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rb85cj7 posted 3 years ago.
what blows my mind is if you had been walking she would have gotten out of the van and apologized. Sometimes it just doesn't make sense.
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BrianMc posted 3 years ago.
What really bugs me are the people who drive by and tell you to get off the road. For some reason there is a large part of the population that forgets that cyclists are not blocking traffic, they are traffic, and are entitled to use the roads in the same manner that cars are.
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beads1985 posted 3 years ago.
Think about stopping and having a little chat with her next time.
You, being on the road and part of traffic have right of way over a vehicle entering traffic.
Remind her of that and maybe get her plate number and give the police a call.
I always have my cell phone with me on the bike for emergencies.
Life or death on the bike sometimes.
Not too cool.
Glad you survived to tell the tale. :D
Nothing to it, but to do it
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tcrunner07 posted 3 years ago.
alright, so this is what, about the 50th post on bicycle "almost" accidents, and we have had quite a few actual accicendt, and death stories. And either we all have been in an accident or know someone personally who has been in a bike accident (for the most part). Ok so i guess im just venting too. My ex-girlfriend (was my girlfriend at the time of the question), asked me why i do the sports that i do. So i told her, but failed to mention how dangerous the sport is. Then i asked her, y did she do cheerleading. She told me some reasons, then she said...you can die in this sport....so im thinking to my self...yes i know you can die in that sport, given the fact that she was a flyer, but i held everything in about how i know quite a few people who have gone down on the bike, who have had serious injuries on the bike, even running...and how many close incounters i have had, how lucky i am.
ok..just wanted to vent...i guess the whole point of that was to say, people who dont do our sport or one of the 3 disciplines, dont get it...just dont get it...not mab the reason y we do it...but how dangerous it is for all of us every time we clip in on the bike, or head out on the run
If you get a flat, and don't have a tube, Suck it up and run it in!!!
I guess I am posting pretty much just to vent. While on a training ride yesterday, I was making my way out of town to hit the bike trail. I was going about 20mph, and saw a van sitting in a driveway, nothing much out of the ordinary, so I kept trucking along. Right when I got to the driveway the lady in the van throws it in reverse and guns it without looking. Noticing that I was in the danger zone I pumped my legs as hard as i possibly could and she missed my back tire by about 1/4". I was a little shaken after that considering I believe if she would have made contact she wouldn't have been able to stop until she rolled over me! I was furious! When I got past the driveway and turned to give her the 'are you crazy gesture' she stared me down like I was the idiot. Argh. Drivers irritate me a lot lately. I just needed to vent to some sympathetic ears.