Please excuse me while I rant......

I had a very, very, near miss this evening. I came home via the A40, and turned off at the A312. I came off of a roundabout into a main road (Yeading Lane) only to find a car coming out of a juntion opposite right in front of me.

Normally I would have seen this car, but the street lights were out and the idiot had no lights on.... Not even side lights. By the time I saw it (in the beam of my headlamp) it was on top of me. I wasn't going fast as it's generally busy, the lighting was crap, and there is a bus lane there too, so you have to be a it careful.

I made contact with the car as it "swung" through a very wide arc, physically pushing me into the bus lane, but the driver seemed completely unaware of my presence. I pulled up next to it at a set of lights and banged on the window. The young guy gave his phone to his mate (hence the wide arc and not seeing me) and wound down his window. I politely informed him with a number of 4 letter words that he had almost knocked me off and that he had no lights on.

He told me to pxxx off and mind my own business.

This is not the first time I have noticed people driving without lights recently.. WTF do they teach these morons, how do they get a licence in the first place ???

End of rant.

Oh, does anybody want a right hand mirror for a Corsa ??

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They should charge them they same to do there car test as we do to do our bike test, would put a few of the morons off

Glad your ok mate

Darn Sarf....they just can't drive.

[fizzwheel]

Glad your OK

Did you manage to get his registration ?

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Glad your OK

Did you manage to get his registration ?

TBH I wouldn't bother reporting that incident to the Police. The ********s will then know who has their wing mirror.

Glad you're OK Jelmeister.

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Glad your OK

Did you manage to get his registration ?

don't think he needs theregistration, he's got his mirror class Jelster

I hope that Mrs SY3 doesn't tune in tonight. She doesn't have a prob with me on the bike any more, it's the other morons out there that she doesn't like.

You show remarkable composure, J

Glad you managed to miss it Steve (well in a major way that is), have you got his number? Maybe it's time we all carried a small can of easily accessible Ralgex in our pockets? These people need seriously talking to (and here I use the word talking as a metaphor for beating the living crapout of of ).

The plus side? You're alive and unhurt .


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Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Did you manage to get his registration ?

Nah, I already had his mirror in my left hand, and I needed my right hand for the throttle

I may seem calm now, but I was absolutely livid at the time. I wanted to pull the little Chav through the window. How can you not realise that you've got no lights on ??? You can't see your dash for starters, and you can't see where you're going....

I don't know what else to say really. And what's the point of reporting it ? My word against his, after the event.... And I bet I get a ticket for being in the bus lane

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A small squeezy bottle of milk....squirt it through the window, or into the fresh air ducts.

Takes about three days for it to stink the car up and about three years to clean the car out (if ever!).