Originally Posted by wphamilton

I nearly got clobbered this morning. Two cyclists, side by side coming out of the tunnel under Webb Bridge Road. There is a sharp right turn at the end of the tunnel and I'm coming the other way just as these guys are leaving the tunnel, and they are filling both lanes. I holler heads up and get over as far as possible, but the one heading at me snaps his helmet up and then jukes towards me. I don't play the "guess where he's going" game with unskilled riders so I bail off the path skidding (turning) left towards the vertical concrete wall at the tunnel mouth. I get my front tire stopped a couple of inches from the wall but I still have momentum and feel my rear rising in a stoppie. Fortunately because I was turning I was able to throw my weight down and rotate around the front so that my rear came around to hit at a tilted angle, without me slamming sideways against it.

Since I was then turned around looking back the way I had come I could see the two riders going away still on the turn. They didn't slow or even look back until I called out "Keep right guys." Run someone off the path and into a concrete wall, and don't even bother to check the damage? What's up with that? I'm kind of longing for a hard winter about now, to clear the paths out.