First home-based Sighting in... I don't know how long. (language)

[PepperElf]

i remember biking on base once. i was doing all the proper road things and a car decided to cut me off.

had to turn my tire sideways and slam the breaks on to avoid hitting them.


tho ... when it comes to bikers ive learned, that if they're on your right - sidewalk or street side - keep an eye out if you plan on making a right hand turn.

guy on my ship didn't bother looking when he pulled into the parking lot
and plowed into a biker.

far as i know the biker survived. our corpsman was called and he came running off of the ship to take care of the guy until the base medics could show up.

[BlaqueKatt]

I hope you weren't hurt badly. And please tell me that the cops nabbed that idiot!

stiff shoulder for a few days and when one is dazed and on the pavement skidding sideways-ya don't really think to catch the plate number-it was winter so landed on snow-yay! The other cars just honked at me because "how dare a cyclist be in the road after getting hit" after all I was blocking an entire car lane.

[XCashier]

Heck the only time I've ever been hit on my bike I had the green-other light had been red for about 10-20 seconds-lady in a minivan on a cell phone blew through the red, didn't even see it/slow down-didn't stop when she hit me-didn't notice that either....almost plowed into a 7 year-old kid crossing the street in front of me.

I hope you weren't hurt badly. And please tell me that the cops nabbed that idiot!

[ZedOmega]

Actually you got yelled at because it was necessary for her to maintain her world view. If she's on the sidewalk, she's probably one of those people who thinks it's safer. Therefore you must have been doing something phenomenally stupid (beyond the normal "idiot driver" problems) for her to be at risk. If she didn't yell at you, she'd have to admit that she was wrong.

Unfortunately. And I'm not going to discount the fact that there's been incidents where she almost/did get hit, because we know there's some people that go beyond the 'idiot driver' label. But even then, she'd have been at our opposite fenceline around the time our rear fender would've been over the near edge of the sidewalk...

[Magpie]

One of them involved us backing out of our driveway with a cyclist far enough down the sidewalk to see us pulling out and said cyclist almost slamming front-wheel-first into our passenger-side door. We got yelled at because she didn't see us pulling out from fifty yards away.

Actually you got yelled at because it was necessary for her to maintain her world view. If she's on the sidewalk, she's probably one of those people who thinks it's safer. Therefore you must have been doing something phenomenally stupid (beyond the normal "idiot driver" problems) for her to be at risk. If she didn't yell at you, she'd have to admit that she was wrong.

[ZedOmega]

No you're assuming that's what happened as you didn't see it.
Never assume. Especially if you didn't witness the bikes running a red/stop sign-it could just as easily be the car that did so.

or the car driver figured "hey I don't see headlights or a cop I'll just run this red light/stop sign" Or was drunk and not paying attention, or texting, lighting a smoke, messing with the radio.

Happens to me all the time on my way to work at 4am on a bike-not always the cyclist ignoring the red light/stop sign. Heck the only time I've ever been hit on my bike I had the green-other light had been red for about 10-20 seconds-lady in a minivan on a cell phone blew through the red, didn't even see it/slow down-didn't stop when she hit me-didn't notice that either....almost plowed into a 7 year-old kid crossing the street in front of me.

True. But the cyclists in this area are notoriously EWish. Any other cyclist I've seen anywhere in this city will do their best to obey traffic laws and practice safe riding (use signals when turning/stopping, give right-of-way to vehicles in motion, etc), and I'm not discounting the possibility that the driver was at fault. But the ones in this neighborhood are bad about paying attention to where they're going.

Two separate incidents. One of them involved us backing out of our driveway with a cyclist far enough down the sidewalk to see us pulling out and said cyclist almost slamming front-wheel-first into our passenger-side door. We got yelled at because she didn't see us pulling out from fifty yards away. The second one was me street-checking at a crosswalk and having to jump out of the way for a different cyclist.

I can't stand anyone who doesn't watch what's ahead of them, no matter what they're driving.

[BlaqueKatt]

Which tells me that those cyclists didn't have the sense to know what a red light was and got very lucky.

No you're assuming that's what happened as you didn't see it.
Never assume. Especially if you didn't witness the bikes running a red/stop sign-it could just as easily be the car that did so.

or the car driver figured "hey I don't see headlights or a cop I'll just run this red light/stop sign" Or was drunk and not paying attention, or texting, lighting a smoke, messing with the radio.

Happens to me all the time on my way to work at 4am on a bike-not always the cyclist ignoring the red light/stop sign. Heck the only time I've ever been hit on my bike I had the green-other light had been red for about 10-20 seconds-lady in a minivan on a cell phone blew through the red, didn't even see it/slow down-didn't stop when she hit me-didn't notice that either....almost plowed into a 7 year-old kid crossing the street in front of me.

[ZedOmega]

A quick one, from not even fifteen minutes ago.

My girlfriend has a 'no smoking in the house' rule established. Big deal, I've got an ashtray outside anyway. I go outside to smoke and see five cyclists pass by the house. Apparently 2:00am is the ideal time to do this now. Not even ten seconds later, I hear the sound of brakes being applied in an 'OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK!' manner. No impacts, no panicked cries for an ambulance, just screeeee and that's it.

Which tells me that those cyclists didn't have the sense to know what a red light was and got very lucky.