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June 20, 2017 at 10:24 pm #1072564
AFHokie
ParticipantWhen YDGAF…from my rear camera:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]15016[/ATTACH]June 21, 2017 at 1:25 am #1072593ChampionTier
Participant@AFHokie 161995 wrote:
When YDGAF…from my rear camera:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]15016[/ATTACH]No helmet. Eyes closed. Rush hour.
[IMG]https://media3.giphy.com/media/nKFXQkxLRiEhy/200.webp#5-grid1[/IMG]June 21, 2017 at 4:13 pm #1072626creadinger
ParticipantRiding westbound yesterday afternoon across Douglass Bridge…. You the dude walking up the right car travel lane. I don’t know if your car broke down a little ways back that I couldn’t see, or something weird like that, but it takes elephant balls to walk across that bridge. I saw at least one car close pass you in the 10 seconds I saw you. On the other hand, given how narrow the sidewalks are, and how much of a PITA it is to pass pedestrians, I thank you for not being in my way.
BTW – Soon after I passed the pedestrian I saw a motorcycle cop nonchalantly go by in the same direction and it didn’t look like he was at all bothered that there was a dangerous situation a hundred yards back. Is that a lesson to all? MPD really doesn’t give a shit what you do on the road, as long as a traffic cam isn’t there to catch it?
June 26, 2017 at 8:23 pm #1072782
jrenautParticipantYou: Walking on the right on the MBT
Me: Approaching from behind hauling the kids.
Me: DING!
You, oblivious: wandering left into my lane right in front of meThe best part is this did not at all appear to be someone misinterpreting the bell. I’m pretty sure she didn’t hear it over her headphones and just happened to choose that time to switch lanes without looking. Good thing I wasn’t going all that fast. It takes considerable effort to bring 400 pounds to a complete stop on a dime.
June 26, 2017 at 10:41 pm #1072786
KWLParticipant@jrenaut 162207 wrote:
You: Walking on the right on the MBT
Me: Approaching from behind hauling the kids.
Me: DING!
You, oblivious: wandering left into my lane right in front of meThe best part is this did not at all appear to be someone misinterpreting the bell. I’m pretty sure she didn’t hear it over her headphones and just happened to choose that time to switch lanes without looking. Good thing I wasn’t going all that fast. It takes considerable effort to bring 400 pounds to a complete stop on a dime.
Were the kids treated to some special language?
June 26, 2017 at 11:15 pm #1072787
LhasaCMParticipant@jrenaut 162207 wrote:
You: Walking on the right on the MBT
Me: Approaching from behind hauling the kids.
Me: DING!
You, oblivious: wandering left into my lane right in front of meThe best part is this did not at all appear to be someone misinterpreting the bell. I’m pretty sure she didn’t hear it over her headphones and just happened to choose that time to switch lanes without looking. Good thing I wasn’t going all that fast. It takes considerable effort to bring 400 pounds to a complete stop on a dime.
That’s funny(?). I had the opposite experience walking up the MBT this evening. Walking from Florida up to Franklin, 47 bikes passed us. A whopping 2 of them signaled their pass (both with a bell). Of the other 45, about 12 of them passed by way too closely (I had my 5 year old hugging the right hand side, and I was about a person’s width from the center line. Those 12 passed us while still right of the yellow). Another dozen or so just passed us too closely (hugging the yellow line and darting back in front of us without much margin for error).
At least the weather is nice…
June 27, 2017 at 1:15 am #1072788jrenautParticipant@KWL 162211 wrote:
Were the kids treated to some special language?
No, the oblivious walker was treated to a death glare, though.
June 27, 2017 at 12:41 pm #1072794Rootchopper
ParticipantMorningside is another wonderful Virginia suburban road with a ditch for a shoulder. You have to take the lane.
The honking thing is pretty common down in Mount Vernon. I attribute this to the fact that Mount Vernon has more elderly people than any other part of the DC area. They freak out seeing bicycles (or anything other than a car in the street) and lay on their horns. Eldery drivers have slower reaction times, and often have compromised vision. I’m 61 and have had 7 eye operations. I speak from personal experience. (Also, I am a former Boston cabbie. GET OUT OF MY WAY.) I get honled at on Collingwood Road a lot for no reason other than the driver has competence issues.
Cars these days are cocoons of quiet. Drivers often cannot tell how loud their horns are. I really wish they’d make a law that made horns sound inside the car. This would cut down on a lot of this nonsense.
My wife was run over on Sherwood Hall Lane. At noon. On a clear day. By an SUV driver who ran a stop sign around a stopped car. He was in a hurry to pick up his daughter at a game of some sort.
Long story short: despite living next to one of the most heavily used trails in the country, the drivers of Mount Vernon still don’t get bicycles as transportation. Be careful out there.
June 27, 2017 at 2:24 pm #1072796jrenautParticipant@Rootchopper 162220 wrote:
I really wish they’d make a law that made horns sound inside the car. This would cut down on a lot of this nonsense.
Even better – the horn is a second brake pedal. Pressing the horn is exactly equivalent to pressing the brake. Name a situation where you would need your horn but pressing the brake is a bad idea.
June 27, 2017 at 2:36 pm #1072797
drevilParticipant@jrenaut 162222 wrote:
Even better – the horn is a second brake pedal. Pressing the horn is exactly equivalent to pressing the brake. Name a situation where you would need your horn but pressing the brake is a bad idea.
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June 27, 2017 at 2:41 pm #1072798jrenautParticipantThat’s clearly an instance of needing a special “Badass Jump over a Truck” button in addition to a regular horn, which is also a brake pedal.
June 27, 2017 at 5:31 pm #1072801mstone
ParticipantIf they’re old enough, they may have learned to honk when passing.
June 27, 2017 at 6:22 pm #1072802baiskeli
ParticipantSure, pal, just shoal on up to the very front past a long line of cyclists waiting in a polite line for the light at the Int. O’Doom. You’re more important than all of us after all.
July 31, 2017 at 9:38 pm #1073946ParticipantHow did this thread fall to page #2? Were people being that good?
D-bag of the day on the MVT goes to the dude behind me who gave an exasperated “let’s go!” because I dared to slow down at the GW Parkway on ramp at the airport. It was fitting that soon after passing a few of us at a time, you almost caused a head-on collision with an alert CaBi rider at the 4MR turnoff. Nice!
September 6, 2017 at 12:09 am #1075277
lordofthemarkParticipantI guess people have been too busy enjoying the summer to kvetch. That’s good, I guess.
I have encountered the usual bad passes on the MVT, drivers doing strange things (not all on Eye Street) and my special favorites, pedestrians walking in the Eads Street PBLs and cyclists salmoning in the Eads Street PBLs.
But I really wanted to mention something else, not even sure it belongs on this thread. This evening someone drafted me the entire way from the 14th Street bridge to the 4MRT turnoff (she went towards Alexandria) She was so close I guess it would count as rude, but I was just surprised someone was so intently drafting ME. At least when she turned off the other way she called “thanks for the ride” You’re welcome, lady.
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