some idiot screamed at me, and tried to hit me on the head. i'm on a bike!

[vash]

i was pedalling blissfully along, just getting warmed up. cars were passing me by. i almost came out of my skin when some black SUV crept up on me. the passenger screamed at me (to startle me) while leaning out the window. he tried to bonk me on the head. i swear, i almost crashed.

i came to my senses and got up a head of steam. he came to a red light, and i thought i had him. honestly, i hadnt thought it through..WTF would i have done if i got there? probably get my ass kicked.

anyways, they saw me coming fast, and he risked life and limb and gunned a left turn at a red light. he took a right, and i knew he entered a dead end..but i had calmed down..and just pedaled on. what dciks.

[pwd72s]

Jesus! Glad you calmed down...they may have been armed.

[flatbutt]

happens here all the time. teenagers delight in coming up behind me and laying on the horn to startle. one day they're going to scare someone right under their wheels.

[look 171]

there always going stupid *****heads on the road. Back when I was racing, I would put in anywhere between 350-450 miles on the road a week. With that much time spend on the road, you bound to run into some nut cases. Just stay to the right of the road and be careful. I have someone dump a cup of coke over my head once when I was climbing. Now buses, I will not budge or back off. I have had bus driver drive 6 inches behind me to scare me. those guys have drank some sticky orange juice through their little windows before from us before. This was when we were 19 or 20 years old. I don't think I would do it now. I call their superior now. Not that they would do anything.

[Racerbvd]

I still have a scare on my calf from some A-hole broke a beer bottle on the rear chainstay and a chunk of glass went into my leg while I was riding..

[dondarnell]

Yea, about that- I had too much coffee. Sorry

[Icemaster]

Doesnt just happen on bikes. Punk college fucher buzzed me on a dead end street while I was on my blades years back. 8 screws and a 6"plate in my ankle to remember him by.

[Normy]

I run 10k per day when I'm home, and I had a woman in a Ford Expedition stop 10 feet from me when I stopped in front of her and folded my hands. She looked at me, and then slowly pulled forward and pushed me out of the way with her car! I'm serious- she looked at me, and slowly pushed her car into me!

I am not running the in the god-damn grass-

YES, I got her license plate. And I filed a police report- nothing happened. Typical-

-In Florida, you are required to give a pedestrian or a bicycler 3 feet [one meter] of clearance. A pedestrian is required to move against traffic, a bicycle is required to ride with traffic.

WHAT MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW is that the double-line in the middle of the street DOES NOT preclude you from crossing it for a pedestrian, a bicycle, a utility service vehicle, or an emergency vehicle, to include a police car, ambulance, or fire truck. You may ALWAYS cross a double yellow, if no other traffic is coming, to comply with this law. People think that if you are running against traffic and there is a double yellow...that they have to stop. They can do that, but they simply can go around if there is no oncoming traffic. THAT is the law!

I reported that stupid female dog. I think I posted a thread about that in August 2010.

N

[Tobra]

Careful Norm, 160 pounds will not do too well against a Suburban. If you get your feet off the ground and they are not going too fast, you can roll over the hood and not get killed

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Jesus! Glad you calmed down...they may have been armed.

I always was when I was on my bicycle in Texas. Some assmaster tossed a bottle at me on 105 out by Montgomery when I first moved there. After that, always had a pistola handy. I was ready to return fire next time, but next time never came.

[john70t]

I was once cruising down a hill in S.F. when a car pulled up and started squeezing me against the parked cars. Then I felt a hand on my butt. I slapped it away and braked hard one-handed with a foot to either side. They drove away laughing. It was a couple of young homeboys, probably from nearbye Hunters Point, and the passenger was trying for my wallet. They were lucky the lights were timed, my bike would have gone through the rear window for starters.

[tabs]

That WAS U???? Man I am truly sorry, if I had only known!

[Porsche-O-Phile]

People suck. Some just suck more than others.

