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I know you've heard it 1000 times. I'm posting anyway.
I got out for some actual distance last week. The trails are a mess so I hit the path and some side roads on my MTB for 28 miles. Yes, it was rush hour, but I was on the path 90% of the time.
:madmax:[Rant]
Incident 1: I am riding on the parkway because children are riding on the path parallel to the road. Man in car drives into oncoming traffic to pass me. The oncoming car had 2 wheels in the grass to avoid him. At the red light about 200 yds. ahead I ask him why he took such a risk. Over his dangling side mirror, he complains that I should be on the path. After that, I beat him off the light and pointed to the "Sharrow" painted on the road that indicates shared usage.
Incident 2: I am crossing an intersection at a Stop sign. I stop while the crossing vehicle signals, then negotiates a left turn. This blocks the lane for other crossing traffic so I proceed to cross. The next vehicle in line, however, immediately follows the left turning vehicle but proceeds to accelerate straight at me in the cross walk. I yell "Nice stop!" and narrowly escape across the road.
Incident 3:
This time I actually am on a road - a largely deserted road. The one vehicle that passes me has to cut closer to the edge of the road while passing me, then gets back to the center of the lane after he has gone by. Richard with a capital "D".
Either freeze or thaw, but I gotta get back on some trails! And this is supposed to be a "Top 40 bike friendly city". These people are awful!
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-F
I got out for some actual distance last week. The trails are a mess so I hit the path and some side roads on my MTB for 28 miles. Yes, it was rush hour, but I was on the path 90% of the time.
:madmax:[Rant]
Incident 1: I am riding on the parkway because children are riding on the path parallel to the road. Man in car drives into oncoming traffic to pass me. The oncoming car had 2 wheels in the grass to avoid him. At the red light about 200 yds. ahead I ask him why he took such a risk. Over his dangling side mirror, he complains that I should be on the path. After that, I beat him off the light and pointed to the "Sharrow" painted on the road that indicates shared usage.
Incident 2: I am crossing an intersection at a Stop sign. I stop while the crossing vehicle signals, then negotiates a left turn. This blocks the lane for other crossing traffic so I proceed to cross. The next vehicle in line, however, immediately follows the left turning vehicle but proceeds to accelerate straight at me in the cross walk. I yell "Nice stop!" and narrowly escape across the road.
Incident 3:
This time I actually am on a road - a largely deserted road. The one vehicle that passes me has to cut closer to the edge of the road while passing me, then gets back to the center of the lane after he has gone by. Richard with a capital "D".
Either freeze or thaw, but I gotta get back on some trails! And this is supposed to be a "Top 40 bike friendly city". These people are awful!
[/Rant]
-F