Sigh. Seen this Boardman guy a couple of times now.
Coming out of the estate at the top of the Innocent tunnel, left onto the main road, then immediately right to make for the Meadows. Every morning he pulls stright out onto the main road (keeping to the left) then has to sit and wait for the traffic to make a standing start sprint across to the right for the turn.
This morning he did this, while I waited for the way to be clear (two cars coming). Of course he acted like a driver and saw me as a gap in traffic and pulled straight across in front of me. I followed him down to the red lights crossing Clerk(?) Street. In the next section there is (and has been for a few weeks) a workman's container thingy, so I always sit central in the ASL so no car can go on the left or the right of me, thereby cutting me up before the container. Boardman sits so far left his foot is up on the kerb.
Hit the reds to enter the Meadows, and the length of time waiting for him to re-appear on my (extreme) left, it's clear he's ridden up to the container without checking on the traffic behind, then had to wait for a gap to go past it.
Should I say something the next time I see him in the morning? Or am I likely to get a smack in the mouth? Fear is I come over all arrogant and superior (not helped by being dressed in jeans on a non-racey bike and with a cloth cap atop my head compared to his stealth black speed machine, helmet and full-length lycra and still leaving him behind through the Meadows).
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