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Hi group. This is what happened to me last night riding home at 12am. Very wet, brakes not too responsive, coming up to a light anticipating the green by watching the yellow turn to red for the cross street. wait, wait, no green! Too late to stop! Cars coming towards me on a green left turn arrow that I had never noticed before! Snap decision to accelerate through. Thank the gods I had been seen. Lesson learned. Just wanted to share. -alan |
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:06:20 -0700, "alan" .@. wrote:
Hi group. This is what happened to me last night riding home at 12am. Very wet, brakes not too responsive, coming up to a light anticipating the green by watching the yellow turn to red for the cross street. wait, wait, no green! Too late to stop! Cars coming towards me on a green left turn arrow that I had never noticed before! Snap decision to accelerate through. Thank the gods I had been seen. Lesson learned. Just wanted to share. -alan Good thing you weren't in the wrong gear! I've got one intersection on my route that defies timing. It seems like it -never- changes, doesn't respond to the bike on the 'trigger sensor', has no crosswalk button, and even when cars precede me, and it looks like they'll trigger it, the damn thing never changes. I end up faking a right turn and then doing a U turn and coming back around and turning right to go straight through it. -B |
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"Badger_South" wrote in message ... On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:06:20 -0700, "alan" .@. wrote: Hi group. This is what happened to me last night riding home at 12am. Very wet, brakes not too responsive, coming up to a light anticipating the green by watching the yellow turn to red for the cross street. wait, wait, no green! Too late to stop! Cars coming towards me on a green left turn arrow that I had never noticed before! Snap decision to accelerate through. Thank the gods I had been seen. Lesson learned. Just wanted to share. -alan Good thing you weren't in the wrong gear! I've got one intersection on my route that defies timing. It seems like it -never- changes, doesn't respond to the bike on the 'trigger sensor', has no crosswalk button, and even when cars precede me, and it looks like they'll trigger it, the damn thing never changes. I end up faking a right turn and then doing a U turn and coming back around and turning right to go straight through it. -B I used to have a route on which there was a triggered traffic light. I changed my route. |
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 06:17:29 GMT, "sunshine_buttercup" wrote:
"Badger_South" wrote in message .. . Good thing you weren't in the wrong gear! I've got one intersection on my route that defies timing. It seems like it -never- changes, doesn't respond to the bike on the 'trigger sensor', has no crosswalk button, and even when cars precede me, and it looks like they'll trigger it, the damn thing never changes. I end up faking a right turn and then doing a U turn and coming back around and turning right to go straight through it. -B I used to have a route on which there was a triggered traffic light. I changed my route. Lucky you. -B |
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"alan" .@. writes in part: Lesson learned. Maybe a couple of lessons: 1) 'timing' the light can backfire on ya 2) when it's raining it helps to dry the brake pads while approaching intersections, even though it slows you down and you might miss a green light. It kind of enforces not barging through intersections in the rain. cheers, Tom -- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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"sunshine_buttercup" wrote in message
om... I used to have a route on which there was a triggered traffic light. I changed my route. I realize how lucky I am. There are only triggered traffic lights in the suburb I live in. They paint a white X where you are to line up your front wheel to trigger the light. When a loop is non-functional, they will have the traffic engineers out there the next day working with you to fix it. Except for a touchy one at 145th Ave SE and Lake Hills Blvd (where I have to line up the bike *perfectly* on the X or it'll think I'm just a piece of aluminum foil that blew across the road), the system works great. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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Hi group. This is what happened to me last night riding home at 12am. Very
wet, brakes not too responsive, coming up to a light anticipating the green by watching the yellow turn to red for the cross street. wait, wait, no green! Too late to stop! Cars coming towards me on a green left turn arrow that I had never noticed before! Snap decision to accelerate through. Thank the gods I had been seen. Lesson learned. Just wanted to share. Everybody makes mistakes like that occasionally. When you add up the sum total of everybody's mistakes, you get a thing called traffic. Robert |
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LOL!
I had a similar episode. Waiting at cross roads for lights to change. Anticipating racing the cyclist beside me, we had raced up to the lights (typical road warrior stuff). Both us watching the lights, opposite lights go orange ... get ready .... red. up on the pedels, into the intersection trying to jump the lights, but the lights didn't change!!!! Some turning lights, unoticed by us went on instead, and 3 lanes of traffic started barrelling down on us both. We made it through but kept expecting to hear police sirens behind us ..... |
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"Gary" wrote in message
om... We made it through but kept expecting to hear police sirens behind us I recently was standing around with a bunch of cyclists, and we all had some story about how each one of us had done something bonehead, not really on purpose, mostly through inattention, that could have gotten us killed, but the fates were with us. Me, I was coming up Madison the wrong way on the sidewalk. It was for only half a block, but I know some of you are already rolling your eyes. Then, when I got out to the street, onto Third Ave, without thinking much of anything, I took a left while the right was red. So, I hopped across four lanes a major of downtown street against the light, making a left from where no one would expect a bike to be. I don't know why I did it, I just did it without thinking very much. I felt like one lucky idiot when I realized what I was doing and made it to the other side of the street. OK, end of true confessions. -- Warm Regards, Claire Petersky please substitute yahoo for mousepotato to reply Home of the meditative cyclist: http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/ See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky |
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My bonehead move was in Las Vegas on Blue Diamond Hwy... At the light
by Truck Stop at I-15, I usually moved into the right-turn lane to get out of traffic. There were cars lining up behind me, and I thought they were going to turn right. When the light turned green, I soon discovered I was in the middle of two lanes, the "right-turn lane" was going to the freeway a half-block later. I meandered from the middle of the highway to the shoulder, not knowing why cars were lining up behind me, thank goodness the lead car was patient to let me to the shoulder. Mike Swenson now in Omaha Nebraska US Air Force Claire Petersky wrote: "Gary" wrote in message om... We made it through but kept expecting to hear police sirens behind us I recently was standing around with a bunch of cyclists, and we all had some .... |
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