Had my own 'Muppet in a TT' moment last night... Which I'm ashamed to say induced a little cycle rage in me...
Was riding from Birmingham and had just passed through Bromsgrove, I was riding about 20mph, in primary, keeping up with traffic, TT decide to try and overtake when there was nowhere for him to go.
I held my position and he had to brake and pull in behind me.
As the cars slowed to a stop for some lights (with the TT about 6 inches from my wheel) I filtered about 5 or 6 cars and pulled in about 3 cars back from the lights. waited about a couple of minutes for lights to change and then rode secondary as cars passed.
Was calm at this point, I did actually say in my head 'muppet in a TT' but brushed it off as just a bad bit of driving.
Although, as the TT passed he matched his speed to mine to cut me up and purposely 'pushed' me into a parked car, (he almost clipped his wing mirror on the parked car) I had to almost stop and wait for him to pass.
Well..
I lost it... I chased him and ended up cycling next to his drivers window on the other side of the road shouting abuse at at him for about 5 seconds telling him to pull over. He kept both hands on the wheel and kept looking straight ahead.
As the traffic cleared he pulled away and I pulled in (the car behind then gave me a smile and a thumbs up)
Not proud and find cycling relaxing, even brush off most things like this but when it's intentional and think that someone is trying to knock me off it makes me so angry!!!
'Muppet on a bike', Wychbold.
Was riding from Birmingham and had just passed through Bromsgrove, I was riding about 20mph, in primary, keeping up with traffic, TT decide to try and overtake when there was nowhere for him to go.
I held my position and he had to brake and pull in behind me.
As the cars slowed to a stop for some lights (with the TT about 6 inches from my wheel) I filtered about 5 or 6 cars and pulled in about 3 cars back from the lights. waited about a couple of minutes for lights to change and then rode secondary as cars passed.
Was calm at this point, I did actually say in my head 'muppet in a TT' but brushed it off as just a bad bit of driving.
Although, as the TT passed he matched his speed to mine to cut me up and purposely 'pushed' me into a parked car, (he almost clipped his wing mirror on the parked car) I had to almost stop and wait for him to pass.
Well..
I lost it... I chased him and ended up cycling next to his drivers window on the other side of the road shouting abuse at at him for about 5 seconds telling him to pull over. He kept both hands on the wheel and kept looking straight ahead.
As the traffic cleared he pulled away and I pulled in (the car behind then gave me a smile and a thumbs up)
Not proud and find cycling relaxing, even brush off most things like this but when it's intentional and think that someone is trying to knock me off it makes me so angry!!!
'Muppet on a bike', Wychbold.
