Originally Posted by
joeyduck
There were some crazies out this morning.
The first was a guy who signaled to turn right and needed to cross the bike lane. Great and everything, so I signaled and went left behind him. Waiting for him to turn, making eye contact in his mirror. Then he wildly gestures for me to get into the bike lane and not tot be in the "car" lane. Meanwhile traffic is piling up behind us and I am getting scared of someone rear ending us since he was fully stopped.
The second guy was at a stop light. I was first in the go straight or turn left lane at the stop light. There was a bike lane with a slower cyclist to my right. The guy in the car felt I was in his way at the stop light and that I should only be in the bike lane. So he let me know by laying on his horn for about 30 seconds straight. I looked to make sure he wasn't going to nudge me, other than that I just said to the other cyclist, "at least I will be happy when I get to work and he will get there angry." We had a chuckle and went on our way at the green, to more horn blasting. At least he turned left and did not follow me.
There were a few other idiots, but not as notable.
Otherwise it was a nice ride, warm with no wind.
Wow, that's weird, why would the guy care if you went behind him, which just makes it easier for him to make his turn? Some people...
I have to say, my commuting in Surrey has actually been pretty good lately; I can't say there has been any malice directed toward me for some time. There is a section just south of 64th Ave on 168th Street heading south where there is no bike path (maybe 200 meters or so), so when the light turns green I just take it easy before the road narrows, and by then the cluster of cars are gone so I can hammer a bit to reach the point where it widens again before more traffic comes from behind again. After that there is a "bike path" pretty much the whole way home.
Yeah, 15 (59 Fahrenheit) feels pretty good with the sunshine.