A friend got lightly bumped a couple of weeks ago on the Natchez Trace, which is popular with cyclists. And not so heavily traveled as to make it hard to swing wide around a cyclist or three.
A friend got lightly bumped a couple of weeks ago on the Natchez Trace, which is popular with cyclists. And not so heavily traveled as to make it hard to swing wide around a cyclist or three.
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I don't think I have any say in the matter. I'll let the insurance companies work it out. I think I know where the lability will fall by having uncertified flaggers controlling traffic though. If I were an attorney that would be the first question I would ask.
We all pay our taxes and leverage whatever little enjoyment we can find while doing that.
Stay safe.
Last edited by Borderland; 06-21-2021 at 03:48 PM.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
"The suspect, identified as 35-year-old Shawn Michael Chock of White Mountain Lakes, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition."
My brother has been a sponsored rider for years. There is a pervasive attitude in rural areas that cyclists don't belong on some roads, or in packs. Using the front end of your vehicle to prove your point is the very definition of redneck, Cro-Magnon, neanderthal behavior. I hope he gets everything he deserves.
Unqualified, non-LEO opinion.
I don't disagree with you that they were being stupid, but given my own internal reaction when someone honks at me for what seems to me to be no reason, I imagine they just thought you were being an asshole, and their behavior is unlikely to have changed.
Riding a road like that would definitely make me nervous. I very much prefer to ride on a decent sized paved shoulder so that there's a clear delineation between "cars go here" and "cars don't go here," and that goes double or triple for roads with speed limits that high.
Now, I'm not advocating for road rage against cyclists......and I've never felt the need to run them over.....
...but...
there's definitely something tangibly annoying about cyclists that is absent the other things you mentioned. I'm not sure if I can put my finger on it.
"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
Mom was a dispatcher with Show Low PD. Dad was a deputy with Navajo County SD. I lived in Show Low as a teen in the late 70s. I don't recognize any of the landmarks in the photos.
I used to ride my bike to work in the Bay Area (Sunnyvale) and to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (Port Orchard to Bremerton). I've been hollered at, spit on and intentionally run off the road. Sunnyvale was worse.
Yeah, that's pretty common, and we cyclists are aware of the hateful feelings towards us. There's lot of discussion on the psychology of what motivates those feelings -- jealousy of being free and enjoying ourselves, perception that cyclists are scofflaws that get away with breaking the law, guilt about not exercising, not paying our fair share of taxes, and so on.
It's, in my experience, a perceptible smugness that they own as much of the road as they want and you'll just have to wait for them to deign to give you an option to pass.
There's a difference between acting like "we share the road", and "fuck you...it's our road". I've met both sorts and it's not hard to tell pretty quickly what you're dealing with.
I live in a mountain biking mecca...people come from all over to bike here...on the road and on the trails. My radar is keenly attuned.
That said, I have always enjoyed riding...though it's not something I am active in these days. (And never group rides.)