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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.news-service.com!69.16.177.246.MISMATCH!cyclone03.ams.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf02.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe29.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Wait like the rest of us Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:28:24 +0000 Lines: 13 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.21.204.127 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe29.ams2 1229891321 82.21.204.127 (Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:28:41 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:28:41 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 1812 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:681546

I really enjoyed this - loads of traffic queuing to get into a superstore carpark, traffic lights going green but nowhere to move to, complete PITA. Slowing down to join the queue in the old Landy, I spotted a cyclist I'd passed a minute or so previously coming up the inside of the cars slowing behind me - some muppet in black shorts with a bright yellow top on. So as I stopped I eased in to the curb, and by a bit of luck the car behind me came very close before stopping, preventing the cyclist from crossing over and passing me on the other side. Railings all the way along the junction very tight to the curb, so he couldn't go up there to get past either! So there he sat, through two sets of lights, unable to go anywhere. It was only then that I thought of where the exhaust is on the Landy, just behind the passenger side mudflap. A few innocent bl