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Posted by Handover Phist on June 21, 2008, 11:15 am
.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com :
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:13:10 -0700 (PDT), bobmann@mts.net wrote:
>
>>> On my commute home today, I turned left onto an then empty street with
>>> posted limit of 60km/h. Just a few seconds after completing the turn,
>>> I'm riding up the hill and notice a bike speeding up to me. I was already
>>> travelling at about 75km/h so I maintained pace and held my lane position
>>> on the two lane street - one lane each direction. He falls into the right
>>> lane, like we're riding together. He would have passed, certainly but for
>>> the hill which it turns out had oncoming traffic. I signalled to make my
>>> right turn shortly after, slow down to make the turn and he passes me ...
>>> but on the inside! Then he cranks it and takes off. There is no end to
>>> some rider's imagination.
>>
>>Why not just give him some room and let him by?
>>Who cares if he's going too fast?
>>If you had let him by earlier he wouldn't have been on your right when
>>you went to turn.
>>It's fine being right but that doesn't help when you're in the
>>Hospital.
>>
>>Bob Mann
>
> Why is it that every time someone on a bike does something
> rude, obnoxious, or dangerous, it's always someone else's fault ?
> Even if that someone else is another rider, it gotta be someone else's
> fault ?
It's your own darned fault you see things that way.
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