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Eventful Cycle Home

The cycle home today turned into a reasonably eventful one and one which almost resulted in me being turned into mincemeat right outside the MacDonalds in Rangiora - the driver must have been very hungry to not wait for me to pass the entry to the drive through.

First up tho' a driver cutting across my path at the Johns Road, Main North Road intersection. Whilst this was a low speed incident it is never-the-less still very intimidating and scary for cyclists to have this happen to them - you simply do not know what the driver is doing and I fail to understand why he couldn't wait the 1-2 seconds for me to get past before completing the turn.

The next incident is the one mentioned above - mincemeat at Macdonalds. This lady received a fair amount of verbal from me and in no way made any attempt to apologise for her stupid actions. So should she have failed to stop I shudder to think of the mess I would have been in. Some peace of mind - my father-in-law makes coffins !!!!

And lastly this one simply highlights issues for cyclists when negotiating roundabouts - I will give the driver some slack and assume his indicator light is broken. However from my observations of motorists at roundabouts I would estimate that maybe 50% indicate correctly - the indicating rule is not complicated but it seems that a lot of people cannot be bothered adhering to the rules, or they apply their own interpretation to the rules and confuse the heck out of everybody !

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