Follow the tail-lights out of the city

[venta]

One of these days I am going to get round to rigging up some LEDs in my rear windscreen so I can spell "BACK OFF" to the person driving way too close behind me.

I hate tailgaters :(

(Today's finally passed me when I was in the middle lane, pulling onto a roundabout to go straight on. He turned right, from the left hand lane, straight across my bows without a signal.)

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[wimble.livejournal.com]

Cycling home last night, I got to the Traffic lit crossroads between Old Road, Windmill Road, the Slade and ... um, the continuation of Old Road.

So the Volvo at the front of the queue pulls forward to turn right. I also want to turn right, so I pull forward as well, so I'm alongside it, to its left, turning outside it, so I end up on the nearside when we complete the maneouver.

And just as I stop my bike in the middle of the junction, to wait for the oncoming traffic to clear, some idiot comes blitzing through on his bike, from behind me.

He's also turning right, and can't be bothered to wait for a reasonable gap in the traffic, but insists on diving through between the oncoming cars.

There are two stupid maneouvers he could make: to my left, on the outside of the turn; or on the volvo's right, on the inside of the turn.

Oh no. He goes through between us. And narrowly missed me putting an elbow in his gut by accident. Which would have probably cannoned him into the volvo.

Which would have been justice, at least.

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

I never, ever sit alongside cars in a traffic que. I always take up my own space. Reason being that during the first few pedal strokes you can wobble from side to side a bit. I do not want motorists overtaking me in that time.

Oh, did I mention that I was an obstreperous bastard as well?

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Fair enough: I wasn't claiming I was in the right :)

On the other hand, personally, I'd rather be outside the flow of traffic while I'm wobbling, instead of having the BMW driver immediately behind me.