Last night I added one of those fancy cyle computers to my bike to record my speed, distance travelled, time on the road and so on. I now know the somewhat fascinating fact that from my house it is 0.96 miles from my house to work, which I managed in 3 minutes 20 seconds. I travelled at an average speed of 17.4 mph. My top speed was about 26mph.
I reckon I could improve on that somewhat depending on the traffic. Today I wasn’t actually held up by traffic much. However a red Nissan Micra driven by a lady who either doesn’t like bikes enough to want to cause cyclists fatal injury or is blind. Either way she doesn’t deserve to be on the road. As I was cycling down Lincoln’s Greetwell Road towards Outer Circle Road the traffic a few cars in front of me slowed as a car stopped to turn into Lincolnshire County Hospital. The driver of the Nissan Micra was alongside for a time me as she re-accelerated as she did so she moved closer and closer to the kerb leaving me less and less space in which to cycle. Luckily she finished overtaking me before I was knocked off my bike I may have also braked in order to save myself breaking bones should I have fallen off.
So if you are a female driver of a dark red Nissan Micra who was driving down Greetwell Road just before 9am today, you are either psychotic, a moron or need to have an eye test. I don’t think you are fit to be on the road. If anything like this happens again I’m going to put the number plate of the car on here.