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To: nickcarraway

The one thing I learned from cycling to work, those big metal things around you will kill you if they hit you. Give them right of way.

The woman was a smarmy idiot. I was always afraid of drivers like her.


3 posted on 05/18/2010 1:05:09 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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To: netmilsmom

As a bike commuter I was hit by four cars. Every single case was someone taking a right turn in front of me. In every case I didn’t go down but I scratched the car up badly (one was a beautiful bright red Porsche SC).

I just rode the cars around the corner.

Weirdly, although I telecommuted for two decades and did every Seattle to Portland bike ride since 1991, and all the recreational riding that implies, the last time I went down was in 1966 when I was jumping dirt mounds on my paperboy special in Moses Lake in 6th grade.


17 posted on 05/18/2010 1:51:54 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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