I was doing my usual RtR ride (Perth) and was coming off the bike lane onto the road after passing under Canning Bridge (by the rowing club). For those who might not know it, there is a speed hump that is the same height as the kerb which is perfect for getting of the path and onto the Esplanade that runs down to Mt Henry Bridge. The road is two way but has a large median strip near the rowing club leading up to the intersection with Canning Hwy.
Anyway, I was checking for traffic coming from behind me as I move onto the single lane road. None coming so I move onto the road and look ahead only to see a 4WD heading the *wrong way* up this single lane road. It was towing a trailer of rowing boats. The dumb, lazy plonker then turned into a driveway of the rowing club. So, this clown was too lazy to drive around a bit so he could approach the driveway from the correct direction. Then, having negotiated this selfish, lazy waste of space, not 30m along there is another Prado-pilot *reversing* out of another part of the rowing club onto the road, causing me to brake and go around. When I see the heavy-breathing fat-fingered stinker with one hand on the wheel, the other is clasping a mobile to his ear! I yell a very reasonable and "polite" remonstration. His response? "Get off the road!". Oh how I wished for a limpet mine a that moment.
So, a rare 4WD double.
Still cross.
DeF. -- e-mail: d.farrow@your finger.murdoch.edu.au To reply, you'll have to remove your finger.
On 2006-03-20, DeF (aka Bruce) was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
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Anyway, I was checking for traffic coming from behind me as I move onto the single lane road. None coming so I move onto the road and look ahead only to see a 4WD heading the *wrong way* up this single lane road. It was towing a trailer of rowing boats. The dumb, lazy plonker then turned into a driveway of the rowing club. So, this clown was too lazy to drive around a bit so he could approach the driveway from the correct direction. Then, having negotiated this selfish, lazy waste of space, not 30m along there is another Prado-pilot *reversing* out of another part of the rowing club onto the road, causing me to brake and go around. When I see the heavy-breathing fat-fingered stinker with one hand on the wheel, the other is clasping a mobile to his ear! I yell a very reasonable and "polite" remonstration. His response? "Get off the road!". Oh how I wished for a limpet mine a that moment.
I'd almost be up for a chat with the rowing club management.
-- TimC Seen in a sendmail HELO greeting (Leon Brooks): Commodore 64 (anti-spam cartridge loaded)
I was doing my usual RtR ride (Perth) and was coming off the bike lane onto the road after passing under Canning Bridge (by the rowing club). For those who might not know it, there is a speed hump that is the same height as the kerb which is perfect for getting of the path and onto the Esplanade that runs down to Mt Henry Bridge. The road is two way but has a large median strip near the rowing club leading up to the intersection with Canning Hwy.
Anyway, I was checking for traffic coming from behind me as I move onto the single lane road. None coming so I move onto the road and look ahead only to see a 4WD heading the *wrong way* up this single lane road. It was towing a trailer of rowing boats. The dumb, lazy plonker then turned into a driveway of the rowing club. So, this clown was too lazy to drive around a bit so he could approach the driveway from the correct direction. Then, having negotiated this selfish, lazy waste of space, not 30m along there is another Prado-pilot *reversing* out of another part of the rowing club onto the road, causing me to brake and go around. When I see the heavy-breathing fat-fingered stinker with one hand on the wheel, the other is clasping a mobile to his ear! I yell a very reasonable and "polite" remonstration. His response? "Get off the road!". Oh how I wished for a limpet mine a that moment.
So, a rare 4WD double.
Still cross.
DeF.
Now if the shoe was on the other foot and while they were out rowing, the waterborne equivalent of a Prado was interfering with the enjoyment of their sport ...
I was doing my usual RtR ride (Perth) and was coming off the bike lane onto the road after passing under Canning Bridge (by the rowing club). For those who might not know it, there is a speed hump that is the same height as the kerb which is perfect for getting of the path and onto the Esplanade that runs down to Mt Henry Bridge. The road is two way but has a large median strip near the rowing club leading up to the intersection with Canning Hwy.
