Originally Posted by RMoudatir

Today while I did a ride from Long Beach to Lancaster doing a Century, I had a couple occasions too close.

First I was on a narrow road and the edge of the road had like this light concrete section that was about a foot wide but was about 3 inches above not on level with the black tarmac. I had a truck startle me when it passed by me less than 3 feet, then I started to turn my head back whenever a vehicle closes in. I saw this Nissan drive a bit aggressively near me and I turned around and tried to get far from it and I steered into the concrete edge and my front wheel started skidding sideways and I almost lost control, there was barely any space so imagine if I had wiped out on the tarmac with traffic.

The second time I am ready to make a left turn and the arrow turns green but I wasn't clipped in so it took a couple of seconds to move and this black pick up truck crosses my path on a red light turn about 7 feet away from me.

Also there were also these times I was on a 55 mph linit road and there were two lanes so I was assertive enough take the lane on my own and 9 out of 10 cars would just move over to the next lane behind me but the 1 out of 10 mostly these mustang/charger drivers didn't even budge and I had to bail out a couple of times. that ride was stressful but I had no choices in roads to take since they were limited there.