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Originally Posted by cooker
(Post 7274881)
If I'm in my car and I see a car run a red light I blast the horn.
Because lawlessness should be accompanied by noise pollution? |
Originally Posted by JeffS
(Post 7278472)
Because lawlessness should be accompanied by noise pollution?
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Originally Posted by AlmostTrick
(Post 7277918)
True. Except when motorists honk at me when I'm cycling, I'm usually not doing anything that could be unsafe to others or even myself.
Now who's Bad? |
Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
(Post 7278855)
That's your interpretation of what is safe/unsafe. The self righteous motorist horn blower might have a different opinion than yours of the safety of a slower vehicle's presence on the road (legal or not), and is happy to express it with his horn. Just like you.
Now who's Bad? Asked and answered |
I don't think anyone around here honks unless they think something dangerous is happening or might happen. I do honk at red light runners, but as I said, it's because I assume that, like me, they only do it because they were zoned out, and the honk might rouse them before they hurt someone. Also because others at the intersection might be alerted that something bad is going on.
There is also the quick tap friendly "hello" when you see someone you know, but that's very, very short. We have a 2000 Windstar, and the horn is computer controlled (you push the horn button, it just tells the computer to honk the horn) - and the computer always honks the horn for at least 1/2 second if it honks at all. It's irritating because a 1/2 second honk seems kind of rude to me - that's how short I'm talking for a "hello" beep. |
Originally Posted by ItsJustMe
(Post 7277684)
I live within 10 miles of Ann Arbor, and have ridden in Ann Arbor occasionally, and it's been 2 years now since anyone's honked at me, and I've only once ever had anything thrown at me (an empty water bottle that couldn't have hurt me), and the biggest problem that I have is that drivers are far too courteous; they won't pass me sometimes even if there's a clear line of sight; this morning I had to actually pull over and force someone to pass, because I was on a gravel road where the washboarding was so bad the only reasonable place to ride was in the oncoming lane, and I didn't want to do that and force someone to pass me on the right. I had moved to the right so the guy could pass me, but he hung back there, and I was getting beat up by the road. So I had to stop so that he would creep past me at about 15 MPH so I could move back onto ridable road.
I have to do the same for school busses; if they're behind me in a no passing zone, they'll stay back there throughout the zone unless I pull over, even if there is plenty of sight line to pass a bicycle. It's unnerving to have a school bus hanging 50 feet behind you as you try to get up a hill. As you note, I do often run into more of the super courteous/scared drivers they won't pass, try to put me harms way by improperly giving me the right away (4 way stops and such). There was a thread about that last month, so I won't rehash my views on it :-). |
Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
(Post 7278855)
That's your interpretation of what is safe/unsafe. The self righteous motorist horn blower might have a different opinion than yours of the safety of a slower vehicle's presence on the road (legal or not), and is happy to express it with his horn. Just like you.
Now who's Bad? You can have my horn when you pry it out of my cold dead, self appointed vigilante hand! |
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Originally Posted by AlmostTrick
(Post 7279887)
LOL. Why does anybody care who honks at who anyways? None of their business I'd say. (unless they were the ones being honked at)
You can have my horn when you pry it out of my cold dead, self appointed vigilante hand! http://www.honkersale.com/home.html |
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