And today's commuting highlight is...
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kiethton said:
CAPP0 said:
I've noticed that the BiB have been VERY active re traffic on the A20 around the Sidcup/Mottingham area recently. Literally every morning they have someone pulled over when I go through there. They are plotting up on sliproads and in the quarry entrance and then pulling people over either at the new cemetery or outside Flamingo Park. Mind how you go!
Yep - they're always in those 2 locations. Ive also noticed them outside Dominoes a lot at the base of the Old Kent Road/flyover section catching people (mainly bikers) gunning it down the sliproad.....oh and the London bridge checkpoint for electric scooters tooAfter many years of all-weather commuting by bike, I'm just getting fed up with it. So much so that I find myself contemplating a week or two on the train. Must be bad. Nothing untoward has happened, I'm just finding it a drag.
Obvious answer is find a job without the commute; that's on the radar but won't happen any time soon, for a variety of reasons.
Bah.
Obvious answer is find a job without the commute; that's on the radar but won't happen any time soon, for a variety of reasons.
Bah.
*always*kiethton said:
Rawwr said:
People jumping red lights is getting crazy. It's like people are barely even treating traffic lights as advisory around here.
noticed this myself tooI'm sure I've said this before, and I'm sure I should be more patient, but if you can't pull off a halfway-decent filter, FFS please pull over and let the long string of bikes behind you through. 2 miles worth on the Blackwall approach this morning, some bloke on something 15-plate with two comedy-huge high-level pipes, he was doing <10mph and then braking for gaps you could have driven a Range Rover through. Seriously, just about every other car the brakes went on. Tooted him politely a couple of times, nothing; in the end I managed to pull up alongside him in a larger gap and he got the message.
Possibly.
And then on Commercial Rd, a large lorry was reversing (at surprisingly high speed) into a side road. I stopped but Hornet Boy roared through, I think he miscalculated the lorry's speed because it very nearly clipped him off. Made me squeak, let alone him. A minute later, further up the road, I'm on the outside of the traffic and he comes bouncing out in front of me from between two vans without looking. Maybe it wasn't a Hornet after all but a Honda DeathWish2000
Never ceases to amaze me how many people (bikes, pushbikes, pedestrians) come out from between cars without looking at all.
Possibly.
And then on Commercial Rd, a large lorry was reversing (at surprisingly high speed) into a side road. I stopped but Hornet Boy roared through, I think he miscalculated the lorry's speed because it very nearly clipped him off. Made me squeak, let alone him. A minute later, further up the road, I'm on the outside of the traffic and he comes bouncing out in front of me from between two vans without looking. Maybe it wasn't a Hornet after all but a Honda DeathWish2000
Never ceases to amaze me how many people (bikes, pushbikes, pedestrians) come out from between cars without looking at all.
I'm really really trying to be "mellow" about commuting and my fellow commuters.
However, about once a week I come back to find someone has parked within about an inch of me, with both my bike and theirs on the side stand. How the fk do they imagine I'm supposed to get my bike upright enough to lift my stand? It's impossible.
This invariably results in me having to drag the offending bike out of the way. Except that tonight's culprit succeeded in ricking my shoulder as I moved it.
However, about once a week I come back to find someone has parked within about an inch of me, with both my bike and theirs on the side stand. How the fk do they imagine I'm supposed to get my bike upright enough to lift my stand? It's impossible.
This invariably results in me having to drag the offending bike out of the way. Except that tonight's culprit succeeded in ricking my shoulder as I moved it.
Edited by CAPP0 on Wednesday 30th October 08:03
According to recent police TV programs where they explain how little human resource they have on the ground in London, I would say that the entire Greater London morning shift were deployed this morning to ensure that everybody stopped at the white line at a set of traffic lights, without a millimetre's infringement, on Vauxhall Bridge Rd. There was a very pissed-off looking sarge at the lights doing the checking and a large number of plod & cars a couple of hundred yards up the road, ready to pounce.
A very worthy cause. I'm absolutely certain this will reduce the number of stabbings and moped muggings.
A very worthy cause. I'm absolutely certain this will reduce the number of stabbings and moped muggings.
I was walking past the London Wall/Moorgate junction this morning and some utter w
kblanket of a biker thought it was big and clever to bounce his engine off the limiter about every 5 seconds as he approached the junction and then filtered his way through it, round a stationary lorry and off up the road.
Well done, you nob. Not only did you look like a complete throbber (you'd be amazed how many people around you were looking and laughing incredulously) but you give the rest of us a bad name too.
kblanket of a biker thought it was big and clever to bounce his engine off the limiter about every 5 seconds as he approached the junction and then filtered his way through it, round a stationary lorry and off up the road.Well done, you nob. Not only did you look like a complete throbber (you'd be amazed how many people around you were looking and laughing incredulously) but you give the rest of us a bad name too.
Sea Demon said:
CAPP0 said:
I was walking past the London Wall/Moorgate junction this morning and some utter wkblanket of a biker thought it was big and clever to bounce his engine off the limiter about every 5 seconds as he approached the junction and then filtered his way through it, round a stationary lorry and off up the road.
Well done, you nob. Not only did you look like a complete throbber (you'd be amazed how many people around you were looking and laughing incredulously) but you give the rest of us a bad name too.
Was this a black Fireblade? Ridden down there the last few days behind a bloke who loves bouncing his bike off the limiterkblanket of a biker thought it was big and clever to bounce his engine off the limiter about every 5 seconds as he approached the junction and then filtered his way through it, round a stationary lorry and off up the road.Well done, you nob. Not only did you look like a complete throbber (you'd be amazed how many people around you were looking and laughing incredulously) but you give the rest of us a bad name too.
Had a small "phew" moment myself this morning. Saw a small stationary lorry with a van behind it, by a road island, thought "right, I'll nip between the van and the lorry", as you do. Lorry moved off, next thing I know the van is trying to crowd me into the island. Start muttering obscenities to myself, then I feel something brushing my leg.....
.....er, the van was attached to the lorry which was towing it on one of those front-wheel lift bars! For reasons I just can't explain, I completely failed to clock that as I passed the van. Lorry driver was pretty pissed with me, I just apologised profusely, mea culpa, nothing else I could do. Good job he was watching what he was doing.
.....er, the van was attached to the lorry which was towing it on one of those front-wheel lift bars! For reasons I just can't explain, I completely failed to clock that as I passed the van. Lorry driver was pretty pissed with me, I just apologised profusely, mea culpa, nothing else I could do. Good job he was watching what he was doing.
Sea Demon said:
On the M20 this morning, outside lane & see a bike coming up behind me so speed up a little bit & check my mirror to now see 2 bikes sat side by side - it was the police..
Moved over, 1 bike pulled along side & signalled for me to pull over so I started too and then they both just took off again - very lucky for me I'd say
Interesting, I'm an M20er too and I don't know that I have EVER seen plod patrolling! My cruising speed is normally rather above what they might be happy with (just like absolutely everyone else) so I'll bear that in mind!Moved over, 1 bike pulled along side & signalled for me to pull over so I started too and then they both just took off again - very lucky for me I'd say
A couple of weeks ago I somehow managed to instantaneously invent the universal hand signal to a following biker to turn their lights down - can't remember what it was but it worked 
I think it was something to do with pointing behind me (at the other bike) and then waving my hand downwards!
I think it was something to do with pointing behind me (at the other bike) and then waving my hand downwards!
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