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http://www.velonews.com/article/99800/dr-thompson-is-found-guilty-of-al…
You can find all the days summaries in the Blue box. The Doc was just an arrogant Fuck, some of his comments after the incident are real head shakers. Looks like he will meet a few new friends soon.
You can find all the days summaries in the Blue box. The Doc was just an arrogant Fuck, some of his comments after the incident are real head shakers. Looks like he will meet a few new friends soon.
If it were a truck going the speed limit then what? A real chickenshit thing to do.
He caused a collision where he could hurt the other guy and not himself. He deserves to get sent up for it.
The Shop
Pull that around here and you can expect to get a visit from the cops.
I hope this guy gets some real jail time. People seem to fail to realize that cyclists have the same rights to the road as motorist do. If its not save for me to ride near the edge of the road, I'll ride in the middle. Do you really think that 30 seconds of your life is worth putting someone else's into serious risk?
Darwin Award winners?
I have seen many cyclist that act like dickheads though. Seems that there are people on both sides of the issue that need to do a better job of respecting others.
I've ridden 1,000's of miles on the road on a bicycle. I always respected the cars, as I was more of a guest on their roads. Too bad others do see it the same way. I'm not going to get into a cage with a bull and try and piss him off!!! It's all about respect, unfortunately that seems to be a dying trait among Americans...
Otherwise anybody can take pictures of others plates and tell the police anything they want.
Screw THAT.
Pit Row
I see lots of dumb stuff out where I live. Heres a "werid" one that happened to me the other day. Im in my truck, on a 2 lane country road, speed about 45 mph. I come to a large "S' turn in the road. I start around the bend and as I do I notice a couple of cars are heading towards me in the opposite lane. But what catches my attention is they are both pulling into my lane (on coming) so that they can give a wide berth to two bicyclist who are doing their best to ride on the very outside of the asphalt but the road edge is pretty bad and there is no bike lane. Normally Id just get over to my right as much as possible to give the oncoming cars plenty of room. But this time Id need to put my right side wheels in the dirt to facilitate this....still not a real big deal except that on my shoulder of the road were two women walking towards me. So now I have 3 options and 3 nano seconds to make a choice. 1. I can have a head on collision with the cars. 2 I can save my life and take the lives of the two women as I make them hood ornaments or 3. I can jump on the binders and hope I can stop in time. I opted for #3 and the oncoming cars swooped back into their lane at the last moment.
What "should" have happened but almost never does is the drivers coming up behind the bicyclist should have slowed down to the speed the bikes were going and followed them around the turn until it was safe to pass. But what almost always happens is the car driver will usually give a little room and even swerve to their left but will almost never slow any at all and usually seem to just try to squeeze thru and thread the needle.
It just shows how impatient a spieces we are. To the point of taking chances and doing dumb shit. Including riding bicycles on roads that put said riders life in danger.
If it was a tailgating case they couldn't have convicted him, but he admitted to trying to "teach them a lesson" by getting in front of them and slamming on the brakes.
Insurance scammers do the same thing with their cars to big trucks to get 'slam dunk rear ender' settlements from trucking companies. Difference being, unlike the driver of the car in this story - at least the scammers have some skin in the game when they get whacked by a truck. ...
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