Originally Posted by
jbtute
You do seem like the typical biker who thinks they have a right of way down the shoulder and would not move out to go around a runner. If you'd like to try, I run Millcreek canyon near SLC, UT 3-4 mornings per week. I usually start between 4:30 and 5am. I'll wear yellow and blue tomorrow.
See you there?
There certainly are people who could "beat me up". I doubt you're one of them. Good luck.
If I lived in SLC, I would take you up on it.
As to the substance of what you say: I yield right-of-way
all the time. I yield to cats sleeping in the streets, I yield to families on the trails, I yield to joggers, I yield to fruit-booters. I sometimes mutter dark imprecations under my breath, and sometimes feel none too cheerful about it, but I do it. But I draw the line at personal violence. I don't *start*
anythingbut by Crom I don't back down and I will by Crom
finish it.. I have been forced into a couple altercations in the past couple years, and left every single one with nothing worse on me than scuffed knuckles and a mighty roiling in my belly. I don't like this side of myself, am in counselling for it, and yet people will
still insist on poking the bear with a stick.
Quaere: What makes you think you have the right-of-way? Is there a law regulating it (beyond the normal vehicular rules) or is it just because wonderful, wonderful YOU is the one doing the running?