Originally Posted by clevernamehere
Great ride this am. +8c, sunny, slight tail-wind, new chain & cassette, fastest ride of the year, to early for all the other bikes, pedestrians, mini-vans & SUVs... my world is a happy place!
Ride home yesterday was great as well other than all the spring morons... sorry... mentally malnourished individuals. Countless wrong-way & sidewalk "cyclists"... I'd say they out-number the good riders by about 3 or 4 to 1.
Vent time...
The most annoying thing was a cab driver in a mini-van ("Hey, I know, lets create the most dangerous combination imaginable and let him loose on the city streets! That should do away with those pesky children!" - At least I'm pretty sure that's what the cab company was thinking.)
I was riding along a fairly major roadway, keeping up with the traffic in the 30km/h school zones. As I approached an intersection with a cross-walk I could see a boy (about 5 or 6yrs old) approaching the cross-walk. I also noticed a mini-van cab at the intersection, impatiently waiting for traffic to clear. His wheels were turned to make the right turn through the cross-walk. He was watching me & inching forward. I shook my head & mouthed "NO". He was to impatient to wait for me and decided if he gunned it hard enough he could get into traffic in front of me so he wouldn't be stuck behind the "slow" cyclist. He didn't look at the cross-walk until the last second, hammered on the brakes & came to a screaching stop about 12" from the boy.
GRRRR!
Unfortunately, I didn't think of getting his cab number until it was too late.
We rounded up all our morrons and sent them Saskatoon. At least that was what I thought until this morning....in the first instance a commuter I had not seen before pulled up to lights I was stopped at waited for a break in traffic (which happened to coincide with the traffic signal turning to an arrow for the opposing traffic) and proceeded to run the red light, cross the 6 lanes of a major street and ride down the wrong side. Sometimes I think I should stay home on these first nice days of spring. I felt safer when I was the only Fruit Loop biking to work when it was -20C.
On the up side though it was a great commute. Shorts yesterday and today on the way home. It is supposed to drop to 10C for the weekend. That should send everyone back into their cars and houses.
Today should be a high of 26C....WOW. I am ducking out early.
