Sorry about not having written anything here for so very long. I dunno if anyone ever checks it anyway but I should write more often.
This year has been a real off year so far in terms of cycling. I've hardly been out at all and have been very lazy (with the gut to show for it). I should get my ass out on the saddle, get cycling and stop being such a damned slacker. Of late, I've been spending my internet time on attempting to do a musical effort type bit thing but it's a source of frustration. If I was motivated enough to get out on my bike, it would probably help relieve such frustrations and make my life better generally.
In part, I've been a bit scared off cycling. There have been so many near misses and, more to the point, me losing my temper as a result. The other week someone came at me with an iron bar because I shouted at him after he nearly knocked me off my bike and it scared the bejayzus out of me. The same day, I got completely covered in yoghurt some little shites threw over me out of their car window (That was before the iron bar incident and probably helped create the anger in me which caused me to shout at the driver who nearly knocked me down).
I'm more than a bit sick of drivers treating me as scum when I'm out cycling and their endangering my life for no reason other than to get stopped at traffic lights a second or two earlier than they otherwise would have. I'm not unrealistic. I know the majority of motorists don't do this sort of thing but probably a hundred or more cars pass me, on average, when I'm out on my bike (I've never counted to be sure) and almost without fail there will be at least one incident during each journey where someone drives in a really dangerous manner and I have to react to stop myself getting knocked off/injured/killed. Much as I love cycling, I'm just not in love with the thought of getting hurt because of it. It scares me more now than it used to and that's a slippery slope I'm finding difficult to deal with.
This year has been a real off year so far in terms of cycling. I've hardly been out at all and have been very lazy (with the gut to show for it). I should get my ass out on the saddle, get cycling and stop being such a damned slacker. Of late, I've been spending my internet time on attempting to do a musical effort type bit thing but it's a source of frustration. If I was motivated enough to get out on my bike, it would probably help relieve such frustrations and make my life better generally.
In part, I've been a bit scared off cycling. There have been so many near misses and, more to the point, me losing my temper as a result. The other week someone came at me with an iron bar because I shouted at him after he nearly knocked me off my bike and it scared the bejayzus out of me. The same day, I got completely covered in yoghurt some little shites threw over me out of their car window (That was before the iron bar incident and probably helped create the anger in me which caused me to shout at the driver who nearly knocked me down).
I'm more than a bit sick of drivers treating me as scum when I'm out cycling and their endangering my life for no reason other than to get stopped at traffic lights a second or two earlier than they otherwise would have. I'm not unrealistic. I know the majority of motorists don't do this sort of thing but probably a hundred or more cars pass me, on average, when I'm out on my bike (I've never counted to be sure) and almost without fail there will be at least one incident during each journey where someone drives in a really dangerous manner and I have to react to stop myself getting knocked off/injured/killed. Much as I love cycling, I'm just not in love with the thought of getting hurt because of it. It scares me more now than it used to and that's a slippery slope I'm finding difficult to deal with.
