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Yep, I agree. That reminds me of the idiot I was talking about mid thread. What kind of loser would even take out a bicycle in that kind of weather anyways.
Traffic slowed to nearly a halt to the right of my truck trying to get over and around that guy. Also tons of traffic behind me. If you would have read the post you would have known that I had just left an intersection and was in the front of the traffic pack.
You were in front of the traffic pack, but there's a maroon car in front of you? Whatever, I wasn't there... but I see enough room to pass the cyclist who is riding as far right as he can, on a road I presume he's legally allowed to ride on, regardless of whether motorists feel he should or shouldn't be.
This thread has turned into a pretty nasty cat fight. As I said, I just avoid bicyclists, and stay away from them. If they are in my lane, I simply put on my turn signal, and wait safely to pass them. It is not that hard. They may be annoying, but I think there are a lot worse things to worry about then them.
It is a shame that folks that choose to ride two wheeled vehicles have to share the road with inattentive, law breaking car and truck drivers.
Motorcyclists and bicyclists have to constantly deal with idiot auto drivers that have no knowledge of the rules, that two wheeled travelers have a right to use the same roads, or are so self involved that they do can not yield the right of way, or just are so arrogant that they figure they have a bigger vehicle so they do not care about the laws or basic human decency.
Well I never liked motorcycles because of my days as a truck driver. You'd get people complaining left and right that they didn't wan't trucks going down roads that there subdivisions were off of because they are too loud. So what happens? The squeaky wheel gets the grease, next thing you know county or city is hanging a no truck road sign. Yet a harley with screamin pipes (which is louder then a truck) can rip threw there any time they want. At one quarry in Mo you were forbidden to go left out of the drive because there were houses on both sides of the road and people complained about the noise. So we had to detour 5 miles out of the way to get to the interstate when it was not even a mile the other way.
Cyclists are a pain sometimes too. Theres nothing like coming over a hill on a country road doing the speed limit in an 80,000lb truck just to see a bike in the road with oncoming traffic heading your way.
I agree with the OP. When I am on my motorcycle, avoiding inattentive drivers is a daily routine. I love the way, when they realized they just pulled out right in front of you, they make matters worse by stopping short, right in the middle of your path. Do they do it on purpose? No, but they may as well. Really, what is the difference between doing it on purpose and not paying enough attention to avoid killing other human beings?
Motorcycle safety books endorse calling them crashes instead of accidents. "Accident" implies it was unavoidable. It lets the driver off the hook, when usually the crash is due to inattentiveness or plain carelessness. If someone kills me, I dont want anyone easing the driver's conscious by calling it an accident. If people had to live with the knowledge that they killed another human being because of their carelessness, maybe people would start paying more attention when they are driving.
I dont want anyone easing the driver's conscious by calling it an accident. If people had to live with the knowledge that they killed another human being because of their carelessness, maybe people would start paying more attention when they are driving.
It doesn't matter whose fault it is or not. Anyone with a conscience is going to be really torn up if they kill someone in an accident.
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That reminds me of the idiot I was talking about mid thread. What kind of loser would even take out a bicycle in that kind of weather anyways.
Sharing the road with automobiles...
