Dealing with hillbillies on the road.
08-24-15, 09:53 AM
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I tell people around me that my number one concern on the road are white males in [STRIKE]pickup trucks [/STRIKE]large black shiney pickups with a lot of chrome accents, between 18 and 40 years old. I live in southern oregon, so there seem to be lots of these characters on the road. For some reason, nobody in a audi wagon has ever given me troubles on the road. Its always a kid in a pickup.
I'm not sure whats wrong with humans, they are pretty messed up on the whole in their ideas of fun.
I'm not sure whats wrong with humans, they are pretty messed up on the whole in their ideas of fun.
08-24-15, 10:09 AM
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ha, the funny thing is, I fall into the category I'm afraid of, a white guy under 35 with a pickup truck driving on country roads. Only I wave to them rather than throw rocks or reach out to try and pull them off their bike. hehe. all good fun until i get hurt i guess.
08-24-15, 10:10 AM
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I tell people around me that my number one concern on the road are white males in pickup trucks between 18 and 40 years old. I live in southern oregon, so there seem to be lots of these characters on the road. the older and bigger the pickup, the more terrified I am. for some reason, nobody in a audi wagon has ever given me troubles on the road. Its always a kid in a pickup.
I'm not sure whats wrong with humans, they are pretty messed up on the whole in their ideas of fun.
I'm not sure whats wrong with humans, they are pretty messed up on the whole in their ideas of fun.
On the bike, I also keep an eye out for any white person in a Lexus. They just don't know how to drive.
08-24-15, 10:12 AM
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Just grow a long beard and get one of those mouth pieces with the blacked out teeth. Smile as they go by and you will be all set. You can't help stupid - keep that in mind, ride on.
08-24-15, 10:17 AM
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I used to get a lot of flak for kayaking a creek in south central PA. It was a rural area and we'd walk back to our vehicles after making the 3mi. run. We had stuff thrown at us, obscenities shouted at us. etc. etc. Next came the scariest thing. There were hunting camps along the creek and I guess some of the owners of these camps decided that they owned the creek and they strung "no trespassing" signs across the creek, no biggie but we continued to paddle that creek until one day the signs were gone and in there place? barb wire strung at neck level. We reported this to the police who basically did nothing and told us to find another place to paddle our boats. BTW, you can't "own" a navigable water way. Their property rights end at the shoreline. I wonder what the authorities would have done if one of us got tangled in that wire and drowned?
08-24-15, 10:26 AM
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08-24-15, 10:26 AM
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My wife is an MFT and sometimes she comes home from her job and asks me why some people are so messed up. If she doesn't know, can anyone?
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08-24-15, 10:37 AM
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Sounds like he went over the top and beyond "just messin' with ya" and I think you should do something about it. Find the truck, learn as much as you can about the driver and see what options are available to you with local law enforcement. If that does not work, send him a few cycling magazine subscriptions along with any other "specialty" magazines you are brave enough to sign him up for.
Have a little fun with it and shrug it off. I prefer intentional ******** on the road more than the distracted.
Have a little fun with it and shrug it off. I prefer intentional ******** on the road more than the distracted.
08-24-15, 10:38 AM
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08-24-15, 10:49 AM
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I drive a pickup too.....well, a Ford Ranger, but it is quite dirty and has no chrome accents. So I'm ok. :-)
08-24-15, 10:50 AM
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You could just ride through black neighborhoods. Maye they will treat you better. I am an old "Hillbillie' with a new Sun Trike that I ride on the rural highway in bib overhalls and my baseball cap backwards. Some of the Spandex Boys snub me, and some are nice. So far, ALL drivers have been considerate or friendly toward me. Maybe it is because I am old. I remember being irritated by bicyclists being in the way, but now I realize that they were feeling better than I was feeling. In three weeks, I'm up to 10 miles in one round. Trike doesn't like hills! I'm going to keep extending until I know I can get to a town and back. I need to be able to do 16 miles for that. Hope these old Hillbillie legs can do it! My Hillbillie Heart seems okay so far.
08-24-15, 12:00 PM
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The title of your thread says otherwise. Ride long enough and you'll also get the diesel drivers with coffee can exhaust tips who make a sport of smoking out roadies every chance they get.
The question here is: what are you willing to do about it? Last winter a jackass cut me off very closely to get to a red light. He swerved in front of me in a 3/4 truck with an 8 foot bed in order to miss a median which leads into the intersection. This was on ice/fresh snowfall, so I did not have the option of hitting my brakes or swerving over. Really pissed me off. Turns out he lived down the street from me, and as slow as I was on the slick roads, I caught him getting out of his Viagra mobile. I said "hey aren't you that ******* that cut me off?" He replies with "Come over here, I'll beat your ass, blah blah blah."
