ukoldschool
Senior Member
I managed to break the 100km mark last week for the first time
Lovely day today here in the big smoke, trains empty, roads feel emptier
Lovely day today here in the big smoke, trains empty, roads feel emptier
Ha brilliant, though you should have asked if he was towing a caravan.Popped into the shops today enroute to work.
Geez people have been loosing their heads around the shops, one bloke pulled out of a T juntion without even looking right. I could have been a double decker and he wouldnt have seen, some daft old biddy pulled a u-turn across me in the high street.
Anyway I was locking the bike up, to the only cycle rack in town when a kindly looking old couple (70s) dressed like they were crossing the Himalayas ambled over and then detoured around rack.
The owd codger turned back and said jovially enough
Him - "We've just come back from a holiday in Devon.."
Me - "ooooh I love Devon and Cornwall, its fantastic."
Him - "Bloody cyclists were a pissing nuisance there too getting in the way in all the narrow lanes"
He then walks off...
All I could do was catch him up and reply, "Well you wont have to worry about cyclists much longer, you'll soon be dead, was it your farewell holiday?" He didn't miss a beat but his Mrs face was a picture.
A little bit bitter and unkind, but it was all could manage after being wrong footed by his approach.
I've been tittering about it all day cheered me right up. I suppose they represent the babyboomer car-car-car generation, something we have to break.
Still on the other side I think spring has sprung. The number of kids I've seen on bikes today was heartening.
Brings back fond memories of a bike ride from the Melbourne CBD down past MCG and the Botanic Gardens, along the river to visit a friend in Yarra Bend. Wonderful flora and fauna all the way! Including trees along the river hung thick with flying foxes, and the odd snake (or two). Makes my current daily commute in Cambridge seem very tame indeed ☹️it seems I've moved to a much hillier area of Melbourne.