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Old 07-12-06 | 08:14 AM
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Itsjustb
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From: Durham, NC

Bikes: Cannondale Synapse 5c, Scattante XRL

New one this morning. 45+ mph road, two lanes each direction and a center turn lane. I'm taking the entire right lane as usual, approaching my right turn.

Black pickup pulls into my lane from the left lane--not REAL close, but close--and pulls almost all the way to the right, blocking me. I sigh. I stop, then start walking the bike past him in the narrow gap he has left me.

As I walk alongisde him, he rolls down the passenger window and says , "Hey." I keep looking straight ahead and said, "Hi." He says "Hey" again, I say "Hi" again and keep moving past him.

I have no idea what he wanted to say--maybe it was to ask directions!--but I got this feeling that it wasn't anything I wanted/needed to hear.

I made my turn at the light. He passed me on that road, but by that point I was probably doing 15+ and he was doing over 45.
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