I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Hah! You must have been heading the wrong way. My ride home was relatively dry, just started trying for the last few minutes before getting in at 8am so I escaped unscathedPretty cold this morning...and wet.
The forecast told me there was little chance of rain before 8am. They were wrong. I didn't have my winter boots on so my feet got a soaking. They won't dry off before the homeward leg. I'll try and find a newspaper to stuff in them later.
That's my last shift for the week so on the whole, despite some atrocious weather I think the scores for man V's nature are 4-0 to me. I don't think @potsy did quite so well
The week has held my interest with a couple of incidents to prevent boredom. The wind and rain has to be mentioned first, two fast but wet rides home with the wind from hell at my heels. A couple of half-hearted left hook attempts from nitwits that just seem to wake up and realise how cretinous they are being partway through the manoeuvre and then panic and freeze, blocking the road for everyone . The icing on the cake happened this morning though. I was belting through Denton/Crown Point, almost daylight but lights on anyway when a nobber cyclist who actually looked fairly serious (matt grey hybrid, decent helmet (if such a thing exists?) well fitting hi-viz cycle jacket) just rode out of a side street right at me to join the road in my direction! If I hadn't moved over he would certainly have collided with me. He just assumed I was going to make room for him. Luckily I knew the road behind me was clear but he wasn't to know I had that awareness but carried on regardless. Honestly I wish I had just knocked him off.... NOBBER