11.59km / 32:49 / 174m / 17.1°C
Good countryside, lousy truck drivers
The aboretum is great, the ham and cheese toasty a well-received late lunch, but ugh, that traffic on the road towards Spreyton. Everywhere in Tasmania I’ve seen road signs telling motorists the legal passing distance when overtaking cyclists, everywhere I’ve been I’ve (mostly) found that drivers do that and more … until today on this road. Every car driver went out wide and around me. Every truck driver did not. Of six large trucks only one driver seemed to pull out even a little, I had to swerve off onto the broken gravel shoulder for two and if there hadn’t been a driveway when one gravel truck & dog went past I’d have been in the ditch avoiding the trailer as it came out a metre onto the shoulder. Stuff all traffic in the opposite direction too, so they could have overtaken safely if they wanted to
Clear sky, 16°C, Feels like 15°C, Humidity 46%, Wind 2m/s from NNE - by Klimat.app
Riding 849th day in a row, including my and astoundingly, all of 2021.
Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps
