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Old 11-01-06 | 08:48 AM
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From: Toronto

Bikes: spicer fixie, Haro BMX, cyclops track, Soma Double Cross, KHS Flite 100

It happens about once a month I'd say.

So I'm track standing between lanes at front of the line at the Spadina intersection going east on Front. I was considering just waiting in the middle of the right lane since right turns on red are forbidden, but I was already to the left of the right lane so I stayed there. Then from behind me this old sh*tcan red honda goes by with a few inches to spare and then slams on the brakes when they are half over the white line because they realize they can't turn right (they didn't end up turning right anyways). I shake my head and can't see the driver so I just keep minding my own business. When advance-green left turning traffic from the west stops, I run the red to get ahead of the eastbound cars and make it to the next lights solo and track stand in between lanes.

A few seconds later the honda pulls up next to me again, fast. I hear an "excuse me!" so I look over and theres this lady in her 50's or 60's talking to me.

"Shouldn't you be riding on the right side of the road?" she said.
"No, I shouldn't."
"I don't think thats right."
"It is. Learn the rules of the road. I am a vehicle just like you, and have as much right to the road as you."
She sort of balked for a second so I added "Maybe they didn't teach you that when you learned to drive in the 1930's"
Then when the light turned green she said "You're going to get yourself killed" So I just flipped her rearview the bird as she sped off. Pretty cool passive-agressive death threat of her huh?

I never have enough time at the stoplights to educate these fartnuggets! In this case it seemed like the lady's heart was in the right place, she was just a total idiot who can't tell her own bad driving.

Maybe I'm a jerk, but had I messed up either trackstand and fallen over she would have turned me into hamburger 100% unnecessarily. I seem to be good at choosing really offensive insults for people who harass me on the road though.

PS. how did the alleycat go?

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