Posts Tagged ‘ Muppet drivers ’

I’d Like To Apologise To You, Mr Driver

My behaviour after you’d passed me this morning was not what I’d have hoped. I let the school down, I let other cyclists down, but most of all, I let myself down. I realise now that when you drove your Big Silver Audi past me as close as you could get, with the window down,...
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Taxi Drivers: Knights Of The Road Or Dangerous Idiots?

Yep - it’s that time of year again where we tar an entire section of society with the same brush. This time it’s taxi drivers that we’ll be picking on. Before I started riding again, I was of the opinion that taxi drivers must be good drivers - if you spend eight hours a day...
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Don’t Get Mad. Get Evens.

Don’t Get Mad. Get Evens.

The Nice Weather is here at last! Gentle breezes, sunrises over the sea, no rain. And the temperature - just perfect Goldilocks warm. Stuff like that. So today, seeing as it was such beautiful cycling weather, I played a new game with the homicidal eejits with whom I have to share the road. It’s called, Not Getting...
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Get Youself A Road Tax, And Get Yourself A Bloody Car, Man!

That was the parting shot from the driver who’d almost run straight into me yesterday as they drove up the wrong side of the road. In fairness, I’d probably not got the conversation off to the best start - when someone’s just made a passable attempt to kill me, I sometimes use some rather...
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