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  1. #1
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    I would just take a pic of the offending vehicle & pass the info to the police. Not that the police can do much There is however an Aust website that we can put the offending vehicle licence plates on. I will have to find it again on the BNA forum.

    Confronting the drivers won't do much except make matters worse. Why waste your time stalking the offending driver when you can rant here on TE You know when you confront the driver they're just going to be ignorant twits.

    this is why i'm fond of singletrack..trees don't talk back.

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    And then there's target fixation...

    Some of them buzz us intentionally, obviously.

    But something else came clear to me on my run yesterday. Since I was a pedestrian going against traffic, I could see the drivers' faces and their behavior quite clearly.

    On this loop, I run less than a half-mile on a major US highway, with a bike/pedestrian lane (marked but not divided). In the space of that half-mile, three drivers swerved deeply into the MUL as soon as they saw me. Not trying to buzz me at all, there was plainly no intent behind it, just brainlessly staring at something they didn't expect to see (which honestly, runners aren't that uncommon in that lane), becoming target fixated and steering towards me.

    No one got close enough to really scare me, but it sure was an eye-opener.
    Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler

 

 

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