Today I saw proof that lycra clad loonies do in fact drive cars.
And that they behave the same way in cars that they do when treadling.
On the Pacific highway this afternoon, I was in the overtaking lane coming up on some slow moving traffic.
The slow lane was moving at around 70 klm/hr and the speed limit was 90 klm/hr.
As I was overtaking, a small late model vehicle pulled out in front of me without indicating.
As I am a careful driver, apart from a small sudden braking event, there was no real issue.
It was several kilometers later that I realised that said car was not overtaking, but was in fact keeping pace with the slower truck in the left lane.
On closer examination I also noted that said car had two bikes mounted on the roof in that well known Cockatoo format.
Now, I was in no hurry, so I was happy to just sit behind and observe, but a vehicle was coming up behind me rather quickly, so I moved into the left lane to allow him to pass.
Stupid thought, the little car with the bikes refused to move and when the faster car tooted him (it was a toot not a blaring horn) he was shown the car drivers finger, which I think was an effort to explain that he had injured it and that was why he was driving so slowly.
This went on for a while and after much tailgating from the vehicle behind the car, the intelligent truck driver in front of me realised that it was an accident waiting to happen, he therefore slowed to allow the faster vehicle to slip up the inside and around the idiot in front.
There was some swerving and more demonstration of sore fingers from both the passenger and drivers windows of the small car before the faster vehicle finally managed to pass him and be on his way.
Seeing an opportunity, I pulled out and followed the faster car and was again on my merry way.
The Pacific highway in the area of this incident has several traffic lights, and due to being held up at said lights and also because of some traffic, the small car manged to catch up.
Now I think the car driver forgot that he was in a car, so he slipped down the breakdown lane all the way to the front where he almost caused an accident as he pulled into the traffic, again without indicator, and happily proceeded to travel at a snails pace again.
It appears it may not just be the bike that causes the brains of these Lycra clad loonies to act like total and absolute morons, it must be a hereditary thing. I wonder if there is some gene that attracts these morons to bikes?
Or is it the esky lid that stops the brain from cooling, therefore overheating it to the point of idiocy?
Whatever the reason, I now know that its not just bikes that the Lycra clad loonies drive with reckless abandon.
Its also the cars that they drive afterward.
