other 'cycling' news
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sudamerica 2009: condors, colca canyon, chachani, arequipa, fun, fun, fun
been a bit of a delay between posts while i've been doing some stuff here in arequipa, just been waiting to finish everything (just means lots of pictures).... -
sudamerica 2009: massage, information, cusco, and wonderful machu picchu
left la paz on a high note, by staying out all night and then having to wait and sit through fifteen hours (starting at 8am) of late buses to cusco last tuesday.... -
le tour
just thought i'd post a snippet about the tour, i was watching last night, and originally was just going to watch to the top of the tourmalet, then it was already past midnight, so i thought i'd just stick it out and see what happened (and now i'm stuffed
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get the fuck off the road, please!!
13th-jun-2008 - posted by dtra
rant time, for the second time in little more than a week, i was almost run over by some moron in a car. last week it was some tradie who didn't check before turning out of a side street. today it was some moron in their pussy red hatch back (i like hatch backs normally, don't get me wrong) that almost killed me. i was riding up canterbury rd (with my bike lights on), when this guy coming from the other direction tries to turn right (into the side street) right in front of me. fortunately, i was awake to the situation, and it was a slow stretch of road (going towards an uphill), i managed to slow down and turn into the street and avoid an accident. i just don't understand how shit drivers like this can get their licence, and be driving on the road, it's pathetic.
picture i took last year of some tradie talking on his phone while driving (i was practising pan with continuous auto focus), this guy is representative of the problem we all face today, what happens when he hits someone else talking on their phone while driving?.
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gosh!! got run over riding home today, there was some car stopped in the outside lane and this guy decides he's gonna change lanes without checking, i saw him and slowed down, but it was too late, just squeezed me onto the nature strip. at least he stopped and asked how i was, no damage to the bike that i could see, but jebus, i'll have seven months off from this crap come november i guess.
dtra
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4:13 22nd-aug-2008
moron aggressive 4wd driver, drove too close to me and tooted me when he went past yesterday. i did deliberately pass him cos he drove too close earlier, but i was well within my rights, i have exactly the same rights on the road as him, possibly more i don't know . typical 4wd, certainly doesn't change my opinion of them on the road (only one person in the massive car as well).
dtra
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21:32 10th-sep-2008
worst one yet (except that i wasn't hit, by the car), i was riding down the middle of canterbury rd, as you do when there's lots of traffic, and then the traffic starts moving, i come up next to this ute (tradie of course), i shoulda tried to overtake the car in front of him (i knew he was a dickhead cos he already gone past me too close earlier), so i start moving across (after having a look and
dtra
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3:40 1st-oct-2008
knowing he was too close), so he accelerates and then toots his horn, so i move back to the middle to let him pass, then he decides he's gonna shove me as he drives by and let out some expletives. he's tailgating people and revving his engine non-stop up ahead, i guess i can take solace in the fact that he's probably about to lose his licence (or go to jail), and that traffic was shit today.
dtra
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3:44 1st-oct-2008
shit i'm smashed, but riding to work today, three freaking cars at the same intersection tried to run me over, fkn (i won't say whats).
dtra
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12:37 17th-oct-2008
lol, this is totally passed isn't it?
dtra
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12:37 17th-oct-2008