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02-06.-2004, 03:16 PM
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Re: Hit and Run
"cheg" wrote
> Sorry to hear about your accident. I hope there is some > repercussion for the > driver, sounds like the police have all the info if they > want to pursue it. > > Some years ago I was riding down Ballard Avenue at around > 20 mph when a guy in a > shiny new BMW came up to a stop sign on a crossing street. > He looked me right in > the eye and pulled out in front of me. I don't know how > fast he thought I was > going, but there was no way to miss him. I was braking > with the rear wheel in > the air and still hit him pretty hard, square in the > middle of the driver's > door. The stem was not too tight so the handlebars got > twisted off center. I was > about a few feet from his car straightening the bars when > he got out to inspect > the damage, with an expression of dismay. The bike was OK. > He, on the other > hand, was looking at a sizable bill to fix his stove-in > door. I said: "You're > lucky I'm not injured, you should be more careful." And I > rode away... You really should have told him to buy a sturdier car next time, instead of that flimsy POS... -- mark |
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02-06.-2004, 04:30 PM
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Re: Hit and Run
Wed, 02 Jun 2004 03:00:01 GMT, <Robvc.34783$js4.2013@attbi_s51>,
"Claire Petersky" <cpetersky@mouse-potato.com> wrote: >"Frank Krygowski" <frkrygow@mousepotato.com> wrote in >message news:40bd2612$1@news.ysu.edu... >> Chris wrote: >> >> > This sure does sound like a lot of people getting >> > whacked by cars. >Let's >> > here the others. Bring your tales. >> >> Let's also hear the "NOT getting whacked by cars" tales. >> There are two sides to the story, no? > >Hey, I've been riding for 35 years (not continuously, you >comedians) or so, and this is the first time I've had a >bike/car collision. It's a well established rumour that a close call every six months keeps you alive. My one and only truck/bike collision happened within the first two months of owning my first "ten speed" at age 21. Last week on Georgia Street I was presented the perfect opportunity to take out a brat in a SAAB. She right hooked me but I saw setting up, weighed the options and made a decision to not throw a hip check into her rear quarter panel and start screaming for my lawyer. She deserved it but I was on a different mission. -- zk |
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02-06.-2004, 05:16 PM
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Re: Hit and Run
Glad to hear you aren't seriously hurt, Claire. I hope plod
(UK slang for the police) has the idiot driver up in court before too long. Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune h*$el*$$e*nd**$o$ts**i*$*$m*m$o*n*s@$*a$o*l.c**$om$ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- |
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02-06.-2004, 05:32 PM
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Re: Hit and Run
Claire Petersky wrote:
> I was coming down Dearborn at about 20 mph in to work this > morning, 8:45 AM, full morning daylight, and was right > hooked by someone turning in to Chinatown. He didn't use a > turn signal. I could see him angling in to make the turn, > so I was braking hard. > I'm sorry to hear about your accident. It sounds like you handled it impeccably and avoided what could have been much worse - alert, perfectly controled, reactive. And good for you for getting the doofus' license number! > When I went to get my bike to ride home, I had pangs of > irrational panic. Well, I wouldn't call it irrational! > But my life is structured on using the bike to get home, > so I got on. Great spirit. Much more than your life being structured on using a bike to get home, I have the impression that your joy is physically intricated with the sensation of biking. You even dream about it as the symbol of incarnate life itself. There are plenty other ways to get home, but the joy, that harmonious spirit-body link, is not so easily replaced, and needs to be retained. When I fell off my bike this winter (a far more trivial accident than yours), I had panic for many weeks afterwards. But I was driven to carry on by the memory of how much I had enjoyed biking in the previous summer, and what a pity it would be to lose such a source of endorphins in my life. > Then, I was sure to ride through the same intersection as > the accident, just to affirm that I was not going to be > all freaked out, and it was okay. You're an example to us all. EFR Ile de France |
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02-06.-2004, 05:32 PM
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Re: Hit and Run
Oh, and something else - have you thought of getting one of
