Missed connection

[Mikey]

@ShawnoftheDread 60990 wrote:

You: 9-10 year old kid riding behind his dad on the Custis this morning. You went off the trail and into the bushes as I passed you way-wide to the left. Way to hang on and nice recovery! I thought for sure you were going to crash, but you didn’t even put a foot down.

Thanks for running the 9 year olds off the trail and into the bushes, Shawn. What’s next, your air pump in their spokes?

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Mikey 60998 wrote:

Thanks for running the 9 year olds off the trail and into the bushes, Shawn. What’s next, your air pump in their spokes?

Kid needs to hold his line!

[mikoglaces]

@Bilsko 60950 wrote:

The two patrons of the Exxon gas station on Canal at the DC side of the Key Bridge:
Patron #1: When pulling into a driveway from the roadway, turning signals help those on the sidewalk understand your intentions.

Can’t operate turn signals when you have steering wheel in one hand and smart phone in the other!

[consularrider]

@mikoglaces 61008 wrote:

Can’t operate turn signals when you have steering wheel in one hand and smart phone in the other!

Actually coffee in one hand, smart phone in the other and steering with your knees.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@consularrider 61012 wrote:

Actually coffee in one hand, smart phone in the other and steering with your knees.

Given the number of cyclists I’ve passed this summer swerving all over the trail while they queue up their next playlist, we may not be in a position to cast stones.

[Hancockbs]

I nominate the two guys on mountain bikes descending a grassy hill from GW Parkway onto the MVT this morning as DB of the day. One nearly t-boned me while the other jumped on the trail a couple of feet in front if me going about 10 MPH slower than I was.

[Terpfan]

First, to the woman going northbound on the 15th St cycletrack right after K St last night around 5:30, please pay one iota’s worth of attention instead of riding on the wrong side parralel to your friend and oblivious that anyone would dare come the other direction. See, I don’t have the luxury there of bailing out into the street and we only missed each other because I literally scraped against the curb. You deserved the wtf that I dropped and I hope you got a flat tire on the way home .

To the guy with the MS jersey on the MVT southbound last night–are you insane? Your first no call pass of me right as I was about to execute a pass was elite enough (thankfully I check over my shoulders for idiots who can’t call), but the second time you did this sound of OT near a blind spot, when I signaled the pass, and when I was going by two pedestrians, was when I was tempted to play bumper bikes with you. Don’t be a DB. Now, to the woman who was with you (for the first leg of your journey at least), thank you. She recognized a bad time to pass and waited. When she did pass she called it plenty in advance. It was like night and day between the two of you.

Oh, and is good morning man (McPherson Square) a Ravens fan?! I saw him with a purple jersey on this morning.

[cyclingfool]

You: Driver of black Ford Explorer (VA plates JFN 5323… yes you made such a first impression that I remembered your license plate) who buzzed me this morning on Potomac Avenue in Alexandria

Me: The cyclist whom you almost hit and whom you thought you were teaching a lesson to by driving by with about a foot between your mirror and my head

We exchanged middle fingers as you watched me and looked at me in your rear view mirror after you passed. I had half a mind to do something to the back of your car when I came up behind it at the red light a couple hundred feet up the road but was too shy. Let’s get together some time. Seems like we’d get along really well…

XOXO XOXO XOXO

[Tim Kelley]

@cyclingfool 61182 wrote:

You: Driver of black Ford Explorer (VA plates JFN 5323… yes you made such a first impression that I remembered your license plate) who buzzed me this morning on Potomac Avenue in Alexandria

Report it to the Alexandria police!!

[KLizotte]

To the jogger running against traffic *in the bike lane* along Crystal Drive this morning. Please. Don’t.

I’m thinking it would be a good idea to paint “no peds” symbols in the bike lanes in this area.

[cyclingfool]

@Tim Kelley 61185 wrote:

Report it to the Alexandria police!!

I plan on it. It used to be possible to post incident reports on the APD website. While they still have the incident report form online, it asks you to select from very specific incident categories, and none of them have to do with traffic or road safety. I’ll probably call non-emergency number to make a report at lunch.

[Brendan von Buckingham]

Me: descending the east side of Courthouse Hill on 14th Street, heading to the 4-way stop and right turn onto Rhodes. Car in front, parked cars on right, about to take my turn in the 4-way stop rotation.

You: mountain bike with paniers, fenders, flippers, mirrors and every other safety add-on but not the wisdom to wait behind me. You overtook on the wrong side, took the line that I was about to use and blew through the stop sign. My controlled descent became an emergency skid that I barely managed.

Wait your turn.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Saw a missed connection almost become a very un-missed connection this morning at the bottom of the Custis S-curve. The cyclist in front of me was heading downhill toward the crosswalk at Lee, only to discover a runner crossing into his path of travel. I couldn’t tell if the runner had just wandered into the oncoming lane, or was in the process of crossing the oncoming lane to proceed to the crosswalk, but either way, she didn’t seem to have made the move with any awareness that a bike could be coming around the corner. So she was very startled and did this flailing jump maneuver as the cyclist braked avoid her, which the cyclist did without too much drama. My impression is that the cyclist was going a lttle too fast for that particular corner, but I give him credit for at least being in control of his bike and situationally aware…if he hadn’t been, he’d have hit the woman for sure.

[birddog]

@Brendan von Buckingham 61378 wrote:

Me: descending the east side of Courthouse Hill on 14th Street, heading to the 4-way stop and right turn onto Rhodes. Car in front, parked cars on right, about to take my turn in the 4-way stop rotation.

You: mountain bike with paniers, fenders, flippers, mirrors and every other safety add-on but not the wisdom to wait behind me. You overtook on the wrong side, took the line that I was about to use and blew through the stop sign. My controlled descent became an emergency skid that I barely managed.

Wait your turn.

Belongs in the SHOAL report haha

[ShawnoftheDread]

Someone did something stupid to me this morning and I did something stupider in response. I’ll try to be more careful tomorrow.

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