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  1. #1
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    May 2007
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    San Antonio Heights, CA (Upland)
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    Wow ... I guess I'm blessed to live in an area that is pretty friendly toward cyclists. For the most part, I encounter the opposite. Drivers who are extra cautious around cyclists. Sometimes irritatingly cautious, in fact, like when you are expecting them to go, but they don't because they're being careful around you and then you have to stop and unclip when you otherwise wouldn't have.

    I've had one negative experience with a driver, which was a complete crack up. One of our first times on the tandem we're going down a road with two wide open lanes on our side of the street. We're in one going a pretty decent speed down hill and a lady, who doesn't think she should have to move over into the other wide open lane, passes us slowly in her convertible yelling, "Get in the bike lane!" Dh responds with, "We are! Read your DMV manual!"j

    There wasn't even an actual bike lane on that street.

    But, like I said, over all we seem to be blessed here with drivers who are pretty curteous to cyclists.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Jun 2004
    Location
    Sonoma County, CA
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    It makes me mad when...

    ...some lazy jerk in his big white truck rolls down his automatic window just long enough to yell at me to stay in the bike lane when I AM in the bike lane. Madder still when the apparently blind, moron driver rolls up the automatic window before I have the chance to point out how stupid his comment is.
    "Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." -- Bill Nye

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    Seattle, WA
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deanna View Post
    ...some lazy jerk in his big white truck rolls down his automatic window just long enough to yell at me to stay in the bike lane when I AM in the bike lane. Madder still when the apparently blind, moron driver rolls up the automatic window before I have the chance to point out how stupid his comment is.
    actually we had one (though I believe his window wasn't automatic) yell...."this is my piece of asphalt!"

    There were many insulting things that could have been said. I, alas, half-heartedly flipped him off. I believe DH was more colorful.

 

 

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