Originally Posted by
Captain Blight
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?
I missed you this morning. Had a good run and my regular 12 mile commute on the bike.
If you read the thread from the beginning I said my pet peeve was cyclists not moving out 2 feet to go around runners on the shoulder. And yes, as I have said repeatedly, it is much easier for a biker to move two feet over rather than force a runner off the road. I have had two close calls this summer and have decided that I will not longer move for a biker. If you decided to play chicken... well we've already discussed it. I realize that you're an ex seal team 6 member, a ninja, and run a 9.4 100 meter, but I'll take my chances.
Although I've explained if you go back and read what my view of the law is, it really boils down to simple historic norms of travel. The person who has the easiest means of moving out of the way generally has the responsibility to do so. If I'm sailing a sailboat I have a right of way over a power boat, but yield right of way to a row boat, who in turn yields the right of way to a swimmer. Cars generally go around bikers who should similarly go around runners. A seemingly simple concept that has been part of transportation norms for thousands of years seemingly has not been picked up by some cyclists. I'm not sure why.