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@Grubbythumb
Two beeps and a shouting at in the last two miles of my lunchtime bid to regain some of the fitness lost in the recent monsoon.
Moped tried to T bone me on a roundabout, coming at me from my left as I went straight across, then tried to undertake me as I was heading to the left hand side of the road and finally passed while shouting mrff feffen gurdy fluffufuf... nah mate, don't work, what with you wearing a full face helmet an all. Then got beeped at by an arm waving old bloke in a Honda CRV as I was banging along at the same speed as the cars in front, to the left of the road while heading for the cycle lane, I left him in a queue of cars.
Last I got beeped and tail gated by a heavily overloaded flatbed Transit, this was after he had tried to overtake me on my left as we both made a right turn off a main road... not sure how that was ever going to work. Anyway, after holding him up for at least 30 yards by way of parked cars to the left and oncoming traffic, he passed me so close that had the passenger window of the cab been open I could have gobbed into the ear of the extremely embarrassed looking passenger. It turned out that the flatbed was so overloaded that he passed me doing about 2 MPH more than me with smoke coming off the back tyres where they were rubbing on the inside of the mudguards and their associated fixing bolts. So, Premiere Paving Services ltd from Weston-s-Mare, you are a very angry man and I suspect you will soon be in the market for a new wagon, if the whining noise coming from your diff is anything to go by.
Of course I blame myself for all this nonsense, as I will insist on wearing a red jacket, it just enrages bulls and certain types of idiot humans.