This thread reminds me of when I nearly got killed in Barcelona. It was my first time in a European country and I was trying to find my hotel. I aimlessly crossed what I thought was a bike lane with my eyes upwards looking for any sign of the hotel. Before I knew what was going on there is a large scooter two feet from me schreeching to a halt. What I thought was a bike lane was a narrow street with traffic doing 30 mph. The woman on the scooter shouted some Catalan curses at me and sped off.

Well, you were in an unfamiliar setting after all.

Adam

Down here, we'd call someone like that ... a New Yorker!

Were the photos extracted from video on the $10 cam?

I am looking to get one of em (from the other thread you posted in)

wut's the seller name again?

The pedestrians are one thing since they think because there's empty space that they can just occupy it, but do you ever say anything to the dum dum fishies? I would be able to tolerate very little of that before yelling at someone.

Actually, I think that cell phone guy represents 99% of Americans out there. It's us cyclists who are the <1% anomaly.

Seriously - less than 1% of America bike commutes. So the notion of actually seeing a bike commuter using a bike lane is completely outlandish and fantastical to 99% of Americans. Hence, they assume they can do as they please in the bike lanes, even without a bike.

Even here in Norcal where there are an abundance of the loveliest, safest, and most useful bike lanes and cooperative weather to be found in the entire world, I'm usually the only commuting cyclist to be seen in a sea of cars at rush hour. (After rush hour there are a lot of recreatioanl cyclists, but there are very few bike commuters outside a 2-mile radius of Stanford university.) I'm sure all those cagers look at the bike lanes and think "what a friggin' waste of space."

Not trying to stick up for them - just noting the reality of our lives as the vast minority and the weird problems that come up with it.

"Geez... I just got here!"

That is SUCH a non sequitur! I think I'll use it whenever I use a mistake. It's priceless.

Yes, they were. Well, it's more like $15 :) The seller name from eBay is marktech101.

You mean salmons? Yeah, I used to. But I'm getting slowly to the point that just don't give a damn. I would have ignored even this guy if it wasn't for the stroller with a little kid.

Yeah, it's best response I got from anyone so far :D I think he meant "Geez... I just woke up!".

Not a huge annoyance since it doesn't happen too often, but I was going through my ride vids when I came across this one from yesterday:


So much for bells. And it's always Indian people who disregard the clearly marked lanes. Usually they'll just walk against traffic and not move over while other Asians do the rolling roadblock thing.

I just lower my shoulder and take them out.I'm tired of warning people that can't read or don't care too.

I also level the person on the end of the 5 wide family line in the aisles at the stores that won't move.

Everything now is ME,ME,ME.....screw you,get out of my way or your next.

I agree. They should have stenciled some bikes in on the lanes too, there doesn't seem to be anything to identify them as bike lanes at all.

Yeah, I got freaking tired of all the morons this week. Maybe it is the heat... No more talking to anyone. I just blow my AirZound and watch them jump.

Perfect situation for the AaaaaaairZooooooouuuuuund!

I blame the massive use of Ambien for the increase in somnambulist zombies.

Aim for the head - that parasite hanging off their ear... that seems to liberate them. :)