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Old 09-28-09 | 05:39 PM
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Lightingguy
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From: Long Island, NY
One thing I find that seems to work is to move a bit to the left, positioning yourself further into the lane, when approaching intersections where this is likely to occur (remembering that it's a commute you do every day, or frequently enough that you get to know the dangers for every inch of road), so as to force the motorist to go around you, BEFORE they attempt to move into your right-of-way and make the turn.

In my experience, this almost always works to make the motorist wait to turn after you have passed into the intersection.

In NYC, the bike lanes are not stripped at the intersection, but any experienced NYC rider KNOWS that a car will take the bike lane to make the turn.

Getting a motorist to look and see that there's a bike in either the same lane of traffic, or in the bike lane is an impossible task. As example, I played leap-frog with a Pathfinder 2 weeks ago, catching him at the lights, passing, then having him pass me, then me catching again, for a mile or so. He then proceeded to pass me and hook me as he parked at the curb. As is window was rolled down I stopped and politley asked him why he almost hit me and he quiet innocently told me he didn't see me. Yeah Right !. I almost washed his eyes out with a squirt of Gatorade, but decided why bother (besides the fact that it's called Assault).

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