Well we’ve been meaning to launch a new version of the site since probably about this time last year, but loads of trivial stuff kept getting the way (like trying to earn a living, stuff like that). So finally it is here, and now I just have to think of something to write.

Maybe I’ll start with bus drivers, a strange subject to start with but I have just been all but run off the road yet again by one of these morons. Most people in Sheffield seem to drive pretty considerately compared to the hordes of BMW X5 owners we used to get down in Surrey, maybe it’s something to do with Sheffield having more uninsured drivers than anywhere else and they don’t want to get caught, but anyway… bus drivers. The worst ones drive the huge double-decker school buses marked BRIGHT BUS and painted, yes, bright colours and presumably they think that this means you can see them coming a mile off and leap out of the road, and leap you must, because they are not stopping, not for anything, and certainly not for anything so trivial as avoiding crushing me beneath their mighty wheels.

I’ve even managed to catch up with bus drivers for a bug-eyed, out-of-breath rant a few times. Yes they may be specially fitted with Rolls Royce engines to churn their way up the steep hills but no-one, not even the bus drivers, can escape the traffic lights in Sheffield specially timed to turn red, well, all the time (more on this another day I think). Most of the time they feign ignorance, “Sorry mate didn’t realise you were still there” as if they’ve forgotten they’re driving a 40-ft turbo-charged lump of metal around, maybe it’s true, I mean surely they are not deliberately trying to run me off the road?

I don’t think there’s much hope for me though. They even managed to smash head on into each other a couple of weeks back, what hope is there for a mere cyclist if they can’t spot a double decker at 10 yards? I think I’ll just keep leaping.