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Old 05-07-08 | 10:58 AM
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Bikes: Early 1980's Ishiwata 022 steel sport/touring, 1986 Vitus 979, 1988 DiamondBack Apex, 1997 Softride PowerWing 700, 2001 Trek OCLV 110

Originally Posted by nelson249
You'd have another opinion if you had been broadsided by some cretin on a bike who decided to run a light.
+1 I was riding home from work one night a couple of years ago on a street with a bike lane. All the cross streets have stop signs and many of the intersections also have partially obstructed views - i.e. trees, hedges, fences, etc. Some a-hole on a bike blew a stop sign right in front of me and I had no time to react and plowed into his rear wheel. We both went down but I think he got the worse of it and may have even broken his collar bone. I didn't even get a chance to talk to him, though, as he took off as I was collecting up all the parts of my headlights that had come off my bike and separated into many pieces.

As for the T-intersection, there is one on a route that I ride a few times per month and I generally stop if the light is red. I 'spose I might roll through if there were no other vehicles.

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