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Saw an intelligent bicyclist today
In article , Tom Sherman wrote:
Brent P? wrote: In article , Tom Sherman wrote: A while back I was being followed by a Dodge Ram at a distance of less than 50 feet. That's considered a large following distance around here... I'm lucky if they are far enough back that I can see their tires in the mirror. I had about 10 people follow me on my evening commute so closely that I could not see their lights in my mirrors. That puts them at less than a 10-foot following distance. And so? If I drive the posted 55mph speed limit on any local expressway and I could top that. I was driving about 45 mph in the left lane, when someone cut in front of me from the middle lane, which was going about 25 mph (the right lane was practically stopped). Fortunately, I was aware of the Ram behind me and the left shoulder was open, so I cut over as far as possible. The Ram went past me with its brakes locked and almost hit the car that cut me off. Needless to say, I was not amused at this idiot almost taking me out. I was on a mini expressway a few months ago... light traffic.... as I start to pass the LLB to my left he speeds up... fine whatever I wasn't moving left anyway. Pickup moves from behind the LLB to behind me... tailgating... over a rise a slow moving SUV in the right lane. Lots of time for me to slow LOTS of time for me.... asshole however nearly hits me flashing his brights and sounding the horn as I slow gently to avoid hitting the SUV and giving this moron as much space to slow down as possible. There are no shoulders on this road. Just as the LLB passes by pickup boy swerves into the left lane and passes... WTF is wrong with these people? Which road in Chicagoland is a "mini-expressway" or was this somewhere else? Willow/palatine road express in this case. 41 a fair distance north of where it splits from the spur is another then there are some e-w roads up north, 120 I think is one as I recall... its been some time since I've been up that way... US 14 turns into one far enough north for awhile.... quite a few of them in WI. 83 in the westmont area is another. There aren't too many of these south of chicago, IL394 degrades from interstate standard to something slightly less than a mini-expressway south of US30... Basically they are limited or very infrequent access roads that don't meet interstate standards. As for the last question, it is a mixture of ignorance, arrogance and general jerkitude. Of course, if we took 40% of the vehicles off the roads it would help, as that would return traffic to conditions of the 1970's. As a general rule, the lower the population density and traffic density, the less idiotic the drivers are. The problem was the 1970s, the NMSL and all the other BS that started in that decade. |
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Saw an intelligent bicyclist today
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Zoot Katz wrote: The sticker clearly visible on my rear fender sums it up: CARS SUCK Fenders suck. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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