Re: Cycling to work yesterday (Friday).

in message <sHqhi.32031$aS5.7773@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nigel
('znaopshpoadmb93@xxxxxxxxxxx') wrote:

Also if I'm going the same speed as traffic there's still a 'get past'
mentality, rather than just holding back. If it's in a 30 they want to
get past but don't want to be seen as breaking the limit.

That one /really/ annoys me. They have to get past, because it's a cyclist,
and they /have/ to overtake cyclists. And as soon as they're passed the
brake furiously either because they don't want to be caught breaking the
speed limit or because they physically can't proceed because of the
traffic ahead, so you either have to grab handfuls of brakes or get
splattered all over their back window - or else go whizzing past them, at
which point the whole farce starts all over again.

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