those really loud air horns? In a situation like this it would make you harder to ignore. I bought one but am so uncoordinated on my controls (have trouble even actioning the ding-dong bell), that I think it would be a distraction I wouldn't have the presence of mind to use. But I hear stories of accomplished cyclists using blast-horns in traffic to excellent effect. EFR Ile de France |
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02-06.-2004, 08:46 PM
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In article <40bd2612$1@news.ysu.edu>,
frkrygow@mousepotato.com says... > Chris wrote: > > > This sure does sound like a lot of people getting > > whacked by cars. Let's here the others. Bring your > > tales. > > Let's also hear the "NOT getting whacked by cars" tales. > There are two sides to the story, no? > > Do I need to go first? ;-) No!!!!! <GRIN>. Remember that it's the unusual stuff which makes the news(group). Nobody posts when they rode 30 or 50 or 200 miles and didn't get hit by a car. All he needs to do is go back to the recent helmet thread for examples of how long some of us have been riding withOUT a mishap. -- Remove the ns_ from if replying by e-mail (but keep posts in the newsgroups if possible). |
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02-06.-2004, 09:15 PM
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Re: Hit and Run
In article <Robvc.34783$js4.2013@attbi_s51>,
"Claire Petersky" <cpetersky@mouse-potato.com> wrote: > "Frank Krygowski" <frkrygow@mousepotato.com> wrote in > message news:40bd2612$1@news.ysu.edu... > > Chris wrote: > > > > > This sure does sound like a lot of people getting > > > whacked by cars. > Let's > > > here the others. Bring your tales. > > > > Let's also hear the "NOT getting whacked by cars" tales. > > There are two sides to the story, no? > > Hey, I've been riding for 35 years (not continuously, you > comedians) or so, and this is the first time I've had a > bike/car collision. You¹ve been riding since birth?.....  Glad to hear you are OK. Get a good lawyer and make sure this fool cannot afford a car for at least twenty years. HAND -- ³Freedom Is a Light for Which Many Have Died in Darkness³ - Tomb of the unknown - American Revolution |
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02-06.-2004, 10:30 PM
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On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 23:25:51 GMT, "Claire Petersky"
<cpetersky@mouse-potato.com> wrote: >When I went to get my bike to ride home, I had pangs of >irrational panic. I had no problem completing the ride in >to work after the accident, but I was still on adrenaline. Kind of funny how people react to an accident. I remember being worried about racing in a pack - until the first time someone brought down the pack and I ended up with my first chain wheel scar. But my reaction was that I survived and it wasn't as bad as I expected. It ended up making me ride more relaxed. Adrenalin and shock are interesting 'phenomena'. They've always given me the 5 seconds or so I needed to accept that whatever happened is going to hurt, but, well, there it is... (anyone else remember lying down on the ground firmly believing that if you could simply figure out a way not to move, ever again, it might not hurt so much?) So far, however, I've had two reaction accidents from cars but no actual collision with a car. Guilty of falling on a car once when I came to a stop on sand and popping out of the clip didn't exactly work. Don't think that counts. Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on two wheels... |
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02-06.-2004, 10:30 PM
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Re: Hit and Run
I rode in vancouver for 2 hours and am planning a trip to
the mall this summer. Never got hit yet. |
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02-06.-2004, 10:45 PM
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Re: Hit and Run
>I was coming down Dearborn at about 20 mph in to work this morning, 8:45 AM,
>> full morning daylight, and was right hooked by someone >> turning in to Chinatown. He didn't use a turn signal. I >> could see him angling in to make > the turn, so I was braking hard. >> >I'm sorry to hear about your accident. It sounds like you >handled it impeccably and avoided what could have been much >worse - alert, perfectly controled, reactive. And good for >you for getting the doofus' license number! > > Couldn't have said it better. Great job Claire. About the reaction afterwards, I suppose that is normal. I mean it seems like a good way to keep people from doing the same dumb thing twice. I have had similar reactions in similar conditions. It should wear off with time. |
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02-06.-2004, 11:30 PM
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Re: Hit and Run
Route 22 in White Plains, New York.
