Actually, the title isn't true, I get them sometimes when I have. It just SEEMS like today.
First one was an idiont in a car with a 'Cambridge custom cruisers' window sticker. That'd be these people:
http://www.cambridgecustomcruisers.org/
He's well behind me as I approach a red light at which there are at least four vehicles already stopped and another two moving towards the queue; there are two more speed humps before we get there, the lights aren't changing any time soon, but he still had to get past, cutting in sharply just at a speed hump. I yelled a warning and swerved, he yelled abuse, and more as I passed him safely once he'd got stuck in the traffic to get to the advance stop box. Cretin with nothing in his pants, I think. But, still, another vindication for taking primary; it gave me an escape route.
A little further on, another set of lights, at which I was the first one there. Wait for them to turn amber, look right and left, there's a cyclist approaching a red light at my right, so off I go. Naturally, he didn't stop, but he did pull a very dramatic ninety degree skid stop after swerving wildly in front of me, shortly before I called out to him 'dude, red light'.
Got to town, saw a skip lorry at a junction I was heading to. Made eye contact with the guy in his mirror, he saw me indicating left, we exchanged nods, I entered the cycle lane to his left, we exchanged nods again at the lights and waited for them to change. Nice example that good communication can sort out potentially dangerous road positionings. Another cyclist bombed straight through and made two cyclists at the junction coming from the right (down Castle Hill) have to swerve sharply to miss him.
Almost at work, the lane on the other side blocked and cars parked intermittently on my left. Another textbook example of where to claim your road space. Elderly lady behind me, the kind the stereotype would have you believe are blue rinse dawdlers, couldn't just sound her horn just once. Oh, no, I might not have heard if if she only sounded it once...
Always seems to be that I get weeks of incident free cycling, then days like this
First one was an idiont in a car with a 'Cambridge custom cruisers' window sticker. That'd be these people:
http://www.cambridgecustomcruisers.org/
He's well behind me as I approach a red light at which there are at least four vehicles already stopped and another two moving towards the queue; there are two more speed humps before we get there, the lights aren't changing any time soon, but he still had to get past, cutting in sharply just at a speed hump. I yelled a warning and swerved, he yelled abuse, and more as I passed him safely once he'd got stuck in the traffic to get to the advance stop box. Cretin with nothing in his pants, I think. But, still, another vindication for taking primary; it gave me an escape route.
A little further on, another set of lights, at which I was the first one there. Wait for them to turn amber, look right and left, there's a cyclist approaching a red light at my right, so off I go. Naturally, he didn't stop, but he did pull a very dramatic ninety degree skid stop after swerving wildly in front of me, shortly before I called out to him 'dude, red light'.
Got to town, saw a skip lorry at a junction I was heading to. Made eye contact with the guy in his mirror, he saw me indicating left, we exchanged nods, I entered the cycle lane to his left, we exchanged nods again at the lights and waited for them to change. Nice example that good communication can sort out potentially dangerous road positionings. Another cyclist bombed straight through and made two cyclists at the junction coming from the right (down Castle Hill) have to swerve sharply to miss him.
Almost at work, the lane on the other side blocked and cars parked intermittently on my left. Another textbook example of where to claim your road space. Elderly lady behind me, the kind the stereotype would have you believe are blue rinse dawdlers, couldn't just sound her horn just once. Oh, no, I might not have heard if if she only sounded it once...
Always seems to be that I get weeks of incident free cycling, then days like this
