interesting encounter

"MattB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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You're obviously in the right. I've had similar encounters (without the size
advantage). Just remember that some right people get shot in such
encounters. My brother's had a gun flashed at him in a similar situation.

Flashing a gun would have been a grave mistake by these putzes,
especially at 7th and North in heavy traffic. It was a Witness-O-Rama
and even gun-toting chickenshits aren't that dumb. I had the license
plate tattooed in my brain before I even yelled at the doof and felony
menacing in Colorado=time.

JD

miles todd <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Shaun Bell said:

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JD

Had a lady cut us off on a Sunday Road ride. Cut's in front and starts
yelling at us about how we should get the _uck off the road and such. Why
is that funny? Well, she lives two doors down from where she cut us off.
There was about thirty riders. And we all know what roadies are like hehe!

ummm ... gay?

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Shaun Bell

Shaun! You're alive! Where have you been hiding? Oh, and How's the
Bobblehead thing going?

miles

Bobblehead? From the Rag Doll? That's a riot! I think I busted a gut.

JD

Ken in KC <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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A real bad ass would have punched the guy out through the window.

Maybe about 15 years ago I would have. I can't afford assault
charges, so I just let the little turd know he screwed up.

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Thanks for sharing.

See you in a couple of weeks?

Yeah man, I'll be here. Don't jump out in front of me at the Crit
this year! A few of the locals are gunning to unseat Pete Webber as
the champ.

JD

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So, I decide that active rest was to run downtown on the cruiser today
to accomplish various tasks. At one point I used a left turn lane and
made a safe left turn onto a sidestreet from a main artery. Well,
after I finish my turn some goatee-wearing putz passenger in a black
pickup yells at me in passsing to get out of the street. I can hear
the traffic slowing for a signal the direction the offensive creep is
headed, so I decide to cut down an alley to see exactly what his
malfunction is. The truck was stopped at the light and I slid right
up next to it and yelled into the face of the goatee punk, "YOU GOT
SOMETHING TO SAY (insert expletive here)?!?!?" A look of disbelief is
the first thing out of him as he stared blankly into the face of the
[censored] bicycle rider who was obviously much bigger than he. Then
his look turns to smug as he rolls the window up, saying "Huh?" at the
same time. "Just what I thought, you're a (insert expletives here)."
Of course, the fat [censored] (who was also wearing a goatee) who was
driving decided to not give chase, as I gave them plenty of
opportunity to do so as I rode off. Some people's kids...

Nice work Jock, I'm damned proud of ya. Car wielding [censored] asshats [censored]
me right the hell off, and I see enough of them.

Yesterday, commuting home from work, on a section of wide road with a good
cycle lane, I came upon a car waiting to turn right into his drive way, and
another car stopped just behind, waiting to pass.

As I came up to just in front of the side of this pair, riding in the cycle
lane, I hear the loud blast of a horn, right behind me, making me jump out
my damned skin. I looked back and right at the two cars, but they didn't
seem to be the culprits. Looked over my left shoulder, and right the hell
behind me, half on pavement, half in the cycle lane, is some impatient
[censored] of a postal worker in a big red collection van trundling up toward
me, trying to get to the post box to my side.

I gave him the finger, the [censored] sine, glared and shouted. Damned [censored],
making me nervous to save himself 30 freaking seconds (I thoroughly
_DESPISE_ horn abusers). So, I carry on, and he tears past me after doing
his thing with the post box, wide birth, fast as hell, trying no doubt to
get to the next box and away before I caught up.

Still, caught the [censored] at the next box, he saw me coming and crouched behind
it trying to hide, wimp. That gave me my satisfaction, so I just called him
a [censored] [censored] [censored] and carried on home.

I don't think there's a single day on this short commute where a driver
doesn't [censored] me off.

Cheers, and stay safe.

Shaun aRe

Loomer said:

I want to retire in Denmark and ride my bike and watch the purty women
there. American knuckleheads get to me sometimes.

But Denmark blows for mountain biking. Their highest peak is about 30 ft.
Retire round the Alps, or something.

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"bomba" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Loomer said:

I want to retire in Denmark and ride my bike and watch the purty women
there. American knuckleheads get to me sometimes.

But Denmark blows for mountain biking. Their highest peak is about 30 ft.
Retire round the Alps, or something.

Jeez, even Louisiana smokes that. I think ours is a whopping 300 ft.