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03-06.-2004, 12:03 AM
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Re: Hit and Run
Curtis L. Russell wrote:
> (anyone else remember lying down on the ground firmly > believing that if you could simply figure out a way not to > move, ever again, it might not hurt so much?) I always remember to lie quiet at first, waiting for the inital shock to go away. Then I start slowly to move body parts, doscovering what does and doesn't work. I call it "taking inventory". When I got bumped to the pavement last year, a woman came running up and asked me "Are you hurt, shall I call 911?" I replied, "I don't know yet, but I'll know in a minute or so." Turns out I was okay and was able to walk away. The bike had a worse time of it. Then there were the other 300+ days last year when I didn't get hit. -- terry morse Palo Alto, CA http://bike.terrymorse.com/ |
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03-06.-2004, 12:30 AM
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Re: Hit and Run
Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@mousepotato.com> wrote in message news:<40bd2612$1@news.ysu.edu>...
> Let's also hear the "NOT getting whacked by cars" tales. > There are two sides to the story, no? > > Do I need to go first? ;-) I've never had a car-bike crash in 25 years of cycling. My closest calls were a couple of times where drivers turned left in front of me, either oncoming, or from side streets. Between commuting and pleasure cycling I put in around 2000 miles a year on roads. -Steve |
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03-06.-2004, 02:30 AM
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Re: Hit and Run
"Frank Krygowski" <frkrygow@mousepotato.com> wrote in message
news:40bd2612$1@news.ysu.edu... > Chris wrote: > > > This sure does sound like a lot of people getting > > whacked by cars. Let's > > here the others. Bring your tales. > > Let's also hear the "NOT getting whacked by cars" tales. > There are two sides to the story, no? > > Do I need to go first? ;-) > > -- maybe this qualifies. Last year,I was At an intersection, I was about to turn left onto the east-west bike path, and all of a sudden this car is barreling toward me, going south I realized that he was going so fast that I wouldn't have time to start up and get out of the way. I thought, "this time, I'm going to get creamed, I'm going to go right up on the hood and through the windshield." I say 'this time' because a year before I'd been hit by a car,also at an intersection, but it was going very slowly, just starting up, so I wasn't badly hurt. However, this time i'd be creamed. But the guy screeched to a halt and his front fender just touched my front wheel, boomp! The guy had great brakes and great reflexes. He also, unlike other guy, actually got out of his car and asked if I was okay. I was, and the wheel was fine, not even a wobble,but I was pretty wobbly all the way home. Really,though, at that particular intersection, he shouldn't have been going so fast, since it crosses a bike path. I kept thinking if he'd been some really old guy with shit reflexes, I'd have ended up in the hospital or worse. |
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03-06.-2004, 02:46 AM
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Re: Hit and Run
"Neil Cherry" <njc@wolfgang.uucp> wrote in message
news:slrncbrsba.adc.njc@wolfgang.uucp... > On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:41:01 -0400, David Kerber wrote: > > In article <40bd2612$1@news.ysu.edu>, > > frkrygow@mousepotato.com says... > >> Chris wrote: > >> > >> > This sure does sound like a lot of people getting > >> > whacked by cars. Let's > >> > here the others. Bring your tales. > >> > >> Let's also hear the "NOT getting whacked by cars" > >> tales. There are two sides to the story, no? > >> > >> Do I need to go first? ;-) > > > > No!!!!! <GRIN>. Remember that it's the unusual stuff > > which makes the news(group). Nobody posts when they rode > > 30 or 50 or 200 miles and didn't get hit by a car. All > > he needs to do is go back to the recent helmet thread > > for examples of how long some of us have been riding > > withOUT a mishap. > > Hey how about a cyclist hitting a car (and not the car's > fault!)? Yes I plead guilty, yes shame on me and I was > luck with the outcome! > > I was riding really fast (and some of you know how that > feels) and I was doing a bit of tail gating (major > drafting!). I came around a corner to a light and the car > in front of me hit the brakes a little harder than I > expected. So I managed to slow down to about 10 mph before > I hit the bumper. I appologized to the driver but she > hadn't notice the bump. I have been more careful not to > tail gate since (6 years ago). I have bumped into other > vehicles but those have been ones that have put me into a > bad situation. And yes I tend to be very aggressive in > traffic (but I don't beleive I can push around any motor > vehicles). > I remember meeting up with a guy on a ride once who told me a similar story. He was on a ride and the sun was in his eyes, a car ahead of him stopped and he went up on the rear hood. It was a total accident. He wasn't badly hurt, just banged up, but his bike, sadly, was trashed. |
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