Look out, look out there's a ranter about!

Cycling home from work, and cycling as far up my road as possible and pulling into a brak in the cars on the right hand side of the road virtually outside my flat, and mounting the pavement for all of about 10ft before i planned to dismount from my bike and carry it up my steps to me flat. There were 3 'Torry Types' (yes ok i'm a bit of a snob, so what!?) walking 3abrest towards me with a small dog...the dog (not on a lead) decided the best route for it to take was virtually under my wheels which brought me to a halt from the approx 2 mph i was doing before hand, just at the bottom of my garden. At this point I dismount, and the 3 people walk past and down the road a bit one of them turns round and says "Shouldn't be on the pavement anyway"...my thoughts on this at the time (and now)....'Prat!' (ok maybe something slightly harsher/non-repeatable) and said "I live there" pointing at my flat, and being within touching distance of my garden...yeah ok if i was following the highway code fully I may just have dismounted as I pulled over whilst still on the road....but i mean seriously, I was 10ft away from my front steps...pedestrians are soooo precious sometimes! Pah!

Oh dear, not keeping this up enough am I!!?

Cycled in all week last week, and both days this week. Nothing too drastic has happened on the roads to complain about other than a couple of car/van drivers cutting it a bit too fine when passing me. Agressing cycling is the way forward on city streets. Also doing well with my SPD pedals I think. Haven't fallen off yet....although did have a touch and go moment yesterday outside work trying to clip in and going a tad too slow.

One point of complaint actually, now that I think about it, and realise that I havent put it on here yet is the new Riverside Drive Cycleway. How is a cyclist ment to get onto it in the first place? it's not as if they have put a ramp at the Torry end of the route and before that a cyclist if on the pavement is meant to be pushing thier bike/walking. Then further along the route there is a "Cyclist Dismount" sign for a few hundred yards where the pavement goes a bit thin....this I'm afraid does not a successful cycleway make! i mean seeing as the council were working on it anyway, couldnt they have just widened the path to the advised width for both bike and pedestrian....soooo annoying! Ok rant over.