KonaCommuter wrote:
Hi KonaCommuter,
That wasn't you and the semi going through the red light though was it???
Postby outnabike » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:11 am
KonaCommuter wrote:
Postby Lukeyboy » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:32 am
Postby Marto » Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:09 pm
Could be the truck's sound system?zero wrote:Moron musicians thread ?
Postby herzog » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:49 pm
I'd say that's worth a solid 15 second blast of the airzound.cp123 wrote:gawd that truck driver is a knob.
Postby jules21 » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:48 pm
Postby il padrone » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:42 pm
Postby hannos » Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:20 am
Postby Boognoss » Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:26 am
Postby oxonabike » Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:17 am
Postby clydesmcdale » Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:51 am
Postby Big_Red » Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:38 am
Amen to that, even if it is just to show the footage to the police, so they can throw the book at some of these losers.clydesmcdale wrote:Must buy a camera for the commutem as these thing are always much more amusing when seen in motion.
Postby Crawf » Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:58 am
Made me laugh, cause those thoughts regularly run through my head on that stretch. Lambert St attracts the best of the best.Big_Red wrote:
Had a must-get-past-the-cyclist moment to on the way home from work today while steaming along the downhill on Lambert St, East Brisbane (before Shafston Institute) and some tosser in a bright orange Ford Focus XR5 overtakes me on the wrong side of the road midway through the S bend, (which i always stick to nearly the middle of the road to avoid this particular stunt happening) then he cuts back into the proper side of the street no more than a metre from my front wheel and brake checks me. Sorely tempted to squirt the entire contents of my bidon through his open window at that point, but i was beyond coherent thought and only would have gotten further enraged and kicked the bejesus out every panel of the car, then thrown the mtb through his windscreen to show my displeasure at nearly being road kill. Had another car/cyclist been travelling the other direction through the s-bend they'd have been wiped out by this moron. Gah! Is there something in the water at the moment?
Postby Mulger bill » Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:49 pm
Not surprised you were wound up, I got a blood rush out of that one...Crawf wrote:Lambert St attracts the best of the best.
Postby il padrone » Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:57 pm
That video would be such a great one to throw to the police - overtaking well across double-lines, bold as brass. He don't deserve no taxi licence!Boognoss wrote:Moron cab yesterday. See how many seconds I held him up by as he was gesticulating for me to keep further left.
New strategy. Use the word "buddy" when I am thinking of a vastly different word .
Handy having head mounted cam and 1080p res now with the new camera.
Postby Big_Red » Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:16 pm
While i don't consider that i do a lot of riding, averaging about 3 commutes to work a fortnight (2,500km) for 2012, yesterday was the first time i've had anything like what i described above happen to me. It was such an unbelievably stupid thing for the driver to do, i just couldn't wrap my head around the situation at the time and had i confronted the driver i would have lost the plot. I've driven cars for 25 years, but i have never seen such a flagrant disregard for safety before. I'm going to order one of those keyfob cameras tonight, which should be sufficient for capturing MM's in the act. I'll have to look at that vid at home as youtube is banned at work.Mulger bill wrote:Not surprised you were wound up, I got a blood rush out of that one...Crawf wrote:Lambert St attracts the best of the best.
Postby coffeeandwine » Sat Feb 02, 2013 12:40 pm
Consider calling the Cab company as well.il padrone wrote:That video would be such a great one to throw to the police - overtaking well across double-lines, bold as brass. He don't deserve no taxi licence!Boognoss wrote:Moron cab yesterday. See how many seconds I held him up by as he was gesticulating for me to keep further left.
New strategy. Use the word "buddy" when I am thinking of a vastly different word .
Handy having head mounted cam and 1080p res now with the new camera.
Postby find_bruce » Sat Feb 02, 2013 6:04 pm
Boognoss wrote:Moron cab yesterday. See how many seconds I held him up by as he was gesticulating for me to keep further left.
New strategy. Use the word "buddy" when I am thinking of a vastly different word .
Handy having head mounted cam and 1080p res now with the new camera.
+1 Silver service may take it more seriously than most - they want to have a reputation for a high class service.coffeeandwine wrote:Consider calling the Cab company as well. [snip] Bad drivers don't help the image of the company.
Postby g-boaf » Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:06 pm
I use those taxis quite a lot, I'll keep an eye out for that one. They are usually one driver one car, in my experience. A bit of normal conversation will soon work out if it is the same anti-cyclist driver.Boognoss wrote:Moron cab yesterday. See how many seconds I held him up by as he was gesticulating for me to keep further left.
New strategy. Use the word "buddy" when I am thinking of a vastly different word .
Handy having head mounted cam and 1080p res now with the new camera.
Postby queequeg » Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:50 pm
Must get to queue at Balaclava Rd quickly! Why do they bother?Boognoss wrote:Moron cab yesterday. See how many seconds I held him up by as he was gesticulating for me to keep further left.
New strategy. Use the word "buddy" when I am thinking of a vastly different word .
Handy having head mounted cam and 1080p res now with the new camera.
Postby Boognoss » Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:31 pm
Good, lights at that intersection are very long overdue!!!queequeg wrote:Must get to queue at Balaclava Rd quickly! Why do they bother?Boognoss wrote:Moron cab yesterday. See how many seconds I held him up by as he was gesticulating for me to keep further left.
New strategy. Use the word "buddy" when I am thinking of a vastly different word .
Handy having head mounted cam and 1080p res now with the new camera.
This roundabout is supposed to be replaced by traffic lights, but I think the project is delayed a fair bit!
I come through there around 4:45pm most days, so it is usually pretty quiet.
Postby queequeg » Sun Feb 03, 2013 12:13 pm
According to the RMS site (http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadprojects/ ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;), the roundabout is now due to be replaced Q1 this year.Boognoss wrote:Good, lights at that intersection are very long overdue!!!queequeg wrote:Must get to queue at Balaclava Rd quickly! Why do they bother?Boognoss wrote:Moron cab yesterday. See how many seconds I held him up by as he was gesticulating for me to keep further left.
New strategy. Use the word "buddy" when I am thinking of a vastly different word .
Handy having head mounted cam and 1080p res now with the new camera.
This roundabout is supposed to be replaced by traffic lights, but I think the project is delayed a fair bit!
I come through there around 4:45pm most days, so it is usually pretty quiet.
I emailed Silver Service's enquiries email last week from my work email with a link to the video, and a suggestion that as a company we'd be looking at which cab companies we prefer to use. I got a read receipt but not reply. I'll follow up next week .
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Postby Boognoss » Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:19 pm
Thanks for that. They are running out of months in Q1 too.......queequeg wrote:According to the RMS site (http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadprojects/ ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;), the roundabout is now due to be replaced Q1 this year.Boognoss wrote:Good, lights at that intersection are very long overdue!!!queequeg wrote: Must get to queue at Balaclava Rd quickly! Why do they bother?
This roundabout is supposed to be replaced by traffic lights, but I think the project is delayed a fair bit!
I come through there around 4:45pm most days, so it is usually pretty quiet.
I emailed Silver Service's enquiries email last week from my work email with a link to the video, and a suggestion that as a company we'd be looking at which cab companies we prefer to use. I got a read receipt but not reply. I'll follow up next week .
Sent from my iSomethingorother using Tapatalk HD
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