Worst part of your commute?
06-02-13 | 03:53 PM
#26
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From: Buffalo, NY
Bikes: Schwinn Tourist (2010), Trek 6000 (1999)
There are two spots, which pass under railroad tracks. The sections are always coated in gravel/grit/sand, and both are the bottom of a hill, where I'm cruising at about 20MPH, only having to slow way down at the bottom to keep from waxing the street with my cheek. After than, it's a climb from a near stand still.
06-02-13 | 04:26 PM
#27
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From: Utica,NY,USA
uphill right hand blind turn, where cars insist on riding the shoulder, because it's the Monaco GP and all.
i'm only on it for about 30 seconds, but that's where i've had the most close calls. once got clipped by a "trailer mirror" on a pickup truck. nice bruise on my shoulder.
and people wonder why my messenger bag is neon yellow with orange trim and reflective tape, and why i have the most annoying blinking tail light possible.
i'm only on it for about 30 seconds, but that's where i've had the most close calls. once got clipped by a "trailer mirror" on a pickup truck. nice bruise on my shoulder.
and people wonder why my messenger bag is neon yellow with orange trim and reflective tape, and why i have the most annoying blinking tail light possible.
06-03-13 | 09:57 AM
#28
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From: SW Missouri
Bikes: Giant AC-1, Orbea Carpe 30
Ditto Steely Dan - arriving at work.
I'm an old Mountain Biker so riding in rain, sleet, snow is a fun challenge for me. Grinning ear to ear through most of it.
Seriously...sometimes I "lose the joy" of riding and it gets to be old so I find a new route, set a new challenge, buy a new shiny bit of bling for the steed and it all gets better again.
I'm an old Mountain Biker so riding in rain, sleet, snow is a fun challenge for me. Grinning ear to ear through most of it.
Seriously...sometimes I "lose the joy" of riding and it gets to be old so I find a new route, set a new challenge, buy a new shiny bit of bling for the steed and it all gets better again.
06-03-13 | 11:13 AM
#29
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Longboarders. Longboarding just got popular here in the past year or so, and it seems as if the new participants are either too high or too stupid to pay attention to their surroundings. It would be one thing if they could stay in one of the marked lanes but they insist on swerving back and forth across the whole path or roadway, unpredictably, and they're always listening to way-too-loud music with earbuds so it's impossible to get their attention until you're right up upon them...
I'm tempted to start blasting them with an air-horn as I carefully pass, but that would be too mean for my blood.
I'm tempted to start blasting them with an air-horn as I carefully pass, but that would be too mean for my blood.
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