Cyclist went through a wormhole!

[downfader]

So I'm riding into work this morning and notice that the road works have changed AGAIN down the bottom of Shirley Road. I decide, the lights being temps, that I'll just get off and navigate it on foot. As I'm about to rejoin the road a young lady passes me on a SUABeg. She's going about 5 miles an hour so I wait until its safe to pass and take a right turn and head off around the back of shirley's side roads.

5 minutes later I arrive at Church road and checking traffic at the junction, and the very same young lady rides past me, still doing a gingerly slow pace. How?! What!? Ehhh???? How did she beat me around... I only took..?

 

[Mr Crash]

Strange title.

 

[dand_uk]

SUAbeg?

 

[twozeronine]

SUAbeg?

sit-up-and-beg

 

[BentMikey]

LOL, that is frustrating! I have a similar thing on Vauxhall Cross, I always seem to choose the slowest route of three, and any other cyclist gets around faster than I do.

 

[GrasB]

Kind of frustrating but in some ways rewarding knowing you've passed the same person after going the long way round.

 

[downfader]

Kind of frustrating but in some ways rewarding knowing you've passed the same person after going the long way round.

Not really frustrated, just amazed. She beat me to my destination without any effort. Tortoise and hare effect.

 

[fungus]

Perhaps you're just slower than you thought you were

 

[Foghorn_leghorn]

Perhaps you went through the wormhole and got stuck in it.

 

[brokenbetty]

She's twins and their favourite game is twisting fast cyclists' minds

 

[buggi]

when i did my first trip to Paris there was a guy we met called Alfons, and he rode a hybrid, and constantly passed our group, although we never passed him. We came to the conclusion that there were at least 10 Alfons riding the route.

 

[Tynan]

I offer the theory that she rode at the same pace throughout, not stopping or slowing for anything at all

 

[summerdays]

She waited until you dispeared from sight then turned on the power until you came into view ... didn't you ever do that as a kid?

 

[Foghorn_leghorn]

 

[arallsopp]

I offer the theory that she rode at the same pace throughout, not stopping or slowing for anything at all

Sounds like you witnessed one of bikesnobnyc's tribesters.

The Beautiful Godzilla
The Beautiful Godzilla is a particular kind of urban female cyclist who rides as though the rest of the world were created simply to yield to her. She's generally young, good-looking and clad in expensive clothes. She also rides an old three-speed or perhaps a 10-speed or Dutch city bike, carries her handbag on the edge of her handlebars and if she has a basket it usually contains a small dog or perhaps a baguette. She's on her mobile phone at all times and her approach to cycling in a densely populated city is a combination of self-entitlement and Mr Magoo-type dumb luck. Like any self-entitled person, she can't imagine a car would possibly hit her, even if she's riding against traffic and it's coming right at her. Actually, you sort of find yourself disappointed when it doesn't. And just like Mr Magoo would wander into a construction site and a girder would materialise right as he was about to walk off the scaffolding, the Beautiful Godzilla blithely rides through red lights and busy intersections, emerging on the other side unscathed and just as photogenic as she was when she entered it.

Why other cyclists don't like them: They should be dead but aren't.