slvoid

That pretty much sums it up. In the bike lane, of all places.. Brand new langster comp now has a gash on the right drop in the bar tape and my hand has a gash from hitting the side of the door. The one day I didn't wear my armored gloves with the carbon knuckle protectors... Thank god I was only doing 16 at the time.

dalmore

That bites. You didn't break your L&M Arc did you??

gbcb

Damn! Sorry to hear that. I live in constant fear of getting doored. Glad to hear the damage is minimal. What did the driver do?

squegeeboo

Ouch, sorry to hear about the dooring.

slvoid

The HID's good hehe, day light savings took care of that, I only run a small blinker now just in case but most of my commute's in daylight.

Going down the street in the bike lane, cars stopped at a light, when the damn cab driver, instead of getting to the end of the block to let a passenger off, decides to let her off right there. Normally I look out for signs and I'm able to avoid it but a) the passenger was on the other side, b) the door is a sliding door, c) the damn cab driver opens his door out of nowhere to help the passenger. Motherf**ker!!!

Anyway I was like, "F**K! Why couldn't you door me with THAT (points at sliding door) door!!"

KrautFed

I'm actually glad we only have 1 street with a bike lane. I mean we don't have traffic much at all, but the one bike lane we have is a death trap. The street sweepers do not clean them so they are always full of debris, sprint happy valeters jump in and out of cars at will, and not to mention, the valet carts themselves are positioned IN the bike lane. I'm more nervous in the bike lane than I am on my summit climb @ 10mph in a 45mph zone.

I can't wait until someone tells me to get in the bike lane... even a cop. That thing is a joke.

jyossarian

Ahhh...the infamous in-traffic dooring. Those are the worst. Some jackass decides he doesn't want to be stuck in traffic anymore so he/she exits the cab in the middle of the street w/o checking the coast is clear. The last time that happened to me, I saw it coming so I was on the brakes but decided to teach the woman a lesson and stop about an inch from her as she exited. She jumped and apologized profusely after I yelled, "Whaddayoutryintadotame?"

vtjim

Yikes. Y'know, I was in Philly about a month ago and the cabs there all have signs saying it's illegal to exit the cab on the traffic side. I was thinking... +1

oboeguy

Good thing you didn't suffer serious injury. My elbow still hurts some time, 1.5+ years since I had a similar incident happen (no bike lane, though).

gbcb

In most cabs in Beijing and Shanghai you can't open the traffic side rear door at all. I could see some safety issues with this (one less exit in a serious accident), but it's sure nice not to have to worry about taxi doors when riding.

slvoid

I swear... all cabs should have the slide open doors like minivans. That way, we won't be "doored", we'd be "passengered" or "drivered", which would feel a whole lot better, given the average girth of americans. And fu*k it, I'm getting bullhorns, might as well impale em rather than bump them with the soft edge of the drops.

jwbnyc

Sorry to hear it.

Got nailed by a similar in traffic/bike lane taxi dooring last year.

The one I'm always on the look out for is the passenger-jumping-out-between-center-lanes dooring.

Seems to be on the upswing.

So. If a driver nails a ped that steps in front of his car, without adequate time for the driver to react, it's the peds fault, right?

Same defense for bullhorns?

Somehow, I don't think we'd get the same break.

M_S

I hope the CF on your bike wasn't scratched?

Why do minivans have those doors anyways?

slvoid

CF? the thing's aluminium. I'm good.

M_S

I thought it had a carbon fork?

Silly me.

EDIT: The '07 langsters all have carbon forks. is this a put-on?

slvoid

Doh, it does have carbon!

Silly me.

*Nervously checks fork for cracks*

M_S

Ha.


I hope it's ruined

Just kidding. I don't mean that.

gbcb

aley

Thanks, gbcb. Now I gotta clean up the milk I just sprayed all over my keyboard.

slvoid

Why is that bike all fuzzy?

gbcb

My pleasure

gbcb

It's a mountain goat! Duh!

Eggplant Jeff

I think it looks more like a bull than a goat.

Sorry to hear that slvoid. I dunno if I'm just lucky or what, but I haven't had any doorings that I didn't see coming (I.E. I've always been able to stop). I'm seriously tempting fate on one road, where I tear downhill on the right of the slowly moving traffic... however there's no bike lane (I'm half-sharing the lane and half-sharing the parking lane) so I figure anyone opening the door is gonna be pretty darn alert anyway since they don't want it taken off by a bus.