Speaking of #cycling, I had my first near miss with a #car today 😨

I came down a hill on a road where bikes don't have a dedicated cycling lane, ending up into a roundabout. Seeing the roundabout clear for me to enter I did so. I noticed a car coming up towards the next entry of the roundabout at some speed, but it was clear I would be the first to enter.

Unfortunately the car driver clearly either didn't think that was my right to do so or didn't care or was focused on something else than driving. Just as I was passing the point where they enter the roundabout I realized they were not slowing down, with very little possibilities. The car owner slammed on their breaks quite heavily, thus narrowly avoiding hitting me.

My reaction was to pull over to the side of the roundabout. The car happily just drove away without seemingly a second thought. I proceeded to thank them for not running me over with the international finger (yes, mature, I know, but just getting almost run over I wasn't thinking straight). I do hope the driver realized what had almost happened and it makes them pay more attention to the operation of their metal machine of death in the future.

I've cycled a lot, pretty much all of it in the city. Though in #Helsinki we generally have lots of cycling lanes, you still need to mix with the killing machines at times. I count myself lucky this is my first situation where I think it could have been bad.