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Old March 8th 19, 09:58 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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Default Automatic transmissions considered harmful

On Friday, March 8, 2019 at 1:57:25 PM UTC-5, Radey Shouman wrote:
Beautiful day today, a balmy 21F this morning, the robins were singing,
a woodlot full of tapped sugar maples on the way to work.

Riding through the top of a T intersection with a minor road on my
right, they have a stop sign, I see a small car that seems not likely to
even slow, much less stop. Fortunately the oncoming lane is empty, and
I swing out past the yellow line, right alongside the car. Curses
(literally, and loudly, but to no effect, windows are closed). I can
see the driver, a fat girl, looking down at her cell phone in her
gearshift hand, grinning like a fool.


OK, you confused me....

The road on the right had a stop sign, the car was coming from the right?
If the car was coming from the right and didn't stop, wouldn't they end up running into whatever was on the top of the intersection?

or you were both traveling on the top of the T, you saw she wasn't going to stop - you dodged into the oncoming traffic lane, meaning she was coming from behind you?

I'm having a hard time picturing this whole scenario.
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