Sheffield_Tiger
Guru
Reallty must get into the habit of charging batteries. Since deciding my consumption of AA batteries was getting rather eco-unfriendly and investing in rechargeables, I've not yet got the habit of making sure they are regularly charged.
Two episodes today...both with drivers getting out to threaten
AM: London Road, heading into town, 2 lane road with bus lane on left, filter lane for buses and cycles to the right past the next junction.
Queue to red lights, bus waiting to pull out into outside to make it to the filter lane (I want the filter lane too). Hang back and wave the bus out..it pulls half out. Everyone stopped die to red light. Car on inside decides to pull out almost brushing my front wheel and shove past the bus except it can't. Give a "WTF" gesture..numpty reverses and gets out. Lights change, bus goes, I tuck behind bus and we all go as he stands in the road...then roars up to next red lights and mouthing abuse goes through the red.
PM: Through Hillsborough tram gate, car follows, I'm in middle of lane between the tram lines (there's a complicated web of tramlines at the corner). As I'm through I jink across to the left to take a secondary - a weak one but never really a problem.
Fiesta with tinted windows passes stupid close with a "pay effing road tax". "You pay it and I will" retort gets their backs up, and them hanging out of a window. Car pulls up in front and a knuckle dragging chav leaps out and lurches toward me. Bearing in mind he is 1 of 4 - AND I notice the similar chavmobile carrying theirdelightful young ladyfriends greasy fugly munters has also pulled up ahead I decide that stopping for a chat isn't wise.
Mindful of the fact these two pondlife-carriers are now behind me I probably confuse and upset an innocent volvo driver by deliberately road-hogging way more than primary (closing ANY gate past), purely to keep a ton of metal as a shield between me and them, until the next turn-off.
Chavs follow me but thankfuly roar off giving it verbals, bearing in mind though that this was a turn off into rural roads and there are plenty of hidden pull-ins it would have been an ideal place to pull in and hide a mile on, and ambush in the countryside, so it spoiled part of my ride-out, watching every little pull-in and keeping one eye open for any escape routes.
Thankfully they'd had their fun and the "queer" on a bike was obviously too weedy to take them on (yeah right, I'm going to go 1 against 4 plus their accompanying gorrillagrams)
The second one is the first time I've actually wished I'd had the camera with a view to actually reporting it to Police...total scum (and I bet they might pay "road tax" but willing to bet they pay little or no Income tax and NI)
Two episodes today...both with drivers getting out to threaten
AM: London Road, heading into town, 2 lane road with bus lane on left, filter lane for buses and cycles to the right past the next junction.
Queue to red lights, bus waiting to pull out into outside to make it to the filter lane (I want the filter lane too). Hang back and wave the bus out..it pulls half out. Everyone stopped die to red light. Car on inside decides to pull out almost brushing my front wheel and shove past the bus except it can't. Give a "WTF" gesture..numpty reverses and gets out. Lights change, bus goes, I tuck behind bus and we all go as he stands in the road...then roars up to next red lights and mouthing abuse goes through the red.
PM: Through Hillsborough tram gate, car follows, I'm in middle of lane between the tram lines (there's a complicated web of tramlines at the corner). As I'm through I jink across to the left to take a secondary - a weak one but never really a problem.
Fiesta with tinted windows passes stupid close with a "pay effing road tax". "You pay it and I will" retort gets their backs up, and them hanging out of a window. Car pulls up in front and a knuckle dragging chav leaps out and lurches toward me. Bearing in mind he is 1 of 4 - AND I notice the similar chavmobile carrying their
Mindful of the fact these two pondlife-carriers are now behind me I probably confuse and upset an innocent volvo driver by deliberately road-hogging way more than primary (closing ANY gate past), purely to keep a ton of metal as a shield between me and them, until the next turn-off.
Chavs follow me but thankfuly roar off giving it verbals, bearing in mind though that this was a turn off into rural roads and there are plenty of hidden pull-ins it would have been an ideal place to pull in and hide a mile on, and ambush in the countryside, so it spoiled part of my ride-out, watching every little pull-in and keeping one eye open for any escape routes.
Thankfully they'd had their fun and the "queer" on a bike was obviously too weedy to take them on (yeah right, I'm going to go 1 against 4 plus their accompanying gorrillagrams)
The second one is the first time I've actually wished I'd had the camera with a view to actually reporting it to Police...total scum (and I bet they might pay "road tax" but willing to bet they pay little or no Income tax and NI)