JD said:

"MattB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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You're obviously in the right. I've had similar encounters (without
the size advantage). Just remember that some right people get shot
in such encounters. My brother's had a gun flashed at him in a
similar situation.

Flashing a gun would have been a grave mistake by these putzes,
especially at 7th and North in heavy traffic. It was a Witness-O-Rama
and even gun-toting chickenshits aren't that dumb. I had the license
plate tattooed in my brain before I even yelled at the doof and felony
menacing in Colorado=time.

JD

Which would be helpful as long as you're not dead...
Just my thoughts. Glad you got to give him a piece and it didn't get any
uglier.

Matt

JD said:

Yeah man, I'll be here. Don't jump out in front of me at the Crit
this year! A few of the locals are gunning to unseat Pete Webber as
the champ.

JD

The Carcass is defending champ? Heh. Small world. Kick his aßß, and
tell him I said hi.

miles

JD said:

miles todd <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Shaun Bell said:

>JD

Had a lady cut us off on a Sunday Road ride. Cut's in front and starts
yelling at us about how we should get the _uck off the road and such. Why
is that funny? Well, she lives two doors down from where she cut us off.
There was about thirty riders. And we all know what roadies are like hehe!

ummm ... gay?

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Shaun Bell

Shaun! You're alive! Where have you been hiding? Oh, and How's the
Bobblehead thing going?

miles

Bobblehead? From the Rag Doll? That's a riot! I think I busted a gut.

JD

Hey! I know how to go with the flow! You don't see me wearing some
metal headdress, now do you?

miles (I got moves like Gumby)

Saturday leaving work guy pulls out in front of me just
to cruise the parking lot. I got my eye on him to see if he parks it. No
tire repair there. Man in big hurry stuck at red light a 1/4 mile away
leaving mall parking lot . I pull up behind the black Lancer
and get a look at the plate and he speeds off like out of the pits at
some high stakes race only to get stuck at the next light to turn left
for I 95 while I go pedaling by I yell big hurry and getting no where.
What I 'm 2/3 slower then him and I'm getting somewhere. Home ward
bound and 5 minutes down and 5 minutes to go.

I MTB 2004

[email hidden] (JD) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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So, I decide that active rest was to run downtown on the cruiser today
to accomplish various tasks. At one point I used a left turn lane and
made a safe left turn onto a sidestreet from a main artery. Well,
after I finish my turn some goatee-wearing putz passenger in a black
pickup yells at me in passsing to get out of the street. I can hear
the traffic slowing for a signal the direction the offensive creep is
headed, so I decide to cut down an alley to see exactly what his
malfunction is. The truck was stopped at the light and I slid right
up next to it and yelled into the face of the goatee punk, "YOU GOT
SOMETHING TO SAY (insert expletive here)?!?!?" A look of disbelief is
the first thing out of him as he stared blankly into the face of the
[censored] bicycle rider who was obviously much bigger than he. Then
his look turns to smug as he rolls the window up, saying "Huh?" at the
same time. "Just what I thought, you're a (insert expletives here)."
Of course, the fat [censored] (who was also wearing a goatee) who was
driving decided to not give chase, as I gave them plenty of
opportunity to do so as I rode off. Some people's kids...

JD

Guess you proved once again you're not exactly the average roadie, eh?
Surprised those suckers a tad, did we? Good job. But I agree that
such indulgences have to be balanced now and then with a healthy
respect for any weapons the idiots might be toting.

I accidentally cut off a Harley rider with my pickup, and he followed
me honking and swearing and gesturing for a couple miles. I finally
slowed down, let him pull up, then I yelled out, "Sorry, but you have
to let it go, buddy!" He finally did, after flipping me off for the
100th time.

paladin

"MattB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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JD said:

So, I decide that active rest was to run downtown on the cruiser today
to accomplish various tasks. At one point I used a left turn lane and
made a safe left turn onto a sidestreet from a main artery. Well,
after I finish my turn some goatee-wearing putz passenger in a black
pickup yells at me in passsing to get out of the street. I can hear
the traffic slowing for a signal the direction the offensive creep is
headed, so I decide to cut down an alley to see exactly what his
malfunction is. The truck was stopped at the light and I slid right
up next to it and yelled into the face of the goatee punk, "YOU GOT
SOMETHING TO SAY (insert expletive here)?!?!?" A look of disbelief is
the first thing out of him as he stared blankly into the face of the
[censored] bicycle rider who was obviously much bigger than he. Then
his look turns to smug as he rolls the window up, saying "Huh?" at the
same time. "Just what I thought, you're a (insert expletives here)."
Of course, the fat [censored] (who was also wearing a goatee) who was
driving decided to not give chase, as I gave them plenty of
opportunity to do so as I rode off. Some people's kids...

