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PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:19 am 
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I was riding my bike down Lunt just now. Heading to the dead end at Sacramento where I was going to turn left. There was reasonably heavy traffic. People use Lunt like a superhighway and many fail to even stop at the stop signs. I was about fifty yards from the intersection getting ready to signal my left turn when this motherfucker started blowing his horn at me. I turned around and waved at him and he drove right up on me trying to hit me. I started yelling and he began yelling back. He swerved right and brushed my shoulder. I had to grab the bike and pull myself right. I told him to get out of the car. Thank God he didn't because he looked like a steroidal freak. Anyway, there was a guy playing ball with his kid who saw the whole thing and got his plate number.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, but here's some advice for you young firefighters at home. If you're going to try to run people over, it's best not to have a vanity plate with your engine company on it.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:35 am 
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yeah, bike riding. not worth it.

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Hatchetman wrote:
yeah, bike riding. not worth it.


The thing is, I'm not a militant bike rider. I think Critical Mass people are douchebags. I'm in my car way more than I'm on my bike. I often feel frustrated while driving when bikes are around me. But I don't try to run them off the road. I'm not exaggerating here. This guy was really trying to hit me. He actually screamed, "You tried to hit me!!!!" :lol:

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I been there. challenged a guy to get out of his car. he came out with one of those mini-baseball bats they used to give away at ball games. not sure what was going to happen and then some johnny do-gooder came over and got in between us. At least I had a bike helmet on. LOL.

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we need a "start seeing bicycles" campaign


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I hate bicyclists when I'm driving my car, and I hate drivers when I'm riding my bike. I can't win/lose.

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My only issue with bikers is the guys who fly through intersections after I have come to a complete stop and have now accelerated, but I need to stop again because the DB on his Little 500 racing bike with his messenger bag thinks the stop sign doesnt apply to him and he can zip on through.

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IMO bicycles should stay on the sidewalk. The risk level with striking pedestrians is way lower than the cars-to-bikes ratio.

Bikes do not belong on the road.


Wrong. Bikes are legal road vehicles in all 50 states. This is just claptrap anyway. Like saying the internal combustion engine should be outlawed.

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I hate bicyclists when I'm driving my car, and I hate drivers when I'm riding my bike. I can't win/lose.


I think that's normal. I feel the same way. Still, I've never tried to run anyone off the road.

The perception when you're in your car is that the guy on the bike is slowing you down. That's perception more than reality. It leads to dumb stuff like what Panther posted above. If half the people driving to work this morning were on bikes instead of in cars, the commute for those in cars would be much faster.

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You sure it was Lunt and not Melvina?

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My only issue with bikers is the guys who fly through intersections after I have come to a complete stop and have now accelerated, but I need to stop again because the DB on his Little 500 racing bike with his messenger bag thinks the stop sign doesnt apply to him and he can zip on through.


I agree that you rarely see a guy on a bike following the rules of the road. I follow them just as if I were in my car, with the exception of slow rolling stop signs when no one else is there which I believe is permitted for cyclists in Illinois. I don't want the other guy's right-of-way. I just want mine. But drivers are understandably so ready for you to do something stupid on your bike that they often want the cyclist to take the right-of-way.

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badrogue17 wrote:
You sure it was Lunt and not Melvina?


It was Lunt for sure, about 21 blocks west of Paulina.

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You sure it was Lunt and not Melvina?


It was Lunt for sure, about 21 blocks west of Paulina.


You missed his joke about the three city streets that rhyme with vagina.

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I hate bicyclists when I'm driving my car, and I hate drivers when I'm riding my bike. I can't win/lose.

Hitchhike?

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hey, that rhymes with stunt!

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:lol: :lol: :lol: OMG. Engine 78 is the fire station outside Wrigley :lol: :lol: :lol:

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JORR is barking up the wrong tree!

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Chus wrote:
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You sure it was Lunt and not Melvina?


It was Lunt for sure, about 21 blocks west of Paulina.


You missed his joke about the three city streets that rhyme with vagina.


No he didn't :lol:

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I see now that he did type Paulina. I has a sad.

