The really stupid make themselves so obvious.

So today  we went for a ride in the hills.  My poor filthy CR1 spent last night having the back wheelbearings replaced in preparation.   However I had no spares or money to fix the drive train.. totally rooted by a winter of perpetual riding in the rain.   So I set off on this epic 100 Km of hills with only the large chainring.   53.    

Vidman had organised the ride from Ringwood to King Lake.  Lots of up.    4 of us set off... Viddy on his brand new exotic italian thing, moi,  Roger  on a near identical TCR to mine.. (Roger bought me a spare chainring to the start..thanks mate)  and Susan on a GT.    We set off.

Good ride..   lots of up,   lots of traffic.. no real aggression except for the incident this post is about... a couple of close overtakes.  Roger had a helmet cam.. if any video turns up I,ll link to it.   We did King Lake by every hill Viddy could get into the route.  Owch.

We finally returned to Ringwood down Doncaster road.  By then  my huge amounts of time out of the saddle.. cos of the lack of gears had left me feeling pretty shakey.    Susan who is a newby rider and had done brilliantly was also struggling.  I was grimly hanging with Vidman..  Roger with Susan.. who was off the back somewhat.

We were in the bus/bike lane..    2 other lanes.  At the lights.   A greenish crewcab Hilux or similar pulled up in the same lane at the lights.

Now this is the bit that gets me.   These guys are almost never brave enough to have a go at the lights.  They will wait till the lights change...  then yell out the window then roar off.  Often weaving close as they do.  If they catch another light they will sit and hope you don't catch up.. if you do usually they will coldly ignore you until the lights change.. wind the window down quickly yell some more abuse and roar off.  Such has been my experience.. and on this occasion thats exactly what happened.  The lights changed, the bloke that had been behind/beside us at the lights for a minute or so   roared past, yelling out the window...

"Single file you %^^$$%"

Class all the way.   Courageous too..NOT.  You had 2 lanes dick head and we were in the bus/bike lane.. as were you.  Oh and.. for your information bikes can ride two abreast legally.    Its in the road laws.  If you dont know the road laws. and I mean all of them then you IMO flat should not have a licence.   Two other lanes.. go use one.    Got no comeback..  Try the "You dont pay your road tax' bleat of stupidity.   Neither do you genius; it doesn't exist.

So far,  normal enough.  Another day another arse.     But their are other rules the stupid obey that are nearly as rigid.    They so often have very recognisable cars... (referred to by the cops as 'bookme cars',  or they have personalised number plates or they have signwriting on the car.  This bloke had sign writing.     For these people www.emeraldproperty.com.au.

Way to go.  I,ll be dealing with you guys from now on.   Exclusively.   I am so impressed with your choice of staff that I could not resist.  Me and Vidman both remarked on the intelligence and personality and indeed knowledge of the law of your employee...employer... owner.. whatever at great length.  We are such fans.

But it gets better.   Later on. we were at the Casa Vidman, happily eating when the subject of road behaviour came up.   As it often does.   "Yes ' says Roger.... "I remember that guy ('guy' was not the word he used)  he pushed up close to us at the lights, didn't say anything then took off yelling abuse... he hit me with his mirror."

Hmmmm.  Hit and run.  Even for a mild collision thats a felony.   Thinking about that camera yet?    And a few seconds later had a go at us.   What a fast learner.    

Who seriously goes out on a Saturday morning to be a high visibility arse to as many people as possible? Why?  Why are some people such an unpleasant addition to a fairly nice planet.. how do they get on when it has to be obvious that they really are not much?    Compensate by driving aggressively perhaps?     I guess its good they are so obvious.. makes harm minimisation easy.   But still.. we are averaging less than one ass a month these days.  The last one was the cab driver who ended up having a very unpleasant time  with the VTD as a result.   There you go..  real asshole.. easily identifiable... not smart.   Its a solid trend.

So add to your  people not to deal with  http://www.emeraldproperty.com.au/  I'll send them an email.. see how they respond.. should be fun

My legs hurt.   A lot.   DISC tomorrow.  I can feel the pain already.