I live in the arse end of nowhere, it’s known as a local beauty spot and since the lockdowns we get a frustrating amount of entitled knobs coming out this way, lots of dogs off lead worrying the sheep, BMWs abandoned on blind corners and the like.
The road to my property is a long, wavy dirt track used primarily by local farmers…. At this point I’ll mention that I drive a car with four wheel drive, it’s a large vehicle but a necessity living here to have traction in winter. The other day I encountered an older male jogger who was moving at a snails pace, smack in the middle of the road and headed in the same direction as myself. I slowed down to match his speed, 1st gear on the bite point, and waited to overtake as we were headed towards a sharp bend. Suddenly a cyclist comes hurtling around the corner, also smack in the centre of the road and headed straight towards us. He’s doing some speed and at the last second swerved to avoid the jogger and cycled past my car on my right. There was room for him to pass us both, I was as far left as the road would allow and yet when doing so he wordlessly punched my wing mirror hard, causing the casing to come off! I was shocked and angry, I hadn’t been speeding, I was vigilant and took every care possible to ensure safety for all given the situation, but we’re on a road the width of a tractor with tall hedges on either side, I’m not in a position where I can give him a wide berth like you would on a normal road and he was going at a far faster speed than we were!
Part of me wishes I’d turned around and pursued him to discuss it but I doubt it would have been a calm exchange
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I’m just so annoyed about it as I live here and drive this road every damn day, I know every curve and it’s frustrated me beyond belief that the entitled clown thinks he knows better! I’m sick of them all in general but this in particular has left me grumbling and replaying it in my mind for days. If you’re that cyclist and you happen to read this, I hope you step on a Lego.