MegaMFFY 3359

You want to ride along? I'll extend you the same invite I do to anyone who doesn't believe me. Of course if it's bicycling, you better be able to do 30mph on flat ground because I'm not slowing up for you.

I'm extreme attentive, that's why I notice it all.

Why the hell would I want attention for?

You're the one trying for a peeing contest.

Because it's normally truckers who do that rutine... why be so mysterous?

He was f***ing with me. He created a condition where I had to slow. Of course you don't see that way, you see it as not being a compliant person who allows himself to be pushed around.

No, I said I moved to the right so he would no longer be on my butt. Once in the right lane I was only moving slightly faster (about 2mph) faster than the driver in the left lane. The right lane becomes right turn only further up, and if I hadn't had a van 2 feet off my rear bumper I would have remained in the left lane.

To ever so slightly below the limit. It's the RIGHT lane. I have no obligation and now had no other way to keep him off my butt other than to accelerate rapidly and be subject to ticketing by the cops. So you think I should have driven 60mph in a 40mph zone to satisify this van driver and be safe?

To the normal speed of traffic because I was going straight and that was the only way I could change lanes. If the van driver had not been tailgating me, there would have never been any issue of any kind.

He was driving in a manner that negatively impacted me, I could have cared less about him until he sucked up to the rear bumper of my car. At that point, all I wanted was him off my bumper. But thanks to speed enforcement, I couldn't use acceleration as a tool. I got out of his way initially. It's not my fault he found someone else in his way.

But let me get this straight, you expected me to move to the right and punch the accelerator up to 60mph to satisify this guy? Yet, you also expect me to drive at or below the speed limit, but that's 'f***ing with the guy' It sounds like you just want to fault me.

Bicycling wise, many people have simply surrendered their right to use the roadway to avoid conflict. They use sidewalks and such. I find sidewalks too dangerous to ride and I ride too fast for them anyway. Not to mention it's illegal. Just following the vehicle code and using the road is enough to pee off drivers. I worked with someone who was also a vehicular bicyclist and he had just as many problems per mile on the roads around here as I did. A bicyclist I worked with recently had somewhat less problems but he would take to the sidewalk at times and most of his milage was on roads with far fewer drivers which explained the difference.

Driving wise, I don't have any more problems than anyone else either. The only unusual problem is that my cars seem to be targets for teenage drivers over the last decade. I've also at times driven pbuttively where I don't hold my ground because I figured that would scare a pbuttenger. Guess what? They were even more scared as people tailgated, cut me off, etc and so forth.

I still remember one woman I went out with... I was in a left turn lane, in the lane next to me was an F body. That lane was supposed to go straight. The light turns green and mr. f body moves to cut me off and turn LEFT. I was first in the queue BTW. There was only one recieving lane and it was a small urban intersection at the end of the ramp off the expressway. I backed off because she was in the car, and then she commented that I only let him go because she was in the car... This was the first time she had ever ridden with me. These things don't go away when I don't hold my ground, they actually happen more often if anything.

Which is exactly how things go when I am bicycling. If I don't take a confident, strong position, some drivers will take that as license to run me off the road. The automobile allows me some more protection, but just appearing to be someone that can be pushed around attracts those who push. I could drive around entirely pbuttively and have even more things to note down and post.

Then obviously you drive in an entirely different environment.