Passing large groups of teens (in both lanes) on MUP
08-10-09 | 11:48 AM
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I think calling out "you dropped your cell phone" is probably more effective than "on your left"
Either that or keep a few round rocks in your pocket, and roll one or two toward them on the path as you approach.
Or sneak up behind them with an airhorn.
Or just come up real close behind them and stay right there, creeping along. Start singing softly, then louder. A Barry Manilow song will do. "I am music, and I write the SOOONGGSS!!" I bet they'll move.
If anyone tries that last one, please please please post it on Youtube. Or Vimeo if you prefer. I am almost LMAOSTHDDCSOMN at work right now just picturing it (Laughing My A%% Off So That Hot Dunkin Donuts Coffee Shoots Out My Nose)
Either that or keep a few round rocks in your pocket, and roll one or two toward them on the path as you approach.
Or sneak up behind them with an airhorn.
Or just come up real close behind them and stay right there, creeping along. Start singing softly, then louder. A Barry Manilow song will do. "I am music, and I write the SOOONGGSS!!" I bet they'll move.
If anyone tries that last one, please please please post it on Youtube. Or Vimeo if you prefer. I am almost LMAOSTHDDCSOMN at work right now just picturing it (Laughing My A%% Off So That Hot Dunkin Donuts Coffee Shoots Out My Nose)
08-10-09 | 12:00 PM
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08-10-09 | 12:24 PM
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08-10-09 | 12:50 PM
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08-10-09 | 01:06 PM
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08-10-09 | 01:27 PM
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08-10-09 | 01:33 PM
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From experience on a fixed gear, a little skid when you're close behind them works 100 times better than any amount of "passing" or "on your left" Of course an air horn would be even better.
I think that they do hear you, but they're trying to be cool by not moving over, since I have had a few instances of oncoming groups doing this too.
I think that they do hear you, but they're trying to be cool by not moving over, since I have had a few instances of oncoming groups doing this too.
08-10-09 | 02:09 PM
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From experience on a fixed gear, a little skid when you're close behind them works 100 times better than any amount of "passing" or "on your left" Of course an air horn would be even better.
I think that they do hear you, but they're trying to be cool by not moving over, since I have had a few instances of oncoming groups doing this too.
I think that they do hear you, but they're trying to be cool by not moving over, since I have had a few instances of oncoming groups doing this too.
08-10-09 | 04:56 PM
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Just one of the many reasons that I don't ride on the MUP unless I have to. As for teens...all of us were teens once. Give them a break. They are so damn worried about how their clothes look, what she heard that he said that she heard from so-and-so...
