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Posted by NC Wayne on September 18, 2004 at 14:48:31 from (205.188.117.10):
In Reply to: Idiot drivers! posted by Farmerboybill on September 18, 2004 at 06:28:12:
I know what you mean about the idiots, their running rampant around here too. I saw one post below that brought up the subject of bikes, so let me go ahead and open up the can or worms and make a comment on that.....Not all of them are bad, I have seen some that actually shared the road and used a little common sense and courtesy like any other driver should, and I have loads of respect for those folks. Plus I don't mind riding slow behind a good looking woman in spandex every once in a while... that ain't bad at all..... The biggest problem though is I see them all the time riding three and four wide down a winding country road at the "blazing" speed of a fast walk. Heck I've even had one come out of a side street and cut me off when I was going down a hill. If I haden't had the Jake brake on he would have been a flat spot. As it was I all but locked the brakes and just barely missed him and he acted like it was my fault and flipped me off..I wished I had made him a flat spot right about then........ Still there's nothing like going around a sharp curve on a two lane road in a 32,000+ lb Freightliner service truck, actually doing the speed limit of 45MPH, and find what equates to a nearly stopped vehicle setting in the road in front of you. Contrairy to most drivers and bike riders opinions it's nearly impossible to even slow down something that heavy in such a short distance, much less stop it. Fortunately I've always been able to hit the other lane enough to miss them but one of these days there is gonna be another car or worse another big truck, coming and it'll be all over...bad thing is they'll probably charge me for the bikers stupidity....I heard a comment a few years on a call in show where they were discussing this problem and a lady stated it this way, "If I'm in the car with my kids and I go around a curve, doing the legal speed limit, and there are bikes in front of me that I can't possibly stop for and a car in the other lane (the roads they like to ride around here usually have very little to no shoulder in many places) who do you think I'm gonna take out...I'm sure as he-- not gonna hit the car head on and kill my kids or myself....I'm gonna hit that stupid itiot on the bike...." To sum it up in a nutshell I'm not gonna kill myself over some idiot that is stupid enough to ride his bike in traffic. In most big cities there are more than enough big parks, housing developments, etc for these "fitness freaks" to ride their bikes in SAFELY. Around here they spend millions building "greenways" and parks for these types of activities, but they stand empty, or mostly so of bike riders because they feel the have the same rights on the road as those of us actually driving a vehicle that is providing the revenue to pay for that road. If they want to ride on the road with the same rights as a car , truck, etc then they ought to have to buy a tag for their vehicle and carry insurance just like any other vehicle to cover the cost of the accident that they are bound to cause because of the stupid way most of them ride..... Just my .02
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