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[Brendan von Buckingham]

@pfunkallstar 116847 wrote:

you are doing it wrong.

That’s actually my go-to call-out to cyclists who are, well, doing it wrong. Especially the salmoning variety.

[dkel]

To the cranky biddy who slowed down to yell “why aren’t you in the bike lane” at me from her car today: two things about that. First, that’s not a bike lane, it’s the shoulder, and even though it’s wide enough to ride in, it’s full of broken glass and bits of metal! You wouldn’t want to drive in it, so why would I want to ride in it? Second, the fact that you zoomed ahead as soon as you asked the question demonstrates to me that you don’t care why I was riding where I was, you only care that you think I shouldn’t have been there. They say ignorance is bliss, and you must have felt very blissful having delivered your obtuse message to me, but to the rest of us, your ignorance just makes you look like an idiot.

And then I got a flat. 😡

[creadinger]

#1) This morning going north on the MVT between gravelly point and train bridge.

You, the trail bro who got up out of the saddle to sprint past me as I was pulling up for the couple of joggers directly in front of me. Oh yeah! Now there’s a couple of joggers in your way, so just blow up the middle going 20mph. I wish the 6’5″ 200lb marine who was jogging south and you were sprinting directly at until the last second pounded your puny ass. You deserved it. I hope you got where you were going 3 seconds faster trail bro, because that’s about all the time you saved by being a dick.

#2) Going down 38th St. SE toward Suitland Rd.

You, the idiot in the car who was trying to pull a U-turn from the parallel parking to my right. You didn’t stop until you were halfway into the road and you finally heard me yelling at you. That’s a pretty steep little hill so I was easily going 25mph and could not completely stop. So it’s a good thing for both of us you did. Because if we collided, somehow, someway I was going to make sure my cleated foot flew right through your window and into your face.

PS – Get off the fucking phone!!

[Crickey7]

@dkel 116865 wrote:

And then I got a flat.

It’s a Game of Thrones world we live in.

[Vicegrip]

@Crickey7 116926 wrote:

It’s a Game of Thorns world we live in.

fxd

[lordofthemark]

You – the guy salmoning (eastbound) in the westbound bike lane on Eye Street SW last night, trying to catch up to your friends on the sidewalk.

Me – the rider who was happy to see you had gotten to the sidewalk side of the lane before I needed to swerve into the general traffic lanes (there was another rider ahead of me who had swerved around you and your friends)

I would have given you a piece of my mind, but then I saw that you were a uniformed MPD officer. As were your friends. Really, its great DC now has cops on bikes, but you were not modeling terribly well. I hope there was a good reason for that.

[dkel]

If you’re strong/fast enough to pass me on the climb, do it; if not, stay back. Whatever you do, don’t half-wheel me all the way up the steepest part, presumably because you think I’m going to flake out and drop back.
Because I won’t drop back.
Because of you.
Just cuz.

[mikoglaces]

@dkel 116973 wrote:

If you’re strong/fast enough to pass me on the climb, do it; if not, stay back. Whatever you do, don’t half-wheel me all the way up the steepest part, presumably because you think I’m going to flake out and drop back.
Because I won’t drop back.
Because of you.
Just cuz.

But what if they say, “passing on the left,” like the guy did to me earlier this week? What about that? Should I have hit the brakes and let him by?

[dkel]

@mikoglaces 117024 wrote:

But what if they say, “passing on the left,” like the guy did to me earlier this week? What about that? Should I have hit the brakes and let him by?

No. If someone’s going to call a pass, that person should be passing decisively, otherwise calling a pass degenerates into “let me get by you” at best, and “get out of my way” at worst. I think it’s like driving: when someone passes you on a two-way street, you should maintain your speed as if there were no one else there. If you slow down and the passing driver decides not to pass, then you’re both slowing down and the passing driver can’t get out of the oncoming traffic lane; if you speed up, you risk keeping the passing driver from being able to pass and get out of the oncoming traffic lane. In any case, the passing driver/cyclist has the responsibility to pass safely, and not hang out in the oncoming traffic lane due to ineptitude or something.

[mikoglaces]

@dkel 117029 wrote:

No. If someone’s going to call a pass, that person should be passing decisively, otherwise calling a pass degenerates into “let me get by you” at best, and “get out of my way” at worst. I think it’s like driving: when someone passes you on a two-way street, you should maintain your speed as if there were no one else there. If you slow down and the passing driver decides not to pass, then you’re both slowing down and the passing driver can’t get out of the oncoming traffic lane; if you speed up, you risk keeping the passing driver from being able to pass and get out of the oncoming traffic lane. In any case, the passing driver/cyclist has the responsibility to pass safely, and not hang out in the oncoming traffic lane due to ineptitude or something.

I know. But I asked rhetorically. This actually happened to me this week. One time a guy yelled at me for not letting him pass.

[dkel]

@mikoglaces 117030 wrote:

I know. But I asked rhetorically.

I know you did; I just couldn’t help myself. 😮

[Mikey]

@mikoglaces 117030 wrote:

I know. But I asked rhetorically. This actually happened to me this week. One time a guy yelled at me for not letting him pass.

Did you tell him “Rule V, Bitch”

“this is Stefan, his name is Stefan. . . Toughen the F_CK Up Stefan!”

[rcannon100]

@mikoglaces 117024 wrote:

But what if they say, “passing on the left,” like the guy did to me earlier this week? What about that? Should I have hit the brakes ~ causing him to simultaneously slam on his brakes, take evasive action, and crash into a ditch?

[Steve O]

@mikoglaces 117030 wrote:

But I asked rhetorically.

What if there were no rhetorical questions?

[mikoglaces]

@dkel 117031 wrote:

I know you did; I just couldn’t help myself. 😮

Unbelievably, I had the same situation on Saturday on the W&OD. Guy announces a pass, pulls alongside me, then comes into my lane and rides along with me because of oncoming traffic. Then he stays next to me. I turn and ask him, are you going to pass me or ride alongside me? I was pretty much laughing, thinking of how I’d just posted something on this, which admittedly is a rare situation. He first said i had sped up (I had in fact increased my speed because we had crested a hill and that’s what happens when the road levels out-though I didn’t point this out). He then went ahead and stayed ahead for many miles until I past him again and we took a few turns drafted each other before he turned around.

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