This is exactly what he did…
I find yelling “Coming” helps keeps everyone alert when I hit a blind spot…
Bit hard to explain here, but no amount of yelling would have helped. Anyway I use that lane alot and never had an issue until now.
Not a near miss with traffic… But a near miss nevertheless.
Running late for work, so I decided to ride the fixed gear. First time brakeless so I was taking it easy, about 25km/h, down the first big hill and the chain flys off. Scary as hell. I manage to get it stopped in the grass without too much hassle. Turns out one of the teeth on the chainring decided to get bent therefore rendering it useless. Scared the shit out of me. Wont be riding brakeless fixed ever again. That’s that done. To top it off, while walking home, my front tube decided to violently deflate, lucky I was walking.
THEN… I have to fix a puncture on my S&M… With that all done, I get to the bottom of the hill, and i’m going through the roundabout where a police officer has to give way to me. Helmetless, flanno flapping in the wind as I fly through. I had right of way and everything. He pulls me over, and I get the “you should know better… walk your bike from now on” speech. I think he was too shocked that a 25yr old is running wild through the streets on a BMX.
All this before 9:30am. Great start to the day 
shit day by the sounds of it.
This morning at the roundabout of Napier and Westgarth St cops are attending a girl who was knocked off. Thankfully she’s ok and amazingly they’re attending and questioning the driver.
I see a newish Mercedes 4wd coming down Westgarth St. The Tool driver is on the phone and looking at the cops. I slow down but he still hits the brakes hard to avoid me.
I give shiny suit wearing spiv a polite mouthful which includes asking how much he gets off road and why wasn’t he looking… he replies with the classic I never tire of hearing, “I ride a bike too you know”, then he gets abused by the lovely middle aged ladies who were looking after the girl. Cops just watched.
I nearly hit a land rover yesterday, he cut a corner at 50km/h and I was in the middle of the road to avoid the cars parked either side.
I was in my ute, can I still post in this thread?
is your ute fixed?
Nearly got smoked by an Asian driving a Honda Prelude, who pulled out of a driveway without looking. Just to re-enforce the stereotype…
no, it’s a single pegger.
fixing the diff would be sweet for burnouts and dorri but hard to park.
Interesting/Terrifying near miss today.
Coming home from school and was speeding along at 40 down union road, I spot a red car not far ahead on the other side of the road facing me which decides it can pull a U-turn in front of me. The guy just makes it into the parking lane on my side of the road and brakes, I think “that was close” when is exactly when he pulls out in front of me and I pull some spidey sense swerving to avoid him. 50 cm to the left and I would have put my head through his rear window. Standard abuse is hurled from my side and I ask him to stop/slow down and at least apologise and he gives me a look saying “fucking bikes” and speeds off, cutting down a side street to avoid me.
Afterwards I realise I used to go to school with the guy and he lives down the road from me, what to do?
?
what to do?
Break his knees. Or a gangnail under each of his tyres at night time.
Or…
Ride slower, be alert and be careful.
his car, paint stripper, a silhouette of a penis.
call the cops on him / get a mate and both of you call the EPA littering line (guaranteed fine for him) / go round and have a chat with him and be polite…
kill him…kill him now. Don’t wait for the rage to subside otherwise you may not do it…
EDIT: In case anyone thinks Im serious…Im not…
shit on his windscreen.
Riding home down Flemington Rd tonight and a near miss turned into my first hit. I was slowing down for a red light when a car decides he wants to turn left and cuts in front of me into the left turn lane, but he couldn’t fit behind a car that was already stopped and sat across two lanes and the bike lane. I swerved around him so I didn’t ride up the back of him, he then decides to turn back into the lane that I am now in and hit me side on. Luckily we were both going pretty slow so I managed to stay on my bike, but he did hit my back wheel which popped my tyre. The guy then reverses back down the road as more cars were coming towards him and turns into a servo so he could turn left by avoiding the lights. I wanted to give the guy a piece of my mind, but a lovely old lady was already yelling at him for me.
Hey aeons, fill his tire valves with super glue.
When he goes to inflate them, he’s gonna be like ‘oh man, WTF?’
Well I just walked a girl to the train station and on my wheelie back home on the bmx I noticed the exact car just sitting there. Having nothing on me but a burning wish for vengeance I took a leak all over it.