http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/1180/cycling/polite-road-rage/ Cycling info - advice and tips Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:22:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/1180/cycling/polite-road-rage/comment-page-1/#comment-22879 Thu, 13 May 2010 09:16:27 +0000 http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/?p=1180#comment-22879 I’ve taken to doing a “thank you for not pulling out on me” wave/nod and smile at junctions. The way i see it, since i’ve just made them wait for a whole 2 seconds, when they come racing up behind me to make up this precious lost time they may not be so inclined to crush me between their car and the pavement.

]]> http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/1180/cycling/polite-road-rage/comment-page-1/#comment-13577 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:01:54 +0000 http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/?p=1180#comment-13577 Great entry – I totally know what you mean about the impulse to shout, and how amazingly unproductive it can be. But equally you feel that if you don’t let the driver know that they nearly killed you, they won’t have learnt their lesson … I normally end up being a kind of “sighing with frustration” person. Perhaps we should all take a leaf out of the example you saw above. If anyone’s interested, I did write a little entry about how I inadvertently became a hippy when confronted by real road rage … it’s here:
http://karma-cycle.blogspot.com/search/label/hippy

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