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11-02-20, 03:59 PM
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11-06-20, 03:45 AM
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I had a weird incident last year. We have small, residential blocks here, with light traffic; I was coming to my left turn, so I signaled and took the lane about the middle of the block. A man in a pickup behind me swerved into the oncoming lane to get ahead of me and then he made a right turn. I have never figured out the point of that stunt. We were both lucky no one turned into him.
11-06-20, 08:54 AM
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I had a weird incident last year. We have small, residential blocks here, with light traffic; I was coming to my left turn, so I signaled and took the lane about the middle of the block. A man in a pickup behind me swerved into the oncoming lane to get ahead of me and then he made a right turn. I have never figured out the point of that stunt. We were both lucky no one turned into him.
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11-06-20, 10:37 AM
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I see more drivers doing stupid things while I'm driving that threaten my safety than I do when cycling. So it's very likely those that act stupidly to cyclist also act stupidly to other motorists.
Please don't ask for proof, but I will say that three out of every four people make up seventy-five percent of the population.
Please don't ask for proof, but I will say that three out of every four people make up seventy-five percent of the population.
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08-17-21, 01:35 PM
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What do we think of sticking an arm straight out vs. curling the opposite behind the back for signalling?
Sometimes with the arm straight out method I feel it is at risk of getting hit. I do always check behind before signalling, but a motorbike or anything can come up very quickly.
However, arm behind back seems much less noticeable.
Sometimes with the arm straight out method I feel it is at risk of getting hit. I do always check behind before signalling, but a motorbike or anything can come up very quickly.
However, arm behind back seems much less noticeable.
08-17-21, 03:38 PM
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I'm kind of sick of all the motorists that wave to me when I signal a turn...although that hot babe the other day that "waved" back was kind of nice
I'm not sure if I'm the only one that does this, but when I have to take the lane, I've learned not to just do a simple hand signal to the left, because it's kind of ambivalent, since I'm not really taking a left turn.
What I do is stick my arm out and point down to the road and I start bobbing my hand up and down, with my fingers facing downwards at the road; this way the guy in the further left doesn't think I'm coming into that lane.
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I'm not sure if I'm the only one that does this, but when I have to take the lane, I've learned not to just do a simple hand signal to the left, because it's kind of ambivalent, since I'm not really taking a left turn.
What I do is stick my arm out and point down to the road and I start bobbing my hand up and down, with my fingers facing downwards at the road; this way the guy in the further left doesn't think I'm coming into that lane.
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08-17-21, 03:40 PM
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What do we think of sticking an arm straight out vs. curling the opposite behind the back for signalling?
Sometimes with the arm straight out method I feel it is at risk of getting hit. I do always check behind before signalling, but a motorbike or anything can come up very quickly.
However, arm behind back seems much less noticeable.
Sometimes with the arm straight out method I feel it is at risk of getting hit. I do always check behind before signalling, but a motorbike or anything can come up very quickly.
However, arm behind back seems much less noticeable.
08-18-21, 02:52 AM
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I'm kind of sick of all the motorists that wave to me when I signal a turn...although that hot babe the other day that "waved" back was kind of nice
I'm not sure if I'm the only one that does this, but when I have to take the lane, I've learned not to just do a simple hand signal to the left, because it's kind of ambivalent, since I'm not really taking a left turn.
What I do is stick my arm out and point down to the road and I start bobbing my hand up and down, with my fingers facing downwards at the road; this way the guy in the further left doesn't think I'm coming into that lane.
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I'm not sure if I'm the only one that does this, but when I have to take the lane, I've learned not to just do a simple hand signal to the left, because it's kind of ambivalent, since I'm not really taking a left turn.
What I do is stick my arm out and point down to the road and I start bobbing my hand up and down, with my fingers facing downwards at the road; this way the guy in the further left doesn't think I'm coming into that lane.
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