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[Jughead]

Drivers getting to close must be the most commom complaint on roads. I applaud the recent advert about space for cycling and even someone refered to the advert the last time I was knocked off. Given todays technology there must be something to ward off drivers about close passing without the need of prosecution?

[Jughead]

Sorry for the crap spelling and replying to my own post. I'm of the taking a hammer brigade. Wiling to listen to sensible suggestions.

[[XAP]Bob]

Where on the road do you cycle?

Primary/secondary/gutter?

[reohn2]

Drivers getting to close must be the most commom complaint on roads. I applaud the recent advert about space for cycling and even someone refered to the advert the last time I was knocked off. Given todays technology there must be something to ward off drivers about close passing without the need of prosecution?

A Bazooka perhaps?
These people know what they're doing and are taking advantage of a non existent police force and being so stretched as to be completely ineffectual in any real sense toward criminals on our roads.

[Elizabethsdad]

I had a very unsettling one today. On a dual carriageway (the Avenue in Southampton) and a black car speeds up to overtake me but pulls alongside matches my speed and starts edging towards me. They had a clear lane in front of them so could have carried on at anytime but chose to be deliberately intimidating. This carried on until we got to the roundabout and fortunately went in different directions. Oh and I was driving a car doing 40 in a 40 limit - sadly I didn't get a reg number to be able to report it but this is the sort of behaviour that someone should get a driving ban for and a psyche evaluation.

[Valbrona]

Accidental near passes happen. But I think I speak for just about every cyclist when I say the deliberate near passes, the ones designed to intimidate and scare, and the so-called 'punishment passes', are a very worrying aspect of riding a bike on the UK's roads.