The lorries had the right of way, and individual riders had to look out for themselves.  Sometimes they came down two abreast, filling the whole width of the road, and in such cases the boys had to dismount and draw to the side of the road until they had passed.  If their machine had been in condition, they might have kept ahead by sheer speed, but in its present crippled state they would have been run down.  And to be run down by one of those Juggernauts would have meant instant death.