View Poll Results: Have you ever been clipped, hit, or knocked down by a close-passer?
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Have you ever been clipped, hit, or knocked down by a close-passer?
08-01-08, 07:15 AM
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I was brushed by a car a couple of years ago in St. John's, Newfoundland. I was riding about 35 km/h on Elizabeth Avenue between New Cove and Torbay Roads (a four lane street with strip malls along it) about 3 feet from the curb and a car driver was so afraid of going anywhere near the centre lane of the road that she thought she would rather clip me with her mirror instead. Fortunately she was driving a Saturn else she would have had a big dent where I punched her rear quarter panel.
08-14-08, 10:23 PM
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so far, i've been lucky - but there have certainly been some close calls (u-hauls coming close, RVs, etc).
i've certainly been pushed around by the wind-displacement of large vehicles, but usually you can hear them coming and prepare a bit for it.
i've certainly been pushed around by the wind-displacement of large vehicles, but usually you can hear them coming and prepare a bit for it.
09-06-08, 10:51 PM
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Nothing yet, but I've only been riding for about a month. The closest call was from idiot lady opening her driver door and me almost ramming into it. It was a very ****ty moment. Run into her door or quickly swerve into the lane where there is usually traffic. No time to look back so I swerved into the lane. Luckily, there were no cars behind me.
09-06-08, 11:02 PM
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I got clipped by 4 punk kids a month or so ago. They thought it would be funny to swerve in my direction and yell out the window at me. He swerved to close and his mirror hit my handle bar. i jumped off and didn't fall but, my bike ended up in a ditch. I was so pissed i chased him down to the next corner where they stopped at a Wilson farms. When the kid got out of his car i slugged him right in the face. He went down and out, then turned to the other 3 kids in the car and ask if they thought it was funny?. Not a one of them moved or said anything. I then road my bike home to ice down my hand.
11-08-08, 08:07 AM
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I've been clipped by NYC cabs in rush hour traffic a few times and ended up with paint on my handlebars/knuckles. I don't think any of them were malicious; things just get hectic.
It's out in the 'burbs that harassment's really an issue, at least in my experience.
It's out in the 'burbs that harassment's really an issue, at least in my experience.
11-09-08, 08:03 PM
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I have been "brushed" from behind a few times. I ride elbow to elbow with rush hour traffic, often splitting lanes between cars, vans, trucks. Luckily, modern side view mirrors collapse inward easily. Never been knocked down tho. Don't feel that it was ever malicious, just tight quarters caused mostly by me.
