LinkoVitch
Regular
- Location
- Manchester
I have some shocking news fellow cyclists! Bit of back story (not much 
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Today is lovely and sunny, I fortuitously took today off work for other reasons, this is clearly a sign. So, as I had a day off, the weather is nice the good lady asks me if I fancy a run out on the tandem for a couple of hours, so off we go. There were hills, lovely scenery and a bit where we went at 38 MPH and I went wheeee and apparently she was trying to back pedal
Awesome ride out..
And then.. the whole cycling world comes tumbling down! Apparently, I am reliably informed by a motorist at a set of lights that "roads are for cars!" OMG! We are such bad people using the cars roads! I was mortified, I am ashamed but I tried to argue the point with him. I can only apologise for my sheer rudeness, my response was "Well, this is a BUS lane, and your car is neither a bus nor a taxi", my insolence clearly offended the poor chap, his retort was simply "F@£K YOU!" followed by the wrong hand gesture for that insult and turning up of his cars music. I did try to make some recompence for my horrendous actions by indicating to him that the traffic light on "His road" was actually green.. He did drive away quite quickly, I think he was disgusted to be near us.. I feel so bad and ashamed for my horrific ignorance of the correct use of the roads, I just had to warn you all so you too did not make such a horrific mistake.
Oh he had tried prior to the conversation alerting us to our errors by driving very quickly along the wide empty bus lane honking his horn several times.
Our exchange must have delayed his purchase of high quality merchandise from Ikea greatly, I do hope his day has not been ruined.
)Today is lovely and sunny, I fortuitously took today off work for other reasons, this is clearly a sign. So, as I had a day off, the weather is nice the good lady asks me if I fancy a run out on the tandem for a couple of hours, so off we go. There were hills, lovely scenery and a bit where we went at 38 MPH and I went wheeee and apparently she was trying to back pedal
Awesome ride out.. And then.. the whole cycling world comes tumbling down! Apparently, I am reliably informed by a motorist at a set of lights that "roads are for cars!" OMG! We are such bad people using the cars roads! I was mortified, I am ashamed but I tried to argue the point with him. I can only apologise for my sheer rudeness, my response was "Well, this is a BUS lane, and your car is neither a bus nor a taxi", my insolence clearly offended the poor chap, his retort was simply "F@£K YOU!" followed by the wrong hand gesture for that insult and turning up of his cars music. I did try to make some recompence for my horrendous actions by indicating to him that the traffic light on "His road" was actually green.. He did drive away quite quickly, I think he was disgusted to be near us.. I feel so bad and ashamed for my horrific ignorance of the correct use of the roads, I just had to warn you all so you too did not make such a horrific mistake.
Oh he had tried prior to the conversation alerting us to our errors by driving very quickly along the wide empty bus lane honking his horn several times.
Our exchange must have delayed his purchase of high quality merchandise from Ikea greatly, I do hope his day has not been ruined.
), advice about Ikea and the wife...... I say, "You look shattered hun, go look around the store and have some you time while I look after the baby. I will meet you downstairs when you're done. I will wait by the hot dog stand for you." MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM then 2-3 hot dogs later I am content with an hour of watching people passing me with shopping trolleys filled to the max with boxes covered in names I cannot pronounce whilst waiting for the wife to finish window shopping. 
