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Interesting and Eventful Cycle Home

The ride home yesterday was an eventful and interesting one. Two red light jumpers, a young couple jumping out in front of me and a driver that was drawn to melike a piece of metal to a magnet... Ahh the joys of cycling !

Red Light Jumpers

Whilst these create no risk to me, it is the attitude of such drivers that is of concern. They are obviously too impatient to obey the road rules and stop at a red light. You just have to hope that you never are in close proximity to these people!

The white car was committed but the motorbike and following car blatantly ran the red light.

This was an even worse example of red light running - the Pugeot was completely behnid the line when the light turned red.

My Animal Magnetism

The driver had previously passed me and gave me ample space, I then caught up to her and passed her due to peak hour traffic. Then when passing me again she continued to move to the left whilst passing me, to a point where her left hand wheels were running on the white lines. Flattering that she was so attracted to me, but somewhat disconcerting as a cyclist.

Jay Walkers vs Cyclist

And last but not least this young couple who tried their best to pretend I wasn't there - maybe my hi vis jacket is not visible in broad daylight !.

I was travelling at around 35kmh so any contact with a human of doubtful intelligence would not be pretty. Thankfully the female registered some sense at the last minute and stepped back - the male thought it was a good joke - guess it's a case of too much testosterone and trying to impress his partner at how brave he was ! Just an idiot in my view.

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