mr b's latest comeback

[Graham Breeze]

A steady 5.5m with horsforth harriers last night. It's amazing how long it can take to get across some conplicated junctions using the crossings, i'd just freestyle it, but i think h+s requires us to wait for the green man.

I like the green man!

Any ride home from west of Ilkley requires me taking a right turn off the Skipton road (A65) towards where I live. Although the side-road junction has traffic lights the road is narrow, it is at the bottom of a long hill and a large vehicle cannot safely squeeze past little old me waiting on the centre line for a gap in the oncoming traffic to turn right at the lights.

A crash last week demolished one of the traffic lights.

But if I ride a few hundred yards further to a pedestrian crossing, I can press for a green man, ride across the crossing, cycle back up the A65 a few hundred yards and take a safe, and now left, turn.

I suspect I get dirty looks from drivers for stopping the traffic in/out of Ilkley for a minute; but that is the cross I must bear.

So what this country needs is more green men!