[nostatic]

I've had that happen before. Some people are just arses. Most effective thing is probably to have a cell phone or camera handy. That will at least give them something to think about.

And you could always actually take the pic and then hunt them down...

[mattdavis11]

I'm curious to know what happened to the days when you got out of the street when a car came along. It seemed so much simpler back then. Maybe the problem now days has something to do with those that feel entitled? I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone would be very happy if I if I drove my car down the Veloway in Austin. I paid my share for it too.

Riding a bike on 105 is insane.

[fastfredracing]

I took an orange slushy to the head from an overhead bridge. It was a frozen gooey sticky mess, did cool me off a little though. The bridge was high, and I could not even see who did it. They either got lucky, or had great aim to hit me from that distance.

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by mattdavis11

I'm curious to know what happened to the days when you got out of the street when a car came along. It seemed so much simpler back then. Maybe the problem now days has something to do with those that feel entitled? I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone would be very happy if I if I drove my car down the Veloway in Austin. I paid my share for it too.

Riding a bike on 105 is insane.

Get out of the street and go where?

Sidewalk is for pedestrians. Street is for bikes and cars. Per CA vehicle code.

What happened to the days when people weren't aggressive homicidal jerks? "Get out of my way...I'm important and in a hurry!"

[look 171]

I see where he going with this entitlement issue. I know you have been riding for a long time like I have. We may have even cross path and did not know it. Back then, people just didn't ride side by side doing 9 mph hogging up the entire lane just because they can wearing their matching glove, and socks. I see that crap all the time. Four people, double pace line (so they call it that) talking and f'ing with the little computer on the handlebar. Again, going 9 miles an hour just because they can. 10, 20 years ago, no one did stuff like that even though we can.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by mattdavis11

Riding a bike on 105 is insane.

it was going from a two lane to what it is now, while it was under construction, I rode my mountain bike on the side under construction that was closed. Had to pay attention, but it was not too bad.

That was when I first moved down there, prior to finding some nice fire roads in the national forest at the north end of the lake.

Crazy was riding in SF when I was going to podiatry school. One morning I was going down O'Farrell, which is a pretty steep hill, had just passed the Kaiser hospital. There was a line of traffic that was stopped for a red light, with cars parked along the side. I was running late, so I was in a hurry. I could see the people from the mortuary college around on the sidewalk a hundred yards ahead. Guy in a Nissan 4x4 truck turns out of the stopped line of cars to cut across the sidewalk so he could get into the lot for the mortuary school, I discovered later. I know he never looked, because I could see the back of his head, so he was surprised to see me clip his front fender fly about a car length. Broke a spoke, skinned my knee, creased the heck out of his fender. Checked if I could wiggle my toes, then rolled out of the middle of the street. Driver was impressed that the bike was not damaged more. One of group of his classmates who was more impressed with the fender said something about me being at fault because I was driving too fast. This happened in a 25 mph zone, so technically I probably was speeding; as I said, it was a steep hill, and I did have slicks on the mountain bike, rather than the knobbies. I hopped on the bike and split, lucky I landed on my back pack.

Another time a taxi driver sort of crowded me into a parked car. Caught him at the next stoplight, the look in his fare's eyes was priceless when I shattered his front passenger side window with my bike lock and cursed his driver loudly.

[Arnoud]

Move to the Netherlands-16000 square miles and 13700 miles of dedicated bicyclepaths.Idiots are everywhere-here as well.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by look 171

I see where he going with this entitlement issue. I know you have been riding for a long time like I have. We may have even cross path and did not know it. Back then, people just didn't ride side by side doing 9 mph hogging up the entire lane just because they can wearing their matching glove, and socks. I see that crap all the time. Four people, double pace line (so they call it that) talking and f'ing with the little computer on the handlebar. Again, going 9 miles an hour just because they can. 10, 20 years ago, no one did stuff like that even though we can.

There's that too. "Share the road" doesn't mean much to some bike riders.