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My Close Call 2007 (1)
I propose an omnibus thread to gather all the missed-me-by-that-much
posts and offer the following to start when/whe today about 15:35, on Prairie north of Wilson in Batavia (IL) , going to work. Me: ultraflourescent hit-me-orange with retroflective stripes, made for autobahn workers, high vis vest, blaze-clip-me-orange hunting gloves, flashy spandex speedo tights. MTB, riding right wheel rut, 18 in a 25. Sunny. what: Giant ,*shiny* jacked-up black 4 door chevy pickup, Daddy driving, wife and daughter onboard, passes so close that his mirror missed my head by about 4 inches. speeding. Guy laughs at me when i inform him of his near whacking experience. Fortunately, wife and little girl look mortified. oh well. beats getting stuck in a fenderwell. ..max |
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My Close Call 2007 (1)
what does THIS button do? wrote:
I propose an omnibus thread to gather all the missed-me-by-that-much posts and offer the following to start when/whe today about 15:35, on Prairie north of Wilson in Batavia (IL) , going to work. Me: ultraflourescent hit-me-orange with retroflective stripes, made for autobahn workers, high vis vest, blaze-clip-me-orange hunting gloves, flashy spandex speedo tights. MTB, riding right wheel rut, 18 in a 25. Sunny. what: Giant ,*shiny* jacked-up black 4 door chevy pickup, Daddy driving, wife and daughter onboard, passes so close that his mirror missed my head by about 4 inches. speeding. Guy laughs at me when i inform him of his near whacking experience. Fortunately, wife and little girl look mortified. oh well. beats getting stuck in a fenderwell. .max If you had time to inform him, you didn't have time to drag him out of the truck and teach him some manners? Face to face is a great equalizer. Many of the pickup yahoos I have run ins with will just not get out of their protective box, now thinking they have ****ed off a lunatic. Maybe in my case. Bill Baka |
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My Close Call 2007 (1)
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:28:52 GMT, Bill Baka wrote:
what does THIS button do? wrote: I propose an omnibus thread to gather all the missed-me-by-that-much posts and offer the following to start when/whe today about 15:35, on Prairie north of Wilson in Batavia (IL) , going to work. Me: ultraflourescent hit-me-orange with retroflective stripes, made for autobahn workers, high vis vest, blaze-clip-me-orange hunting gloves, flashy spandex speedo tights. MTB, riding right wheel rut, 18 in a 25. Sunny. what: Giant ,*shiny* jacked-up black 4 door chevy pickup, Daddy driving, wife and daughter onboard, passes so close that his mirror missed my head by about 4 inches. speeding. Guy laughs at me when i inform him of his near whacking experience. Fortunately, wife and little girl look mortified. oh well. beats getting stuck in a fenderwell. .max If you had time to inform him, you didn't have time to drag him out of the truck and teach him some manners? Face to face is a great equalizer. Many of the pickup yahoos I have run ins with will just not get out of their protective box, now thinking they have ****ed off a lunatic. Maybe in my case. Bill Baka Good way to get shot Bill. |
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My Close Call 2007 (1)
what does THIS button do? wrote:
what: Giant ,*shiny* jacked-up black 4 door chevy pickup, Daddy driving, wife and daughter onboard, passes so close that his mirror missed my head by about 4 inches. speeding. Guy laughs at me when i inform him of his near whacking experience. Fortunately, wife and little girl look mortified. oh well. beats getting stuck in a fenderwell. .max On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:28:52 GMT, Bill Baka wrote: If you had time to inform him, you didn't have time to drag him out of the truck and teach him some manners? Face to face is a great equalizer. Many of the pickup yahoos I have run ins with will just not get out of their protective box, now thinking they have ****ed off a lunatic. Maybe in my case. Bill Baka dgk wrote: Good way to get shot Bill. Indeed. After catching up to one near misser at a light and quite calmly explaining my grievances, the driver who was wearing army fatigues threatened to "shoot my white ass." While I don't think he actually would (he had a startled passenger with him), he did have that borderline-crazy look in he eye. \\paul |
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My Close Call 2007 (1)
Bill Baka wrote: what does THIS button do? wrote: I propose an omnibus thread to gather all the missed-me-by-that-much posts and offer the following to start when/whe today about 15:35, on Prairie north of Wilson in Batavia (IL) , going to work. Me: ultraflourescent hit-me-orange with retroflective stripes, made for autobahn workers, high vis vest, blaze-clip-me-orange hunting gloves, flashy spandex speedo tights. MTB, riding right wheel rut, 18 in a 25. Sunny. what: Giant ,*shiny* jacked-up black 4 door chevy pickup, Daddy driving, wife and daughter onboard, passes so close that his mirror missed my head by about 4 inches. speeding. Guy laughs at me when i inform him of his near whacking experience. Fortunately, wife and little girl look mortified. oh well. beats getting stuck in a fenderwell. .max If you had time to inform him, you didn't have time to drag him out of the truck and teach him some manners? Face to face is a great equalizer. Many of the pickup yahoos I have run ins with will just not get out of their protective box, now thinking they have ****ed off a lunatic. Maybe in my case. Bill Baka Almost got myself shot in Texas one time because I yelled at a dumbass redneck in an F150. After he almost whacked me into a ditch and I yelled something about his mother, he gets out and points some sort of hand cannon at my head. He's says something about 'next time I'll g'it' you bouiy' ..(it all got too country for me to understand).... and drives off. I'd just moved to the US from the UK where you can yell at drivers without fear of getting your head blown off; I learnt I good lesson that day. Can you guess which one.... 1, don't mouth off at drivers in Texas 'cos everyone's armed 2, buy a bigger gun, maybe something that says desert eagle down the side 3, buy some new cycling gear in HPD colours 4, all of the above Laters, Marz |
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My Close Call 2007 (1)
