GamblerGORD53

Yesterday I was joy riding this 1973 CCM 3 spd I had just bought 8 days ago. The tires are almost as old, the 2nd gear is stupidly low and 3 rd half working. Plus springtime sandy rough road conditions, so I was on the sidewalk of this 7 lane busy street at 4:00 with lots of driveways. So I was getting to a driveway at 10 mph and looked left and there was a super long dually pickup, with 2 old guys, starting to turn into me going slowly. I said hey not very loud and turned the wheel. Braking or leaning right would have been stupid. So then I leaned my arm on the crew cab of the truck as we kept turning about 20 feet until he stopped and I continued round to the right some more. Then I stopped and looked at him and he yelled are you alright.
I said yah, my bike didn't even touch the truck and didn't fall, so I wasn't mad at all. Then 5 seconds later a police car with his lights on pulled up beside the truck. LEO jumped out and paid NO attention to me WTF. He started talking to the driver and pointing back to where the truck apparently did something wrong. So I guess that is why he was distracted about me and wasn't going to turn anyway.

79pmooney

Years ago a Post Office jeep pulled a right turn on me. 7:00 am; y commute to work. Little traffic. My street was 2-way, 4 lanes. The jeep pulled out of a parking lot to my left as I passes and inot the left lane behind me, then took his right turn form the left lane, boxing me in. I couldn't quite pull the unplanned turn off tightly enough and made it with assist from his front tire nudging my fork. All the while, I basically had my elbow in his face (his window was down and of course, this was a right-side driver Post Office jeep).

I didn't have to say anything. Pretty obvious just how wrong he was and how close he came to making this a bad day for his record.

Ben

Number400

Nice one!
I have only experienced one right hook and it was during a 40k TT. I had borrowed an aero helmet and my visibility was a little different than I was used to and a car passed me and then suddenly swung into a driveway. I have no idea how I avoided it but I went slightly left and hoped that she would evacuate the space and she did. It was pretty close. I did also witness a right hook in AZ where the cyclist actually hit the right hooking car but he managed to stay upright after rubbing the rear bumper with his front tire.
It is amazing how quickly a person driving can forget the cyclist that they just passed. Everyone is in their own zone and when it all goes wrong, it really sucks for the vulnerable party.

rumrunn6

riding on the sidewalk approaching a driveway at 10 mph? and not stopping for a turning motor vehicle?

genec

Your plan doesn't work all that well when you are approaching an intersection at about 20MPH and the turning traffic is a sports car that veers into the turn at about 25+ MPH... you are then facing a metal wall, however briefly.

italktocats

tuck & roll?

CliffordK

I agree, that is pretty quick for a sidewalk. But, it sounds like the vehicle was coming from the rear. It is tough to separate out all the vehicles coming from behind, and going to do stupid things. Do they always signal if they don't bother looking ahead?