Originally Posted by Dusk

On the Forum drivers of autos are bashed all time for not knowing cyclists rights. We need to realize that a lot of riders don't know the correct way to ride either.

Just last night D. and I were going for a ride. As we approached a residential 4 way we had no stop. A young woman on a bike comes from the left on the right side of her street. She blows the stop and at that point you can see the Ipod and head phones. She turns left and starts riding in the left lane (the wrong way into traffic) there is a parked car ahead of her so she swings further toward the center and there is a car coming at her. D and I having watched this are already on the brakes and going toward the right curb so the car has an place to go. D is just ahead of me and points to her own head and does the spin of the hand to signal crazy and then points to the woman. When the cars goes by D. yells to the car that idiot is not with us. The drivers window is down and says thanks for pulling over for him and waves. When I go by the woman (she is still in the wrong lane) I yell to her to not ride on left side into traffic. The woman’s Ipod was so loud that she couldn’t even hear me or know I was there. I really yelled load “hey” she then looked over shocked to find someone else on the road.

Don’t get me wrong but at some point you just wonder. Like MN former Governor said “We have laws that state the date when you can put an icehouse (for ice fishing) on a lake and the date when you have to have it removed.” He then paused ….and added. “Do we need this law? Isn’t it just Darwin thinning the herd if you aren’t smart enough to know the ice is unsafe and you fall through?

A few bad drivers of both bikes and cars make it an up hill battle for all of us. Educate Educate Educate our cyclists and motorists.

Okay morning rant is ending…Cheers.