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Old 28-08-09, 08:24 PM   #7
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Default Re: Road hogs

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Originally Posted by maviczap View Post
I'm just returning home from a ride on my push bike, hot sweaty and tired, headwind out, tail wind home.

The main road to my home is really wide and has a cycle lane on each side. So I've just overtaken a couple of parked cars and I'm outside the cycle lane, then theres a traffic island, so the road has narrowed.

When I hear brakes being applied, but not like in an emergency.

I turn my head an see a car bumper a bit too close for my liking, then this old geezer wound down his window and shouts 'the inside lanes over there!!!'

Jeez I'd held him up for all of 2 seconds.

The worst part was, all I could think of saying was 'roadhog!!'

It's one thing to having near misses whilst out training on quiet country roads, but having gits like this I can do with out.

It's not like I live in the city where cycle couriers give ordinary cyclists a bad name
Did you do it like the cylists do though, just move out of their line without a shoulder check expecting cars to slam on the anchors for them?
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