Originally Posted by
Grim
I have a curve like that on my way to work and I refuse to ride it.
Its uphill (and steep so I'm good to do 10-12mph) people are running 50mph through it yapping on the phone. A privacy fence along the side of road that obstructs clear line of sight. I have been brushed by a side veiw mirror on the curve. I ride on the otherside of the road on the side walk to the next intersection at the top of the hill where I get back out in the road. That fence has been taken out twice in the last 6 months from wrecks.
This kind of crap is why you have to use some kind of judgement to save yourself. It's fine to talk about "taking the lane" and never using the sidewalk but when you're in a place where the cars are hitting each other because they're in such a damn hurry or so stupid I sometime do whatever it takes to get out of the way, the sidewalk, the ditch, a parking lot, whatever.