"You made me break my car"

That is one dumb ass driver.

Post of the week

Love it when a car overtakes between speedbumps then maintains speed over the next set to avoid losing face.

Scraaaaaape.

Ironically it's never the lowered-Opel lads who do this, usually someone in a rush to get to the supermarket.

First to the frozen peas! Fistpump!

Pinch Flat wrote: »

"You made me damage my car..."

What an ass-clown.

I hate it when people play the (faux) righteous indignation card and try to pass the buck for their own mistakes :mad:

I go along there some mornings, you get some seriously impatient drivers overtaking there, it's the reason I won't do that route after dark :-/

Lumen wrote: »

Ironically it's never the lowered-Opel lads who do this, usually someone in a rush to get to the supermarket.

You don't need a lowered car if the driver is "robust" enough, as was the case with a neighbour of mine a few years ago. His Golf GTI packed with himself and 3 equally "robust" friends one day, the car was transformed from a regular car into a road hoe.

He/they overtook me at speed going down the hill in my estate as we approached a particularly (ridiculously, actually) high speed bump. Garden hoes are great for getting under and lifting things, turns out that road hoes behave in exactly the opposite way. There seemed to be a collective intake of breath inside the car immediately after the initial loud impact, that air was probably pushed back out of them when the back of the car hit the other side of the bump. I think the car was held together by sheer embarrassment as the driver tried to flee the scene, a process made much slower than he'd have liked by the two remaining speedbumps between him and the sanctuary of distance. "Again! Again!", I shouted, but they mustn't have heard me.

I know that road very well, drive it most mornings and have cycled it numerous times..

Fcuk her, she got what she deserves.
It's narrow enough without some bitch trying to overtake you and kill you.

not yet wrote: »

She will probalby kill/injure someone first. The number of times I wished I had a rocket launcher when a ****er of a motorist passes within a hairs breath of me. Whats the fcuking rush ?? The best bit of advice I got was stay out 2-3 feet from verge, that way They can't overtake in oncoming traffic.

this.

every time, and i mean every time ive been tired enough to allow myself to drift toward the verge, ive been punished by dangerous overtakes. grit the teeth and hold position, i should get it decaled on the bars or something

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Comedy gold on the strawberry beds this morning. For those of you unfamiliar with the area it's a country road that runs parallel to the Liffey. Up to recently it was used as an unofficial motorway, so pretty severe ramps we're put in every couple of hundred meters to slow traffic.

So there I am this morning tippin along at 30 odd km/hr when a woman comes up behind. She over takes me, into oncoming traffic, almost coming into contact with my front wheel when she moves back in. There's a loud bang followed by a rattle for the next couple of hundred yards. She is stopped when I reach her. It is obvious the exhaust has become detached for the underside of her car (the second one I've seen in as many weeks on this stretch). The conversation goes like this.
"You made me damage my car - you were going too fast and I had to speed up to over take you". Initially flattered by her views on my cycling, I shook my head, told her "sh!t happens" and cycled off on my merry way.

You should have stopped and come to her aid. Shame on you for not turning the other cheek.

The next time it happens, simply just take out your phone. Say to her... "Hang on....".

Go through your phonebook quickly, pause from time to time and in hushed tones whisper: "No, not you." Take about 2 mins to do this.

Put your phone away then and say to her then. "...sorry I was just trying to find someone that gave a ****, sorry!"

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