Close Encounter with The "One" Kind
Friday, April 29, 2005
Late night or early morning (wee hours), always a good choice for riders. Less traffic, less pollution, faster speed achieved in a slightly safer surrounding, plus more weird encounters. Yes. You do not have Strabimus, commonly known as crossed eyes or cock eyed. You have read the words correctly, weird encounters.
Muggs started off his usual riding route at 12.45am, leaving parents to watch cable T.V. programmes. 20mins into my ride, Scenario 1 took place. Look at illustration. Legend: Muggs in BLUE, Indian cyclist in RED.
Scenario 1: 20mins into ride, Muggs along a straight stretch was already already moving at top speed. Muggs spotted an Indian cyclist, dark colored T-shirt and bike frame from far. Muggs looked and thought that Indian cyclist was cycling with the flow of traffic. Muggs maintains speed. Split second later, cyclist appeared to be cycling against traffic flow. Muggs tapped on brakes to slow down. Best has yet to come. Indian cyclist was looking across to the other side of the road. Whoa kaoz!! When cyclist return his concentration back on the path ahead of him, Muggs muttered "Shit" and zoomed pass him. Muggs managed to squeeze between him and pavement, because Muggs was traveling too fast to do a head turn to check traffic. Close call. Muggs continued routine of cycle.
5mins later, Muggs' usual route, cycling into a quieter lane of an estate, Muggs saw Indian cyclist ahead again. He probably too a shorter turn and became ahead of me, while Muggs went around the estate. Refer to same illustration.
Scenario 2:
Now, with past encounter just minutes ago, Muggs changed gears to go slow. Muggs witnessed Indian cyclist went in a zig-zag fashion almost hitting the curb/pavement. Muggs was still 10metres away from him. Muggs checked rear for traffic, moved passed him and maintained a 3metre clearance away from him. Hope he's okay. Not sure if he's been drinking..... Sheesh.
Reached home, bathed and slept at 3am. Felt great, worked out my quads. Pet mozzie on vacation. Muggs slept till 9am. Sprang out of bed, when to work. KNS. 15mins late. Not good.
More encounters? No idea, man.