Bizarre incident yesterday morning. I see a guy cycling in who I've seen a number of times before (this is unusual in brum!), but he never returns my 'morning!' because he cycles with a whistle in his mouth (!).
Get to a busy junction with the outer ring road where there is always traffic and a bus lane disappears meaning the road narrows into two lanes. I've slowed down to filter carefully between the two lanes behind a motorbike. He bombs along in the gutter whilst a taxi slowly moves over to stay in the left lane after merging with the bus lane. Screach of brakes, the cyclist declares the taxi driver a "f***ing twat" and comes round to the drivers side to tell him to look in his mirrors.
I'm absolutely flabbergasted at this point and just said, "mate - you were undertaking!" at which point he rode off.
This guy is wearing lycra shorts, a luminous yellow waterproof jacket and a helmet.......
F**kwit. I wish I'd pulled him up 'cos the daft bugger will get in a bloody accident the way he's going but I was just too astonished at his attitude that he was totally in the right!
Get to a busy junction with the outer ring road where there is always traffic and a bus lane disappears meaning the road narrows into two lanes. I've slowed down to filter carefully between the two lanes behind a motorbike. He bombs along in the gutter whilst a taxi slowly moves over to stay in the left lane after merging with the bus lane. Screach of brakes, the cyclist declares the taxi driver a "f***ing twat" and comes round to the drivers side to tell him to look in his mirrors.
I'm absolutely flabbergasted at this point and just said, "mate - you were undertaking!" at which point he rode off.
This guy is wearing lycra shorts, a luminous yellow waterproof jacket and a helmet.......
F**kwit. I wish I'd pulled him up 'cos the daft bugger will get in a bloody accident the way he's going but I was just too astonished at his attitude that he was totally in the right!