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To: RobRoy

Last week I made a right turn out of a shopping plaza and was immediately confronted by a 17-ish cyclist, going the wrong way (IOW, against traffic, headed directly toward me), with a huge slurpee in the hand nominally on his handlebars while talking on the phone with the other hand.

Oh, and he had a girl hanging on his back while all this was going on.

Because of traffic flow, I had to brake completely and let this wreck of human debris pass by (going in the wrong direction, mind you) until continuing. There was a small caravan of vehicles behind me who had to stop as well.


297 posted on 07/30/2008 5:52:09 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he said: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: fightinJAG

I ride the wrong way on sidewalks on rare occasion. I am also fully aware that cars pulling out have the right of way and if we collide it is my fault.

I ride accordingly.

If a car is pulling out, I will either turn left at the car and go around the back of them, or I will come to a complete stop and let them out of the lot.


315 posted on 07/30/2008 11:27:16 AM PDT by RobRoy (This is comical)
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