93legendti
11-19-2006, 01:48 PM
I almost got hit by a car today--well I got tapped by one. I was riding my Fierte CX, enjoying the light snow shower, glad I was dressed properly and enjoying the Avocet Cross II 38c's I had put on to try. (Nice tire on smooth pavement, but like most bigger tires, imho, too bouncy over rough stuff--at least at 75 psi).
So I am riding steady, on a bike path/sidewalk, on a route I ride fairly often, on the way to meet my family for lunch. I was enjoying the type of ride Tom posted about yesterday. As I come up to a Mall, I notice an old lady slowly pulling out onto the street in my way at a right angle to me. I yell: HEY, STOP, but her reactions were too slow--(maybe she didn't care, more on that later). If I could have stopped, I would have but I was too close to her.) So my left side and her front bumper got to the same point at the same time. Amazingly, although she tapped me and my rear wheel is REALLY out of whack, I didn't go down--although the front of my left foot somehow ended up on the right side of my front tire. Anyway, I come to a stop and yell: ARE YOU CRAZY? YOU ALMOST HURT ME! She rolled down her window and aksed if I was crazy and she drove off. I couldn't get her license plate--so that's that. I am pretty sure there is no stop sign there for people on the path--as I ride there at least once a week. So, I figure I am lucky (I already knew that) and I hope I got the "H" word out of my system. Be carefull out there folks...
So I am riding steady, on a bike path/sidewalk, on a route I ride fairly often, on the way to meet my family for lunch. I was enjoying the type of ride Tom posted about yesterday. As I come up to a Mall, I notice an old lady slowly pulling out onto the street in my way at a right angle to me. I yell: HEY, STOP, but her reactions were too slow--(maybe she didn't care, more on that later). If I could have stopped, I would have but I was too close to her.) So my left side and her front bumper got to the same point at the same time. Amazingly, although she tapped me and my rear wheel is REALLY out of whack, I didn't go down--although the front of my left foot somehow ended up on the right side of my front tire. Anyway, I come to a stop and yell: ARE YOU CRAZY? YOU ALMOST HURT ME! She rolled down her window and aksed if I was crazy and she drove off. I couldn't get her license plate--so that's that. I am pretty sure there is no stop sign there for people on the path--as I ride there at least once a week. So, I figure I am lucky (I already knew that) and I hope I got the "H" word out of my system. Be carefull out there folks...