I check this thread to see tales of that idiot from MN. Disappointed.
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I check this thread to see tales of that idiot from MN. Disappointed.
Plenty of good ones:Quote:
Originally Posted by JongDoe
https://youtu.be/P1pzF1FdNo4
https://youtu.be/AiUpbzIOFBQ
And my favorite:
https://youtu.be/Mh-DbMrFrsQ
My daddy used to instill in us the idea that you can be right, and you can be dead right. What a stupid place to ride even if it is legal. Designed for failure?Quote:
Originally Posted by highangle
Awesome post, guy. I guess you should have exempted yourself from that pool of people...or you're just dumb enough to reply to things you don't care about. Either way I guess I can take it fwiw (nothing).Quote:
Originally Posted by ex-powderbroker
Holy shit, that guy’s not dead yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
Were you thinking he may have had a stroke by now or got his ass beat severely?Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Yes.
Ha!
I thought the dude in the Mustang was going to beat his ass. He was standing there contemplating whether jail would be worth it while that biker ass kept inciting him.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Dude has one fucking weird kink, that's for sure.
Picking fights with motorists, in the dead of winter, in Minneapolis.
What a hill to die on.
Colorado just signed the Idaho stop or "safety stop" into law. People gonna rage.
I gotta say that idiot is a good rider riding with no hands on slick roads, and is usually moving at a good clip. The dude opening the door into him is hilarious and he doesn't even seem phased, any more than usual anyway.
doens't matter people rage when I come to a full stop at a stop sign using the whole lane then signal my direciton which 80% of the drivers have no clue what I'm doing with my handsQuote:
Originally Posted by doebedoe
It’s pretty funny. The POV camera does always inspire me to want to get out on my bike and ride.
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The lady blaming her IBS for killing those 2 brothers in the Tour of St. George gran fondo has been charged with vehicular homicide.
definitely the ibs and not failing the sobriety test.Quote:
Originally Posted by SKIP IN7RO
No one has beat down that MN guy because he looks like the craziest, loosest cannon there is!
If this dude pounded on my drivers side window I’d ignore him, just look at his outfit:
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I'd wager that drivers are going to think it is more dangerous for him to be riding around hands free than it is for them to park in the bike lane for a few minutes to pick up someone.Quote:
Originally Posted by JongDoe
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...-Lnug&usqp=CAUQuote:
Originally Posted by Dee Hubbs
GSA-2
Relatively harmless as crazy goes. At least he's not going around shooting people on the subway.
Is he wearing a rodeo buckle?
https://y.yarn.co/f8ac03e1-277d-4273...d97f2_text.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by rideit
I’ll bet a few of his contacts have prompted a good amount of resentment towards cyclists in general. A few might even have concocted ways to get even while remaining anonymous.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
As a cyclist, and roadie at least half the time, I don’t want that jackass representing me, and believe his contacts and popularity just increases my risk.
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Maybe we could pro-actively neutralize him with a water bottle with a few hundred drops of liquid LSD?
One of us would have to infiltrate his gang, and gain his trust.
Sounds like an honorable secret mission.
Maybe he could be recruited for a suicide mission in Ukraine? He clearly doesn’t know fear.
Out on my normal ride on Saturday and going down a main road and suddenly I go down. I'm sitting on my ass and trying to figure out WTF happened and realize I've been t-boned by an SUV that came from a side street on the other side of the road and hit me from the side. The lady gets out and starts freaking out all upset and says she doesn't know how she didn't see me.
I took a fall and broke my hip and had THR a couple of years back so I'm thinking the worst but I take a minute and then realize that aside from a small boo boo on my elbow I don't feel any pain. I check my limbs and nothing is broken. A teenager who was coming down the street saw it happen and calls 911. I get up and I'm walking around like nothing happened when the cops and an ambulance arrive a few minutes later and I tell them i'm fine and refuse medical attention. I also didn't want to file a police report and the cop said I could file one later if I wanted.
Not very smart but I think I was so happy i wasn't hurt.
Plastic from her bumper and her license plate are lying in the road and my bike is somewhat mangled, but not real bad. The husband of the driver comes and is also distraught and probably thinking a lawsuit is coming, but I am just grateful. We load the bike in his truck and he takes me home and exchange contact info.
Sunday morning my hip was a little stiff so I called for a doctor appointment Monday and couldn't get one until Friday so I'll see how i feel then. I want to go back and find that kid who saw it and ask him how it happened. I think i was past the middle of the bumper and she spun me around and down. If I was a foot or two slower she probably would have hit me forward and then ran me over because she didn't stop until ~ 10 feet after contact.
Of course the guy will pay any deductibles and bike replacement but so happy I didn't get seriously hurt.
