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12-17-08 | 11:02 AM

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Pinyon

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From: Northern Colorado

Yeah, I sounded all mature and "Zen" in my previous post, but I ride a lot like I'm on the edge of road rage all the time. I get impatient with people that don't go at stop signs after 2-3 seconds of sitting there and staring at me when they have the right-of-way, stop behind people and tap my handlebars when they pull just past me at an intersection and then decide they will wait to let me go first before they turn right (once a car passes me it STAYS in front of me, PERIOD), and I can also be kind of rude when I'm passing college students on cruiser bikes if they are talking on their cell phones and weaving all over the bike lane at under 10 mph.

I learned how to drive on the east coast, and that "get the hell out of the way, or get run over" mentality never really went all the way away. I'm good with the verbal confrontation stuff, but I kind of drive my bicycle like a jerk sometimes.

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