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ThunderPants73 · 03-12-2013, 20:23

The amount of times I've nearly been knocked off my bike by car drivers failing to check their blind spot before pulling off or even opening the door is amazing.

If a car driver bothers to use their indicators it's a miracle.

I'm one of the few that take cycling seriously and DO obey the rules of the road. I was nearly hit the other day by some twot doing a wheelie on a moped up the middle of the high street.

Cycle lanes? The cycle lanes around my town usually have feckin' cars parked in them, which means you either have to pull out into the traffic (onto a narrower lane made narrower by the inclusion of the car park... sorry, cycle lane), or mount the pavement and be reviled. Personally, I squeeze by the cars and take off/damage as many wing mirrors as I can.

I was nearly hit the other month by some plonker in a car pulling into a space next to the bike racks outside of Tesco, gave me a right roasting for being there, trying to lock my bike up. The fact that the space he was trying to pull into was reserved for motorcycles was totally lost on the turd.

03-12-2013, 20:23	#106
ThunderPants73 Inactive Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Notts Services: BB & PHONE Posts: 1,141	Re: Militant cyclists The amount of times I've nearly been knocked off my bike by car drivers failing to check their blind spot before pulling off or even opening the door is amazing. If a car driver bothers to use their indicators it's a miracle. I'm one of the few that take cycling seriously and DO obey the rules of the road. I was nearly hit the other day by some twot doing a wheelie on a moped up the middle of the high street. Cycle lanes? The cycle lanes around my town usually have feckin' cars parked in them, which means you either have to pull out into the traffic (onto a narrower lane made narrower by the inclusion of the car park... sorry, cycle lane), or mount the pavement and be reviled. Personally, I squeeze by the cars and take off/damage as many wing mirrors as I can. I was nearly hit the other month by some plonker in a car pulling into a space next to the bike racks outside of Tesco, gave me a right roasting for being there, trying to lock my bike up. The fact that the space he was trying to pull into was reserved for motorcycles was totally lost on the turd.