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Originally Posted by GMScud
I cut through Rock Creek Park at least 3 or 4 days a week. I spend too much time behind cyclists. My big beef isn't so much that they're on the road. It's that they want every right a car has, and then (for the most part, but not all) they ignore things like stop signs. Just rubs me the wrong way.
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I agree with you. I myself am a cyclist and it kills me when others don't follow the rules. (I've also noticed that a lot of these same jerks don't wear helmets.)
I'm sure this behavior is the reason that, when I was hit head-on in a triathlon by a motorist who insisted on entering the course, who then started screaming at me afterwards (forget an apology), they only fined him $35 for reckless driving. In fact, the police wouldn't even come over to talk to me! As for me, I was in excruciating pain for a month while I was trying to increase the range of motion in my knee to 90 degrees. And my bike was totaled of course.
(By the way, I am OK with not stopping at a stop sign on an uphill when there's no traffic there.)