Originally Posted by amvapor

Today was a rough ride...

I rode to a bike shop in the rain here in Toronto, looked at some new tights for the cooling weather, all was fine in the world.

Left the shop and headed the rest of th way home, maybe 6 Km left to the commute, in that space, nearly got clipped by one cargo van, had a taxi pullout for a left turn across the bike lane I was riding (he waved angry arms at me), then got lectured by a guy who blocked my left turn.

The guy who lectured me was the worst, 100 meters from my house, I was riding in the middle of the roadway (residential road) and signalled a left turn, suddenly this bmw or whatever comes up beside me on my left and opens my window and starts with "I don't want to get into it, but I ride to, and my bike is probably worth alot more then yours, you are riding in the middle of the road". I had a few short words with him, "I'm allowed to be here", "you are blocking my left turn", etc, at least the guy wasn't angry or anything, but man, the nerve of some folks....


Thanks for listening, just had to vent, better here then at the kids :-)