Originally Posted by
Ed Holland
You too Gene?
I encountered a roadie heading the wrong way yesterday. I'm pretty sure he was just "in transition" waiting to cross the road, or heading to a meeting point, rather than a serious wrong way effort, but it's still frustrating.
My favourite was a couple of years ago. Middle aged man on an "ATB" riding towards me in the bike lane with the biggest grin on his face. I pointed to the other side of the road, and called out wrong way, but the grin never cracked....
Several were very obviously newbies... And if I weren't driving** I might have discussed it with them... They were doing all the classic newbie stuff... going from sidewalks to bike lanes in the wrong direction.
The other looked like an experience cyclist, but going the wrong way on a one way, and then had the audacity to give me the come back that I was in a fire lane... he was too... so doubly ironic, wrong way on a one way, and in a fire lane.
The latter guy really bothered me as he popped out of nowhere from behind a car to face me directly... if I had been moving with any speed at all I would have hit him head on. But unlike some motorists, I don't drive blind... If I cannot see, I go slower than walking speed.
**dealing with some bone spur issues in the right foot right now... surgery next week.