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Originally Posted by peachey
I like to cycle myself in the summer
but I can't stant those militant ones you see in the traffic
dayglo stipes everywhere - helmet - po-faced - you know the sort
saw one this morning whacking the side of a car for no apparent reason
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I admit a couple of years ago when I used to cycle everywhere to being a bit of a nazi where cars were concerned, thinking about it now I probably narrowly escaped death (or a good beating) on many ocassion but at the time my actions seemed justified. E.g. cycling to work (no cycle paths) the traffic is moving very slowly, a kindly driver behind me has actually for once given me some room and I'm moving at the same speed as everyone else, unfortunately they turn off and some nonse in a VW camper decides he want's to shorten the gap between himself and the car in front, this entails him pulling alongside me and swerving inwards causing me to end up in a bush, probably hilarious to watch but quite dangerous, I got up, cycled up alongside the passenger side, banged on the passengers window to give him a mouthful and his wife started screaming like I'd just murdered her entire family ... I took the initiative and decided to carry on to work. There were plenty of times again when traffic is moving very slowly where a lot of cars have left plenty of room to "undertake" on a bike, yet there is always some pr*ck who will overtake you when they find a space and jam their car in so you cannot get past, I take a small amount of pleasure in overtaking them on the drivers side and parking myself right in the middle of the road so they can carry on at my speed. Then there's the drivers that don't seem to spot a bike with two 15 watt cat eye lights on the front, I was cycling to a friends house on my birthday, some stupid woman decided despite me having lights on that would blind a small animal, that I didn't actually exist and that as soon as I got level to the point with her car, she'd pull out, wreck 1500 quids worth of mountain bike and put me in hospital for 3 days, she never got charged with dangerous driving because the local council hadn't road marked the junction properly despite the police agreeing that I had right of way, I ended up with £700 to replace my bike (this sum included 3 day's loss of earning's and compensation for injuries ... wonderful ... less than half the cost to replace the bike).