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Originally Posted by M Rose
(Post 22599071)
Background:
I consider myself a newbie in cycling, even though I have been riding between 10 and 30 miles daily for the past year. My wife has only ridden a hand full of times around the block in this amount of time and relies on my knowledge of riding along the streets of our home town. The Story: Last night I asked my wife to join me on a ride a crossed town to get a burger and some ice cream at one of our favorite dinners. It’s a relatively short ride and almost a straight line from our house to the dinner taking one of the lesser used streets. Along the route, the street has Three major intersections. The first one is at our drive way, the second is about half way down and is the busiest of the three, and the last one is at the far end of the street. Any ways, we are cruising down the street just coming upon the second intersection when a car honks at me. The car passes aggressively staying in our lane and his right hand mirror taps my left shoulder. I was riding just a foot or two to the right of center because of parked cars and my wife staggered ahead of me and riding dangerously close to the parked cars. I stood up on the pedals and caught up to the car in a matter of feet and was well infront of the car when he reached the stop sign at the intersection where he started yelling obscenities at me. I got all of the normal “Riding the wrong way” (I was riding in the direction of traffic), “Get out of the way of cars” (there was no where to go to get out of his way at that exact second), “ride on the side walk” (illegal to ride on the side walks in our town), and my favorite “ you can’t keep up with traffic”. The last is my favorite because on this street the speed limit is 15 mph, and while he was doing apx 20-25 MPH I passed him before he started slowing down. When I started explaining the laws of the road to the driver he got even more upset and stepped out of his car threatening to beat my ass. This didn’t work out well for him because a police officer made the corner at the intersection and got involved. Eye witness accounts put blame on the driver where he got belligerent with the police officer and was issued a number of citations… unfortunately I have to go to court in a few weeks to press charges. |
Originally Posted by livedarklions
(Post 22599566)
Is one of the charges hitting you with the mirror?
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To this day the stupidest thing said to me was right after that texting cop plowed into me with his SUV. When I called him out for texting he interrupted with, "I wasn't texting! I was looking at my phone!"
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Originally Posted by JW Fas
(Post 22599745)
To this day the stupidest thing said to me was right after that texting cop plowed into me with his SUV. When I called him out for texting he interrupted with, "I wasn't texting! I was looking at my phone!"
As I remember it from the video, he looks like he realizes how stupid that was just as soon as he finished saying it. I don't think I could watch that video again because I swear I feel that hit. |
I was in Sullivan Square in Boston, and a young motorist objected vocally to the fact that I had stopped at the stoplight, and had remained static, even though there was no cross-traffic at the time. "What do you think you are, a car?" he shouted, in earnest. He seemed quite animated. "I'm obeying the rules!" I retorted. "What rules?" he rejoined. "The rules of the road!" I loudly asserted.
Maybe I should have had a jersey, on whose back is written, Yes..! Those rules!" |
"why aren't you in the bike lane"
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this happened to me a couple of days ago. I was riding on the bike/walking path in a very low traffic area, the bike path follows along side the country road and maybe at times gets within 8-10 feet or so of the county road. I had not seen another person walking or biking on the path except my wife who was a riding a couple hundred feet behind me. In fact I don't think I have ever encountered anyone else on this path ever. A freaking US mail carrier who was probably pushing 70 stopped and got out of his mail jeep and started waving a red bucket at me, to get my attention I guess, and yelled at me to stay on the very right side of the path. Kind of caught me by surprise. I said "excuse me" and he said he thought that I was taking up too much of the path and needed to stay to the far right at all times..no wonder we have such crappy mail service....
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"Push it Push it Real Good". Was yelled at me out a car window as I was pushing up a long steep hill on a hot day. That was a few years go and they had been running this Burger King commercial with that song a lot. It was totally a joke, and definitely made me laugh.
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Originally Posted by JW Fas
(Post 22599745)
To this day the stupidest thing said to me was right after that texting cop plowed into me with his SUV. When I called him out for texting he interrupted with, "I wasn't texting! I was looking at my phone!"
I guess my mistake was not waving. |
Was recently called an elitist f*** when I politely asked the driver why he tried to kill me.
For a week my 4 year old called me an elitist duck. |
Originally Posted by bampilot06
(Post 22608306)
Was recently called an elitist f*** when I politely asked the driver why he tried to kill me.
For a week my 4 year old called me an elitist duck. https://swall.teahub.io/photos/small...it-and-hat.jpg |
There have been so many. Just this Tuesday 5 of us were riding on a 2 lane road miles from any town or commercial buildings. The kind of road where you might not see a car for several minutes. Ahead there is a guy with a leaf blower making a huge dust cloud. When we get there my friend says something to the guy and the guy yells at us to ride single file.
One time I was riding solo and on a fairly quiet section of a 2 lane road and there is a guy with a small pick up picking up "Open House" signs and putting them in his truck. As I get close he jumps in his truck and pulls it perpendicular to the road. I couldn't figure out what he was doing, I thought he was trying to make a 3 point turn or something but he just stayed there, blocking the lane. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was blocking me because bicyclists always ran stop signs and broke the law. I was blown away and didn't know how to react. I said "You've never seen me run a stop sign". Then I rode around him and stopped at the stop sign. Very Weird. |
Originally Posted by Eric F
(Post 22608379)
But my bow tie matches my socks. |
Originally Posted by bampilot06
(Post 22608521)
But my bow tie matches my socks.
Don't be silly, ducks don't wear socks. Those are spats. |
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