What is the most stupid thing you've seen another driver do . . . .

[Skinbeatersam]

I don't even gesture any  more, just cos you don't know how mental that other person might be.


Seriously thinking about getting a helmet cam. That way I can just shop them all to the cops, and they can deal with it. :-)

[Grahamm]

Coming out of a T-junction onto a larger road, I see a woman in a car opposite clearly about to pull out in the direction I'm going. She totally fails to check her blind spot and pulls out to receive a blast on my horn.

She winds down her window and utters the immortal words "Sorry, I didn't see you". I look down at my headlamp and Hi-Viz and remark "That's because you didn't *LOOK*!"

Ok, I wasn't in any danger because I had been watching her, but hopefully she'll remember that so the next biker who isn't watching so carefully when she's pulling out doesn't get knocked off.

[Fazerider]

I don't even gesture any  more, just cos you don't know how mental that other person might be...

... or how well equipped.
A couple of years back a friend of mine arrived at work somewhat shaken after a minor cutting-in incident escalated to him having a handgun pointed at his face. :eek

[rjd1]

i got hit by a new shape vw beetle about 7 yr ago she pulled right into the side of me sending me into a bus stop full of people, managed to stay on the bike turned out it was a woman doctor on the phone
she took the full blame
i got a descent payout for me an the bike

was black an blue from ankle to shoulder

she got banned for 2yr silly cow

[JZS 600]

Chased a bloke up the road some years ago in Canning Town who had the audacity to turn right at a T junction across me whilst swinging my bike lock chain over my head. Red mist moment.....

Anyone who knows Canning Town will instantly realise the foolishness of this action.

[Skinbeatersam]

I used to live near Canning town. I understand.


I quite like the idea of a biker swinging his chain like a mourning star. Awesome!!


I've recently got really into watching peoples vlogs. They are pretty interesting. Here is a couple.


[size=78%]I love Taxi Drivers[/size]


[size=78%]Argument With White Van Man[/size]


This amuses me.


:-) 

[pitternator]

I think its avery valid point - you just do not know who is that other driver. Twice in the last 2 yrs I have experienced 2 incidents where the other driver totally exploded into road rage. Its funny now, but hey, who knows if either had a gun or machete...could have been tricky ! each time I was in my trannie, so was  quite easy to see...
One was  a taxi driver who cut straight in front of me( I pipped my horn , as much a reflex as deliberate),who then followd me for a half mile sounding his horn shaking his fist , even driving on the path to try to cut into me- incredible reaction  in a quiet daytime street...I just laughed at the asian tosser, especially as he had  a fare in the back ( poor sod! ), not very professional was he !  :rolleyes  ...... and the other was a car driver overtaking me while I was stationary  at traffic lights at well over the limit , passing so close its untrue.I was quite shocked cos he only just squeezed through the gap ...This utter loon then slowed right down after about 400 yards, drove at  normal speed for bit,slowed right down, then let me overtake, then overtook back and cut straight in front and emergency stopped trying to make me run into him.Then he drove off, indicated left then turned right , trying to again get me to run into him... All this at 10am..this ( caribbean) mans face was absolutely boiling. He must have been on drugs( fair assumption) cos his reaction was just so OTT for the incident.I turned off cos he just looked so mad a chat at the roadside was only ever gonna end up with one of us getting a thump or worse.I had no real axe to grind, and so I simply turned off  and  I let the twat go, but he could easily have caused  a quite bad accident for his lunacy. And yet people say its white van men who are bad drivers !  :lol
But on a serious note, I was unarmed, not in any sort of a rage, but the other drivers were so mad, if armed , would easily have used them.I try to avoid  such conflicts cos whatever the outcome its serious waste of time if the cops get called, or a possible jail if I ended up injuring or  killing the feckers with their own weapons, or hospital/ worse  if they got me !  :\ ... all for simple daft incidents on a  local road on the way to a job ! Maybe I have more sense these days ?? A few  years ago I would have jumped out the van and got stuck into both the idiots...

[Chillum]

The cyclist in that first vid must end up reporting an awful lot of people, either that or he just likes to wind people up - he seems quite confrontational and seems to be completely belligerent. He also ignores the cycle lane quite a lot.

[DILLIGAFF]

I soon learnt during my brief spell as a London motorbike courier that black cab drivers are far from the tourist image of the knowlegable gentlemen road users.


It is a prerequisite of their licence application to have all sideways motion of their heads disabled, presumably to facilitate use of their phones and remove the distraction of wing mirrors.

