insurance or a Road Fund tax, I wonder why they use the Road / Pavements, there are Cycle Lanes Signs put up, who pays for these do the Cyclists? although it is powered by the rider they should pay towards the usage of the roads they use, they cause damage to your cars, but do the pay.

Is this an "anti cyclist bingo" full house attempt?

[DoubleD]

MC Bodge said:

TWR said:

This is another way to persecute the Motorists,

I, like many notice the amount of Cycle lanes around the Cities / Towns,

I notice like a few on here the amount spent on Cycle Lanes but nothing regards Pot Holes,

I have not noticed any signs that the Cyclist are to start getting Insurance or a Road Fund tax, I wonder why they use the Road / Pavements, there are Cycle Lanes Signs put up, who pays for these do the Cyclists? although it is powered by the rider they should pay towards the usage of the roads they use, they cause damage to your cars, but do the pay.

Is this an "anti cyclist bingo" full house attempt?

Unfortunately you get quite a few on here who post like this. They seem to conveniently forget that you get many bad road users on/in all types of transport. Yes that includes cars, trucks, motorbikes, bicycles, buses in fact the lot. Yet they post like it is only 1 type that cause problems on the road.

[saaby93]

TWR said:

This is another way to persecute the Motorists,

I, like many notice the amount of Cycle lanes around the Cities / Towns,

I notice like a few on here the amount spent on Cycle Lanes but nothing regards Pot Holes,

I have not noticed any signs that the Cyclist are to start getting Insurance or a Road Fund tax, I wonder why they use the Road / Pavements, there are Cycle Lanes Signs put up, who pays for these do the Cyclists? although it is powered by the rider they should pay towards the usage of the roads they use, they cause damage to your cars, but do the pay.

youve not been following these threads to see whats wrong with just about everything youve posted?

[funkyrobot]

TWR said:

This is another way to persecute the Motorists,

I, like many notice the amount of Cycle lanes around the Cities / Towns,

I notice like a few on here the amount spent on Cycle Lanes but nothing regards Pot Holes,

I have not noticed any signs that the Cyclist are to start getting Insurance or a Road Fund tax, I wonder why they use the Road / Pavements, there are Cycle Lanes Signs put up, who pays for these do the Cyclists? although it is powered by the rider they should pay towards the usage of the roads they use, they cause damage to your cars, but do the pay.

Holy moly.

Jackpot!

[yellowjack]

funkyrobot said:

There is a traffic light junction I pass through on my way to and back from work. I can guarantee that every day I will see at least 1 driver jump the red lights. I am yet to see someone on a bike doing it.

Hmmm.

Last night, on my way home to Hampshire from Essex, I was waiting at the traffic lights on the junction from the A12 to the M25. The throbber next to me was rocking back-and-forth on the clutch and looking not at the traffic light controlling our side of the junction, but sideways, at the light controlling traffic crossing right to left ahead of us. True to form, he shot off (or at least tried to) the very second the other light went to amber. He then very nearly collected a black car from our right that had barreled through his light on red.

Me? I had foreseen the danger (just call me "Master Yoda" ) and waited an extra second or two before setting off in case I needed to avoid carnage. I got an angry 'toot' from white-van-man behind me for my trouble...


...but obviously I made all that up because "only cyclists ignore red traffic lights". It must be true because I read it on an internet forum somewhere.

[yellowjack]

TWR said:

This is another way to persecute the Motorists,

I, like many notice the amount of Cycle lanes around the Cities / Towns,

I notice like a few on here the amount spent on Cycle Lanes but nothing regards Pot Holes,

I have not noticed any signs that the Cyclist are to start getting Insurance or a Road Fund tax, I wonder why they use the Road / Pavements, there are Cycle Lanes Signs put up, who pays for these do the Cyclists? although it is powered by the rider they should pay towards the usage of the roads they use, they cause damage to your cars, but do the pay.

Can I have this custom-printed onto rolls of toilet paper please? It's the only appropriate place to print such bilge...

[Poopipe]

MrNoisy said:

On a related note, what a waste of money the new junction at Long and Hills road is. All that time and congestion for what exactly? A set of lights that lets cyclists go 3 seconds before motorists and makes nearly every car driver make a false start? Utter madness.

I like that, it means I have 3 seconds to pick up speed before I reach the now bunched up pack..

Thats not what it's for is it?

[DonkeyApple]

48Valves said:

DonkeyApple said:

48Valves said:

The majority of cyclists in Cambridge are fking idiots with no sense of self preservation or think they own the road.

Indeed. Mostly, self important students who haven’t yet realised that statistically they will not transpire to be all that important or earn anywhere near what they currently think they’re worth to society and champagne socialists who are struggling to cope with the discovery that they aren’t that important or worth that much. The same as in Oxford.

