Most of us know we get through city traffic as fast if not faster by bike. I had a neat example given me the other day. As I was riding down a city street (in a designated bike lane mind you) a young woman in a new VW Beetle came up beside me, honked twice as if I was in her way, floored it and sped away. A block later was a traffic signal where she waited patiently in the queue while I pedaled past and moved up to the head of the line. After the light changed, I was in the middle of the next block when she again honked as if I was in her way, she floored it and sped away in a big hurry to get back in the queue at the stoplight 3 blocks away.
This time I overtook her in the queue and reached the head of the line just as the light changed. I went on, passing all the traffic at the light and moved nearly a block ahead before again being overtaken by the Beetle who honked again. As you probably have guessed there was another traffic signal a few blocks ahead and this time I smiled and waved as I passed her in the queue and reached the head of the line just as they were starting to move. This was a downhill, I was traveling near the 25mph speed limit and keeping pace with traffic at this point. A couple of blocks away, I looked in my mirror, saw the VW from hell approaching just as I reached my turn and "got out of her way" before she had the satisfaction of honking.
It's not often even honk these days, but this was a treat. 3 times from the same car within a mile or two.
She certainly couldn't think I was slowing her down, I outran her to my destination on the street.
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