Tuesday night on the way home they were trying to kill me.
On the Longbridge roundabout (a large multi-lane junction on my commute) I was in the empty left hand lane when the right hand lane, which was full, ground to a halt. This prompted two car drivers, at the same moment, to change into my lane. Obviously they didn't need to actually look or even indicate before manoeuvring. So I found myself with the car beside me moving into me AND a car ahead moving to block me. The space between the two was, fortunately, about the length of a car. I got the Bandit into the space with inches to spare from the idiot behind me. As attempts on my life go that was a pretty good one, nearly got me there you waggish car jokers!
Then when I was nearly home on the Holyhead Road (a main road that runs very near to my house) I came up to a set of lights that were red. The central lane was the lane I wanted and it had a line of traffic on it. The right hand lane had none, so I used it to filter down to the front of the central line. When I got to the front I found that the lead car had left loads of room before the white line, so I half rolled in front of him as a declaration of intent that I wanted the central lane not the right hand one. The lights change and I pulled off at a normal (for a bike) speed. Imagine my surprise when the guy behind me took off like a scalded cat, veered into the right hand lane, accelerated as hard as he could to get ahead of me (by now I was watching him with bemusement) and then veered back into my lane ahead of me. I was actually laughing in my helmet it was such a display of childish petulance. What made it even funnier for me was that the traffic began to clog up and I could almost sense the guys panic that the traffic was about to stop and he would have a potentially angry biker right behind him. He was driving maybe three inches from the car in front of him such was his need to keep moving. The episode didn't faze me at all but if the traffic had stopped moving I might have tapped on his window merely to inform him that filtering is perfectly legal and that if he has a problem with bikes getting ahead of him then best he learns to ride.