exbfb
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Out earlier for some shopping.
Myself, wife, 9 year old daughter, my sister.
Ambling along in an entirely unthreatening manner in our 10 year old people carrier.
It's a 40 limit through roadworks, so we were doing 40 (avge speed cameras.)
It's dual carriageway and it splits to head south or west.
I hadn't been on that bit recently and thought I had to get into the RH lane to go west.
This seemed to particularly upset the individual behind me in the Audi Q7 ( weapon of choice for 'people you don't want as an enemy' up here along with Range Rovers etc.)
It turns out that I didn't actually need to be in the RH lane, so as soon as I realised this, I indicated left and pulled over to lane 1. Our friend in the Audi shot past at this point doing the well worn trick of the near pass pulling in and narrowly missing me as he overtook. Hardly a surprise.
Must have upset him with my scabby old citroen having been in front.
Once he got in front and about 50 metres in front of me he then proceeded to brake to 20mph.
Ok, interesting choice, the road's empty in front of him but it's up to him I guess.
I was still doing my 40mph, with family in the car, being non threatening - as you do.
Seeing as I now had a 20mph speed difference between me and the now crawling Audi in front of me, I did what seems to me to be the only sensible thing at the time.
I resolutely avoided making eye contact, indicated right, checked my blindspot with a life saver and pulled out right to overtake. I figured it's best to behave as if I haven't noticed he's driving like a knob and just go about my business.
Once I got alongside, lo and behold he speeded up to match my speed.
I'm told by my sister who was in the front passenger seat that at this point, he was furiously eyeballing me and foaming at the mouth. Clearly my mere presence had caused some degree of displeasure.
It seems that his mouth was making the shapes you do when using the more colourfull examples of Anglo Saxon.
As I said, must have done something to upset him
I'm sure there are many nice people who drive Audi Q7s.
Unfortunately, I didn't meet one today.
Anyway, our man continued to do this for about another mile until he appears to have realised that an argument only really works when you have two protagonists.
On this occasion, there was only one seeing as I kept with the eyes straight ahead and ignore the psycho approach. To do anything else is contributing to a bad outcome. Nots omething you want when you have family in the car and all you want is some cornflakes and maybe some of those nice yoghurts with the chocolatey bits that you tip on.
You can guess the next bit.
He got bored and decided that he was off leaving me in the outisde lane.
At this point, this was my choice of outcome - let the loony go.
I happily accepted the opportunity to indicate left and do my 40mph in the nearside lane.
Audi man dissapeared off up the road at something greatly in excess of the posted limit.
Is this a cycling issue ?
No, not really, I know.
However, as per earlier related threads, there are psychos out there.
Remonstrating with them, especially whilst astride of 10kg of metal and rubber when they're in something approaching 2 tonnes of steel and fury is not a great idea.
Based on the behavious I saw today, our man would not be 'cyclist friendly'.
Stay back form the loonies.
Incidentally , this was Cumbernauld and it was a blue Q7.
Myself, wife, 9 year old daughter, my sister.
Ambling along in an entirely unthreatening manner in our 10 year old people carrier.
It's a 40 limit through roadworks, so we were doing 40 (avge speed cameras.)
It's dual carriageway and it splits to head south or west.
I hadn't been on that bit recently and thought I had to get into the RH lane to go west.
This seemed to particularly upset the individual behind me in the Audi Q7 ( weapon of choice for 'people you don't want as an enemy' up here along with Range Rovers etc.)
It turns out that I didn't actually need to be in the RH lane, so as soon as I realised this, I indicated left and pulled over to lane 1. Our friend in the Audi shot past at this point doing the well worn trick of the near pass pulling in and narrowly missing me as he overtook. Hardly a surprise.
Must have upset him with my scabby old citroen having been in front.
Once he got in front and about 50 metres in front of me he then proceeded to brake to 20mph.
Ok, interesting choice, the road's empty in front of him but it's up to him I guess.
I was still doing my 40mph, with family in the car, being non threatening - as you do.
Seeing as I now had a 20mph speed difference between me and the now crawling Audi in front of me, I did what seems to me to be the only sensible thing at the time.
I resolutely avoided making eye contact, indicated right, checked my blindspot with a life saver and pulled out right to overtake. I figured it's best to behave as if I haven't noticed he's driving like a knob and just go about my business.
Once I got alongside, lo and behold he speeded up to match my speed.
I'm told by my sister who was in the front passenger seat that at this point, he was furiously eyeballing me and foaming at the mouth. Clearly my mere presence had caused some degree of displeasure.
It seems that his mouth was making the shapes you do when using the more colourfull examples of Anglo Saxon.
As I said, must have done something to upset him
I'm sure there are many nice people who drive Audi Q7s.
Unfortunately, I didn't meet one today.
Anyway, our man continued to do this for about another mile until he appears to have realised that an argument only really works when you have two protagonists.
On this occasion, there was only one seeing as I kept with the eyes straight ahead and ignore the psycho approach. To do anything else is contributing to a bad outcome. Nots omething you want when you have family in the car and all you want is some cornflakes and maybe some of those nice yoghurts with the chocolatey bits that you tip on.
You can guess the next bit.
He got bored and decided that he was off leaving me in the outisde lane.
At this point, this was my choice of outcome - let the loony go.
I happily accepted the opportunity to indicate left and do my 40mph in the nearside lane.
Audi man dissapeared off up the road at something greatly in excess of the posted limit.
Is this a cycling issue ?
No, not really, I know.
However, as per earlier related threads, there are psychos out there.
Remonstrating with them, especially whilst astride of 10kg of metal and rubber when they're in something approaching 2 tonnes of steel and fury is not a great idea.
Based on the behavious I saw today, our man would not be 'cyclist friendly'.
Stay back form the loonies.
Incidentally , this was Cumbernauld and it was a blue Q7.
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