When using contraflows (St Marks Rd anyone?) always look out for maniacs in large vans who can't read signs or road markings and purposefully speed up towards you, sending you on a fun trip rolling and scraping across the pavement, then tell you you're in the wrong as you were "going the wrong way". It can result in bruised, swollen, cut knees and bruises and scrapes to elbows and legs. Not to mention rips in bar tape and buckled front wheels.
I've posted this in events and rides. Is that the right category? I was riding. It was an event. Who cares.
I'm pissed off and had enough of being hit by too many vehicles this year. Bus, taxi, van. &&**%%*()*)*^
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