Joined: May 2012
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From: The old Northwest Coast.
Bikes: 1973 Motobecane Grand Jubilee, 1981 Centurion Super LeMans, 2010 Gary Fisher Wahoo, 2003 Colnago Dream Lux, 2014 Giant Defy 1, 2015 Framed Bikes Minnesota 3.0, several older family Treks
No good comes from escalating a situation. I was riding in the Seattle to Portland Classic last week. A pickup was trying to get around the endless line of 10,000. Appearantly words were exchanged between a passenger and a rider left of me. The rider flipped off the truck as it accelerated fast away then the driver hit the brakes and laid 80 feet of rubber, stopped, reversed and at the point I'm thinking "blood will be shed cause there's a gun in that truck". For whatever reason, cooler heads prevailed. The rider didn't flip off the truck again and the driver stewed, then burned rubber out of there. Hundreds of potential witnesses likely made the difference.
Yet that incident was not as nearly dangerous as when the young kids got dangerously close to my training partner and tried pouring water on her head. All I got was a description of the truck because the tailgate blocked the license plate. Rear facing video may be the only way to capture an event to prosecute. All I can say is keep a cool head.
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