Lane Splitting /Filtering & Tw#ts in Cars

I keep the SV a couple of miles away from me (until tommorow anyway) - so am commuting to it on me old 125 Scooter.

Their is a section of dual carriageway that always backs up to a standstill for half a mile or so - and the usual OP is to ride down the middle - whether the cars on each side are moving or not.

Usually cars leave enuf space between for a bike. and sometimes they even move over to give more room (which always gets a raised hand in acknowledgement from me)........but sometimes folk drive up to the white line Fair enuf, it slows bikes down, but not for long as the traffic moves forward.

But now and again some c#nt sees the bike coming and moves accross to the white line - just to be awkward. 50/50 on the Scooter I tw#t his wing mirror with mine as I go past (mine are just the right height - which is good and bad) and an old Scooter and steel mirror it is no problem for me. I think I am 1:1 with broken mirrors.....of course I do not hang around so may score may be higher

Today some b#stard did it again - fortunately I was on the Scooter ........but I am thinking perhaps not the best thing to do on the SV (nice new mirrors and not rusty old steel)........Hopefully the SV will have a bit more road presence to avoid too much of this in the future - but does anyone have ideas on "responding in kind"?


(of course not big and not clever, yadda, yadda, yadda)

Glue some sand/glasspaper to the outside of your gloves Just be careful when waving them around near the bike :O

[timwilky]

Chill, Life is dangerous enough without winding up a-holes in cages by mirror conkers.

[yorkie_chris]

Notice steel toe sliders (scrapers )

Just ignore the tw*ts and ride on. They're the ones held in traffic not you.

That, and summer is coming. Invest in some decent gloves with hard knuckle protection.

I came up with a solution to this here

If you think its bad try riding a bicycle in london. Igonring people is best I actaully had a minicab driver blaming me for him nearly getting hit by a truck.

Actually I have calmed down a bit now

Love the idea in the link - but of course illegal, so I won't do it (plus of course being on a regular route).



Or does SV.org sell their own version?

its really easy to get p***ed off at them but if your to focused on that Di*khead you all most hit you might miss the next one just few cars in front of you Ride safe bro

Gas and go, **** 'em. I've never found drivers in South Wales anything less than helpful FWIW, they always move out of the way or stop to let me out.