OzCableguy
May 28th 07, 05:52 AM
Cresting a hill and picking up speed to around 30kph in a nice wide marked
shoulder at about 7.45 this morning past a primary school. Suddenly Mr green
commodore swerves sharply just in front of me and parks in my lane so I had
to brake suddenly and/or swerve around him into the general traffic.
As I pass by the driver's door I gave him a complimentary "nice one" and
continued on my way without giving it much more thought.
A couple of kms later there's a roundabout at the bottom of a hill where the
traffic feeds into the right hand lane to go straight through but there's a
left turn a bit further up so while a few people use the opportunity at the
roundabout to change to the left lane in anticipation, bikes are usually
travelling as fast as cars at that point and you've normally got the whole
lane to yourself anyway.
Well, I hear a noise as I enter the roundabout and my mirror reveals Mr
green commodore almost sideways entering behind me and swinging over to the
left to get on my tail. There's nowhere for me to go so he has to wait maybe
2 or 3 secs for the bike lane to begin again but that must be too long so I
get the engine revving bs as he stays about a metre from my wheel. Then as
I'm able to enter the bike lane he floors it around me and disappears in a
cloud of fumes. Wow! I was so impressed. I wished I could do that, but then
the whole incident was so pathetic I'm not even sure it was road rage. There
was no beeping or yelling obscenities out the window or anything. I've seen
scarier bunny wabbits... Maybe he was just having one of those moments where
you're running late and the whole universe seems to be out to slow you down.
But more importantly today: I actually could have used mudguards this
morning. Got home with a wet bum!
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shoulder at about 7.45 this morning past a primary school. Suddenly Mr green
commodore swerves sharply just in front of me and parks in my lane so I had
to brake suddenly and/or swerve around him into the general traffic.
As I pass by the driver's door I gave him a complimentary "nice one" and
continued on my way without giving it much more thought.
A couple of kms later there's a roundabout at the bottom of a hill where the
traffic feeds into the right hand lane to go straight through but there's a
left turn a bit further up so while a few people use the opportunity at the
roundabout to change to the left lane in anticipation, bikes are usually
travelling as fast as cars at that point and you've normally got the whole
lane to yourself anyway.
Well, I hear a noise as I enter the roundabout and my mirror reveals Mr
green commodore almost sideways entering behind me and swinging over to the
left to get on my tail. There's nowhere for me to go so he has to wait maybe
2 or 3 secs for the bike lane to begin again but that must be too long so I
get the engine revving bs as he stays about a metre from my wheel. Then as
I'm able to enter the bike lane he floors it around me and disappears in a
cloud of fumes. Wow! I was so impressed. I wished I could do that, but then
the whole incident was so pathetic I'm not even sure it was road rage. There
was no beeping or yelling obscenities out the window or anything. I've seen
scarier bunny wabbits... Maybe he was just having one of those moments where
you're running late and the whole universe seems to be out to slow you down.
But more importantly today: I actually could have used mudguards this
morning. Got home with a wet bum!
--
www.ozcableguy.com
www.oztechnologies.com