stowie
Legendary Member
What happened today? Normally I complete my cycling with few, if none, incidents. And normally very few that prompt me to start a new thread. But what was going on today?
I got left hooked several times. Nothing really bad until I was on Stratford "high street" where a car moved across two lanes to take the road for Westfield at the last moment as I was crossing the junction. He/She almost certainly didn't even see me and was down the road by the time I had wobbled into the curb and half fallen of the cycle. Utter cockwombleness of an order that is rarely seen. The champions league of cockwombleness if you will.
I had cars driving right at me on the wrong side of the road, I had a car zoom up to the back of me and then hang off my back wheel - even though there were two lanes and nothing in the other lane. I had a taxi buzz me in the bus lane even though the main road was clear.
And then the number of people engrossed in their smartphones was just extraordinary. One woman was next to me as I watched in disbelief. She was driving whilst holding - and staring fixedly at - the Iphone - which she was using as a sat nav. For the love of God, an iphone holder thingy is £9. What thought process thinks "no let's save £9 and hold the Iphone whilst driving at 30mph". People like this shouldn't be left in charge of a plastic spoon, less still hold a driving license.
And then there was the gentleman who pulled out in front of me and another cyclist (both wearing hi-viz) and then proceeded to give us a regal wave out of the window in a bizarre gesture which I couldn't work out whether was some kind of apology or he was trying to call in a helicopter.
And then, for some reason, Leyton and Leytonstone were absolutely gridlocked tonight. So the last part of the journey had me filtering through the high road and trying to avoid the muppets zooming past at 40mph for 10 yards to the next queue.
Did everyone have their brains removed over the long bank holiday? Am I living in some kind of Zombie "B" movie where the main characteristic is that all the zombies are really, really sh*te drivers?
I got left hooked several times. Nothing really bad until I was on Stratford "high street" where a car moved across two lanes to take the road for Westfield at the last moment as I was crossing the junction. He/She almost certainly didn't even see me and was down the road by the time I had wobbled into the curb and half fallen of the cycle. Utter cockwombleness of an order that is rarely seen. The champions league of cockwombleness if you will.
I had cars driving right at me on the wrong side of the road, I had a car zoom up to the back of me and then hang off my back wheel - even though there were two lanes and nothing in the other lane. I had a taxi buzz me in the bus lane even though the main road was clear.
And then the number of people engrossed in their smartphones was just extraordinary. One woman was next to me as I watched in disbelief. She was driving whilst holding - and staring fixedly at - the Iphone - which she was using as a sat nav. For the love of God, an iphone holder thingy is £9. What thought process thinks "no let's save £9 and hold the Iphone whilst driving at 30mph". People like this shouldn't be left in charge of a plastic spoon, less still hold a driving license.
And then there was the gentleman who pulled out in front of me and another cyclist (both wearing hi-viz) and then proceeded to give us a regal wave out of the window in a bizarre gesture which I couldn't work out whether was some kind of apology or he was trying to call in a helicopter.
And then, for some reason, Leyton and Leytonstone were absolutely gridlocked tonight. So the last part of the journey had me filtering through the high road and trying to avoid the muppets zooming past at 40mph for 10 yards to the next queue.
Did everyone have their brains removed over the long bank holiday? Am I living in some kind of Zombie "B" movie where the main characteristic is that all the zombies are really, really sh*te drivers?
