LE06 FPF Close Overtake At Speed On Minories Caught And Passed On Tower Bridge

I get a close overtake at speed from this driver who could not wait a second for the car ahead to complete their right turn. Imagine my surprise to find them waiting at a set of traffic lights a short way down the road! As I'd have to move into the middle of the road anyway to access Tower Bridge I just moved over a little earlier than usual and when passed again could not resist a one-fingered salute. Still though, our driver made even less progress this time before I overtook again this time in moving traffic. As the bridge is narrow and I don't like overtaking I just kept a reasonable distance to the vehicle ahead and controlled the pace until it was wide enough to start overtaking again.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• LE06
• FPF
• Close
• Overtake
• At
• Speed
• On
• Minories
• Caught
• And
• Passed
• Tower
• Bridge

[MercedesCL63AMG]

Slow down you cycling to fast the speed limit is 30mph :p lol

[kmcyc]

@MercedesCL63AMG

Yes, thank you. Actually on Tower Bridge the limit drops to 20 mph btw.

[Saighton]

You could just make the wanker sign and if challenged by the law (when are they around?) just explain that your wrist was sore from a hit and run you had and needed loosening-up... true story.

[kmcyc]

@Saighton

Good tip! ;) I'll have remember that one, thanks!

[RoadworkCallum45]

he deserved that middle finger

[kmcyc]

@RoadworkCallum45

I'd like to think he deserved more than that but I should have been more restrained. It's not my usual style to let my emotions get the better of me when interacting with errant drivers.

[TheVexatiousLitigant]

I find the hand signals that aren't shown in the Highway Code very useful too.

[itsazy]

how you keep yourself from destroying their wing mirrors I'll never know.

[whatUwanaB]

@kmcyc they will shove something up ur ass, and say they needed to losen it up for u after ur accident hahaha

[kmcyc]

@AnotherCopierOfM13

Yes you are quite right and I normally don't allow myself to make such a display. Is it worth even the slightest indiscretion that may come back to haunt you should an incident reach the attention of the law? No. We don't need to give excuses to these drivers or provide them with technicalities to explain away their terrible driving.

[kmcyc]

@jonredhornet

Well, I like to think I got my point across to them. I doubt very much they expected to be following me across Tower Bridge having made that outrageous pass way back on Minories. I guess so many drivers still believe they are faster than cyclists in cities like London.

[kmcyc]

@CyclingMikey

Good for you. I will be on the lookout for this driver again and if the opportunity presents I may let them know where to see this footage and suggest the read the comments as well.

[kmcyc]

@gadgetmind

Have to say that's probably one of my closest as well. I'm hoping that they got the point when I got ahead of them and controlled the pace.