Anyone a cyclist on here?

[AlexHale]

Today was out for a ride, going great till a S2000 and a mustang where driving at me. S2000 was being lawful, driving in his lane when this mustang jumps out to pass him, on a two lane road and came within a foot of hiring me at 80 mph. Further deepening my hatred for mustang f**kboys. /rant

[HennaE30]

Ofcourse, Mustang driver. Have you come to expect any different?

Not a cyclist. lol

[bmwman91]

...came within a foot of hiring me...

So.....you were cycling in a mini-skirt and clear 6" heels?




Anyway, glad you are OK. I commute ~3600 miles a year on my road bike. Here and there I have close-calls with cars. It is almost always with female drivers. Cell phones and makeup are not ideal items to combine with operating motor vehicles, or being an angry fat bitch for that matter. Since I drive and bike I am a very safe rider and make sure to keep out of cars' way since, regardless of whether I have the right of way or not, I lose if I get hit. SOME cyclists, almost always douchebags on road bikes, seem to like to "exercise their rights" and impede traffic, and fuck them they just make all cyclists look bad. Truthfully, I have had more "incidents" with other idiots on road bikes than with cars. The attitudes on so many of those guys is pretty ridiculous, particularly when I pass their carbon-riding spandex fruit-suited asses on a 2007 triple aluminum frame with a MTB drivetrain in running shorts and a tee shirt.

Semi-related...I was driving on an expressway a few months ago and encountered a Mustang driver that should not have been driving. The idiot was running what sounded like an exhaust that was chopped open before the cat (and it was a fucking V6) and nearly made me go deaf as it attempted to race/overtake a Land Rover. As the fuckwit passed me, I noticed that the rear-left wheel was an emergency donut. There's nothing like street racing and doing 70mph+ on a donut, and weaving 3 lanes at a time.

[noE30]

Cyclist here, I was actually hit by a truck a few weeks back , err well I guess I hit the truck. The damn driver pulled out in front of me and I had no chance of stopping in time, I essentially tee-boned his 4 door Silverado and put a huge ass dent in the rear door in the shape of my body. Thankfully I limped away, it could of been much much worse, I'm incredibly lucky that I didn't seriously injured. Moral of the story is as a cyclist, you gotta be on the defense at all times, cars are basically 2,000 lbs missiles and the driver definitely doesn't have your best interests at heart.