You don’t half get some idiots on the road. The other morning on the way to work on the Burgman 125, I happened to filter to the front of a queue of traffic on the A45 out of Birmingham and angled the bike slightly across the bows of a light green hatchback in the inside lane of the dual carriageway so he would see I was there.
The lights changed and I pulled away only to have this clot immediately race up close behind me blasting his horn. I pulled away at a fair old speed so I couldn’t have held him up. He continued this childishness for a 100 yards before pulling sharply out into the outside line to overtake me but came up close behind a slower moving car shortly ahead of him. Fed up with all this I pulled away to try and leave the idiot behind. Fully thinking he’d soon catch up, as the Burgman tops out at 70mph, but glancing back in the mirror I saw that another biker, who was alongside me at the lights, seemed to have slowed down to hold him back about a hundred yards behind. Thanks whoever you are if you did.
The idiot did manage to catch up finally on the off ramp to the airport, where he pulled up alongside and tried to swerve into me. This left me only one option and that was to undertake the car in front using what looked like a cycle lane so as not be squished. Apologies to the person in that car whoever you are. As for the idiot in the hatchback, it was probably the wrong time of the month for him.