[breadlord]

Not another driver, but this happened last night:


Coming home up Brixton Hill and the lights ahead are red so I'm filtering at maybe 15. The way the reds work is that it stops traffic in both directions so the other bit of a cross junction gets flow. As I pass a transit van an iditotic woman RUNS out, PUSHING A BABY CARRIAGE... I slam on the brakes, nearly overbalance and pull a muscle keeping the bike up. Front wheel pushes the pushchair maybe three inches back and I crap myself.
I eff and blind at her for being an idiot.
She gives me the finger and continues on like nothing's happened.


Arrrrrrrrrrgghh!

[steeeve66]

another 'not a another driver' - man walks across road outside Aldgate East tube this morning, pissed as a fart (at 8:30am?!) didn't look once; that's 5 lanes of belligerent rush-hour traffic to negotiate without looking up!...

i'm amazed he made it.

[chris.biker]

As a cyclist I think all this money spent on cycle lanes is a waste, if you use them you soon find out they have painted them were ever the road is wide enough and then they just stop where the road gets narrow  and harder to negotiate. In the case of the cyclist in this video he is travelling at a good speed and going past many cyclist in the cycle lane. I think he is to wound up but I think the road users giving him hassle are wound up and seem to think that he has to be in the cycle lane.
Where I live the cycle lane into town is on the pavement the surface is bad and there are traffic sign posts smack in the middle. I cycled at 17 mph on a pavement past gate ways !

[Chillum]

I cycled at 17 mph on a pavement past gate ways !

Sounds like inappropriate speed to me :pokefun

[Phil TK]

I soon learnt during my brief spell as a London motorbike courier that black cab drivers are far from the tourist image of the knowlegable gentlemen road users.

I used to frequent the steam rooms in Canning Town years ago, this was a popular after-work meeting place for  London cabbies, they made up about 90% of the clientel. There was a 'jokey' sign on the main Steam room door, it said 'No poofs' and this was almost weekly 'defaced' with someone writing 'No coons either' or some other desperately intelligent proclamation against blacks/jews/indians etc.
You get the picture? A lot of them are still like that, you still see them driving past black people who are hailing and stopping for whites just yards further on. Incredible.
 

[chris.biker]

I cycled at 17 mph on a pavement past gate ways !

Sounds like inappropriate speed to me :pokefun

It should have read '' cycled at 17mph. On the pavement NOT!  I cycle on the road leaving the pedestrians safe.

[robcaton1234]

driving home from work a couple weeks ago when white van man pulled out from a parked position, hitting my car and gouging a big dent in the side of my car starting from the passenger door all the way to the back. When i got out he had the audacity to ask me why I hadn't seen him pulling out!! I pointed to the damage to my car explaining patiently to him that the reason I didn't see him pulling out was because the front of my vehicle was already past when HE pulled OUT!!!  It gets worse.....got a phone call from my insurer last night informing me that white van man  has decided that he sustained an injury during the collision and has decided to claim damages against me.....my insurers have written to the silly bugger explaining to him that he can't claim damages when it was his fault that the collision occured.....I know it's a cliche but white van man really doesn't do himself any favours in thge popularity department......thick buggers the lot of them!!!

[pitternator]

careful....thats slander....

just consider this....the most popular vehicle is a white van, so proportionately it is quite reasonable to expect more bad driving from them...and as the vehicle is mostly used by employees not owners, engaged in multi drop tasking ... well maybe it could be said its really only to be expected....

so get off the " whitevan band wagon" !

[FuZzBoM]

I have been in the car with my dad and he has had his arms through the steering wheel steering with elbows and peeling a satsuma whilst doing 60  down country roads..
just to top it off he let the peelings fall over the clocks and i think they stayed there for a few days before he moved them.

All my moaning just fell on deaf ears. but that's parents for you. they know best.

[Skippernick]

so get off the " whitevan band wagon" !

i used to be a multi drop white van man, and although i agree with you, some not all are really crap drivers and don't help them selves.

[AdieR]

White van men...

Starting a new job in 2003 at a marine engineers (before the smoking ban came in), I'd been sent on my first day with another mechanic (Liam, if memory serves) to look at a fishing boat 20 miles away. He duly explained to me how everything worked at this firm, and explained also that this particular customer took a particular pride in his boat (smoking was off-limits, and to be very careful not to get the boat dirty with overalls etc). Because we couldn't smoke on the boat, we smoked in the van instead, and one of the first "tricks" he showed me was how to steer using his knees, whilst rolling a cig with wrists atop the steering wheel.....

My usual trick was to roll a load of cigs the night before, which was much easier than trying to do it on the job.