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Originally Posted by Toymeister
Here's my running count of cart drivers bad behavior as observed while I cycled, this covers four running days over 93.8 miles mostly on MMPs, pedestrian paths, bridges, tunnels, surface streets (within the bubble) where the only option is the street.
SIX instances of golf cart chicken (it occurred every day). Most were on curves or places of limited view.
THREE instances of cars danger close to bikes where bikes are present and expected to be present. To be crystal clear this is not a count of someone getting close a a cyclist in a diamond lane on a road.
By any measure that's not acceptable. In every instance the cyclist did nothing wrong or unexpected.
To balance my observations, cyclists DID fail to take their lane making it easier for carts to "share a lane", this encourages bad cart drivers to get too close to you. Never leave so much room by staying to the right that a lane share can occur.
Equipment: many did not have a mirror. None had an attention getting auto horn for bikes, source: Loud Bicycle | Car horn for bikes. On pedestrian paths almost none had a bell, spend the 12.99 on Amazon and buy a real one, throw away that two dollar bell that came with your bike. Stop frightening walkers, it's rude.
None of the cyclists where observed doing anything which physically endangered any one. NINE cart and automobile drivers did. So, about every ten miles traveled on your bike you will run across someone who feels that your life has little value.
This is so common that cyclists don't think about it. |
So, none of the cyclists blew thru stop signs, or ran red lights when they didn't see cars coming?
I see that daily...
I simply shake my head... Knowing that it's their own life they're fooling with...