Punched A Truck Today - with video
11-24-08, 09:35 AM
#176
Dances With Cars
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 10,527
Bikes: TBL Onyx Pro(ss converted), Pake SS (starting to look kinda pimped)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
11-24-08, 07:06 PM
#177
Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Austin,TX
Posts: 17
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Parts of Gentilly. New Orleans East still looks like a bomb went off yesterday. 9th Ward is a soccer field. Just depends on where my mood takes me next time.
On the other hand, Broadmoor is back, Lakeview is improving slowly.
Last weekend my wife had a back injury - kept me home waiting on her. This weekend I am down with the sinus/chest crud. So production has been delayed on those projects. I'll PM you when the next one goes online.
On the other hand, Broadmoor is back, Lakeview is improving slowly.
Last weekend my wife had a back injury - kept me home waiting on her. This weekend I am down with the sinus/chest crud. So production has been delayed on those projects. I'll PM you when the next one goes online.
11-25-08, 12:35 AM
#178
20+mph Commuter
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Greenville. SC USA
Posts: 7,517
Bikes: Surly LHT, Surly Lowside, a folding bike, and a beater.
Mentioned: 31 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1434 Post(s)
Liked 331 Times
in
219 Posts
Marigny is perfect. Never got touched. A few leaves blew under the front door of my workplace. Lost power for a couple of weeks. Everything between the river and Rampart /St. Charles all the way to Audubon Park is back to normal. Some better than ever.
11-25-08, 10:42 PM
#181
Cycle Year Round
11-25-08, 11:50 PM
#183
K2ProFlex baby!
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: My response would have been something along the lines of: "Does your bike have computer controlled suspension? Then shut your piehole, this baby is from the future!"
Posts: 6,133
Bikes: to many to list
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 16 Post(s)
Liked 56 Times
in
31 Posts
If you have a friend or family member thats a Police Officer you can ask them that question.
__________________
You see, their morals, their code...it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these...These "civilized" people...they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve
You see, their morals, their code...it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these...These "civilized" people...they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve
11-26-08, 06:40 AM
#185
Senior Member
And I'll 4th it.
Joey, you're the only red-light-and-stop-sign blower-througher I've ever actually liked besides myself (when I've been forced by circumstances to do it -- it was that or die of sucking down truck and bus exhaust in jam-stopped city traffic).
Your vids remind me of the joys of high-speed commuting through low-speed traffic jams, which I haven't had since I stopped commuting from the burbs to phildelphia, and from river to river across center city philadelphia on th BF parkway and race street.
Joey, you're the only red-light-and-stop-sign blower-througher I've ever actually liked besides myself (when I've been forced by circumstances to do it -- it was that or die of sucking down truck and bus exhaust in jam-stopped city traffic).
Your vids remind me of the joys of high-speed commuting through low-speed traffic jams, which I haven't had since I stopped commuting from the burbs to phildelphia, and from river to river across center city philadelphia on th BF parkway and race street.
11-26-08, 08:51 AM
#186
Dances With Cars
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 10,527
Bikes: TBL Onyx Pro(ss converted), Pake SS (starting to look kinda pimped)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Joey and I both have a strong love for being in front and knowing how popping ahead on red can be beneficial to all in traffic.
https://vimeo.com/1114696
Joey, I STILL so want one of those dbl wide rimmed rides for snow/sand riding. Ever consider the IditaBike?
https://vimeo.com/1114696
Joey, I STILL so want one of those dbl wide rimmed rides for snow/sand riding. Ever consider the IditaBike?
11-26-08, 11:53 AM
#188
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Falls Church, VA
Posts: 260
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I absolutely agree with you here though - the driver did something he shouldn't have, and then instead of acting as a human being, acted as an a-hole.
I say you should have punched his truck, so don't feel bad about it. Hope he has a dent to fix.
(Others may know more though.)
11-26-08, 04:04 PM
#189
20+mph Commuter
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Greenville. SC USA
Posts: 7,517
Bikes: Surly LHT, Surly Lowside, a folding bike, and a beater.
Mentioned: 31 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1434 Post(s)
Liked 331 Times
in
219 Posts
Joey and I both have a strong love for being in front and knowing how popping ahead on red can be beneficial to all in traffic.
https://vimeo.com/1114696
Joey, I STILL so want one of those dbl wide rimmed rides for snow/sand riding. Ever consider the IditaBike?
https://vimeo.com/1114696
Joey, I STILL so want one of those dbl wide rimmed rides for snow/sand riding. Ever consider the IditaBike?
Never considered IditaBike. My Pugsley is for the beaches down here.
11-26-08, 04:13 PM
#190
20+mph Commuter
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Greenville. SC USA
Posts: 7,517
Bikes: Surly LHT, Surly Lowside, a folding bike, and a beater.
