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♫ Go ahead child / Go ahead, be gone with it. ♫

Dear douchebag who told me to 'hurry up' on the SHB,

If 20km/h up the Dawes Point end is too slow for you, that's what overtaking is for. I'm glad you figured that out eventually; I hope that the 15 second lead you'd built up by the Milson's Point stairs was every bit as satisfying as you'd wished for, and that your saddle causes pudendal nerve entrapment.

Love,
Conrad

Admittedly I'm somewhat amused by the fact that two months into my life as a commuting cyclist, I haven't had a single driver-related drama (touch wood), and the first and only time I've been douchebagged at whilst riding was by another cyclist on one of the rare occasions when I was doing nothing wrong. Mostly I'm just hoping for pudendal nerve entrapment, though.

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Comment by Neil Alexander on September 9, 2009 at 12:50pm: I blame the turkeys who decided that the SHB cycleway was apparently too wide and needed to be narrowed down.

It's funny how, with cycle commuter numbers increasing significantly in recent times, the only exclusive cycleway in Sydney needed to be downgraded.

Comment by DamianM on September 9, 2009 at 2:16pm: I don't see how you can blame infrastructure for people being arseholes.

Some people think that being on a bike gives them a free pass

Comment by Duncan on September 9, 2009 at 2:33pm: Unfortunately, arseholes permeate every walk of life.

Comment by Colin on September 9, 2009 at 3:36pm: Everybody has a latent level of arseholery that can be brought to the surface by environmental conditions. Irritating and insulting-by-design infrastructure tends to be one of those conditions.

But being told to hurry up isn't a big deal - I'd probably turn around and tell them to slow down.

Comment by naomi on September 9, 2009 at 3:43pm: If you're going to come across them it's there!

Not sure why - not making any demographic or bike bling ratio judgments here;)

Comment by Neil Alexander on September 9, 2009 at 4:03pm: Careful Nomes, some of us live on the "other side" and use that bridge occasionally ;-)

Comment by Conrad on September 9, 2009 at 4:25pm: I didn't even know about the bridge narrowing. Looking at the photos of how it used to be is depressing =/ The cycleway is wide enough for two-way traffic but just barely, and I always feel a bit claustrophobic in there. Everyone seems much happier and nicer on the wider ANZAC bridge path even with the retarded ramp thing at the city end.

As arseholery goes it isn't a huge deal, It's not like he tried to nut me with a U-lock or anything. All things considered, my left cleat and front mudguard have still given me more hassles between them than any people I've ever had to deal with.

Naomi: Observations and judgments are very different things. For example, one might observe that packs of guys who wear team lycra and ride carbon fibre toothpicks tend to yell at kids in Centennial Park, kick puppies and make baby Jesus cry. No judgment being passed, just an observation =)

Comment by Kylie on September 9, 2009 at 4:40pm: Haha yeah watch it Naomi, some of us are still fresh from certain unmentioned demographic stereotypes! Stop encouraging her Conrad ;-)

There are d*ckheads on bikes, in cars, and on foot, no surprises that you found one on a bike. I saw one walking a bike across the road in front of me whilst talking on his mobile phone and looking away from the direction of the oncoming traffic (me). Natural selection let him off yesterday!

♫ Go ahead child / Go ahead, be gone with it. ♫

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