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Originally Posted by ohiogolf
Lisa,
Despite the venom of some posters towards cyclists, TV is a great place for avid bikers. The Sumter landing club has great rides. Don't judge biking by the posts here, come and try it out.
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Not a bad place at all, just as anywhere else, someone will always think they are correct and everyone else is wrong. Last year had to take my daughter to hospital, she got ran over on the MM Path between laurel Manor and Morse right by Laurel Valley. Cart tried to pass us where the divider is,, Knocked my wife off the bike and ran over my daughter. Grabbed him by his shirt collar, threw his cart keys away and waited for the SCSO.
It does not matter where a cyclist rides, someone will complain. But it is alright for cars to do the same, or carts to race up and down the MMP because they can not be ticketed due to private property deal.
If you ride bike here, just got to watch for everyone. Yesterday on Rio Grande approaching Del Mar at the new stop sign. I was riding around 27 mph. As the lane came to the merge spot for carts and bikes to merge in with regular traffic, I starting to merge over. A car comes around me in the wrong lane and tries to slide back in, one problem, I was already in the lane and did not move for them. Just then a car tried to make a right turn from Del Mar onto Rio Grande and could not because the car was blocking their lane trying to move me out of the way. The lady in the passenger side of the car yelled at me telling me to learn the laws of the road and the bicycles are not allowed in the lane. Imagine that!!! I told her she needed to read up on the laws and the lane was merged into one lane for the stop sign.
So it is not just the cyclist. As I said on another post, Everyone needs to know the laws and drive respectful of one another. This is a retirement community, what is the big hurry. You would think this is NYC or LA in rush hour sometimes.
To the poster complaining about cyclist at Panera's. What are we not allowed to sit down in there and spend money???? The Cyclist spend alot of money at that place daily. I have never heard anything like that.... Got to be kidding right???
