I’ve got a 181km sportive in 3 weeks and my commuting has dried up. I’m temporarily seconded to Bristol and have to endure a 1hr 10 min commute in my new van at the moment so Sufferfests, although good, aren’t going to get me through and I need to ride my best bike to get used to it too so…..I’m having to get up before work now and go for a ride. Today was the first one
Up at 6.20am, dressed I was out (fasted ride) at 6.40am into the lanes for a circa 90 min loop. 30 mins in I’m in the lanes just going up a rise which goes over the brow of a hill and bears round to the left. A car overtook me straight into the path of an oncoming van and rather than just brake and wait, ploughed on close-passing me and badly cutting me up. Very dangerous. I saw red.
About 80 yards later there is a T-Junction. He turned left as I approached and I thought I’d missed him. I turned right, looked left and his left indicator was on. Boom, he must live in the houses in the pic. I turned round and the indicator went off and he scurried off. Lost him again, I just carried on but then I saw him speed up a dead end out of view. Well that didn’t add up…..he was hiding…so I followed him.
Low and behold he was doing a U-turn and coming at me at speed. No intention of slowing down so I just stopped in the middle of the road and held my breath and he stopped.
‘What kind of fucking driving was that?…’
‘I didn’t see the van coming the other way…’ (billy bollocks)
‘Don’t overtake on the brow of a hill then you twat..’
I closed our exchange with …’You’re a fucking idiot..’ (I rode off in front of him so he couldn’t pass)
As I got onto the wider road he pulled up alongside and shouted ‘You should’ve got out of my way..’
well that’s like a red rag to a bull, to which I politely replied ‘You’ve got a big fucking car, don’t drive like a cunt’ to which he pulled in and reversed into his drive coincidentally opposite where he originally stopped and indicated before running off like a fucking pussy
The next 5 mins a number of options crossed my mind from going back and gobbing on his windscreen, keying his door to spray painting cunt down the side of his car. Then Mr Sensible kicked in and calmed me down
Some drivers think they’re big n ‘ard but really are just cowards
Other than that, nice ride 🙂