On the up-side, despite the significant tailwind it was tolerably mild and I got away with suffering only a few inconsequential spots of rain despite the constant threat from the uniformally grey skies; while the bike was slick and quiet (with no ghost shifting) thanks to yesterday's freshly waxed chain 
On the down side most of the ride was marred by my unaddressed rage after some absolute cretin decided to do a full three-point turn in front of me while we were approaching each other at speed on a straight, we'll-sighted road. I watched with incredulity as he swung across in front of me as I approached at 20mph+, causing me to brake hard to a complete standstill.
What made it worse is that had he stopped at the first reversing manouver I'd have had enough time to pass in front, but no, his snowballing selfishness had to take priority over my safe passage and he was totally blocking my side of the carriageway when I reached him; passing behind appearing too dangerous based on his other actions. It stopped short of being outright dangerous but was extremely arrogant, inconsiderate and totally unnecessary - probably saving him at best ten seconds over simply waiting for me to pass.
Needless to say he was mercillessly abused, and had I actually had any face to face interaction with him in that instant it wouldn't have been pleasant. All that was in the name of getting back out onto the car park that is the ring road, and I very nearly peeled off that way onto the adjacent path to confront him as he had nowhere to go... but thankfully thought better of it.
Another instance where a camera would have been appreciated; although I doubt dibble would have done much anyway.
On the down side most of the ride was marred by my unaddressed rage after some absolute cretin decided to do a full three-point turn in front of me while we were approaching each other at speed on a straight, we'll-sighted road. I watched with incredulity as he swung across in front of me as I approached at 20mph+, causing me to brake hard to a complete standstill.
What made it worse is that had he stopped at the first reversing manouver I'd have had enough time to pass in front, but no, his snowballing selfishness had to take priority over my safe passage and he was totally blocking my side of the carriageway when I reached him; passing behind appearing too dangerous based on his other actions. It stopped short of being outright dangerous but was extremely arrogant, inconsiderate and totally unnecessary - probably saving him at best ten seconds over simply waiting for me to pass.
Needless to say he was mercillessly abused, and had I actually had any face to face interaction with him in that instant it wouldn't have been pleasant. All that was in the name of getting back out onto the car park that is the ring road, and I very nearly peeled off that way onto the adjacent path to confront him as he had nowhere to go... but thankfully thought better of it.
Another instance where a camera would have been appreciated; although I doubt dibble would have done much anyway.
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actually the ride in the morning was quite fun to begin with a stonking tailwind, managed to hit 25mph at one point, (and lets just pause for a moment and wonder how on a 30mph road cars were zipping past me still, guess they had a tailwind boost too...) might have gone bit quicker still but the speed wobbles with a bike carrying extra kilos of rack and panniers not perfectly balanced for weight and dodging potholes werent confidence inspiring with the handling, so I kind of just let the bike have its head of speed, without pushing it.
