The Places in the World Where you Felt the Most Respected by Drivers
07-20-20, 01:32 PM
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Ya I'm out in Washington county area, near Germantown/Jackson, a bit north of Milwaukee. I use a Garmin radar and head unit and nearly every time I'm climbing a hill the guy driving behind me would rather close pass and nearly take out oncoming traffic than just wait a whole 10 seconds. I've had a crazy amount of close calls and have actually been ran into before while descending in a bike lane.
07-20-20, 01:34 PM
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Edit: top five most annoying US driver types for cyclists:
5. A group of teenaged boys in a 1996 Toyota Tercel.
4. Beat up, rusted out landscaping pickup with a trailer full of blowers, rakes and lawnmowers with seven guys all sitting on the front bench.
3. Yoga-pants wearing mom in oversized aviator sunglasses in an SUV holding an iPhone up to talk to it on speakerphone because they can't figure out the Bluetooth in their car.
2. Motorcyclists, especially superbike guys in leathers. Harley guys are generally OK.
1. (by a country mile): pristine pickups with Z51/TRD/whatever offroad packages driven by fat guys with goatees on suburban streets. Extra points for Browning, Line-X, Salt Life or blue-line American Flag stickers.
5. A group of teenaged boys in a 1996 Toyota Tercel.
4. Beat up, rusted out landscaping pickup with a trailer full of blowers, rakes and lawnmowers with seven guys all sitting on the front bench.
3. Yoga-pants wearing mom in oversized aviator sunglasses in an SUV holding an iPhone up to talk to it on speakerphone because they can't figure out the Bluetooth in their car.
2. Motorcyclists, especially superbike guys in leathers. Harley guys are generally OK.
1. (by a country mile): pristine pickups with Z51/TRD/whatever offroad packages driven by fat guys with goatees on suburban streets. Extra points for Browning, Line-X, Salt Life or blue-line American Flag stickers.
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07-20-20, 02:02 PM
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I managed to arrive at the light to catch up your #5 group.
they apologized to me after saying
« oh sorry we yelled at you, we see now that you are training hard, sorry man. »
but the group #1 is the one with shotguns and can’t be messed with
07-20-20, 02:47 PM
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07-20-20, 03:07 PM
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At the end of my seven-week tour of Andalucia I was tooling around a suburb of Sevilla. A driver made a stupid mistake and came relatively close to hitting me. He was so apologetic I thought he was going to get out of his car, drop to his knees and beg for forgiveness.
07-20-20, 03:13 PM
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I’ve also had them stop to check if I am ok while taking a break on the side of the road.
07-21-20, 09:04 PM
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The SF Bay Area in general is quite good, with some rather localized exceptions. About a third to half the time you run into an asshat they have an out of state plate and tend to congregate around tourist spots (Muir Woods, Half Moon Bay, etc). But it's really a tiny fraction of all drivers. Around here the local asshats seem to have a slight preference for BMWs, and tend to be in their 20s.
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Pigeon Forge Tennessee. Drivers were over the top polite as if they’d been threatened with imprisonment.
Oddly, 10 miles up the road in Gatlnburg I had my worst run in with a psycho driver that, apparently, was mad because he couldn’t catch/pass? me as I was ascending down a mountain faster than he could in his E-class Benz.
Cops were called. He was a known local legendary ass.
Oddly, 10 miles up the road in Gatlnburg I had my worst run in with a psycho driver that, apparently, was mad because he couldn’t catch/pass? me as I was ascending down a mountain faster than he could in his E-class Benz.
Cops were called. He was a known local legendary ass.
