Originally Posted by
chefxian
Well not that I disagree however cause and effect. It's really easy to say it you should make safe lane changes and it's easy to say that when you bike ride behind your monitor.
What do you do when the dog and 2 other guys are in your way on a bike path meant for one. Oh thats right I should have bunny hopped.
Maybe it's the way you described the incident. In your initial post, it sounds like you came across the obstacle, the guy with the dog, and were forced to go into the traffic lane to avoid a collision with the person you were riding with. The question is, why didn't you have time to check traffic and either slow, stop or wait for the car to pass? Did the dog come off the sidewalk or swerve into your partner? What if it hadn't been a dog and been two senior citizens on beach cruisers doing 4 mph? When I read your post, I thought it sounded like you and your partner were going too fast to avoid the person with the dog and had to make an unsafe movement into the traffic lane.
Sometimes it's hard to describe exactly what happened and details get left out. Then everyone makes judgements based on partial information.
The hand and roadrash are bad but luckily you're not in an ICU drooling drom a head injury.