Thanks to the comments here I was able to handle a situation that
occurred last night.
I was doing some fast time trialing (for me) and practicing some ride
technique and on the turnaround it winds to a one lane normally sleepy
little dead end section.
Last night I was about 30 yds ahead of my brother and I could see a
van about 200 yds back.
Sped up to reach the T-section that turned off, but there's a narrowng
and nearly a C-curve just before that. My brother got over near the
ditch and the van sped by, clearly doing 30 or more in a clearly 20mph
section or even 15 - for conditions. You can't see approaching
traffic, it's a dead end with high end homes - about .3 mile long
street emptying into more sleepy back neighorhoods, and a nearly
traffic free straight away (80% of the time.
So I took the road in the C-turn, clearly doing almost 17mph, and in
my position and height I could see ahead where a car can not.
So this person gets up near my behind and I catch these 'mommy can I
just run this over' vibes from his/her/its reptile brain. ;-p
At the last 10 yds, I have a place that widens a little and I was
heading to the left sharply anyway.
Good thing though b/c this guy revs it up to like almost peeling out
to get around me and as he about gets up to 20 feet from where I was,
I've turned a radical left onto my connecting street and the car is
still in the middle of his street revving like a nutcase, cars and
stuff parked on both shoulders, and suddenly there's no one there.
There's -no way- this van riding nut rides that road like that in
normal use...but, apparently, put a bike in that trajectory and they
lose 50 IQ points. ;-D
It was a hoot. OK, I kinda suckered them into it a teensy bit, but we
were laughing about it all the way home.
-B
( I never did see the driver through the window or anything it was
about 7:45pm and slightly overcast).