The Cruising Bicycle Overtake

This is a rare cycling manouevre, not so much man-oeuvre as simply oeuvre and masterpiece. I  am of course speaking  of the cruising bicycle overtake which involves the masterful act of overtaking a car whilst cruising (and not pedalling). This means that a steep(ish) hill and perhaps a tailwind is not too far away, which means in a hilly windy valley like Glasgow, the cruising bicycle overtake is always a faint possibility. The last time I performed the manoeuvre was in Kilbarchan down its main street from the north. There is even a speedometer in the form of a speed camera that tells you near the top how fast you are going. I regularly hit about 22-3mph by the time I pass the camera which means further down (and on this particular day with wind behind) I must've been nearing 30mph at cruise speed. This is where you will find the overtake, just beside the wee cottage celebrating Kilbarchan's textile past, as there is an another road on the left as you're descending that joins the main road here. Coming down, cars have difficulty seeing you as there is a bend in the main road, so on this particular day, a wee  wifie pulled out as I approached from behind. As she was changing gears moving into second or third and at about 15-20mph I knew I was going fast enough to simply pull out and overtake. And so this is what I did. And boy, what a move it is! Cruising past an overweight driver in their dinky little pollutant not even looking at them. You can almost hear them shouting at their car: Go faster, change bloody gears, there's a bicycle overtaking me! It is a supreme feeling but not without risk, so it requires skill and nerve, and is not for the faint-hearted. The other hill that I have performed this oeuvre on is Kirkhill above Cambuslang coming down from Kirkhill Golf Course (where you can practise overtaking golf buggies!). I have regularly maddened young upstarts in their souped up motors by cruising past them often because they have to stop up ahead at the traffic lights queue. It's amazing really to see the frustration in their eyes and to hear it through their false bodies of the car's revving engine and screeching brakes. This is a wild cyclist's wet dream, and coming down from Kirkhill all the way down to the river Clyde path (a distance of some two miles), overtaking and irking these little disembodied polluters, has to be the best there is. But be warned, car drivers in this part of the world generally go apeshit when they are overtaken by a humble cyclist especially if like me you give them a little 'wave' as you  pass. Just make sure you know your territory and all the little ramps onto pavements and exits that cars just cannot take. A bicycle the wild cyclist knows can always out-manoeuvre a car simply by stopping and turning around, but when you do it the car's way and perform a bona fide overtake (with wave) this is when you know you have shaken off your farm animal status and become truly wild.