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:lol: :lol: :lol: OMG. Engine 78 is the fire station outside Wrigley :lol: :lol: :lol:



:lol: Really? Maybe the guy is just a Cubs fan and not a fireman. But I think it was a specialty firefighter plate.

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:lol: :lol: :lol: OMG. Engine 78 is the fire station outside Wrigley :lol: :lol: :lol:



:lol: Really? Maybe the guy is just a Cubs fan and not a fireman. But I think it was a specialty firefighter plate.


:lol: :lol:

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Same car was seen outside the Starbucks near Theos house. They all read the board .

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I was riding my bike down Lunt just now. Heading to the dead end at Sacramento where I was going to turn left. There was reasonably heavy traffic. People use Lunt like a superhighway and many fail to even stop at the stop signs. I was about fifty yards from the intersection getting ready to signal my left turn when this motherfucker started blowing his horn at me. I turned around and waved at him and he drove right up on me trying to hit me. I started yelling and he began yelling back. He swerved right and brushed my shoulder. I had to grab the bike and pull myself right. I told him to get out of the car. Thank God he didn't because he looked like a steroidal freak. Anyway, there was a guy playing ball with his kid who saw the whole thing and got his plate number.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, but here's some advice for you young firefighters at home. If you're going to try to run people over, it's best not to have a vanity plate with your engine company on it.


Sorry, but I was in a hurry.

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I was riding my bike down Lunt just now. Heading to the dead end at Sacramento where I was going to turn left. There was reasonably heavy traffic. People use Lunt like a superhighway and many fail to even stop at the stop signs. I was about fifty yards from the intersection getting ready to signal my left turn when this motherfucker started blowing his horn at me. I turned around and waved at him and he drove right up on me trying to hit me. I started yelling and he began yelling back. He swerved right and brushed my shoulder. I had to grab the bike and pull myself right. I told him to get out of the car. Thank God he didn't because he looked like a steroidal freak. Anyway, there was a guy playing ball with his kid who saw the whole thing and got his plate number.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, but here's some advice for you young firefighters at home. If you're going to try to run people over, it's best not to have a vanity plate with your engine company on it.

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Walt Williams Neck wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I was riding my bike down Lunt just now. Heading to the dead end at Sacramento where I was going to turn left. There was reasonably heavy traffic. People use Lunt like a superhighway and many fail to even stop at the stop signs. I was about fifty yards from the intersection getting ready to signal my left turn when this motherfucker started blowing his horn at me. I turned around and waved at him and he drove right up on me trying to hit me. I started yelling and he began yelling back. He swerved right and brushed my shoulder. I had to grab the bike and pull myself right. I told him to get out of the car. Thank God he didn't because he looked like a steroidal freak. Anyway, there was a guy playing ball with his kid who saw the whole thing and got his plate number.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, but here's some advice for you young firefighters at home. If you're going to try to run people over, it's best not to have a vanity plate with your engine company on it.

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Chus wrote:
Walt Williams Neck wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I was riding my bike down Lunt just now. Heading to the dead end at Sacramento where I was going to turn left. There was reasonably heavy traffic. People use Lunt like a superhighway and many fail to even stop at the stop signs. I was about fifty yards from the intersection getting ready to signal my left turn when this motherfucker started blowing his horn at me. I turned around and waved at him and he drove right up on me trying to hit me. I started yelling and he began yelling back. He swerved right and brushed my shoulder. I had to grab the bike and pull myself right. I told him to get out of the car. Thank God he didn't because he looked like a steroidal freak. Anyway, there was a guy playing ball with his kid who saw the whole thing and got his plate number.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, but here's some advice for you young firefighters at home. If you're going to try to run people over, it's best not to have a vanity plate with your engine company on it.

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:lol: :lol: :lol:



I often wonder why Walt's GIFs are so spot on and hilarious when his written posts are so utterly moronic.

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I been there. challenged a guy to get out of his car. he came out with one of those mini-baseball bats they used to give away at ball games. not sure what was going to happen and then some johnny do-gooder came over and got in between us. At least I had a bike helmet on. LOL.


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