Whinging Courier wrote:


Cars have to get there because they feel it's their right (IMHO, of
course), lorries need to get in the way because car drivers won't let
the ****ers out.

Have you ever driven a lorry or bus round London? I promise you'll feel
differently once you've got a few miles under your belt.

I've never driven a bus or a lorry. I've ridden in a bus many times.
I've known occasions where the bus took a while to get out of the bus
stop. Cars might be willing to let them out if they could be certain
the bus would let them pass them at the next one. I once let one out
and at the next stop the bus didn't use its layby when it could easily
have done so. Since then I have never let a bus out if I can help it.

Lorries are generally not a "must overtake" vehicle (unlike a bus)
because they tend to go at a reasonably normal speed and don't stop at
bus stops. The only lorries you really don't want to be stuck behind
are the garbage collectors, who also deliberately block. In fact they
do their best to block out cyclists too. I know the bin-men don't want
to get run over by the passing cars while they are collecting, but they
do seem to pick the worst times to do their collections.

That's very convenient but don't forget motor/bicyclists are not easy to
see in anything larger than a transit and it's a laugh when the ****s
try and blame me because they overtook on the inside and they happened
to be in my blindspot.

Only an idiot cyclist overtakes a lorry on the left side unless it is
clear they will get to the other end before the lorry moves off. Of
course, overtaking on the right isn't guaranteed to be safe either (if
the lorry is turning left), as the lorry may swing out to make the
turn.

Once at Marble Arch there was a lorry turning and I on my bike was
keeping a good distance and refusing to pass until it had completed its
manouevure. Car drivers nearby didn't fully understand what I was
doing.

So get a faster car and better reactions.

One of my cars is very fast.