Ok cyclists - is this reasonable behaviour?

I was sitting at some lights on the A22 (not exactly a minor road) when a
couple on a Tandem come past and stop. Not to the side, oh no. They stop
right bang in front of me. Unsurprisingly when the lights go green me and
all the traffic behind are now slooowly accelerating to a heady speed of
15mph and its only when I hammer the horn that these pair of ******* move
over and I look in the mirror and the bloke at the front is laughing. I was
sorely tempted to slam on the brakes and see how funny he thought it was then.

So what gives? Not content with getting in the way on side roads some of you
people now think you have to block the main roads too to feel safe because you
voluntaritly choose a dangerous mode of transport?

B2003

On 29/03/2010 09:57, d wrote:
I was sitting at some lights on the A22 (not exactly a minor road) when a
couple on a Tandem come past and stop. Not to the side, oh no. They stop
right bang in front of me. Unsurprisingly when the lights go green me and
all the traffic behind are now slooowly accelerating to a heady speed of
15mph and its only when I hammer the horn that these pair of ******* move
over and I look in the mirror and the bloke at the front is laughing. I was
sorely tempted to slam on the brakes and see how funny he thought it was then.

So what gives? Not content with getting in the way on side roads some of you
people now think you have to block the main roads too to feel safe because you
voluntaritly choose a dangerous mode of transport?

B2003




Why did the driver's laughter rattle you so much?

Bod

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:03:23 +0100
Bod wrote:
On 29/03/2010 09:57, d wrote:
I was sitting at some lights on the A22 (not exactly a minor road) when a
couple on a Tandem come past and stop. Not to the side, oh no. They stop
right bang in front of me. Unsurprisingly when the lights go green me and
all the traffic behind are now slooowly accelerating to a heady speed of
15mph and its only when I hammer the horn that these pair of ******* move
over and I look in the mirror and the bloke at the front is laughing. I was
sorely tempted to slam on the brakes and see how funny he thought it was
then.

So what gives? Not content with getting in the way on side roads some of you
people now think you have to block the main roads too to feel safe because
you
voluntaritly choose a dangerous mode of transport?

B2003




Why did the driver's laughter rattle you so much?

Not the driver behind , the guy on the bike.

B2003

On 29/03/2010 10:18, d wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:03:23 +0100
wrote:
On 29/03/2010 09:57, d wrote:
I was sitting at some lights on the A22 (not exactly a minor road) when a
couple on a Tandem come past and stop. Not to the side, oh no. They stop
right bang in front of me. Unsurprisingly when the lights go green me and
all the traffic behind are now slooowly accelerating to a heady speed of
15mph and its only when I hammer the horn that these pair of ******* move
over and I look in the mirror and the bloke at the front is laughing. I was
sorely tempted to slam on the brakes and see how funny he thought it was
then.

So what gives? Not content with getting in the way on side roads some of you
people now think you have to block the main roads too to feel safe because
you
voluntaritly choose a dangerous mode of transport?

B2003




Why did the driver's laughter rattle you so much?

Not the driver behind , the guy on the bike.

B2003


Ah! sorry, misunderstood.

start the car Mabel!

Bod

d wrote:
I was sitting at some lights on the A22 (not exactly a minor road)
when a couple on a Tandem come past and stop. Not to the side, oh no.
They stop right bang in front of me. Unsurprisingly when the lights
go green me and
all the traffic behind are now slooowly accelerating to a heady speed
of 15mph and its only when I hammer the horn that these pair of
******* move over and I look in the mirror and the bloke at the front
is laughing. I was sorely tempted to slam on the brakes and see how
funny he thought it was then.


So how do you know what he was laughing at?
Do you often have a tendency towards road-rage?
You need to get a grip you do.

--

Geoff

wrote in message
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I was sitting at some lights on the A22 (not exactly a minor road) when a
couple on a Tandem come past and stop. Not to the side, oh no. They stop
right bang in front of me. Unsurprisingly when the lights go green me and
all the traffic behind are now slooowly accelerating to a heady speed of
15mph and its only when I hammer the horn that these pair of ******* move
over and I look in the mirror and the bloke at the front is laughing. I
was
sorely tempted to slam on the brakes and see how funny he thought it was
then.

Nope.

Misuse of horn, driver intimidating tandem cyclist.

Slamming on the brakes in front of a cyclist is not realy acceptable either.

HTH (but I doubt it will).

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:57:34 +0000 (UTC), d
wrote:

I was sitting at some lights on the A22 (not exactly a minor road) when a
couple on a Tandem come past and stop. Not to the side, oh no. They stop
right bang in front of me. Unsurprisingly when the lights go green me and
all the traffic behind are now slooowly accelerating to a heady speed of
15mph and its only when I hammer the horn that these pair of ******* move
over and I look in the mirror and the bloke at the front is laughing. I was
sorely tempted to slam on the brakes and see how funny he thought it was then.

So what gives? Not content with getting in the way on side roads some of you
people now think you have to block the main roads too to feel safe because you
voluntaritly choose a dangerous mode of transport?

B2003

Well, a couple of comments.

1) If that's the worst thing that happened to you all day life's not
so bad is it?

2) If everyone posts every little niggle they have with other road
users somebody's going to have to buy a bigger server.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:35:17 +0200
"GeoffC" wrote:
wrote:
I was sitting at some lights on the A22 (not exactly a minor road)
when a couple on a Tandem come past and stop. Not to the side, oh no.
They stop right bang in front of me. Unsurprisingly when the lights
go green me and
all the traffic behind are now slooowly accelerating to a heady speed
of 15mph and its only when I hammer the horn that these pair of
******* move over and I look in the mirror and the bloke at the front
is laughing. I was sorely tempted to slam on the brakes and see how
funny he thought it was then.


So how do you know what he was laughing at?

Well since he was looking at me its a fair guess what it was.

Do you often have a tendency towards road-rage?

When people deliberately obstruct me for no good reason when I'm already
late picking someone up from Gatwick - yes.

B2003

d wrote:
I was sitting at some lights on the A22 (not exactly a minor road) when a
couple on a Tandem come past and stop. Not to the side, oh no. They stop
right bang in front of me.

Would I be correct in inferring there was an advanced stop line?

BugBear

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:37:14 +0100
"mileburner" wrote:
wrote in message
...
I was sitting at some lights on the A22 (not exactly a minor road) when a
couple on a Tandem come past and stop. Not to the side, oh no. They stop
right bang in front of me. Unsurprisingly when the lights go green me and
all the traffic behind are now slooowly accelerating to a heady speed of
15mph and its only when I hammer the horn that these pair of ******* move
over and I look in the mirror and the bloke at the front is laughing. I
was
sorely tempted to slam on the brakes and see how funny he thought it was
then.

Nope.

Misuse of horn, driver intimidating tandem cyclist.

Misuse? I don't think so. Willfully obstructing the traffic - now thats an
offence.

B2003