Human Impatience .... and FUIC - what's the story?

I don't worry too much about silly things I see while riding along - as just occasionally it's me that does it! However I feel a little 'talkative' tonight. While riding up Aldgate Valley Road later this afternoon, I had three vehicles overtake me at different places. The first waited patiently behind as it was at one of the most bendy areas. As soon as I was sure the road ahead was clear, I gave a thumb's up and it passed by with a wave from the occupants. Both the next 2 vehicles also came up just before blind bends, but both edged over the middle line and overtook straight away. Then both immediately slowed and turned off within 50 metres of overtaking me, barely into the side road as I went by the intersection. I wasn't inconvenienced on either occasion, but was somewhat bemused ...

I don't drink much FUIC, but have the occasional little treat when I've 'earned' it. When I do, it's usually from the Mylor General Store. I bought a small one this afternoon. I sat at a little table under the verandah - and looked at the carton. Then I looked down at myself. I thought about the afternoon's steeper climbs - including Lynton-Belair path, Cherry Plantation Road, and the unsealed Brown Road where care is needed to keep traction. Of course that meant nice downhills, like the first descent on Scott Creek Road, and the gentle, peaceful Boyle Swamp Road. I'd gone past the stinky farm on the Mylor-Echunga road twice! (bad planning) And I thought about the climbing yet to be done. So, back to the FUIC. I looked at the carton again. FAT REDUCED. Now I reckon I could easily go a full fat amount! I could do a totally insignificant protest and not buy one - but it washes down the slice of carrot-walnut cake (with lovely soft icing) so well.

Tags: Adelaide Hills, FUIC, Mylor

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Comment by Patrick O'Kane on October 22, 2012 at 22:01: You should have bought a big FUIC Brian, you'd have reduced even more fat and been even better for it.

Comment by Peter Hill on October 23, 2012 at 9:42: the Aldgate Valley Road is one of the best cycling routes in the hills (even if there are some low skilled types in cars to impose on the serenity!).

As for 'Fat Reduced' there is plenty of sugar in the FUIC that, given time, magically turns into fat!

where are the photos?

Comment by Brian Jenkins (BJ) on October 23, 2012 at 11:18: No photos, quite the minimalist yesterday. A few slices of apple in a Snap Lock bag in one shirt pocket - ID, some money, and pen and scrap paper (emergency Last Will and Testament kit) in t'uther. And I took along a few lifesavers (in case I fell into a dam and got caught in a rip).

Comment by john mills on December 9, 2012 at 20:00: Too many drivers just charge at us cyclists and hope for the best when they should be clearly able to see that just in front of us there is a corner. A little bit of forward thinking and they should realize that unless they use their brakes, they will be trying to overtake us on a corner, and with every possibility that a car might be coming around in the opposite direction.

I wonder what their escape will be? I know what it will be - push the cyclist off the road, I close eyes and just miss us by a few cm - hopefully! This is my main fear when riding in the hills. Today I saw a car do just that to a couple of my mates about 100m ahead of me, on Marble Hill Road.

He/she was tackling the road as if it were a race track. On a right hand bend, with trees obscuring his/her view, the driver just sped towards the bend and my mates. The a car came from the other direction. They hit their brakes at about the same time they were passin the two cyclists - just before the bend. The back wheels slid out a bit towards the cyclists! In the end they were saved because he/she recognizdd the skid and released the brake. The other car slippped past with little room to spare, and the overtaking car just missed my two friends.

But rather than stop and apoligise for his/her reckless driving, they just blasted their horn (as if to say 'Idiot cyclists! Why are you out here on my race track?) and sped onto the next corner. I was told afterwards that much the same thing happened just 200 metres up the road where he overtook another cyclist in our group, on a blind left hand corner!

Human Impatience .... and FUIC - what's the story?

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