Missed connection

[OneEighth]

A stick shift driver who doesn’t know how to drive one-handed?
Fail.

[baiskeli]

@DismalScientist 54130 wrote:

Perhaps many cyclists of many different persuasions would rather this bicycle forum not degenerate into political stereotypes.

I’m not talking about stereotypes at all. I’m talking about actual people who have made statements to me or in public. I only hold people responsible for what they say or do, not anyone else who happens to be in the same group or share the same ideology. I am very careful to say “some,” etc. when describing a particular group. And when I don’t, I’m usually joking, like when I said “Republicans ride bikes?”

[Dickie]

@Certifried 54039 wrote:

Missing: all of you folks.

Got a few PMs, thank you. Sitting in the Dr office now, trying to relax from an injection in the L3/L4/L5. This is a procedure before the RFA to burn the peripheral sensory nerves in the facet joints. Had some injections earlier in the year too. The pain has pretty much kept me down, I don’t even want to get out of bed some days, much less get on a bike. Even though cycling helps, I’m finding it hard to fight through the pain enough to do so. It is relentless. It could be a lot worse, I’ve watched my dad suffer through rheumatoid arthritis for as long as I can remember and my grandma’s hands were like disfigured claws. So, I am staying relatively positive as I know the injections and RFA will (eventually) put the pain at bay.

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So glad to see your scary picture… we’ve missed you. I hear lifting pint glasses is a great cure for arthritis… I’ll buy the first round next time we see you!

[krazygl00]

@baiskeli 54114 wrote:

Tourist guy, I waited for you to cross in front of me in a crowd. I wasn’t close to hitting you – I was almost at a full stop, several feet from you. So why should you mutter after I pass, “If you hit me I’ll hurt you”? And you said it loud enough for me to hear it.

So I responded, loud enough for you and your wife and the whole crowd to hear: “I wasn’t going to hit you, I waited for you. And that was a very rude thing to say.”

Having children has really improved my comeback skills.

Did you get down to his eye level, ensure that you had his undivided attention and then have a respectful dialogue with him explaining what a panicky idiot he is?

[baiskeli]

@krazygl00 54184 wrote:

Did you get down to his eye level, ensure that you had his undivided attention and then have a respectful dialogue with him explaining what a panicky idiot he is?

No, but I sure as hell didn’t give him any ice cream later.

[Hancockbs]

You: Riding along very slowly, weaving across the entire MVT just south/east of the TR Island boardwalk.

Me: “On your left.”

You: Continue same actions.

Me: Scoot past to note you wearing ear buds and trying to adjust your phone/mp3 player.

On the up side, there is some nice fresh asphault making a much better transition on and off the little bridge in the area.

[bobco85]

I was going to just describe in detail what happened, but then I realized I had my helmet camera. Both happened on the W&OD around Brandymore Castle.

Missed connection #1: Near crash due to a cyclist double-passing a jogger right in front of an oncoming cyclist who was coming down a hill
Missed connection #2: A cyclist calling his pass with, “Risk-averse cyclist on the left!” that I couldn’t help but laugh at.

[video=youtube_share;z-t5dTKdxoA]http://youtu.be/z-t5dTKdxoA[/video]

[rpiretti]

To the nice lady who said “Hi, Rob” on the WO&D today, Hey! And I didn’t recognize you but like seeing nice folks on the trail such as you. See you around.

[Dickie]

If you could imagine your grade school orchestra on wheels, the absolute abandonment of harmony and rhythm, every member playing for themselves with complete disregard for the whole, a cacophony of adolescent hormones and mistuned instruments… Yep, that was the MVT yesterday!

[scorchedearth]

Me: Commuting from Fairfax to Alexandria.

You: The roadie training for the race on Saturday who hung out on my back wheel.

You were the first person who has thanked me for a pull. You’re very welcome. Good luck at the race.

[Hancockbs]

To the two older gentlemen who passed me just prior to entering Water St; I hope to be in as good condition as you two are when I am your age, but I also hope to retain enough manners to call my pass.

To the rider who passed on my left while I stopped at a Water St stop sign to allow a car on my left the right of way to turn in front of me; you give us all a bad name and cause ill will from other road users. The rules of the road DO apply to you, but at least you called your pass.

To the young lady on the path in front of the Kennedy Center; when walking your bike, you don’t have to use the entire path to turn around, especially 20 yards in front of a cyclist. Glad I was paying attention, because you certainly weren’t.

Can’t we all take just a second to see how our actions affect others and care just a tad about the other people around us?

Not an annoyance, but I did see three policemen traveling by bike from Water St toward Bethesda this morning as well. Not sure if they were CCT patrol or just heading somewhere else.

[mstone]

@Hancockbs 54291 wrote:

To the rider who passed on my left while I stopped at a Water St stop sign to allow a car on my left the right of way to turn in front of me; you give us all a bad name and cause ill will from other road users. The rules of the road DO apply to you, but at least you called your pass.

I’m trying to visualize what rules of the road you’re following that have a car to your left turning in front of you.

[bobco85]

@mstone 54296 wrote:

I’m trying to visualize what rules of the road you’re following that have a car to your left turning in front of you.

I think (correct me if I’m wrong) that he means he was stopped at one of the 4-way stop signs along Water Street and that the car was coming from a cross street on the left. I assume that the car had gotten to the intersection before him, and thus it would be the car’s turn to proceed through the intersection.

That said, I’ve experienced this before at 4-way stop signs and at trail crossings where only the trail has a stop sign. I stop and wave a driver to go in front of me (even though they already have ROW), and as I’m doing this about 1 or 2 cyclists (or joggers less often) will go around me and force the driver to almost slam on their brakes. I then wait for the driver to finish passing through, giving them an apologetic and embarrassed look due to the actions of my fellow cyclists.

[Hancockbs]

It was a three way stop on Water St, where the car to my left had arrived before me.

[dasgeh]

@bobco85 54303 wrote:

That said, I’ve experienced this before […] at trail crossings where only the trail has a stop sign. I stop and wave a driver to go in front of me (even though they already have ROW), and as I’m doing this about 1 or 2 cyclists (or joggers less often) will go around me and force the driver to almost slam on their brakes.

Even if the trail has a stop sign (and assuming those signs are now legal — which they wouldn’t be unless VDOT has approved signs), once in the crosswalk, the ped/cyclist has the right of way. You may be being a Helperton here.

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