Share the Road

[JR97 2]

I commute to work 30 miles rt a few times a week and obey the traffic laws most of the time. If there's no one around, I'll run a sign, roll through a light, etc. I'll hog a lane when there isn't a bike lane even if there is a shoulder if I feel cars are buzzing me to close. Better to have people pissed off going around me than taking a chance getting clipped or whacked with a mirror. I DON'T take too many chances when there is traffic. If I can't get into the turning lane for a leftie I'll just do the crosswalk thing. There is a T-intersection right before my office that I'll split the lane to make a left, but most of the traffic is making that left as well and cars are usually backed up 5-6 deep depending on the previous traffic light. But I take that cautious and signal my intentions well in advance and take the turn very wide if I'm splitting.

So I guess I do pull some crap when I think it's safe to do so. But I'm not a bike vs car kinda guy. I make eye contact with motorists, wave, nod, smile, say thank you, whenever someone gives me right of way or being cautious. Same for peds. On the mtb trails, I'll alway give peds right of way regardless of uphill or downhill. On the MPU or road, I'll call out "passing left" and always say thanks when I pass.

You'll never ever catch me in one of those big group rides.

[#44wannabe 4]

If I'm not mistaken (I say that a lot in posts) as long as a cyclist can maintain the speed of traffic (50-55 kph), which in town, most serious cyclists can...they are entitled to full use of a lane

Amen Amen Amen and we have a winner

And just so you know sometimes the bike lane is full of glass, shit, trees, potholes that riding along the edge or in the lane is more dangerous than trying to swerve and navigate the bike lane

Come to DC and I will show you both sides of the coin. Do me one biggie don't frickin toot at me right behind me like your my frickin support vehicle. If your car don't say Mavic or Team Saba how about you not pace me or explode real close cause I cannot get over fast enough

I got hooted at and flipped off the other day because i was in the middle of the lane keeping flow with the traffic, once the road cleared and the cars sped up i moved over and this guy thought it was his given right to hurl abuse at me because im not a fat wanker that has to use a car to go 2 miles down the road.

Having said on the flip side, i HATE it when cyclist run red lights and think its not there fault when you have to slam the brakes on

[JR97 2]

And don't forget cyclists that are a-holes to other cyclists and pedestrians. I was crossing at the crosswalk with the signal and right of way and a cyclist got huffy with me because he had to slow down before he ran the red light. <_<

[Spreedizzle 1]

The worst road abuse that I ever received was during one of my UT training rides and a trio of guys rode past us in a pickup truck with two guys in the bed, they then turned off on a side road and then turned back onto the road and was behind us. My teammates and I (12 of us) were doing single row paceline work and I had just completed my pull and was on the inside going about 2mph slower than the rest of the group to rejoin at the back......on my way back I had a SEARING pain across my kidneys and lumbar and it took everything I had not to lay it down on the pavement at 28mph. As my teammates saw as I was staring at the pavement in agony the guys in the back of the truck had whipped me with a stretched out coat hanger as they flew past me at 60mph and it opened up me from about 2" right of my spine all the way to the opposite side of my torso. I still have the scar and should have gotten a handful of stitches. Combine sweat, 20 miles away from my place, and a rapid heart rate and my back and ass of my jersey/shorts were covered in blood so much that I looked like an extra from Braveheart. Not a good day at the office. :(

[english15x 3]

The worst road abuse that I ever received was during one of my UT training rides and a trio of guys rode past us in a pickup truck with two guys in the bed, they then turned off on a side road and then turned back onto the road and was behind us. My teammates and I (12 of us) were doing single row paceline work and I had just completed my pull and was on the inside going about 2mph slower than the rest of the group to rejoin at the back......on my way back I had a SEARING pain across my kidneys and lumbar and it took everything I had not to lay it down on the pavement at 28mph. As my teammates saw as I was staring at the pavement in agony the guys in the back of the truck had whipped me with a stretched out coat hanger as they flew past me at 60mph and it opened up me from about 2" right of my spine all the way to the opposite side of my torso. I still have the scar and should have gotten a handful of stitches. Combine sweat, 20 miles away from my place, and a rapid heart rate and my back and ass of my jersey/shorts were covered in blood so much that I looked like an extra from Braveheart. Not a good day at the office. :(

holy fack.

[kilner 0]

People who drink/take drugs and drive and put others peoples lifes at risk don't deserve to be alive themselves.

Bingo!

Makes sick when someone does this, kills, gets sent to prison and is back out on the street in 2 years

[GoHawks 0]

I agree with share the road, but that's a two-way street. A lot of cyclists now (and not the athlete cyclists, but more so the people that just get around town on a bike) think they own the road. Be respectful to drivers, don't cut people off, don't run red lights unless you wanna become roadkill, and don't swerve like a friggin idiot. I know the guys that are out there putting in the miles are respectful cyclists, I was at that point for a while last summer, but it does go both ways. Cyclists do not own the road.

*Edit*

I'm not speaking about this particular story obviously, it was a sanctioned race and therefore the cyclists did for the duration of the race more or less own the road...