bloody cyclist
No that is not a comment that was aimed at me, it was a comment that I aimed at two cyclist (in two days) that very nearly became bonnet ornaments on my car.
Dumb arse cyclist No1, I was sat in the normal Monday morning slow moving queue of traffic approaching a road joining (the road I am on) on my left. Sporting a lovely shiny Carrea MTB\Hybrid bike and wearing bright fluro jacket (which obviously makes him invincible) and a helmet, the cyclist rode straight out of the side road across the front of my bonnet, straight over the white line down the centre of the road and into the path of the oncoming traffic. Fortunately for him the on coming traffic braked, while our dumb arsed cyclist continued riding up the centre of the road on the wrong side into on coming traffic. This guy was no youngster, he must have been in his 40′s
Dumb arse cyclist No2, only about half a mile from where the other incident happened (maybe it something in the air), going down a hill I am confronted with a guy riding down the middle on my side of the road who is getting slower and slower until he stops in the middle of the road. No hand signals, no indication of what he is intending to do, he just sat there……… Then suddenly he seemed to wake up, realised he was in the middle of the road and quickly scurried to the side of the road. This guy was a mature student type, summer jacket, no helmet or cycling attire what so ever
Is it any wonder as cyclist, car\van\bus\lorry drivers have such a low opinion of us when we ride like this??
Last night was weigh in night and I carried on the traditional Monday night weight yo-yo, fortunately this time it was a 3.5lb loss, I was pleased. Just hope I can be good all week and make it another loss next Monday.
