Poor obs... But you get my drift, both of you are road users, so you both have to take care. Accidents are called accidents for a reason - neither party intended to hurt the other despite any lack of care shown. How do you feel when a cyclist shoots out into a main road at 20 mph without stopping or indicating? I see this maybe 20 times a day in London...
^ I absolutely hate it, in fact it's my pet peeve, along with shooting red lights. No wonder other road users don't like cyclist, they're the type that give us a bad rep and usually the ones who are most vocal. I was cycling through town last year when I took a phone off a girl on a bicycle who'd gone through 4 red lights chatting at 5mph while the rest of us road users stopped and then got stuck behind again her and again after already having overtaken her. I got a round of applause from the bloke in the HGV next to me.
D'you know, every cyclist agrees with me when I moan about the terrible road manners I see every day, and every one of them says it's someone else. Yet it happens every day, and nearly every cyclist perpetuates it... Fact is it's the faster cyclists who cause the most problems; they're the ones who pull out of junctions as if they have right of way, they're the ones running red lights, they're the ones taking out pedestrians on crossings while they're undertaking everyone. The truth is the slower cyclist who weave about while talking on the phone present no problem at all. It's the faster cyclists who break the rules the most, and it's they who are the most abusive when challenged...and the ones who I see being lifted into ambulances the most...
You've got to remember there's a hell of a difference between someone who cycles in London so they can beat the traffic and us out here in the sticks. I avoid rush hour like the plague, it's the most dangerous time to be on a bike.
and you carry on letting off steam Fig - we all need to do it and it takes a grounded person to put his hand up to acknowledging it when it happens
