bike rage
18 July 2008
To the a'hole that felt compelled to lay his car horn at me for TEN SECONDS this morning:
I'm sorry that I held you up and increased your commute by five seconds. I know that your huge pickup truck, that you were driving alone, can barely fit in the lane without a pesky bicycle in it. I know that you're probably already pissed at how expensive it is to fill up that monster every other day. I know you probably hate the 45 minutes of traffic that you have to fight each way so you can live the suburban dream. And now some punk has the audacity to ride his bike in road?
Well, all I can say is that you did this to yourself. Don't take it out on me. Bicycles have a legal right to the road. I only have three miles to commute because I chose to live close to where I work. I haven't filled up my car in two weeks and have stopped paying attention to gas prices. Let me do my thing, and lay off the effing honking. Thanks.
In related news, I'm kickin' it old skool these days with a '83 KHS road bike that I found on Craigslist (for $50!).
It's way better than riding a granny-gear mountain bike on the road. It's old and heavy, and only has 10 gears, but it sure can cruise.
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Sorry to post as a complete stranger, but I found your site through the wigshop and I have a bike terror story of my own. I ride to work and the other day a polite young man with a mullet actually PUSHED me out of the way with his pickup truck at a crosswalk (I had the right of way, not that that apparently mattered.) I wasn't hurt, but someone else probably will be at the hands of this guy and his gas-drunk machine. We Knoxville bike riders need to unite against the evil combination of subpar intelligence and deadly vehicles!!
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