Ygduf

I bought two!

hubcyclist

For me, the biggest danger with this is, for example, if I want to turn left and someone is waving me through when they are making a left turn onto the street I'm coming from. At least here in MA, people love to pass on the right to get around turning vehicles (which is against the law, yet folks universally do this). So I always have to be sure no one is going to pull that type of move because they likely wouldn't see me.

jsutkeepspining

That's perfect! I can get it mounted to my helmet like those mirrors that old people wear while riding.

Surprisingly, god we suck.

caloso

Here in California too. The closest I've come to being killed on a bike was when a little old lady, trying to be nice to the poor cyclist, stopped in the middle of the main street and backed up traffic to wave at me to cross in front of her. After a couple of rounds of waving -- no, you go! no, you go! -- an impatient guy 2 or 3 cars back guns it around on the right and just misses my front wheel.

Admiral Ackbar is right: It's a trap!

hack

I get that they're trying to be nice, but I think they don't realize they're creating a bigger hazard. Conversley, when I'm a driver, I do NOT wave cyclists through when I see them stopping and get some serious stink eye from them as a result. I don't have a bike rack on my car (or my wife's car) and as a result don't look like a "cyclist" to them and I assume they think I'm just another a-hole motorist.

Side note from above...I do stop if it is obvious the cyclist will not be stopping at their light/sign/etc and will usually get some flak from my wife or other passenger about my "people" breaking rules.

grolby

The other one they do that's nearly gotten me is when a driver going the same direction I am stops to let through someone who's trying to turn left across traffic. With no regard for the fact that there might be someone coming up in the bike lane who's going to get left-hooked when that person guns it. I've learned to avoid, where possible, the roads where that is mostly likely to happen.

grolby

Amazing to me that you would get dirty looks. I get almost irrationally angry when a driver with the ROW, who has plenty of time to go through an intersection before I get there, chooses instead to wave me through. Like they're doing me some big damn favor. I think it makes me angry because it's so condescending, like I'm on the road at their pleasure and whim. I typically stop and refuse to go through, and then they get angry with me for not accepting their magnanimity. You just can't win.

gsteinb

Very often they're waving you through without awareness that a car is about to come around them that would run you down flat.

hack

pretty much this.

aaronmcd

The property management company my wife and I use for our house in Arizona just got a bad review on Yelp, from someone who was trying to rent a house (that turns out to be our house). She said she got horrible customer service, no answers to questions about the house, no one would show the house in person (wtf?), they refused basic maintenance (not sure what), and the price was very low, but not worth it only due to the horrible property management.

I have contacted this person (that's how I found out it was my house). Wondering if we should just can our property manager now, or give them a chance. Our previous tenants also complained about the manager's customer service (but I figured it could have been stress from the flooding, and they had no renters insurance so they lost some personal property).

big john

Today after work I took the mtb for a loop which included the mup on the dam. Part way across the dam I see a guy broke down working on his bike and it's bike forum's own Ovoleg. I didn't know he came to this part of town but there he was with a cross bike and an exploded rear derailluer.
He shortened the chain and we put the chain on what was left of the derailluer and he rode off. He did mention the dude on the tt bike with a skinsuit and aero helmet who was riding back and forth ignoring his request for help.

mike868y

drove to work today (as opposed to ride), which i rarely do, because of rain and i've been feeling really tired lately. naturally, the one day I drive I see a cyclist get hit on a road I ride almost daily. the guy looked alright, thankfully, but still ****ty. i've never actually witnessed it happen before (except for when I was the one getting hit).

Creakyknees

strava.

TMonk

I only ride through the intersection if there are 0 other chars approaching or waiting at the intersection from any direction.

If there are any cars at all, I'll make eye contact with the "nice" driver yielding their ROW and shake my head. If I have to, I'll unclip, put a foot on the ground and rest on the top tube of my bike. That usually gets the message across.

Traffic would be so much easier to navigate if everyone followed the rules of the ROW.

shovelhd

In this case you are the CEO and need to make an executive decision. The first thing to determine is whether you want to preserve the existing relationship with your property manager. If not, interview a few new ones, cut a new contract and can him. If you do, you need to meet with him ASAP and get a deeper understanding of what is going wrong and why and how he plans to fix it.

grolby

Windsor St, Cambridge?

big john

That would explain it. I saw the guy, too. Visor, skinsuit, the whole works, doing repeats on a flat mup with kids, dogs, families, and even a horse. Ovoleg called him "Darth Fredly".

mike868y

mt. auburn and a cross street, not sure of which one.

rbart4506

Road trip! Next stop, the mountains of North Georgia... Ok with a sleep over somewhere south of Cincinnati...

Dolamite02

Was it Ygduf?

Ygduf

nc​nca

Ygduf

So after recently describing to my buddy how I was in the perfect position between management and peon by using this picture of the levitating frog, I have been involuntarily promoted. I now have 4 FTE direct reports. In the meeting yesterday they kept saying "compensation" and "pay increase" and whatnot, but all I heard was "budgets" and "performance evaluations".

Worst, 2 of the 4 I am inheriting are seriously terrible and should be fired. Can I give someone all "0"s?!

hack

No jersey love for the second "n" in ncnca. I guess I'm not too surprised even with the high level talent in the greater Reno area.

Ygduf

when highlighting the difference between Southern California and Northern California, I didn't bold out the Nevada part because I don't live there.

I am about to have my ass handed to me by those dudes who get to live at elevation and train on long mountains this weekend.

himespau 

Maybe that's why they promoted you. They didn't want to do the firing, so they put you in the position where you had to take care of that, at which point your position will be dissolved and you'll return to your older position but now the 3 of you will need to find a way to also do the work of those other 2 FTEs that they're getting rid of (but not the workload) and not replacing. Or am I too much of a cynic about these things?