Tetedelacourse
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Finally my cage was well and truly rattled this morning by this useless piece of scum.
Gogar roundabout, coming off A8, round to exit roundabout at Gyle Broadway. I took primary in the lane which allows you to exit the roundabout in the left lane onto Gyle Broadway. It's a big enough roundabout to have traffic lights on it. I was moving at traffic speed on the roundabout but as me and this clown were last to get through the lights to allow us onto the roundabout, by the time we got to the next set, they were red. So I waited behind the line. I know the sequence of these so got clipped in when I knew they were about to change.
There's 2 lanes which exit the roundabout onto GB and as I said, I was in the left hand one. Traffic had queued up in the right while the lights were at red. That lot pulled away fine. I remained in primary until I was properly round the little corner and on GB.
The bloke in this Audi however pushed his way in between my primary position and the traffic in the right hand lane and with much engine revving then dived in front of me, forcing me to brake whilst exiting the roundabout. I consider myself a competent cyclist and I don't hang about or wobble away from junctions.
Now, I'm not a ranter and I do believe that most people on the road aren't out to get cyclists, but this incident made my blood boil. I'd have come off on a busy roundabout in rush hour had I not braked in time.
My immediate reaction was to shout at the top of my voice "YOU F**KING C**T!", and I then watched him drive off along the road praying he'd get caught in another queue so I could tell him how close he'd come to putting a Dad of 2 in hospital or worse the morgue, and all for the sake of maybe 5 seconds. But he didn't and in retrospect I'm glad as I'd have done something I shouldn't have. After the anger subsided I was a bit shaken but near the end of my commute.
Now it's back to anger.
Gogar roundabout, coming off A8, round to exit roundabout at Gyle Broadway. I took primary in the lane which allows you to exit the roundabout in the left lane onto Gyle Broadway. It's a big enough roundabout to have traffic lights on it. I was moving at traffic speed on the roundabout but as me and this clown were last to get through the lights to allow us onto the roundabout, by the time we got to the next set, they were red. So I waited behind the line. I know the sequence of these so got clipped in when I knew they were about to change.
There's 2 lanes which exit the roundabout onto GB and as I said, I was in the left hand one. Traffic had queued up in the right while the lights were at red. That lot pulled away fine. I remained in primary until I was properly round the little corner and on GB.
The bloke in this Audi however pushed his way in between my primary position and the traffic in the right hand lane and with much engine revving then dived in front of me, forcing me to brake whilst exiting the roundabout. I consider myself a competent cyclist and I don't hang about or wobble away from junctions.
Now, I'm not a ranter and I do believe that most people on the road aren't out to get cyclists, but this incident made my blood boil. I'd have come off on a busy roundabout in rush hour had I not braked in time.
My immediate reaction was to shout at the top of my voice "YOU F**KING C**T!", and I then watched him drive off along the road praying he'd get caught in another queue so I could tell him how close he'd come to putting a Dad of 2 in hospital or worse the morgue, and all for the sake of maybe 5 seconds. But he didn't and in retrospect I'm glad as I'd have done something I shouldn't have. After the anger subsided I was a bit shaken but near the end of my commute.
Now it's back to anger.
