Doug28450

Not me.

In August my daughter was competing in a triathlon. She was first out of the water into transition by about 45 seconds. She had a great transition and was 2 minutes ahead of the second girl coming out of transition starting her bike portion. Local PoPo were patrolling the streets to keep the residents from getting into the triathlon traffic. About a quarter of the way into her ride she was rapidly pulling up on one of the cops on a motorcycle. She moved left to go around him. At about the time their front wheel were even he turned left to turn around and he turned right into her, their front wheels hitting. She launched over the handlebars and landed on her back on the curb with the bike on top of her. The cop dismounted, walked over to her while she was lying on the ground and proceeded to lecture her on how it was her fault and there is now way she should have been passing him. One of the local residents walked over and advised him that he is there to protect the triathletes, not kill them. At that point he apparently turned ghost white, hung his head and shuffled away.

She was fine, minor scrapes and scratches. The bike was okay, front wheel needed to be trued and the front derailleur needed an adjustment.

Leinster

Wait, was that before or after the crop-dusting?

Lanovran

I've been shouted at a number of times, and honked at once or twice. Someone threw a full water bottle at me once as they drove past, but luckily they missed. Lately, I've been having a hard time trying not to get too pissed off at all the idiots who insist on running in the middle of the bike lane as if it's a MUP, as I'm riding straight at them, when I've got car traffic to my left, and they have a perfectly good sidewalk not two feet away. I just don't get that.

indyfabz

Nope. She was too young for me. More than 13 years my junior. In fact, she turned 36 today. I only know that because were are friends on Facebook. She has a thing for older guys.

indyfabz

I had to deal with that maybe a week ago. What's worse is when they run in the street against traffic when there is no bike lane. Many neighborhood streets in Philly are narrow. The summer, while riding home from work, some big oaf was jogging the wrong way in the street when there was a perfectly good sidewalk that was empty. I had to pull out in traffic to avoid a collision. I called him a few choice names. What I really wanted to do was kick him in the "groin" with my hard-toe MTB/commuting shoes as he ran by.

mox

Riding on a road with virtually no traffic an 18 wheeler came up beside me, blasted his horn, and slowly squeezed me off the road onto the deep loose gravel shoulder. I didn't fall under his wheels, fortunately, but I did scrape up a nearly new pair of cycling shoes to prevent the fall.

One night last year when I was leaving work a guy in a passing car threw a full can of beans at me, just missed.

Joe Minton

Car full of 'kids' pulled up beside me cursing, yelling & laughing. When the kid in the rear seat started to throw an iced soda cup at me -- I pepper sprayed him.

Joe

Jiggle

I was JRA one Saturday morning when I received a phone call. I picked it up, and it was a 19 yr old girl I had seen on a few dates. She explained that her parents were out of town, we had the whole house to ourselves for the rest of the day, and I could do whatever I wanted to her. I declined her offer. She complained that I never came to see her. I said, That's because you're a bit of a *****. She said, I'll make it up to you this morning. I said no.

Later I learned she was sporting a raging case of face and female area herpes. Wench tried to give me herpes!

That's the worst thing someone has ever tried to do to me while riding. Oh, and she was, and is, a dime....excepting the herpes.

calyco

Had a guy in a BMW 3 series come up behind, revved up and buzz right by me (less than 6 inches away) at like 40mph. My instant reaction was to yell WTF ahole and confront him. But he blew by the red light too, making another car slam on the brakes at the intersection. Happened all in less than 3 seconds.

DevinL

Literally nothing. Thanks so much, Colorado. Awareness is so incredible.

Bunyanderman

6th Grade, riding a bmx bike home from school next to a car in a 25 mph zone just outside the school. The car came up to me and turned right, right in front of me leaving me no time/room to even touch the brakes. Slammed into the passenger going about 13mph nothing crazy but still think about it today. Other than running over a squirrel at 35mph and barely keeping control, pretty normal 1000 miles I have ridden.

velocity

Organized ride one of my friends desides he's going to run off on the rest of us and takes off from the front and catches another draft. It takes me better part of 15 minutes to catch up to him. He had been ripped off their chain like velcro after their speed blew him up. SO I am sneaking up on him and going to pass and just as I get up there he blows a snot rocket... Mother foooooooo
Velocity

B. Carfree

The passenger in a passing car attempted to door me on the fly. Fortunately, the driver gave the game away by slowing just a bit right before they got to me, so I was able to get out of range of the door as they went by (barely).

AbsurdChalk

That's hardcore

Kai Winters

Where I live, in Northern NY, stop signs are "suggestions" for middle aged women who, apparently, are far to busy to actually stop and look before preceding. I've had a few close calls over the decade I've lived here but no real problems compared to living in Southeastern MA, where I grew up...awful area for riding.

Pakiwi

I had eggs thrown at me in my younger days.
I thought I was going to have a problem a few months ago when this big guy with tattoos and a beard on a Harley pulled up beside me. He looks my way and said, my mum told me I should watch out for you bikers.
Made me laugh.
Allan

coldehammer

Cycling up a well-known bike route with a steep grade. After heavily panting 45 minutes up the torturous grade, with my head down, a Mercedes Benz SUV honks at me. Though I was on the left side of the road, this driver didn't have the guts to just veer to her right for a little bit to roll past me.

I stopped and asked her what her problem is. She yells out of her window that she has no room to pass and that she is also a cyclist who lives nearby. I tell her that since she is a cyclist, she should be even more sympathetic. She tells me I'm still wrong. I ask her what her rush is, she then silences.

As she slowly takes off with me in her rear view, she flicks me off and I keep yelling "What is your rush?". I just shake my head in disgust. In defense, I was on the left due to blind corners.

dicktill

A long, long time ago, when I was in junior high or high school, I was riding in a rural area. A nasty dog took off after me, and caught up to me. I took my frame-mounted tire pump and swung it at him/her just to scare it away (never got anywhere near it). A few moments later, two large guys came chasing after me in their pickup (not that that really matters; could have been any vehicle). I think it was a father and son, and they accused me of luring the dog towards me, so I could hit it with the pump! Fortunately after venting at me for what seemed like an eternity, they left. Perhaps they decided that I was too scrawny to make a fight worth their while. Needless to say, I never cycled on that road again ...