Some dumb f*ck

[Waylander]

Riding to work thursday morning, I'm comming down a road with a cager tail-gating me. Up ahead they are doing some construction on new appartment buildings so I slow down ready for anything. Then when I am about 3 meters away someplain clothed dick walks out into the middle of the street waving for me to stop. I stop fine but typical cager behinds wasn't paying attention.

I hear tyre squelling from behind so let fly the clutch and gas it up a bit to keep from being hit. Soon as the cage stops I stop again this time with my front wheel parked right between the legs of the dick that waved me down.

Heart racing I start yelling at the fuck in front of me, "why are you stopping traffic that suddenly and without a stop-go sign or something ya fucktard" and such. Told him he very nearly bought me a brand new bike cause I would have made sure all fault for it had landed on him, and that if I hadn't been there he probably would have been hit by the car. That guy wouldn't have seen him or stopped in time.

Think I may have scared some sense into him for next time but certainly does bring to light just how inattentive cagers are. Major props to the guys that work on the roads for a living. Even with all the bright orange jumpsuits and heavy signage that has still got to be one of the more extreme everyday jobs I can think of.

[marty]

i guess it's lucky it wasn't an old person/dog/kid chasing a ball - would you have said the same thing?

[ManDownUnder]

i guess it's lucky it wasn't an old person/dog/kid chasing a ball - would you have said the same thing?

Marty - that's one N-arse-ty avatar mate...

Sorry back on topic.

Waylander - bugger eh? Sounds like you had the sense to deal with it though getting out of the way of the oncoming tide and all that.

MDU

[fische]

the problem is that you people are so retarded in your opions

[Lias]

the problem is that you people are so retarded in your opions

Speak da england?

[marty]

i guess it's lucky it wasn't an old person/dog/kid chasing a ball - would you have said the same thing?


but well done waylander - there has to be some advantages to having mirrors that you can actually see behind you with!

[Pathos]

Thats why I always follow the 2 second rule. Sure you can stop your bike in time if you're attentive and only a metre behind them but if you take a quick look at the scenery you're screwed.

[NC]

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[NhuanH]

Riding to work thursday morning, I'm comming down a road with a cager tail-gating me.
I won't pretend to comprehend the rest of your Merkin-speak, but what the f#$k was a cager doing tail gating you - on a boik!?!

[Waylander]

The guy was needlessly stopping traffic while others were unloading a truck of building supplies.I say needlessly becouse at no point did anything hover over the road.

Marty, I still can't see anything other than my shoulder and objects comming up to pass me in my mirrors, I knew the guy was there cause I could hear him behind me and shoulder checks every now and then.

Don't know why he was tail gating me but I was doing speedlimit and nothing more cause there is a police station on that street.

[marty]

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that's 2947 posts - this one hardly counts!