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Give way to cyclists!

March 18th, 2004
Posted by gerrod in: gripes, healthy living

I don’t know if it was something in the air, but I swear people were out to kill my on my ride this afternoon.

Firstly, a stupid 4WD driver almost side-swiped me as she pulled out blindly from a side street. She came so close that it was fairly easy for me to spray her back window with my water bottle. Boy, did she get the glaring/fist shaking of a lifetime when I pulled up next to her at the lights.

Then, just after I was just getting over my near-death experience, along come some 3 walkers (with 2 very big dogs). I’d say that between them, they might have had a combined IQ of about 100 (mostly due to the dogs, too). Clearly, they saw me coming from about 500 metres away. So what do they do? Let their dogs off the leash. So of course, I have to jam on my brakes when both dogs run right in front of me, causing me to skid madly. After navigating my way around them, I yelled out, “Leashes fellas… that’s what your leashes are for!” – knowing full well that they couldn’t catch me :-D

Anyway, you’ll be pleased to know that I made it home in one piece. I even broke my speed record, averaging 26km/h for the Deep Water Bend run. Go me!

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