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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!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe29.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID: <7Hx3l.61796$XB5.40627@newsfe29.ams2> From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Wait like the rest of us Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:29:39 +0000 References:  Lines: 17 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  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 1229891395 82.21.204.127 (Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:29:55 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:29:55 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 2101 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:681547

_ wrote: > 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 OOOps, cut off. A few innocent blips on the throttle sent some lovely black clouds right under the cyclists nose. Damn, that was satisfying :)