2020-06-26

After getting up early (relatively) in order to squeeze in a bike ride before the early afternoon rain and mid-afternoon lightening storm. The poor excuse for a storm passed us by.

Mrs Basil always scoffs at British thunderstorms, she’s right, they are usually not much of anything.

A Coastal Loop

The ride was decent. The first 40km was on ok cycle paths along to, and then up, the coast.

The last 20 wasn’t great, nasty roads and paths and 2 incidents.

There’s always two

A driver with attention on his phone gave himself a fright I think, when he saw us waiting to cross the road. Perhaps because I was balancing on my pedals I think he maybe thought I was in motion. He did an emergency stop and started screaming at us, calling us all sorts. I was completely surreal because we were on a footpath.

About 2km from home a car came out of a private estate driveway that crosses a shared use path. I put my brakes on and stopped just quick enough so that they only clipped the very front of my tyre with their wheel arch. I don’t think she saw me even after the fact.

I was trying to think of something else to write about as neither incident was pleasant to recall but I couldn’t think of anything at this late hour.