Jacomus-rides-Gen
New Member
- Location
- Guildford / London
Not some random POB this time, but myself
Miss JRG popped over to cook me lunch whilst I'm revising *awwww* and I thought it would be nice to cycle back to her place with her, then turn straight round and come back.
On the way, we were using a pretty decent shared path, that (when going to hers) slopes downhill in a gentle S-curve, flattening out as an underpass, with yellow metal crunches to make cyclists slow down before they go through the underpass.
We were riding around 10mph or so. As one of us has to go through the crunch first, I sped up a little. As I assesed the situation in front I plotted a line to take me between the ped on the RHS (as I look at it) of the path and in front of the 2 peds walking up the path on the LHS, leaving a short braking zone before the crunch.
I had a bit of a trapped-spirit-bursting-into-freedom, type moment. I accelerated hard, leant over and beautifully shot the gap between the ped walking in the same diretion as me on the RHS and the couple coming towards me on the LHS. Braked hard and smooth, and flicked Kinks perfectly through the crunches at speed.
This was all very satisfying for about 5 seconds until I thought about it a bit. I noticed the couple coming up the hill hesitate as the cyclist coming towards them accelerated instead of slowed down, and the guy with his back to me (and wearing headphones) would have had a shock as out of nowhere a cyclist flew past him, close and at speed.
I knew what I was doing, but how were they to know what I was going to do.
Not the worst crime in the world, but not really very acceptable shared path behaviour.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
Miss JRG popped over to cook me lunch whilst I'm revising *awwww* and I thought it would be nice to cycle back to her place with her, then turn straight round and come back.
On the way, we were using a pretty decent shared path, that (when going to hers) slopes downhill in a gentle S-curve, flattening out as an underpass, with yellow metal crunches to make cyclists slow down before they go through the underpass.
We were riding around 10mph or so. As one of us has to go through the crunch first, I sped up a little. As I assesed the situation in front I plotted a line to take me between the ped on the RHS (as I look at it) of the path and in front of the 2 peds walking up the path on the LHS, leaving a short braking zone before the crunch.
I had a bit of a trapped-spirit-bursting-into-freedom, type moment. I accelerated hard, leant over and beautifully shot the gap between the ped walking in the same diretion as me on the RHS and the couple coming towards me on the LHS. Braked hard and smooth, and flicked Kinks perfectly through the crunches at speed.
This was all very satisfying for about 5 seconds until I thought about it a bit. I noticed the couple coming up the hill hesitate as the cyclist coming towards them accelerated instead of slowed down, and the guy with his back to me (and wearing headphones) would have had a shock as out of nowhere a cyclist flew past him, close and at speed.
I knew what I was doing, but how were they to know what I was going to do.
Not the worst crime in the world, but not really very acceptable shared path behaviour.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.
I must not speed on the path.