Winnershsaint
Guru
I've been riding fairly regularly with my next door neighbour at weekends. Today we were on a route which took us out to Henley on Thames. On the way back along the Reading road between the Flowing Spring pub and the roundabout at Sonning Eye I looked down to give a cursory check to see what gear I was in only to get an eyeful of the front wing of a bronze coloured mini half wheeling me with about 6 inches to spare between us. He was seriously close to my back wheel. I suppose we were kicking along at somwhere around 20 kph. The driver then finally gave me a bit of room and drew along side gesticulating. I noticed that he was even more ridiculously dressed than I was in judo gear so he couldn't have taken offence at me in lycra. I was neither particularly far out from the verge or doing anything other than going in a straight line, so had no idea what his problem was. As he got alongside he started mouthing off. I have to admit I usually give as good as I get if safe to do so, so I gave him a mouthful back and a one finger salute. He decided to carry on his rant crossing into the lane coming the other way to pass me not seeing the Transit coming the other way. Cue very near miss horns etc.
A mile or so further on and we were at Sonnning Bridge. The lights were on red. We slowed down towards the rear of the queue of traffic waiting for the lights to change. A black BMW 5 Series started honking his horn at us. We were both in the primary position approaching this stop. He couldn't go anywhere as the lights were on red. We couldn't go anywhere, but he continued aggresively on the horn trying to bully us to get out of the way. For those who know the area you will know that once over the bridge there is sharp left followed by a shortish hill so I can only assume he wanted not to get caught behind us once over the bridge. As it was we went over and up the hill keeping pace with the line of traffic before turning off through Sonning Village. Been doing a lot of riding in the last 18 months without incident so having two in such a short time frame was galling to say the least.
A mile or so further on and we were at Sonnning Bridge. The lights were on red. We slowed down towards the rear of the queue of traffic waiting for the lights to change. A black BMW 5 Series started honking his horn at us. We were both in the primary position approaching this stop. He couldn't go anywhere as the lights were on red. We couldn't go anywhere, but he continued aggresively on the horn trying to bully us to get out of the way. For those who know the area you will know that once over the bridge there is sharp left followed by a shortish hill so I can only assume he wanted not to get caught behind us once over the bridge. As it was we went over and up the hill keeping pace with the line of traffic before turning off through Sonning Village. Been doing a lot of riding in the last 18 months without incident so having two in such a short time frame was galling to say the least.
