Lots of impatient nerks on the NEPN last night, of whom footage was captured to demonstrate to them, should they chance upon it, that even when I was slowing down for pedestrians I still got to Craigleith at exactly the same time as them.
NEPN wheelsucker this morning, which might have been the person I passed on Commercial Street, in which case he speeded up significantly after I passed him.
I was first alerted to him when his bell tinged going beneath Craighall Road; turning round, he was inches from my rear wheel, so was asked to either get past or stay back. He appeared to ignore that and came slightly closer, muttering something about how his bell-ting wasn't deliberate but that it tinged itself on bumps. I askd him again to stay back or get past, then slowed to carefully pass through all the people milling around near Five Ways. I thought he'd turned off there as he wasn't noticeably behind me the next time I checked, but he had either been hiding or had caught up again between the last two bridges before Crewe Toll. Again, he declined to either get past or drop back. He was still inches behind going over Crewe Toll, so I slowed right down, whereupon he came alongside and said something along the lines of "that was a furious pace you were setting there", despite me not 'setting a pace' as I was not doing it for his benefit, merely going at the sort of speed I was going at in order to get myself to work. He turned off down the next slope, but hopefully caught the explanation that if he can speed up sufficiently to catch me up then he can something well get the something else past rather than sit so close behind that he would have no chance of stopping suddenly if it became necessary for me to do so.
Making a wee sign to stick on the back of my pannier today.
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