I was heading home on upper Springbank road at about 2:00 pm this afternoon - a bad time on Springbank road on a Friday because the high school is out early on Fridays. In the past, I've had apple cores thrown at me, oncoming cars pulling into my lane and heading straight for me, spit at, swore at. In fact, there was even a Facebook page last year encouraging fellow students to run a cyclist down (it's a very popular cycling route).

Up ahead I saw 2 cars in the oncoming lane. I knew they were high school immediately - old cars, packing with kids, speeding and tailgating - business as usual at 2:00 on a Friday. The blue car in the rear decides he's going to pass his buddy in the green car, so he pulls into my lane. It's a two lane road with no shoulder, so there wasn't enough room for two cars plus me on my bike. The blue car realized this, and called off his pass by breaking and pulling back into his lane behind his buddy in the green car. Unfortunately, his buddy in the green car, also sensing this wasn't a good situation, slammed on his breaks. You know what happened next.

The blue car slammed into his buddy and in the process, splashed brake light and plastic bumper shrapnel all over me - that's how close I was!

I stopped, got off my bike and walk over to the cars. Both cars were PACKED with kids. I asked if everyone was OK. They all seemed fine, and I got the sense that they didn't want me sticking around - probably out of fear that I might tear a strip off them, or call the cops. I figured that dealing with the damage and explaining it to parents might be lesson taught - but probably not.