you should start up tue nite crits there. since hay bales may be hard to come by, use some homeless on the turns. they're well-padded.Yesterday I had a meeting at our downtown and office and then another meeting several miles away, so I hoped on my bike and took off; I was in the parking garage and a meter maid stopped me and scolded me for speeding.....I looked around and said: "how would I know if I was speeding, I don't have a speedometer?" He said it was apparent that I was speeding and I needed to adhere to the 10 mph limit
The people are well padded, its all of the glass bottles that scare me
Yeah...I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised that a post that is machined down to within an inch of its' life gave way after 5,000 gnarly miles...
Damn, you have some real d*cks around there. Most of the people out in the country wave to me, the biggest jerks I find are on my ride home from work.
Stuff on your back > Panniers when you don't want racks on your bike that does more than one duty.
I wish they'd ticket cars for not blinking.....nothing pisses me off more than people turning suddenly without blinking
I'm demanding, I want both.....blink, then signalDo you mean "signaling"??? 'Cause I can blink without signaling...but I don't know about signaling without blinking...that may be difficult...
while i agree & have experienced exactly what you did, if you did have a bell you would have absolute moral authority over the trail hogs, who no doubt believe their rights usurp yours categorically. (MUP apparently means "as long as we never see bikes, they can use it").Now, for a RANT about MUP's and the idiot pedestrians who use them. I know, don't use an MUP if you don't like dealing with them. I deal with the normal idiocy fine, its the special cases that just get me broiling.
Show a little awareness of your surroundings you mouth breathing slugs. Oh, and please write one of your letters to the newspaper about how bikers are all jerks and how they need to banned from the trails. I will look for that article right under the one that the car driver wrote about keeping bikes on the sidewalk where they belong.
I have thought about the bell thing, I just think that dinging a bell can be considered rude as well.
Nah, you just need to yell really loud: "Get the f*ck out of the way!!!!"
I ring the bejesus out of my bell. Rude or not, it's accepted and expected on the pathways (and is actually law here). Some people get no rings, some get one, some get several.
Our MUP's here are bell or voice. For me, I get a lot of people moving left when I say, "On the left." When I see them start to veer into me, it turns into, "What the f*ck?!?!? Pay attention."
I'd probably end up modding it so it could shoot paintballs or something...
wait, whats the ID of a handlebar again?
Meh...I like the commute for the most part. It takes the same amount of time as the bus and 35 miles a day is a good work out. Now I just gotta get myself some foul weather gear.
