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Typical urban 4x4 mentality right there.
An otherwise nice ride, made all the more enjoyable by being my first fixed gear ride for about 4 months.
You are doing 'winter bike' all wrong. Think of your expensive groupset drivetrain thingy.
btw whenever I read your forum moniker I always imagine you are from Hull, where the word Total is actually pronounced Turtle.
Skülly-
I was slowly building up the bits for a new bike so decided to ride my poor old Ribble into the ground. Also, recently moved from a rented house to a rented flat so only had space for one bike. Recently made a space in the living room for another bike so brought the fixed back from my parents.
PS - definitely not from Hull, but did play a gig there once. It was like a dystopian nightmare place.
TurtleRecall
Met a total pair of bellends last night. A lady driving and a man trying to justify her shit driving. I filtered past a BMW 4x4 thing at a red light on London Road, heading towards E&C. Pulled away in the right hand lane as there was a bus in the left.
The BMW took affront to me being ahead of them for the 50 yards before another red light and crossed the solid white line into the oncoming bus lane to get alongside me then realised there was a traffic island, so tried to force me left into the bus which was pulling from bus lane to middle lane.
I asked them what the fuck they were playing at, why they thought it sensible to try to push me into a bus and whether it was worth bothering to try to overtake me, considering we were now both sat at a red light again.
I was told that the problem was that I didn't have a registration plate on my bike so they couldn't report me for 'cutting them up'. I asked them to clarify - turns out they meant me filtering past them whilst they were sat at a red light. I told them that nothing I'd done was illegal but that by crossing a solid white line into an oncoming bus lane before trying to force me off the road they had indeed contravened the highway code.
They shouted something unintelligible, the lights changed, I called them total fucking morons and we went our separate ways.
An otherwise nice ride, made all the more enjoyable by being my first fixed gear ride for about 4 months.