This happens to me almost every day.
I ride over dyers pass outside Christchurch to get to town-work. On most days I have to avoid some tosser in a car who is in the process of passing cyclists or a group of cyclists and is driving on the wrong side of the bloody road. Now don't get me wrong, I don't blame the cyclists. I do blame the tossers in the cars who just have to pass in blind corners, or are happy to cross into my lane on the correct belief that I will (have to) move over.
The other group that I meet on the wrong side of this road on a less but very regular basis is usually fat, old, male, morons in 4WDs who like to take "racing lines". It's this lot who really bother me because they don't have the skills and/or their vehicles handle so badly that they can't get their bloody vehicles onto their side of the road before I have to brake to avoid a head on. If Possum could not avoid these idiots what chance do I?
The very worst one recently was a camper van that was taking racing lines on this road one morning. Well he swerved to his left and I braked and I just got around him only to find that there was some other cretin FCV (F***ing Camper Van) following the exact lines of the first one who could not see why his mate swerved suddenly to the left.
Quite a little rant on my part.
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Originally Posted by Flip
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