But guess what? They’re still fellow humans and still deserve treating with the absolute basics of decency and respect.

And let’s face the other reality, what’s so vitally important about you that getting delayed a minute or two would cause a negative emotion? Neither of you are remotely important or of any real value to society so what’s wrong in your heads to make you think that you are so special?

Why is it that you don’t leave five minutes earlier and become part of the solution instead of wilfully insisting like an underdeveloped child to be part of the problem? What’s wrong with you that someone on a bike in front of you causes some form of contempt or inability to cope emotionally with basic road interactions?

Aren’t you the snowflakes?!!!!!!!

Touch a nerve did I sweet pea?

Can you point out where in my post I mentioned anything about me driving in Cambridge or my worth to society?

As it happens I very rarely drive in Cambridge. But I do walk through it every week day. I see more cyclists go through red lights than motorists, more cyclists on the pavements than motorists, more cyclists with no lights than motorists.

On the odd occasion I do drive into Cambridge I give all cyclists more room than I probably need to. Purely because they are so unpredictable and fking idiots with no self preservation.

And as it happens. I am actually quite important to society.

Xx

[DonkeyApple]

Rich_W said:

DoubleD said:

Rich_W said:

And showing off by blasting past me at 30+ faster than me, means I will sincerely hope you die of a horrible slow agonising venereal disease

Wow youre a lovely human

Do you perchance own a red faded Corsa?

Only this this morning decided to hammer past at I guess 60-70 about 2ft from me. I wouldn't mind but I was about 1' from the kerb edge and climbing so going pretty slowly. There was NOTHING coming the other way. So he did it on purpose!

Guess what, its fkING scary. And despite my gesturing for him to pull over, he chose to not do so? fking pussy!

If at that moment, the wind had caught me (and it was 20kph this morning in places) He'd be up for manslaughter/D by DD! It's not worth the risk in ANY way shape or form. 99.99% of road users are fine. Lets assume 4 thousand cars passed me this morning in my 4hr ride. Only 3 were a problem. So whilst they are thankfully a minority, its fkstains like this that I worry the most about! I WISH I had a camera! Cause he needs to have a chat with the Police imo!

I have a massive desire for him to be banned for life. Or to have his knob rot off so he can't ever breed

On the plus side, brand new 991 GT2RS in Dorking looked great!

I used to see this a lot. Drivers very clearly altering their course to get close to a cyclist. It was always your type of driver who gave the impression of having not got far in life and it obviously being everybody else’s fault. Combine those creatures with the mental health tards who use their bicycles to facilitate conflicts with other road users and you have two types of ghastly and damaged losers who really ought not be on the roads.

The problem with a painful pox death for these ‘things’ is that it’s a bit of a drain on the NHS.

[feef]

The other thing to consider is the visibility of knobbishness.

A knob on a bicycle will filter through traffic and be seen by dozens of drivers.

A knob in a car will be seen by the drivers in his immediate vicinity and the degree of his knobbishness will be limited by the traffic situations.

He can't run a red light because he's not at one, and can't get to one.
A similarly minded cyclist can easily filter through traffic, being a knob in the process, reach a red light, and carry on regardless, being seen by many in the process.

I agree that cyclists appear to run more red lights than car drivers, but I'm just trying to illustrate a point about visiblity of knobbish behaviour

I also think that there are two groups of two-wheeled users : cyclists and pedestrians on bicycles. I find the former have better road manners than the latter who do what they would do when they are walking, but on a bicycle

[funkyrobot]

feef said:

The other thing to consider is the visibility of knobbishness.

A knob on a bicycle will filter through traffic and be seen by dozens of drivers.

A knob in a car will be seen by the drivers in his immediate vicinity and the degree of his knobbishness will be limited by the traffic situations.

He can't run a red light because he's not at one, and can't get to one.
A similarly minded cyclist can easily filter through traffic, being a knob in the process, reach a red light, and carry on regardless, being seen by many in the process.

I agree that cyclists appear to run more red lights than car drivers, but I'm just trying to illustrate a point about visiblity of knobbish behaviour

I also think that there are two groups of two-wheeled users : cyclists and pedestrians on bicycles. I find the former have better road manners than the latter who do what they would do when they are walking, but on a bicycle

What's wrong with filtering through traffic on a bicycle?

[Car-Matt]

TWR said:

This is another way to persecute the Motorists,

I, like many notice the amount of Cycle lanes around the Cities / Towns,

I notice like a few on here the amount spent on Cycle Lanes but nothing regards Pot Holes,

I have not noticed any signs that the Cyclist are to start getting Insurance or a Road Fund tax, I wonder why they use the Road / Pavements, there are Cycle Lanes Signs put up, who pays for these do the Cyclists? although it is powered by the rider they should pay towards the usage of the roads they use, they cause damage to your cars, but do the pay.

Moron