Originally Posted by
PatrickGSR94
Dude what is your problem with other fellow commuters and cyclists in this forum? You have this attitude that your way is the right way, and it's your way or the highway. Every post I've seen from you is like this. How about taking a chill pill and show some compassion and camaraderie with your fellow cyclist.
What gets me about this whole encounter was that I saw the car actually STOP at the stop sign, which almost NEVER happens around here. The car actually had plenty of time to go on and pull out and make the left turn before I got there. But he/she didn't, which is why I ASSumed they saw me. There were no other cars behind me, or ahead of me on that road. No cars from either direction, and the car on the other road was sitting there which is why I thought it was waiting for me to make my left turn. But the car started pulling out right as I got in front of it, such that I had to swerve right sharply.
All this was made worse by the fact that my chain was trying to drop onto the BB shell, and my feet were clipped into both pedals. So I was trying to backpeddle to get the chain back on the small ring AND avoid the car at the same time.
You won't make me anymore kindly disposed towards you if you misuse peddle where you mean pedal. Your chain should not drop on the BB shell. There are chain keepers for that, to say nothing of low limit adjuster screws. Wouldn't it be silly to lose a limb over a $10 jump stopper? There seems to be enough compassion and camaraderie in these forums without my signing on to the general feel goodery. Someone needs to slap some of you upside the head once in awhile and kick it to you live, as they say in the 'hood. She didn't hit you. Rejoice. Move on. It will happen again, if you are doing it right. That's life out there among the heathen.
H