chrisinflight

Just a little grumpy rant. I have been riding circa 20 years and the following has recently started irritating me a bit: Car drivers moving over to the right to the centre line after spotting you in the mirrors. I don't tailgate just keep a distance until I can see the road ahead is clear to overtake or when I`m happy to sit behind I find myself having a better view ahead down the left-hand side of the car where there is normally at least a 4 ft. gap. It seems like every car driver wants to be to the right of the car in front. When stopped AND when driving. Maybe its just to give cyclists a wide-berth but I`m more inclined to think it`s some sort of dislike to being looked over the right shoulder or even a dislike of being overtaken. I did 85 miles of country roads today in the forest of bowland. What I noticed was cars travelling in the middle of a narrow road, travelling well below the speed limit but not moving over to the left to give you a safe width to overtake.
The number one rule of the road is after all KEEP LEFT!
rant over.
chris