Bicyclists On A Witch Hunt

I havent rode a bicycle in many years. Rode one alot as a kid. I was raised to give cars the right of way. we rode on the sidewalk alot. took alleys or back roads to stay off the busy streets. that was a different time, helmets hadnt been invented then - - lol

 

Tell me about it. Back then we had something called “common sense”!

 

Not much common sense when I was a kid

 

Bicycles eh .lol.
One night many moons ago a buddy and I were sitting in our cabovers way out in the back of Darts trailer lot in Eagan killing off a case of beer when the owner of Darts somewhat retarded son started riding around the lot on a bike while staring at some device with one hand .
Pretty soon he came by our trucks and we asked wtf he was doing ? .
He replied " I'm orienteering" we laughed and went back to our beer .
Not long afterward we heard a crash and sure enough bicycle boy had crashed under the nose of a trailer and all that expensive hairdo and spandex was covered in blood and 5th wheel grease .
We just pretended to not see anything .

 

I watched the video 4 times. From what I see, the driver couldn't even see the cyclist, she was in his blind spot almost the entire time. We all know the driver had his head on a swivel trying to look everywhere at once, and for sure he was watching that right mirror keeping an eye on that trailer.

 

Boston and surrounding burbs is where I learned to tighten up my corner game. Seems like every single corner in Boston has some sort of lightpole (?) parked at the apex, right on the edge. If you get lazy about not curbing your tandems on a right turn, you WILL take something out. Wide turns in Bean City are pretty much a necessity and, the way a lot of these guys don't want to give a semi any room, you have to be kinda assertive about taking those corners.

I usually don't feel too much sympathy for people who get tire marks over their backs from a cornering semi because, in many cases, it all came down to some nimrod who thought he was too good or too important to give a semi room to manuever; in some of those cases the "victim" in question even tried to aggressively beat the truck (if not block it altogether). As the saying goes: play stupid games, win stupid prizes...