Re: Have you ever struck back?

"Raymo853" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> While riding your bike have you ever struck back at a car that cut you
off,
> nearly hit you, etc?
>

No, I've never gone offensive physically.  Once I did choose not to move
over when for safety reasons I should have.  It was on a street that has
parked cars and effectively one wide lane for each direction.  Coming up to
a T-intersection, parked cars lane ends amd becomes a right turn lane and
the travel lane becomes the left turn lane.  I was turning left so after
looking back to check the traffic behind me and making eye contact, I move a
little to the left to take the left turning lane.  Of course cars often
think they can zip around you there.  Guy comes around and doesn't have
enough time to get back in before stopping behind other cars alreadystopped
at the light.  So he slowly starts moving over as if I'm not there.  I
didn't move and hollered "What's your problem!" at him just before he bumped
into me.  Fortunately this is at very low speed as we are approaching a red
light  I leaned over and looked into the car at him and he kinda gave me
this stupid sorry look.  Looking back it would have still been dangerous for
me to slip over into the right lane because who knows what was coming up in
that lane, but it probably would have been safer for me to just split the
lanes and go to the front like many cyclists do.  Fortunately he was not one
of the mos cruel people out there.