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> "NickZX6R" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Well...where is it?
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>> I had everything ready to go and the alarm set,
>> but because I'm an idiot I obviously forgot to turn the alarm ON! :|
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> Yeah, right. It was a great day for it; not too warm, not too cold, just
> right. Five of us out today. We had a few firsts - Gags broke 90kph down
> Harris Gully Road, and also had the first ever puncture in 23 BRs. Dutch
> managed to get clipped by a car, which I hope is a first. Some dizzy cow
> thought overtaking us as we all approached a roundabout was a good idea
> and apparently her mirror(?) clipped Dutch's elbow as she went past. He
> says that the funny bone experience isn't all that comedic when it's a car
> doing the tapping on it. By the way, Dutch, I hope the elbow hasn't gone
> bad since we parted ways; I'm thinking of all those stories I've heard of
> that start "It didn't even really hurt when it happened, but a few hours
> later..."
> We pushed the tempo a bit after St. Andrews - lovely bit of road that,
> sitting on about 45kph for five to ten kays into a bit of a head wind.
> That got the average up overall to 27.9kph over the 94km for me.
> Good day to be out. Had a ripper ride.
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Yeah the weather was great in the north of the city where you guys were but
closer to the city it became cloudy and rather humid to the point of being
uncomfortable when stopped at traffic lights but it was bearable whilst
moving.
Gags, 90+ km/h!!!. The bar has been raised. ;-)
Dutchy, Hope the elbow is alright. :-(
Seemed to be the morning for dangerous/stupid drivers to be out in force.
Although they did not actually hit me the driver of a car travelling south
on a deserted Plenty Road (Dual carriageway) at about 0620 this morning had
a real good go at pushing me off the road whilst his passenger was hanging
out the window screaming something or other I could not quite make out.
Anyway a quick dab by me on my brakes as I was running out of bitumen to
ride on and they where no longer beside me any more and they disappeared
into the distance. Pity I did not have pen and paper on me to write down
the rego to pass on to the local "Boys in Blue" (must remind myself to
program police number into phone). I heard a few more horror stories from
others who experienced similar acts of agression from motorists this
morning. Is it just the warm nights that are turning some motorists feral
or is there some conspiracy against cyclists!!! This is just not normal at
this time of the morning.
Geoff