BoltsMissing
Active Member
Well, I wasn't gonna post this, I'd be here everyday, each day I seem to run into clumsy drivers.
Last night I had to use peddle power cos the choke came loose, np, was only 1/2 mile up Hampstead Rd. to home base. It has a bike lane, all new line markings, easy to see, no traffic except the semis at 10.30 pm coming in through from the S.East FW as usual going Northbound.
Well, as if the entire 2 lanes was not enough for this nutcase, he had swerved close onto the bike lane ! and back out onto the left lane again on a complete straight stretch of road, edging me to stop the bike, it was that close.
Now I don't know what the problem was with that driver, but if truckies start to push their luck onto bike lanes while passing a bicycle, there's gonna be problems.
Tonite it rained.
We have a Jekyl and Hyde thing here when it rains for some mysterious reason. Don't know if this strange phenomenon exists elsewhere.
The usual tinted window, exhaust loud commodore on a Friday night decides to tromp it around the corner and do those slides.
Where was I ?
Staring at the whole show seeing the headlights and the tail-lights at the same time, thinking when it straightens the driver had better lean off or if he or she loses it on the re-bound, I'm it.
He/she see's my headlights and tromps it more. Had he/she lost it in the wet, well it could have been a head on in a narrow side street.
( Into Floriedale coming off Muller BTW)
He/she zooms past me and the smell of rubber was all around.
This is wet roads, just as the rain had stopped and I decided to take out my latest build for a test run, and I run into these cases of nuts.
OK, I or we, USED to do it to in the rain to, it just hasppens for some reason when it rains, we try to see if the tyres actually grip better.
Well, they don't grip at all. 4 written off cars are testimony of this fact.
Last night I had to use peddle power cos the choke came loose, np, was only 1/2 mile up Hampstead Rd. to home base. It has a bike lane, all new line markings, easy to see, no traffic except the semis at 10.30 pm coming in through from the S.East FW as usual going Northbound.
Well, as if the entire 2 lanes was not enough for this nutcase, he had swerved close onto the bike lane ! and back out onto the left lane again on a complete straight stretch of road, edging me to stop the bike, it was that close.
Now I don't know what the problem was with that driver, but if truckies start to push their luck onto bike lanes while passing a bicycle, there's gonna be problems.
Tonite it rained.
We have a Jekyl and Hyde thing here when it rains for some mysterious reason. Don't know if this strange phenomenon exists elsewhere.
The usual tinted window, exhaust loud commodore on a Friday night decides to tromp it around the corner and do those slides.
Where was I ?
Staring at the whole show seeing the headlights and the tail-lights at the same time, thinking when it straightens the driver had better lean off or if he or she loses it on the re-bound, I'm it.
He/she see's my headlights and tromps it more. Had he/she lost it in the wet, well it could have been a head on in a narrow side street.
( Into Floriedale coming off Muller BTW)
He/she zooms past me and the smell of rubber was all around.
This is wet roads, just as the rain had stopped and I decided to take out my latest build for a test run, and I run into these cases of nuts.
OK, I or we, USED to do it to in the rain to, it just hasppens for some reason when it rains, we try to see if the tyres actually grip better.
Well, they don't grip at all. 4 written off cars are testimony of this fact.
