More MIIS

Now, I don't mind people overtaking me when I'm riding but...

What really gets my goat is when a sportsbike catches up with my at warp
speed in a 30 limit and pisses past and then doesn't piss off when the
GLF sign appears.

Coming out of Ciren tonight something big with twin lights comes past me
like I was standing still. Fair enough I think, and when I get to the
national limit sign I open the Beemer's tap in the traditional manner.

14 or so miles later when we hit the 30 limit at Cheltenham he's a
massive 100 yards or so ahead, even with me going onto reserve and
having to fumble with the taps for a few seconds.

I wouldn't have minded following him all the way if he'd not been so
insistent on barging past in the first place. I'd have been a heck of a
lot happier if he'd stayed behind so I could have used Mr BMW's splendid
illumination system (which Champ laughed at earlier this evening) and we
could both have made better progress rather than suffering both his
inadequate full beam and my dip.

Rant over.

 

It wasn't me.

 

Are you sure? It was dark.

 

If you were so much quicker, why not go past him? If you couldn't get
past then stop, wait a minute and then set off again. You'll have a
clear road and still get there at the same time without being pissed
off.

 

It's not that I was so much quicker, it's more that I was almost as
quick but shouldn't have been. Anyway, despite their various merits,
R80RTs are not ideal for overtaking sportsbikes on the straights nor
out-braking them into corners after not being able to catch them on the
straights. Well, not in the dark anyway.

I could have stopped, and have done just that in the past, but if I had
of done I couldn't have got indignant, and where's the fun in that? ;-)

 

Well quite. You be left with nothing to post about either which just
wouldn't do.

 

Put yourself in my shoes. If your choice was to sit watching musical
after musical with SWMBO singing along or hide in the spare room posting
drivel to UKRM, what would you do?

A Chorus Line. Oklahoma. The Music Man. Kiss Me, Kate. Cabaret. Phantom.
Showboat. Les Mis [1]. My Fair Lady, West Side Story. Oliver!

The list is endless. And if it's not that it's Most Overacted on UK
Tripe.

Some days I'd happily run over my own head so I can hide in the spare
room.

[1] Actually, Les Mis is OK.

 

^^^^^^^

Well, and then we couldn't have poked fun at your grammar (which is
surprising in that you did get it right a bare four words afterwards!)

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