Mentioned: 31 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1434 Post(s)
Liked 331 Times
in
219 Posts
You know what I feel bad about? With all of the disrespect shown to me on a daily basis when I am absolutely in the right just tooling along, I thought I was immune to that stuff. Fellow riders have always found it remarkable how I just let things go time and time again and never look back. I always just expect it, and take it in stride. I would feel better about myself had I not punched his truck.
The deal breaker was the fact that due to his reaction to my hand gesture (should have not broken that rule either) I absolutely had to put my hand on his truck anyway to avoid falling into it. There was no plan to punch the truck - it just happened.
At least the dang camera was running!
The deal breaker was the fact that due to his reaction to my hand gesture (should have not broken that rule either) I absolutely had to put my hand on his truck anyway to avoid falling into it. There was no plan to punch the truck - it just happened.
At least the dang camera was running!
11-26-08, 04:16 PM
#191
eight spokes
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Ruhr district, Germany
Posts: 478
Bikes: merc, brompton, roadster, cheap every day bike
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
and hopefully realises that even though cyclist may be game to him, they sometimes will bite back when attacked.
Some have written that the driver will probably react more aggressively against cyclists because of Joeys punch. Well, perhaps but the contrary is also common:
I am cautiously commuting on a folding bike and would never dare to ride like that (punching would probably result in nothing but a hurting wrist) but with those type of drivers (black window etc.), I feel the more space I give them, the more shameless and dangerously they act.
So more power and no harm to Joey - who IMHO rides and discusses with sanity!
I wish you would not too feel bad about it, yeah it just happened - it was not the "relaxed and calm Buddha style" but it came across as a "spontaneous Zen-style" and has a point to it!
Some have written that the driver will probably react more aggressively against cyclists because of Joeys punch. Well, perhaps but the contrary is also common:
I am cautiously commuting on a folding bike and would never dare to ride like that (punching would probably result in nothing but a hurting wrist) but with those type of drivers (black window etc.), I feel the more space I give them, the more shameless and dangerously they act.
So more power and no harm to Joey - who IMHO rides and discusses with sanity!
I wish you would not too feel bad about it, yeah it just happened - it was not the "relaxed and calm Buddha style" but it came across as a "spontaneous Zen-style" and has a point to it!
Last edited by somnatash; 11-26-08 at 04:23 PM.
11-26-08, 08:49 PM
#192
Gray Haired Commuter
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx
Posts: 333
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
There is a third traffic light on my route but I don't care about that one. It's the beginning of a school zone at which point the right lane is mine!!!!
11-26-08, 09:16 PM
#193
20+mph Commuter
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Greenville. SC USA
Posts: 7,517
Bikes: Surly LHT, Surly Lowside, a folding bike, and a beater.
Mentioned: 31 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1434 Post(s)
Liked 331 Times
in
219 Posts
HaHa! I pulled that one this morning myself! A police cruiser was "pacing" me for four blocks through all green lights downtown. When we finally caught a red one, they probably thought: "Now what is he going to do?"
So I pulled the old right-U-right move and left them waiting for the pedestrian crossings AND the traffic crossings! Punked!
So I pulled the old right-U-right move and left them waiting for the pedestrian crossings AND the traffic crossings! Punked!
11-26-08, 09:20 PM
#194
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Toronto
Posts: 1,779
Bikes: Leader 735TR 09 58cm 46/17
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
11-26-08, 09:27 PM
#195
Light Makes Right
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Green Mountain, Colorado
Posts: 1,520
Bikes: Gianni Motta Criterium, Dean Hardtail
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Yawn - different day, same 10 close calls for Joey.
11-26-08, 09:30 PM
#197
20+mph Commuter
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Greenville. SC USA
Posts: 7,517
Bikes: Surly LHT, Surly Lowside, a folding bike, and a beater.
Mentioned: 31 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1434 Post(s)
Liked 331 Times
in
219 Posts
Don't worry. I'm not feeling all that bad about it.
... 
if you get my drift.
11-26-08, 10:04 PM
#199
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Portland OR
Posts: 291
Bikes: Bakfiets, 1999 GT Nomad Hybrid, early 70's Schwinn Cruiser 5, Bridgestone MB-3, Trek 520 Disc, Electra Ticino 8D, Ochsner blue Road Bike
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 5 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
isnt tint in the side front windows illegal in that town? "Especially" such a deep tint? I know it is in CA.
I would have just got his plate, reported his lack of stopping at a posted sign and blocking the intersection/endangering you...
Sorry...I would have skipped the punch.
I would have just got his plate, reported his lack of stopping at a posted sign and blocking the intersection/endangering you...
Sorry...I would have skipped the punch.
11-26-08, 11:27 PM
#200
20+mph Commuter
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Greenville. SC USA
Posts: 7,517
Bikes: Surly LHT, Surly Lowside, a folding bike, and a beater.
Mentioned: 31 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1434 Post(s)
Liked 331 Times
in
219 Posts
Me too. It was a reflex, not a plan.