Off last night...

LSMike said:

Oh, and then a while later some muppet in a Mercedes got frustrated at
having to wait behind me as I overtook some parked cars. He then
overtook me and immediately turned left across me.

To have done otherwise would have been a violation of the golden rule.

--
Dave...

Dave Kahn said:

LSMike said:

Oh, and then a while later some muppet in a Mercedes got frustrated at
having to wait behind me as I overtook some parked cars. He then
overtook me and immediately turned left across me.

To have done otherwise would have been a violation of the golden rule.

--
Dave...

LOL, true! What amazed me though is that he had to swing further left
to make it onto the road, not just the road itself but to be able to
make it onto the oncoming side of the road he was turning into.
Desperation!

elyob said:

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Earlier in my commute home I broke my chain, but had a spare powerlink
in the toolbag so that was an easy fix. Thanks muchly to URC for all
the chain conversations, for ages now I've carried both an 8 speed and
a 9 speed powerlink thanks to your posts.

Why one of each?

Perhaps he has two bikes with different chains on. It's not like
carrying two is too much like hard work!
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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elyob said:

"LSMike" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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Earlier in my commute home I broke my chain, but had a spare powerlink
in the toolbag so that was an easy fix. Thanks muchly to URC for all
the chain conversations, for ages now I've carried both an 8 speed and
a 9 speed powerlink thanks to your posts.

Why one of each?

Perhaps he has two bikes with different chains on. It's not like
carrying two is too much like hard work!

Perhaps he's just a good samaritan and carries one of the other types to
help people out. I ask because I don't want to presume.

LSMike said:

Oops, I had a little off last night. I was overtaking a queue and a
pedestrian walked through the stopped cars looking the other way.

Something which one may well have anticipated in such a situation. What
if it was a child or a dog? Did you ring your bell?

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Of
course I'd grab a big handful of brake, forgetting that it was damp and
greasy last night,

Are you fit to be on the road - Do you understand the concept of
"appropriate speed"?

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and I was sliding along on my elbow and side in a
split second later. Doh!

Perhaps you'll be more careful in future - it might have bee someone
else you injured.

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I'm so glad I was on the 'bent though, I would so have hated to have
any real distance to fall from.

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To his credit the ped stopped,
apologised, and asked if I was OK, not that I expected him to.

More to the point, did you apologise to him - he must have got a hell of
a shock?

--
Matt B

Matt B said:

LSMike said:

Oops, I had a little off last night. I was overtaking a queue and a
pedestrian walked through the stopped cars looking the other way.

Something which one may well have anticipated in such a situation. What
if it was a child or a dog? Did you ring your bell?

Quoted message said:

Of
course I'd grab a big handful of brake, forgetting that it was damp and
greasy last night,

Are you fit to be on the road - Do you understand the concept of
"appropriate speed"?

Quoted message said:

and I was sliding along on my elbow and side in a
split second later. Doh!

Perhaps you'll be more careful in future - it might have bee someone
else you injured.

Quoted message said:

I'm so glad I was on the 'bent though, I would so have hated to have
any real distance to fall from.

Quoted message said:

To his credit the ped stopped,
apologised, and asked if I was OK, not that I expected him to.

More to the point, did you apologise to him - he must have got a hell of
a shock?

--
Matt B

Thanks for that bit of sagacious advice. I'm sure you feel it was
appropriate to the situation.

elyob said:

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"LSMike" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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> Earlier in my commute home I broke my chain, but had a spare powerlink
> in the toolbag so that was an easy fix. Thanks muchly to URC for all
> the chain conversations, for ages now I've carried both an 8 speed and
> a 9 speed powerlink thanks to your posts.

Why one of each?

Perhaps he has two bikes with different chains on. It's not like
carrying two is too much like hard work!

Perhaps he's just a good samaritan and carries one of the other types to
help people out. I ask because I don't want to presume.

LOL, Nick! A bit of both really.

LSMike said:

Oh, and then a while later some muppet in a Mercedes got frustrated at
having to wait behind me as I overtook some parked cars. He then
overtook me and immediately turned left across me.

I had some twunt in his shiny max-powered chavmobile overtake me the
other day just before turning right, which wouldn't have been so bad
but it was a narrow road, and he had to immediately cut back in to
avoid hitting an oncoming car, and as we were so close to the turn by
that point he also had to slam the brakes on very hard. So the net
effect of his manoeuvre was to hold me up just so he could decrease his
journey time by precisely no time whatsoever (and given that the road
he was turning into was a short one leading to a cul-de-sac, it was
never going to net him more than one or two seconds on his journey time
anyway).

I don't know how I managed to avoid running straight into the back of
him, but I did. I almost wish I hadn't - a nice scratch in his
paintwork would have been just what he deserved, though on the other
hand I'm not sure it would be worth me losing a few teeth over...

d.