Run off the road

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Originally Posted by BikeMomma

LOL! I can picture that guy's face. Toooo funny, Knobster, thanks for chiming in.

Sorry to hear about your close call Trekhawk...glad you're ok and none the worse for wear. Keep at it, girlfriend. Perhaps next time, should there be a next time (let's really hope not), your rescuer will be a 6'6" power lifter, not a lil' old lady.....:D :D :cool: :cool:

~BikeMomma

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Hey BikeMomma thanks - Havent had any more close calls thanks goodness, now all I need is some decent weather and Ill be happy.

I often ride around town on my Kogswell D50 and last year a driver "buzzed" me during my ride. I wasn't hurt but a police office was sitting in the parking lot on the other side of the road and witnessed what happened. The office pulled over the driver. I didn't stick around, just kept riding. But justice was served, don't you think????

Another time I was riding in a peloton of approximately 30 riders and a driver in a pickup ran a couple of us off the road and screamed at us. Several of the guys decided to chase him to the next stop light. They caught up with him, knocked on his window to explain things. He eventually rolled down the window and he agreed he was in the wrong (maybe it was the intimidation of being surrounded).

I'm sure between us we keep the pain-killer companies in business!!!

This thread makes me think of one of my training partners, out for a ride with a couple of people when an oncoming truck decides to overtake another car - straight into them.
She was run off the road - luckily, one of the other riders got the trucks number, and the police have pursued it and are taking him to court.