In the pantheon of 'things you never thought you would say'.
Stopped alongside a Keyline truck this morning after some lights have not long turned red, there's a shout to get my attention. The driver wants to know if that's 'one of those cameras' on my bike. Fearing a backlash of EEN commenter proportions I fall back on the defensive truth, "Yeah, I got one for mountain biking originally, then just thought, sod it, I'll put it on this bike."
"That's great," was the unexpected response. He goes on to explain that it's terrible that people feel they have to do that, but they do; explains he's a cyclist himself and had been thinking about getting one; and declares that everyone should just have more respect for each other on the roads, and anyone who complains about cyclists should be made to cycle for a week.
He also pointed out an unexpected benefit of baldness - I'd mentioned that the camera on the side of the helmet, rather than the bike, tended to drag the helmet over to one side. He said that being bald meant the helmet generally just stuck to his head.
The lights turned green, we bade each other a good day, and (linked to the rubbish cycling thread) he had a good check of his potential blind spots before moving off, giving loads of room to a cyclist who had filtered up his left.
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