Hmmm… New Cycling Blog… Lets check out how it works and see what the interface is like by posting something, then I’ll see whether I can edit it.

I’m sitting thinking for a moment, about happenings on the roads. Not the serious ones, where someone has swerved at you or knocked you off, and certainly not the very serious ones where a cyclist has been badly hurt. I’m thinking about all of the ‘near miss’ events. All of the times when I’ve been honked by someone behind me because they are quite desperate to be stuck behind the car yards in front of me. The times when I’ve had a dose of ‘verbal’ for simply being on the road. And naturally, my first thought is that these people are idiots; moronic car drivers or ‘moton’ as some call them. But then, who is the moton when he gets out of his car? Is he the same person in real life? When he’s walking down the street is he yelling abuse at everyone who is in his way? Or does he just fade into the background?

Theres no getting around it, some people just don’t have the same personality on the roads. Put them behind the wheel of a car and they become just a little bit crazy. Or put them on a bike saddle and they become really rather passive. So when dealing with these daily stresses, the question for any cyclist on the receiving end is how do we get past the moton and impress upon the human underneath that we’re just the same, and that taking risks with out safety or just being flat rude to us is unacceptable?