JD

You're obviously in the right. I've had similar encounters (without the size
advantage). Just remember that some right people get shot in such
encounters. My brother's had a gun flashed at him in a similar situation.

Matt (prefers to take my chances offroad)

Not only that. I'm take the same routes almost every day, commuting to
work from Brooklyn to Manhattan. I have almost daily confrontations,
ranging from a loud bark to spitting to literally spanking drivers.
There are [censored] everywhere. But I have to remember that if I'm
commuting using the same route everyday, chances are that they are
too. They can wait a month to run me over. A year. Beyond an
exagerrated sense of security, that comically inept little piece of
foam I usually wear on my head isn't going to help much. Most drivers
don't have guns, but they all have cars. It hasn't stopped me from
riding, but I always ride with the thought that everybody on the
street is out to kill me. That includes pedestrians.
With the said, you've got to put everybody in their place, and that
usually means some sort of loud verbal threat. Non-cyclists seem to
assume cyclist have some sort of deathwish, but it's exactly the
opposite. Let them know. Loud pipes save lives.

/s

mojo deluxe said:

"bomba" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Loomer said:

I want to retire in Denmark and ride my bike and watch the purty women
there. American knuckleheads get to me sometimes.

But Denmark blows for mountain biking. Their highest peak is about 30 ft.
Retire round the Alps, or something.

Jeez, even Louisiana smokes that. I think ours is a whopping 300 ft.

Isn't the highest point in New Orleans a dirt mound they built in/near
the monkey cage in the zoo?

--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado
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supabonbon says:

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With the said, you've got to put everybody in their place, and that
usually means some sort of loud verbal threat. Non-cyclists seem to
assume cyclist have some sort of deathwish, but it's exactly the
opposite. Let them know. Loud pipes save lives.

I used to have an air-powered foghorn mounted to the bars on my Carlton when i
commuted through London (ah, youth!) which proved very effective - especially
when used on w@nkers in convertibles trying to show off their sporty cars to
the new gf. ;-)

Steve

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I used to have an air-powered foghorn mounted to the bars on my Carlton when
i
commuted through London (ah, youth!) which proved very effective - especially
when used on w@nkers in convertibles trying to show off their sporty cars to
the new gf. ;-)

Stev

I've always relied on a ref's whistle on a string around my neck. It gets
attention and weighs almost nothing.

That said, as fun as it is to tell off motorists, please try not to. I really
don't want to be the next bicyclist some [censored] comes across after he's just
been chewed out.

Cheers,

-Andrew

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4th, I was afraid that these two bruisers of women weere going to get out
and tag team me but they just flipped me off and said [censored] you.

Take out the adjective bruisers and replace with hot 18-20 something and
that's a fantasy come true!

Michael

A buddy of mine took a can of coke off his helmet once. He swerved but
didn't go down.

Another buddy got a Western Bacon Cheesburger off his chest.

I've just been squirted with water. scared me but the car was long gone by
the time I recovered enough to realize what it was.

Michael

Jd said:

Yeah man, I'll be here. Don't jump out in front of me at the Crit
this year! A few of the locals are gunning to unseat Pete Webber as
the champ.
JD

Excellent.... If anyone deserves unseating, it's Pete.

Ken

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:52:49 +0000, Loomer wrote:

>I want to retire in Denmark and ride my bike and watch the purty women
>there. American knuckleheads get to me sometimes.

But Denmark blows for mountain biking. Their highest peak is about 30

ft.

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Retire round the Alps, or something.

Jeez, even Louisiana smokes that. I think ours is a whopping 300 ft.

Isn't the highest point in New Orleans a dirt mound they built in/near
the monkey cage in the zoo?

It may very well be, since the entire city is below sea level. The city is
slowly sinking, at that!

That 300 ft elevation is way up in the northern part of the state.

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Loomer said:

I want to retire in Denmark and ride my bike and watch the purty women
there. American knuckleheads get to me sometimes.

But Denmark blows for mountain biking. Their highest peak is about 30 ft.
Retire round the Alps, or something.

No the urban riding kicks but there. And Copenhagen has "Christiania".