"dgk" wrote: Good way to get shot Bill. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ There are no good ways to get shot. |
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My Close Call 2007 (1)
Close call #1, 2003
Where/When: Outskirts of small town, daylight, fair weather. Me: riding road bike on main road, back from a good ride, 25 km/h ? What: A guy starts from a roadside business parking lot and accelerates straight towards me from my side. I escaped by accelerating vigourously and managed to put 20 cm between his front fender and my rear wheel. Guy seemed a bit puzzled. Close call #2, 2004 Where/When: Downtown, winter morning, night. Me: riding road bike with a small diode headlight, because the commuter was at the bike shop for a repair. Downhill, 35 km/h ? What: A guy starts straight in front of me from a private parking lot, with poor line of sight. I brake like hell, and end up shouting leaning with my hand against the back of his car. Guy stops, and says he hasn't seen me. Has been asking the city to put a mirror there for some time, without success. Close call #3, 2006 Where/When: Downtown, evening, night. Roadworks reduce street width to one lane for a short distance (about 20 m). I have the right of way, oncoming trafic has to yield. Me: Riding my commuter bike with SON/Lumotec light (= visible), at the center of the only lane, ~20 km/h. What: A guy coming the other way, instead of waiting for me to be out of the way (would have taken 5 seconds ?), accelerates towards me with high noisy rpms. Out of fear I pull to the right, but out of rage I can't resist banging my fist against his window. Very stupid idea: he is going so fast that my banging actually got me a swollen and painful thumb, which is curing only slowly. The guy didn't stop, didn't even slow down. More-than-close call #4, 2005 Where/When: Outskirts of small town, morning, mist/light fog against rising sun. Major road, 2 lanes in each direction, low trafic. Me: riding loaded touring bike, yellow vest, red panniers, at the far right edge of the road (too far to the right perhaps ?). What: Guy hits me from behind and sends me flying into the grass. Broken rib, bike damaged. The guy says he hasn't seen me - well, I expect he didn't hit me on purpuse... Plus a few others... all this, lined in row, might seem scary, but actually these events are rather rare. No close call yet in 2007, but it's been only 4 days... |
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My Close Call 2007 (1)
what does THIS button do? wrote:
I propose an omnibus thread to gather all the missed-me-by-that-much posts and offer the following to start when/whe today about 15:35, on Prairie north of Wilson in Batavia (IL) , going to work. Me: ultraflourescent hit-me-orange with retroflective stripes, made for autobahn workers, high vis vest, blaze-clip-me-orange hunting gloves, flashy spandex speedo tights. MTB, riding right wheel rut, 18 in a 25. Sunny. This made you an excellent target. what: Giant ,*shiny* jacked-up black 4 door chevy pickup, Daddy driving, wife and daughter onboard, passes so close that his mirror missed my head by about 4 inches. speeding. Guy laughs at me when i inform him of his near whacking experience. See. Fortunately, wife and little girl look mortified. oh well. beats getting stuck in a fenderwell. .max |
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My Close Call 2007 (1)
dgk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:28:52 GMT, Bill Baka wrote: If you had time to inform him, you didn't have time to drag him out of the truck and teach him some manners? Face to face is a great equalizer. Many of the pickup yahoos I have run ins with will just not get out of their protective box, now thinking they have ****ed off a lunatic. Maybe in my case. Bill Baka Good way to get shot Bill. Nobody lives forever and I am approaching forever quickly. Besides, I just can't stand to let these assholes drive off with a smile like they just scared the **** out of me. My personality flaw. I've been stabbed before, but not seriously, nor shot, yet. Bill Baka |
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My Close Call 2007 (1)
On 2 Jan 2007 20:45:33 -0800, "what does THIS button do?"
wrote: I propose an omnibus thread to gather all the missed-me-by-that-much posts and offer the following to start when/whe today about 15:35, on Prairie north of Wilson in Batavia (IL) , going to work. Me: ultraflourescent hit-me-orange with retroflective stripes, made for autobahn workers, high vis vest, blaze-clip-me-orange hunting gloves, flashy spandex speedo tights. MTB, riding right wheel rut, 18 in a 25. Sunny. what: Giant ,*shiny* jacked-up black 4 door chevy pickup, Daddy driving, wife and daughter onboard, passes so close that his mirror missed my head by about 4 inches. speeding. Guy laughs at me when i inform him of his near whacking experience. Fortunately, wife and little girl look mortified. oh well. beats getting stuck in a fenderwell. .max This happened this past summer. I was in the country and came upon a sweeping, gentle right curve as the oncoming car approached, to is, a gentle, sweeping left curve. At the moment we were able to see each other the car made such a purposeful move right at me that I figured it was a stupid kid trying to scare the guy on the bike. I pulled all the way to the berm and stopped, determined to make eye contact with the driver -- you know, sort of like that poster "The Last Great Act of Defiance" (a mouse giving a hawk the finger as the hawk scoops down to make a meal of it.) I'm assuming the car was doing better than 50 mph. Anyway, as I stood in the berm the car kept coming right at me, well past what I would have considered needed for let's-scare-the-biker fun. And this is where it got scary. When the car got close enough to make eye contact I noticed it was a little old lady looking up over the steering wheel. She wasn't trying to scare me ... she just hadn't seen me. She cranked the wheel hard to the right when she saw me. I kept an eye on her as she bobbed down the road to make sure she didn't end up in the soy beans. I'm pretty sure this is the same little old lady I saw blow through a stop sign, without slowing, a couple of weeks before. I'm sure she looked as she approaced the Y in the road, noticed there was nothing as big as a tractor or car coming, and then didn't bother to stop. Had I been a little quicker that day she might have hit me broadside. |
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