Closest shave for ages

A22, heading towards M25: they're taking the hedges out of the central
reservation of the Caterham by-pass, presumably to replace them with
Armco (it's been an accident black spot because if restricted
visibility for years).

Anyway, because of the work there's a long queue of traffic. I'm
gently beetling down the outside of it, staying *well* out to the
offside. People won't pull U-turns when there's oncoming traffic, but
if there's a long gap they often think "**** it" and twirl the wheel.

And Twatty in his Astra estate did just that. No indicators, no
nothing, just got tired of sitting in the queue and thought he'd pull
a U-ey. I always thought the Trophy's brakes were adequate, no more,
but you *can* lock the front wheel.

And then he tried to leg it.

I wasn't having that, so I did a 180 too, got in front of him, parked
up the bike on the road, vented my feelings, and then rummaged in my
pannier for my camera. That rattled him, because he drove on the
pavement to try and avoid being snapped, but in the morning rush-hour
he wasn't going anywhere.

I'm thinking of sticking up a web-page composed of shots of Dangerous
Twats. Anyone else got any? If not, keep a camera handy and send 'em
in.

(Oh and thanks to the bloke in his truck who was rather supportive)

 

WorkTOG wrote:
[snip]

To be expected IME, but glad you survived. I'm petrified of someone doing
something similar to me along Bristol Road (Glos) in the morning. It's
always queued up and people get impatient very quickly.

Speak to sir.tony, he's already got a hall of fame apparently.

 

Unfortunately I think you can't do that - didn't the plod try to do
something similar only to find it impinges on 'human rights'
or 'data protection' or some such.

 

Use an off shore host, with anonymous postings.
But linked to in as many places as possible.

 

Possibly, though considering how offshore ISP's now charge VAT I don't think
that would help in terms of saying "I didn't konw people in the UK would see
it"

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, WorkTOG said:

I had an idea of doing a vid called "ped-mahem". The idea was to snatch
those funny moments when pedestrians walk out into the road and just for
an instant don't know what the **** they are doing when they see you
hurtling towards them.

 

Absolutely. That's why I was sticking well out on the offside, and
only really trundling. I've nearly been caught before. If I'd been a
couple of feet to the left, or doing maybe 5mph faster, I'd have hit
the twat.