Colnago time!!! $16k oughta do it, are you dura ace or a campy guy?Quote:
Originally Posted by JongDoe
( ya gotta ) have the report for insurance --
no report, no insurance coverage -
Beware...
Glad - And lucky - you are not seriously injured ( another hip. tib./fib. femur. back. neck. head. any combination - including Life )
Glad you are not seriously injured
( the kid would ( should ) be in the police report.
You can probably reconstruct it from the injury to your bike. . . )
so done with that risk.
trail ridin' for me... old guy. skiJ
I was cruising about 25 mph and moved to the right side bike lane as someone came up going a lot faster... approaching an intersection.... They flew by me then hard on the brakes to turn right... right in front of me.. Almost went down stopping to avoid hitting them broadside as they cut me off to turn right..
Fuck my cyclist friend who messed up a perfectly good car by crashing into it at 40 mph on a steep downgrade when the car made a left from the other side of the road directly in front of him. My friend certainly deserved the multiple leg fractures and C7 fracture he got. (No spinal cord injury.)
Wow, that really sucks.
Ban left turns!
Had a hs friend/teammate shatter his C6 in a rollover in a VW Rabbit. He was a quad until he died about 7 years later of pneumonia in an iron lung.
I have had more issues with right turns. Lots of drivers like to speed up and pass before they turn to the right and then suddenly freak out as they see a cyclist that they just passed and are surprised to see that they are right next to your right hand side.
Saw this very thing happen yesterday to two cyclists. My wife screamed as she thought for sure the first elderly female cyclist was going to get drilled. The 2nd male cyclist flipped the driver the bird and slapped the hood of the vehicle with his hand. He's lucky that the driver didn't get all road age on him and pull a gun and start shooting.
^^^Or on the flip side, I was damn near rear-ended in slow traffic because I gave a bike in front of me room to make a right hand turn. Gettin' kind of aggro in Bend these days...
When cars make a right turn they're supposed to do it from as close to the curb as possible, including the bike lane, so that bikes can pass them on the left rather than having to stop or being taken out. At least that's the law in CA. i'd be shocked if even one car in ten does that. Personally I prefer to wait to let a cyclist I just passed pass me before I pull over to make the right turn.
It's to prevent cyclists from getting squeezed as you make the right turn. However, most cyclists take it as though you are trying to kill them.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
I can never figure out what's the big need to pass (car or cyclist) before turning off or exiting. Why not slow down, use a little patience and avoid conflict?
In my experience many cyclists will ignore common traffic regulations as they see fit, but they expect all others to obey. Saw 2 instances last night, a cyclist blew a stop sign failing to yield right of way nearly resulted in a crushed cyclist by left turning car. It seemed as though the cyclist thought that ignoring the stop sign and riding into a crosswalk was somehow going to insure his safety. And a 2nd where cyclists ignored traffic control person and nearly plowed into an old man in a crosswalk.
Had a "Cyclist" yesterday blow a stop sign right in front of me in the middle of town, in the middle of the street, she was going about 10 over. Could easily have taken her out if I hadn't seen her and noticed that she had no intentions of stopping.
It is really unnerving if you think about what would happen to you if you took out a bike even if it was their fault. We have hundreds of miles of bike paths around here and still they choose to ride on the road, right next to a bike path.
when cars slow down from 45mph to 15mph to follow a cyclist for 10 secs in order to not cut them off turning right, they almost always scare the piss out of the cyclist who can clearly hear a car (that he expects is going 45mph like all the rest of traffic that day) pulling up directly behind and not beside. Its an interesting question- do you pull ahead and make your turn forcing the cyclist to possibly brake a bit or coast a bit and loose momentum, or do you slow way down for 10seconds to make the turn behind the cyclist, but holding up the car traffic behind you? Who should you inconvenience? My personal experience is that cyclist (myself included on long rides, not city commuting) are usually zoned the fuck out and just spinning focused on staying in their lane not expecting to have to use their brakes... many/most wont even have their hands on the brakes if they have drop bars. Unlike cars where (speaking for myself) im always paying attention to the traffic in front of me anticipating when to brake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hopeless Sinner
Personally, when in a car i try and treat cyclist like idiots and give them a fat safety buffer expecting them to be unsafe. That said, the reason i do that is because my experience is that most cyclist want to be treated like car traffic, until they are actually expected to react and operate like car traffic. At the end of the day, when you hop on a bicycle or motorbike and ride in the street here in america, you are voluntarily making yourself harder to see, not only because you are smaller than a car, but because you are the minority road user and the human brain is looking for car-sized objects to avoid when scanning the roadway, not ALL objects. Its the reason why 95% of people don't see the gorilla when asked to count the number of ball passes.