.. one at a time.
This evening driving along Ellersly Road on the way to SRD towers I saw a smart suited gent changing a tyre on his large exec Merc. I stopped to lend a hand and as I crossed the road to him heard a loud crack, where he then called out that his jack had broken and his hand was trapped. He'd been attempting to put on the spare wheel and the car slipped off his jack trapping his hand between the wheel arc and the tyre.
I lifted it enough, quickly freeing his hands and after counting 10 fingers changed his wheel for him using my car's jack.
He was most thankful and intimated if he could thank me in any way. I said yes, could I ask a favour? I told him I cycle to work ~3 days a week between Fife and Edinburgh and the next cyclist he sees in his way on the road, might well be me. I asked him if he could ignore any slight delay the cyclist may be causing him and could he give them a wide berth as we're more vulnerable than him, in his 2 tonne steel box with multi-airbags, side impact protection etc...
He seemed most grateful to me and promised to give cyclists a wide berth and more consideration.
So perhaps I have succeeded in changing a car drivers view of cyclists - just another ~5 million more spare wheels and I'll have cracked it! ;0)
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