Lucky
No issues last night thankfully! Hurrah.
Oh, except the cycle path was blocked by a catamaran:
Obviously.
I like the little bump thingy with the painted lines.Reminds mw of when they put the speed bump on the Victoria Embankment which was a bit harsh...First time I hit it @ 15-20mph I think both my wheels left the ground on the fixie...Great fun.(not)
Christ the CS 2 in the early morning is full of glass/rubbish and the odd pedestrian.They don't expect commuters at 4 in the morning.
TBH i'm more aggrieved at my wife who has now insisted i take the cycle paths to and from work. I dislike them for a number of reasons (all of yesterdays bollocks included) but she is right in-so-much as i am not likely to be killed by a car on them. Unless it's a BMW like yesterday. Exception to the rule and all.
I'm just starting to feel i can't win either by road or by secluded path and it's really starting to get me down.
Ok I am not all sweetness and light I must confess but generally I cannot be bothered to post my tales of some of the morons I encounter...It would take up too much of my time and it just isn't worth it...
Yesterday on the inward commute on Tower Bridge yet again...I always go as fast as I can if no cars are about...Generally 20mph to stop the wallies doing some sort of stupid overtake if they catch...So I get to the South side of the bridge heading southwards nearing the first set of lights when I become aware of a motorist keen to overtake as he wants to get to the red traffic light ASAP.So I go more defensive and in the process I find the Tower Bridge resident pothole again...He's taken the right hand turn lane and Mr Addison Lee is in the left hand turn lane...Mr Addison Lee had done nothing wrong in this incident....So Mr Overtaker ASAP has taken the right hand turn so I'm behind Mr Addison.
Then a lorry ugly awful lorry low loader thing comes up and takes the left hand turn lane about two feet from my back wheel....Well unless he is going left what option was he going to take...His road position was poxy and he should have been giving me more space because unless he's going to stick behind me which he probably wouldn't or do a left which he didn't he's going to have to move out to the right .Either that or run me over (shudder)(There was also an Anderson coach parked 200 yards up the road so he'd have to move out eventually.)..
So why not take a more central position.I didn't see where Mr Addison went as I was too busy concentrating on the lorry.I actually moved onto the pavement as there was a lot of rubbish in the same place as some sort of pavement works made my position even more precarious.while telling him I was not too impressed....Off he went...I could probably have caught him as I normally take the same road but since using the Quietway 14 it's been more relaxed and less grief....
Going to the front is not really an option at the lights as there are two left hand turn lanes and no space.I just take the best and most defensive position I can which doesn't involve standing in front of an unpredictable human being driving two tons (or more) of metal.
It may take me longer and I may get back/there later but it's better than being in the right all the time and telling whoever will listen...."But I was in the right."
