Screech, crash, tinkle, another one down

After three months of the daily commute from SW London I'm still not
sure whether the cyclists or the scooterbois present the most lethal
threat.

Yesterday it was contact with a twunt of a cyclist who'd decided to
cycle the wrong way down Borough High Street, south of London Bridge.
The road's seriously dug up, and down to one lane heading north only,
and there ain't enough room to filter on either side of the vehicles,
but this clown thought he'd try it anyway, the wrong way.

However, this morning...

...."She's pulling out from the left. Hit the horn.... BEEP!... No,
she's still pulling out, blind bitch on the school run, hit the horn
again.. BEEEEEP! No, the homicidal cow isn't stopping, hit the anchors
hard. Wow."

And scooterboi behind me manages to lock up his front wheel and lob
his Vespa which slid neatly into the arse end of my GN250. Bang. I
stayed upright: he was sprawled all over the road.

Fair play to him: he was terribly apologetic and bunged me a twenty
for my shattered number plate. Dame to the front plastics of his
hairdryer looked considerably more expensive to rectify.

One down, half a million to go.

 

Dont women drive like that all the time anyway

And you made a score

 

But did you get her?

 

There is nothing like a dame.

 

Since I've taken up cycling to work, I've been surprised by how
well-behaved most car drivers are (some are too timid to pass when
they have plenty of room) and by just how crap the bad ones are. Also,
on the local toll bridge, there is a money collector who seems to have
it in for me and dishes out a comment if I pass outside a line of
parked cars to cross the bridge.

 

What? You are having a laugh, right?

Google returns 10 different UK based companies on the first page when
you search for "show plates uk".

 

I commute through central London pretty much every day and not once have
I had so much as a near miss.

Stop riding like a 20-year-old dispatcher.

 

Yes all right Benjamin Button

 

No chance. In any case, it's a bit hard to stop people throwing Vespas
at you )

 

Yebbut if you had been riding with more enthusiasm the Vespa would not
have caught you up. <B-).

 

Troo

But then I'd have driven into Mrs Blind on her school run....