Miele Man

When I was in the military, my parachute did not full open one time. They sent me right back up for another jump. They said the longer the wait before facing the fear the greater the fear would be.

Glad you're okay but go out for a ride somewhere.

Cheers

livedarklions

OP just confirmed he and the car were on the "main drag." Are you seriously unaware that generally the stop signs face the side streets and not the main drag? No idea why you're so desperate to convince people that the op did something wrong that you'd double down on the stupidity, but all you're proving is you don't know what an uncontrolled intersection actually is.

Homebrew01

Get back on the bike !

Jumpski

Fortunately, you’re ok. Cycling is an added risk everyone here accepts. For me, the positives far out weigh the negatives. Be careful out there while running, and soon you’ll be back on your bike- enjoy.

livedarklions

The way I'm reading this is as a memo you sent yourself that you need to get your mojo back. Everyone is different, but I've been hit a couple times, and was surprised that I felt pretty good riding within days or weeks of the incident.

I will say that I do avoid riding one of the places I got hit at rush hour, but will ride there with normal traffic.

I think you'll be fine and am happy to hear you were largely unhurt.


Sorry I got sidetracked by a troll in this thread, but I wasn't going to let that completely unjustified insinuation you did something wrong go unanswered.

Chris!

Univega

Two pieces of advice.

1) try to make eye contact. Even if you do, that is no guarantee they will not turn in front of you.
2) You didn't mention if you have front and rear lights. Some of these front lights are very bright and will help with visibility. I say this based on your comment " He jumped out ran over to me and was just in total shock." So he didn't see you. There are many other posts that are safety related like "wear bright clothes". Maybe that will help.

livedarklions

Just speaking for myself, but trying to make eye contact might distract me from looking for other threats to my safety, e.g., cars running stop signs from side roads.

Can't argue with making yourself visible, only caveat is don't aim bright lights directly at oncoming drivers, day or night.

Univega

"trying to make eye contact might distract me from looking for other threats to my safety" You ride MUCH faster than me. I'm so slow, the hazard is lessened for me.

"Don't aim bright lights directly at oncoming drivers, day or night" Makes sense.

livedarklions

Thanks! That makes sense. Different speeds require different scanning patterns. When I say something like "speaking for myself", my thinking for saying it at all is because it's something that another person can check out for themselves and see if it applies to them.

This isn't aimed at you, but my big beef with a lot of the BF posters is they're so enthusiastic about telling other people they're doing it wrong that they make up facts and rules, and a person posting about their issues and observations generally has to defend themselves from a bunch of insulting stupid accusations. I think what we did here where both of us use a different approach is an actual dialogue--neither of us is trying to prove the other wrong, just explaining how we approach the same problem and why.

Univega

Thank you. That was well worded. After all the OP has a (in my mind) a valid concern. I worry about cars all the time. Drivers do such stupid things. We have all had

• the car that speeds up and makes a right turn in front of you, just missing you.
• the car that sees you and still makes the left in front of you. They wouldn't do that to another car that may broadside them.
• The worse is the driver who is behind you. I am not sure of the reason, but they get so close you feel them brush your left arm with the vehicle. A garbage truck did that to me.

Helping each other is what it is all about. The original poster was hit by a car. Hopefully there are some ideas here to help him. My only other advice is to assume the driver is a idiot and will not signal, and turned left in front of you. Slow down..as much as we all hate to do that.

BlazingPedals

Every driveway is an intersection, and is a possible place for a car to turn into/out of.