Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 80
Likes: 0
From: Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada
Bikes: 2005 Specialized Sirrus Hybrid, Unpedigreed steel frame fixie conversion (Force Disorder Pump), Pugeot UO9 fixed conversion (Red Menace). Lots of parts scattered about garage.
One of those cases where I feel like a dolt but it wasn't my fault. Going towards King on Atlantic and approaching Liberty this morning. Come to intersection where there is a car directly across from us apparently coming through (I say apparently) since he has no left turn signal, and to our left an airport-limo has just pulled up. The car across from us enters the intersection so, figuring to use him as a block, my friend & I enter the intersection. Turns out, he's making a left hand turn onto Liberty, so now we're in his way. The airport-limo sees this and as he goes through he yells at us. We probably jumped our turn by a few moments but we were thinking the limo couldn't go anyways since the first car was going straight through. Had he been signaling a left, we would have put a foot down and let the limo go next.
I make every attempt to do things right even though it slows me down but I still end up feeling like a shmuck when something like this happens. I don't like to give ammunition to the anti-bike folks.