After that, 3 times he followed me when he saw me on the road. The last time I saw him, he followed me, at night, all the way to my house. Instead of pulling in my driveway I made a quick 180 at the cul de sac and went by him going the other way. He had his window down and started yelling at me as I passed him. I sprinted around the corner, unclipped, shouldered my bike and dashed behind a house. 10 seconds later there he goes, speeding in the direction I was going. I really contemplated taking the valve cores out of his tires while his truck sat in his driveway but thought better of it. He ended up moving shortly after anyways. House was never put up for sale, maybe the bank foreclosed on him...
So, you can either eat it, or you can find the guy and punch him in the face. Take your pick.
The question here is: what are you willing to do about it? Last winter a jackass cut me off very closely to get to a red light. He swerved in front of me in a 3/4 truck with an 8 foot bed in order to miss a median which leads into the intersection. This was on ice/fresh snowfall, so I did not have the option of hitting my brakes or swerving over. Really pissed me off. Turns out he lived down the street from me, and as slow as I was on the slick roads, I caught him getting out of his Viagra mobile. I said "hey aren't you that ******* that cut me off?" He replies with "Come over here, I'll beat your ass, blah blah blah."
After that, 3 times he followed me when he saw me on the road. The last time I saw him, he followed me, at night, all the way to my house. Instead of pulling in my driveway I made a quick 180 at the cul de sac and went by him going the other way. He had his window down and started yelling at me as I passed him. I sprinted around the corner, unclipped, shouldered my bike and dashed behind a house. 10 seconds later there he goes, speeding in the direction I was going. I really contemplated taking the valve cores out of his tires while his truck sat in his driveway but thought better of it. He ended up moving shortly after anyways. House was never put up for sale, maybe the bank foreclosed on him...
So, you can either eat it, or you can find the guy and punch him in the face. Take your pick.
08-24-15, 12:06 PM
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You could just ride through black neighborhoods. Maye they will treat you better. I am an old "Hillbillie' with a new Sun Trike that I ride on the rural highway in bib overhalls and my baseball cap backwards. Some of the Spandex Boys snub me, and some are nice. So far, ALL drivers have been considerate or friendly toward me. Maybe it is because I am old. I remember being irritated by bicyclists being in the way, but now I realize that they were feeling better than I was feeling. In three weeks, I'm up to 10 miles in one round. Trike doesn't like hills! I'm going to keep extending until I know I can get to a town and back. I need to be able to do 16 miles for that. Hope these old Hillbillie legs can do it! My Hillbillie Heart seems okay so far.
I think that the reason you are not getting harrased is because you are not a "Spandex Boy."
08-24-15, 12:07 PM
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08-24-15, 12:28 PM
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I've had a couple incidents in the city where I was able to chase them down & scare the piss out of them. Most people don't realized how fast a bicycle can move or what I look like standing next to them. Doubt they did it ever again.
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08-24-15, 12:36 PM
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08-24-15, 12:41 PM
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Fast, sorry. Fixed it
08-24-15, 12:50 PM
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Or a Nascar jersey: https://www.bikeforums.net/general-cy...g-jerseys.html
08-24-15, 12:57 PM
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I don't think hillbillies/redecks.. whatever you want to call them will be intimidated or afraid of ANYONE in spandex and padded shorts with our dorkey helmets to boot. Something about the full kit riders just makes redecks want to punch them out. I really don't know why. Maybe they think real men don't dress like that or that the entire cycling community is gay.
08-24-15, 01:03 PM
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I sometimes forget how city dwellers are paragons of bike-friendly considerate driving, whose only interactions with cyclists consist of heartfelt "attaboys" and frequent muffin and coffee handups when cyclists look tired.
There are a certain number of people on the planet who are jerks. In my experience, they are pretty evenly distributed between black, white, urban, rural, rich, poor, educated, uneducated, north, south, etc etc etc. You encountered one of these people. No need to invoke anti-whatever bias and insulting generalizations to make your point.
There are a certain number of people on the planet who are jerks. In my experience, they are pretty evenly distributed between black, white, urban, rural, rich, poor, educated, uneducated, north, south, etc etc etc. You encountered one of these people. No need to invoke anti-whatever bias and insulting generalizations to make your point.
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08-24-15, 01:20 PM
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The picture you painted was so hysterical I just had to comment on it.
And the "Appalachian American" bit was the topper.
keep em coming hillbilly.