Feb 14 - The Ride Home

A heavy backpack and slightly stiff legs made for a particularly joyous ride home. This evening's highlights:
- bonehead in a Daewood Nubira who pulled a bit of a thing I hate. When you get to the Greenwich Road interesection with the Pacific Highway, the Pacific Highway cuts back from three lanes to two, with the left lane really a pseudo-left turn only lane, except for buses and boneheads who think they're too important to wait with everyone else. A little tip - if you're driving a Nubira wagon, you're not too far up the chain. Caught him before Epping Road, too....
- people who decide their quest to turn right is so important it warrants blocking part of Epping Road. I mean, it is only the major route north out of the largest city in the country, so we'll all wait, with a building wall of traffic behind us, as your filthy white Hyundai Excel breaks the law and nearly runs over pedestrians.

Another beef is the young bloke at work who drives the hotted up Honda Civic. Sits about three inches off the ground and has a pretty loud motor, and needless to say he flogs it, despite losing his license last year. Heard him howling along behind me near the Fig Tree bridge this evening, might quietly mention within his ear-shot that I thought I saw a speed camera along there last night....

Feb 14 ride in

Took the bus all of last week to preserve my legs. Elected to ride in today, but take it easy (as I will do on the way home).

Today's highlights were:
- the truck and the silver Honda Jazz squeezing in front of me so they could get to the back of the queue stopped at the Burns Bay Road/Penrose Street intersection 40 metres up the road. I had much pleasure in eking past them up the left.
- the white late model Corolla who charge up to me at the round-about in Crows Nest and braked at the last minute when he realised the entry was too narrow. Clown. I CAN ACTUALLY HEAR YOU WHEN YOU DO THAT!

Otherwise, fairly quiet. We had a little group of three of us, plus a moped, through St Leonards, so that was nice.

Feb 1 Ride Home

Fairly uneventful ride home, with traffic banked back from Epping Road at the Pacific Highway, and yet the usual queue on Burns Bay Road from the Penrose Street intersection was almost completely absent.

Only event on the way home was a young lass who yelled "....UP!" from her little silver Jazz at the bottom of the hill on Burns Bay Road approaching Fig Tree Bridge (where the big bay on the left there is just after the lights heading south, where the flower seller sits). I can only assume she was shitty over the fact that I ride down the middle of the left lane down the hill there, due to the left lane of the road being so incredibly broken up.

If that's the case, well, I recommend she ride a bike with something rather rude in place of the bike seat, ride down the left side of the lane and try it.