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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!v38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <32dec529-7f57-4cfb-b1de-935ab7193214@v38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Road rage incident this morning - advice? Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:15:27 -0700 (PDT) References: <77cd082e-0c07-463a-a8cf-bc379d412437@j8g2000yql.googlegroups.com> Lines: 18 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.156.251.147 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1238534127 5991 127.0.0.1 (31 Mar 2009 21:15:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.156.251.147; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2237 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:692422

On Mar 31, 5:51=A0pm, Simon Brooke  wrote: > So - advice? What would you do?

Not ride in an adversarial, obstructive, unnecessary position in the first place? Giving it a fancy name like "primary position" doesn't make it any more legitimate. Unfortunately a minority of cyclists spoil it for everyone else by deliberately making it difficult for motorists to overtake, despite the fact that they're putting themselves in more danger. You can just see the smug look on some idiot cyclists' faces as they cause absolute chaos to previously smoothly flowing traffic, just by riding far too far out on a wide road. The belligerence and the determination to pick fights with motorists just for being motorists never ceases to amaze me. So someone's chosen to drive, even though you personally think they shouldn't. BFD. Why do you constantly have to try to make their life hell, instead of just agreeing to disagree?

"_"'s version of events sounds more likely anyway.