Friday May 02, 2008 at 15:17
"Score one for the cyclist"
The Surly Bikes has a great story up on its blog about how the writer was riding his bike on the road fully within his legal rights, but a driver nonetheless decided to lay on her horn and try to scare him off the road. He calmly memorized her license plate and then proceeded to use it to very effectively deal with the situation (I’ll leave you dear reader to read the story).
Yesterday I was nearly sent to the emergency room by a woman who tried to suddenly pull into a parking spot while I was riding along side her. In comparison I handled the situation very poorly. After barely squeezing by her front fender, I returned to the car yelling that she nearly killed me and the Massachusetts General Laws state that a bike lane is a lane of traffic, etc. etc. etc. Which as you can guess just made her yell at me that I should have been more defensive and have anticipated her swerving into my lane without warning (I think she phrased that a little differently).
Eh, it’s incidents like this that make me illogically giddy that gas might hit $7/gallon.
