Enough with the snow already

[aicabsolut]

Made it outside today! On the roads! Got a bit wet and came home pretty filthy. No shoulders to speak of. Hit a couple mild slush patches. Good times. Drivers (most) seemed to be a bit nicer too. Hard to tell me to get on the path/shoulder/sidewalk when it's still under a ton of snow. A couple people still felt the need to honk, yell, and shake fists. Whatever.

[pfunk12]

I did the N2 ride today but instead of leaving at the normal 7:30 time, I joined a few of the guys and we did it at 9:30. We had an incident with a driver on River Road. He flew by us beeping his horn and then he cut in front of us and stopped. When we caught up to him, he took off and then stopped again. Then he was weaving back and forth so we couldn't get in front of him. And believe me, I was not about to go anywhere near him. It was ridiculous. One of the guys commented that he's probably been stuck in traffic 3 hours each day this week so he was taking his anger out on us.

It was nice to do a long ride but it is no fun cleaning the bike.

[Zen]

That guy is dangerous and should have been reported.
Didn't you read this thread?

[pfunk12]

That guy is dangerous and should have been reported.
Didn't you read this thread?

I knew about the California incident and one of the guys said that what the motorist was doing was exactly like that. Only one of our riders got close enough to his vehicle. The rest of us stayed way back and didn't want to mess with the fool (or make it look like we were messing with him). We yelled to our guy to get his license plate but he didn't get it.

[aicabsolut]

I had the opposite experience today. Out on River, a guy was lost or something and after he passed me, he started going really slowly, especially down the hills, but then he'd go for a bit, then slow down again. There was another car following him who put its hazard lights on. I was confused and stayed way back to avoid being sprayed from the wet road. Eventually, they "pulled over" (not really b/c of the snow) and let me pass. The guy in the front car yelled "sorry!" as I went by. Weird, but nice, I guess.

[owlice]

I was soooo hoping to get in a ride today; I haven't ridden since Feb 5, and that was just a few miles. (I'd fallen the weekend before on my snowy driveway, so the ride hurt some, but I was glad I got in a little ride.) I had homework (dang it!) that took MUCH longer than I thought it would; I'd hoped to finish it yesterday.

I might take my bike with me to work tomorrow and try to get in a quick ride before it rains (probably over at Hains Point).