Anyway, I was checking for traffic coming from behind me as I move onto the single lane road. None coming so I move onto the road and look ahead only to see a 4WD heading the *wrong way* up this single lane road. It was towing a trailer of rowing boats. The dumb, lazy plonker then turned into a driveway of the rowing club. So, this clown was too lazy to drive around a bit so he could approach the driveway from the correct direction. Then, having negotiated this selfish, lazy waste of space, not 30m along there is another Prado-pilot *reversing* out of another part of the rowing club onto the road, causing me to brake and go around. When I see the heavy-breathing fat-fingered stinker with one hand on the wheel, the other is clasping a mobile to his ear! I yell a very reasonable and "polite" remonstration. His response? "Get off the road!". Oh how I wished for a limpet mine a that moment.
So, a rare 4WD double.
Still cross.
DeF.
I had a guy in a small car try to change lanes into me today, twice in a row (I moved further left when a new lane appeared). The second time, he saw me, and told me to "Get out of the way you fscking [censored]!" Lovely.
I had a guy in a small car try to change lanes into me today, twice in a row (I moved further left when a new lane appeared). The second time, he saw me, and told me to "Get out of the way you fscking [censored]!" Lovely.
Tam
A similar thing happened to my mechanic.. eerrr my Significant Other, Mr Legs, very recently. Guy deliberately drove in over the top of him, telling him basically the same thing as you copped Tam. Mr Legs threw his water bottle at the f^kwhit's car - clean shot and strike. Fat [censored] pulls over, saying "if I ever see you on the road again, I'll run you over." Mr Legs replies saying you better do a good job of it if you do, otherwise I'll get up and rip your arms off. Fat [censored] then does the ooo I am gunna call the cops thing cos you threatened me. Mr Legs says, fine, lets put my bike in your car and we can drive together to the cop station. Fat [censored] at that point gets back in his car and drives off at a great rate, flipping the bird out the window as he does so.
And this was on a "quiet" country road, just out of the town......
I had a guy in a small car try to change lanes into me today, twice in a row (I moved further left when a new lane appeared). The second time, he saw me, and told me to "Get out of the way you fscking [censored]!" Lovely.
Tam
The appropriate response (as is so often the case with that class of comment) would be "Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing."
His response? "Get off the road!". Oh how I wished for a limpet mine a that moment.
I think my response would have been to do so, but veeerrrryyyy slowly, perhaps even annoyingly so. I've seen this "wrong side" approach at that entrance a few times. If they come in from the east I think the only way you can get into the rowing club properly is to go past the entrance, turn left onto Canning Highway, turn right at the lights at the top of the hill, drive behind the shops back on to Canning Highway, right at the lights and left into The Esplanade then into the rowing club. A detour of maybe 1 to 1.5km. So yes, it's a bloody stupid and illegal manouevre, but one that can be understood to a small extent. If a break in the median strip was put in then there wouldn't be this problem. At a guess, I would think the rowing club was there before the median strip so it could all be down to the typical standards of council planning.
I had a guy in a small car try to change lanes into me today, twice in a row (I moved further left when a new lane appeared). The second time, he saw me, and told me to "Get out of the way you fscking [censored]!" Lovely.
Tam
The appropriate response (as is so often the case with that class of comment) would be "Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing."
See, I was just thinking he was jealous, 'cos he had a small car and no s3x life.
I was doing my usual RtR ride (Perth) and was coming off the bike lane onto the road after passing under Canning Bridge (by the rowing club). For those who might not know it, there is a speed hump that is the same height as the kerb which is perfect for getting of the path and onto the Esplanade that runs down to Mt Henry Bridge. The road is two way but has a large median strip near the rowing club leading up to the intersection with Canning Hwy.
Anyway, I was checking for traffic coming from behind me as I move onto the single lane road. None coming so I move onto the road and look ahead only to see a 4WD heading the *wrong way* up this single lane road. It was towing a trailer of rowing boats. The dumb, lazy plonker then turned into a driveway of the rowing club. So, this clown was too lazy to drive around a bit so he could approach the driveway from the correct direction. Then, having negotiated this selfish, lazy waste of space, not 30m along there is another Prado-pilot *reversing* out of another part of the rowing club onto the road, causing me to brake and go around. When I see the heavy-breathing fat-fingered stinker with one hand on the wheel, the other is clasping a mobile to his ear! I yell a very reasonable and "polite" remonstration. His response? "Get off the road!". Oh how I wished for a limpet mine a that moment.
