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you express yourself so well....so easy to see the situation.

I don't often commute, being a decorator it's not really practical, but sometimes I do.....if I've
got all the tools and materials for the job on site then, I might cycle. Well this week I did for a
couple of days, only a few miles, and it's quite interesting to feel the 'urgency' in the air at
'rush hour times'. Amusing thing is, these characters really do believe that once they've managed to
get past this nuisance of a cyclist then the whole road just opens out traffic-free....just for
them. 'Once I get past this pest of a cyclist then everything will be great. must pass...rev,
rev....must pass...rev, rev..must pass'... Ever get the feeling you're the only one cycling?

I do find the future kind of sadly ominous though. I've only been to LA once, and although this
country is very different to S.California, you can see what happens to a place that gets
dominated and ruled by the motor vehicle, and this country shows no sign whatsoever of letting up
on 'car culture'.

It kind of freaks me to see the M25 on a Sunday......it's f******g bumper to bumper!!! What the hell
comes to pass here?

Cars, cars, cars.....car culture.

Garry <car owner too> beer rant over

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It kind of freaks me to see the M25 on a Sunday......it's f******g bumper to bumper!!! What the
hell comes to pass here?

That'll be the Friday night commuters still trying to get home.

Tony ;-)

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characters really do believe that once they've managed to get past this nuisance of a cyclist then
the whole road just opens out traffic-free....just for them. 'Once I get past this pest of a
cyclist then everything will be great.

Yes and when they turn up late for some futile meeting in Slough or wherever, they'll give the
excuse that it was all because some flaming cyclist was blocking their way.
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What is an MDG?

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But there was a much better one after I picked up the bike to ride home.

[SNIP interesting bit]

I quite often find myself in a similar situation to that you negotioated in Henley recently. Near to
my home there is a T-junction, followed by a 10 yard straight, followed by a medium radius, 90
degree, left hand bend.

I regularly cycle through this extremely complex (ahem!) bit of road and almost always choose to
block cars from overtaking me on my outside (right). And, at least form the overtaker's point of
view, it's probably a good thing that I do. I know from experience that cars coming in the opposite
direction - turning right through the bend - usually cut the corner by more than a little bit. My
blocking manoeuvre means that all too often I'm honked by the car coming from my rear but at least I
have the satisfaction of knowing that I've prevented two cars slamming head on into each other.

Just to add to the "difficulty" of the bend, there are nearly always parked cars near the corner.

Last year, when I had my broken collar bones, I used to walk on the pavement at the side of this
bend and saw two crashes and several extremely near misses.

Cyclists: The motorists' friend :-/

James

PS There is occasionally a travelling fair deposited on a village green near this bend. I suppose it
keeps the local kiddies happy but it doen't really have the social cachet of the HoT paddlefest.

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James said:

What is an MDG?

Although I would be more than happy for someone to find an older source which I was unconsciously
quoting, I believe I coined "mobile death greenhouse" some ten years or so ago in a rant in the
ox.talk newsgroup about the little piles of shattered glass in the road which appear to be car
spraints. (It went something along the lines of: if the car owners don't want the glass it would be
better where their vehicles manufactured without it in the first place...)

"Battlefield aquarium" didn't ever seem to catch on.

L-R: Bus, (stopped at bus stop), cyclist, black Fiat Ulysse. Driver of Fiat cross because, in his
worldview, the cyclist is taking up too much room, which is to say that there is a foot of clear air
between his left handlebar and the bus. He honks and gesticulates, because time is, after all,
money. Overtaking the cyclist would, after all, have seen him arrive at the back of the queue for a
clearly visible red traffic light a whole second earlier. Cyclist (not, please note, me), starts to
remonstrate with Fiatman, thinks better of it and closes with that bit about entering a battle of
wits with an unarmed man.

I larffed,

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What is an MDG?

"mobile death greenhouse"

Will do for me, Geraint.

James

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What is an MDG?

"mobile death greenhouse"

There's a mini-faq on my website but I'm temporarily offline thanks to BT's obstructionist
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