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10-03-21, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by OldRailfan

Completely different story in the Interior of Southern BC.
Going back to the early '60s when I was riding my bike to work I got caught on a rainy day..... caught in the streetcar track. No problem, yanked the front wheel out of the track and ...... and was heading straight for a parked Mercedes by the side of the road.
Big ding in the trunk lid, a fork that had it and a slight concussion.

Yup, those streetcar/trolley tracks are always a hazard. When I used to commute in downtown Toronto I had a few of those incidents. Switched from riding a road bike to a mountain bike to reduce my chances of that happening.

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