So, a rare 4WD double.
Still cross.
DeF. -- e-mail: d.farrow@your finger.murdoch.edu.au To reply, you'll have to remove your finger.
Duncan,
my daughter rows there. Words will be whispered in the right official ears.
I was once spat at by someone wearing number plates which made it obvious that the car came from a certain new car yard.
Complained to the yard - they didnt appear to be very interested. Only told me the car was on loan at the time.
Sure has put me off looking for a car there.
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I was doing my usual RtR ride (Perth) and was coming off the bike lane onto the road after passing under Canning Bridge (by the rowing club). For those who might not know it, there is a speed hump that is the same height as the kerb which is perfect for getting of the path and onto the Esplanade that runs down to Mt Henry Bridge. The road is two way but has a large median strip near the rowing club leading up to the intersection with Canning Hwy.
Anyway, I was checking for traffic coming from behind me as I move onto the single lane road. None coming so I move onto the road and look ahead only to see a 4WD heading the *wrong way* up this single lane road. It was towing a trailer of rowing boats. The dumb, lazy plonker then turned into a driveway of the rowing club. So, this clown was too lazy to drive around a bit so he could approach the driveway from the correct direction. Then, having negotiated this selfish, lazy waste of space, not 30m along there is another Prado-pilot *reversing* out of another part of the rowing club onto the road, causing me to brake and go around. When I see the heavy-breathing fat-fingered stinker with one hand on the wheel, the other is clasping a mobile to his ear! I yell a very reasonable and "polite" remonstration. His response? "Get off the road!". Oh how I wished for a limpet mine a that moment.
So, a rare 4WD double.
Still cross.
DeF. -- e-mail: d.farrow@your finger.murdoch.edu.au To reply, you'll have to remove your finger.
A similar thing happened to my mechanic.. eerrr my Significant Other, Mr Legs, very recently. Guy deliberately drove in over the top of him, telling him basically the same thing as you copped Tam. Mr Legs threw his water bottle at the f^kwhit's car - clean shot and strike. Fat [censored] pulls over, saying "if I ever see you on the road again, I'll run you over." Mr Legs replies saying you better do a good job of it if you do, otherwise I'll get up and rip your arms off. Fat [censored] then does the ooo I am gunna call the cops thing cos you threatened me. Mr Legs says, fine, lets put my bike in your car and we can drive together to the cop station. Fat [censored] at that point gets back in his car and drives off at a great rate, flipping the bird out the window as he does so.
When I was at uni, I was a member of a martial arts club where we learned the iaito (that's a "samurai sword" to most people). The sword I had slung on to my back while riding to class wasn't sharp, but drivers didn't know that. I've got some interesting stories about interactions with road raging boofheads, but I'm sure if you use your imagination you can imagine what generally happened.
Ahh cycling on the road, its a wonderful hobby for the heavily armed. :-)
When I was at uni, I was a member of a martial arts club where we learned the iaito (that's a "samurai sword" to most people). The sword I had slung on to my back while riding to class wasn't sharp, but drivers didn't know that. I've got some interesting stories about interactions with road raging boofheads, but I'm sure if you use your imagination you can imagine what generally happened.
I used to have my sword in a holder on the rack of the motorcycle.
Stopped next to a bus once, driver looked down and said "what's that for, taxis?"
about 8 years ago riding into town along yarra river path opposite vodafone arena... Lot's of rowing coaches can be seen wobbling along on carp lil' bikes one handed as they bleat at their charges out on the river. One handed AND lookin sideways while negotiating peds and other riders. One of these clowns coming in opposite direction comes over to my side of the path (almost hitting grass on far side). I yell out warning. He panics and overcorrects. Proceeeds to go left off path and down mbankment into river!!! 😄😄😄 His crew on water pissing them selves laughing and cheering/jeering as he reappears from the depths
havent been able to replicate that scenario again 🙁
