Your worst road hazard?
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Your worst road hazard?
Road hazards
What do you think is the most annoying?
What do you think is the most dangerous?
What has gotten you in trouble the most (crash, swerve, etc..) ?
What is the best piece of advise to give to a friend?
What do you think is the most annoying?
What do you think is the most dangerous?
What has gotten you in trouble the most (crash, swerve, etc..) ?
What is the best piece of advise to give to a friend?
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In the right lane
The distracted, cell-phone-using, pulling-out-of-parking-lot car driver. Lethal. I always have my hands right on the brake when I see this about to happen.
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Cellphone drivers and potholes are the worst on all ends. I can only tell people to try their best to avoid the potholes and learn to own the world.
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Dogs.
Drivers are predictably unpredictable. Have had good luck with glass so far. I still don't know what gave me the double whammy last Friday - both tires flatted, chased by two dogs, one on the way to work, one on the way home.
Drivers are predictably unpredictable. Have had good luck with glass so far. I still don't know what gave me the double whammy last Friday - both tires flatted, chased by two dogs, one on the way to work, one on the way home.
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a good combination of shattered glass, speeding traffic and the ******bag that like to zoom pass you with only a half inch of space in between
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Animals, and Subaru's in my neck of the woods.
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Distracted drivers. I can see them coming usually. Aggressive drivers are safer than distracted drivers.
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top 100
1. Cars
2-97. Cars
98. Potholes
99. Broken glass
100. patches of rutted ice.
1. Cars
2-97. Cars
98. Potholes
99. Broken glass
100. patches of rutted ice.
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Other cyclist blasting through stop signs when traffic (cars and ME) is present.
DC pavement waves/potholes/random half-ass cheap pothole filler spray gravel nuggets/slug trails of abbherant concrete aggregate
Best Advice: slow or be prepared to slow when approaching every intersection. I can't count the number of potential accidents/close calls I have avoided altogether by doing this. As is stated in "The Art of Cycling" be aware of every vehicle/entity that has a vector that could potentially intersect yours.
DC pavement waves/potholes/random half-ass cheap pothole filler spray gravel nuggets/slug trails of abbherant concrete aggregate
Best Advice: slow or be prepared to slow when approaching every intersection. I can't count the number of potential accidents/close calls I have avoided altogether by doing this. As is stated in "The Art of Cycling" be aware of every vehicle/entity that has a vector that could potentially intersect yours.
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On the streets of Manhattan, there is a certain type of hired car that is very dangerous. I believe it is called a livery cab; black car with no medallion, tinted windows, erratic driving, no turn signals. The drivers spend most of their time trying to find their passenger, so they keep their eyes on the sidewalk at such times, accelerate and decelerate unpredictably, and drive in such a way as to take up two lanes at once if at all possible. Once they find their passenger, they are a hurry, and have to turn back the hands of time by driving as fast as possible. They seem to think they can clear the streets ahead by honking a lot.
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Big giant sink hole in the middle of 12th Ave. It was about 4 feet deep, and 4 feet in diameter. Took the city a couple days to place cones around it and even longer to fix it.
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Electric three wheeled taxis. They dont look before turning across the bike lane, or anywhere else, and their roof juts out at head height. My mortal enemies.
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1. Cell phone talking drivers.
2. Cell phone talking pedestrians.
Just wait until dogs go wireless.
2. Cell phone talking pedestrians.
Just wait until dogs go wireless.
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Most annoying... bridge expansion joints. Well at least one of the bridges others are fine. On this bridge there is at least a inch gap even shakes my mountain bike to death. I'm afraid it's going to tear up my rack /milk crate eventually. Finally had to wire tie my rear light to keep it from coming off. Second would be hills their everywhere around here! Just once I'd like to take a nice flat ride.
The only advice I'd give is ride like you don't exist. Don't expect riders to give you the right away. Haven't had a problem in traffic yet but I'm very very extremely cautious.
The only advice I'd give is ride like you don't exist. Don't expect riders to give you the right away. Haven't had a problem in traffic yet but I'm very very extremely cautious.
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Large bus driver who is driving like they're behind schedule all the time.
Supersized women talking on cellphone in one hand while holding Micky D fries in the other hand and a coke with her legs. I had one lady like that who almost hit me and another bicyclist ahead of me!!!
Supersized women talking on cellphone in one hand while holding Micky D fries in the other hand and a coke with her legs. I had one lady like that who almost hit me and another bicyclist ahead of me!!!
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My only road cycling injuries have followed my encounters with potholes and gravel.
I've been pretty frustrated by vertical height increases of over 3" on some roads undergoing repaving. Specifically, if the edge of the pavement or the turn lane is 3" higher than the rest of the roadway, and I don't notice this until just before I need to turn, and other traffic is overtaking closely on the other side. And I'm going over 25 mph.
I've been pretty frustrated by vertical height increases of over 3" on some roads undergoing repaving. Specifically, if the edge of the pavement or the turn lane is 3" higher than the rest of the roadway, and I don't notice this until just before I need to turn, and other traffic is overtaking closely on the other side. And I'm going over 25 mph.
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What do you think is the most annoying?
++ crummy patch jobs in the shoulder of the roads
What do you think is the most dangerous?
++ grooves that travel parallel to my direction of travel
What has gotten you in trouble the most (crash, swerve, etc..) ?
++ hidden potholes on rainy days - thinking it was just a shallow puddle but actually a bigger hole that can wreck me (haven't gone down yet) but when I avoid these puddles I go further into the travel lane and wind up getting into arguments with drivers because of it
What is the best piece of advise to give to a friend?
++ take responsibility for your actions. meaning if the road surgace is unsafe - try another route
++ crummy patch jobs in the shoulder of the roads
What do you think is the most dangerous?
++ grooves that travel parallel to my direction of travel
What has gotten you in trouble the most (crash, swerve, etc..) ?
++ hidden potholes on rainy days - thinking it was just a shallow puddle but actually a bigger hole that can wreck me (haven't gone down yet) but when I avoid these puddles I go further into the travel lane and wind up getting into arguments with drivers because of it
What is the best piece of advise to give to a friend?
++ take responsibility for your actions. meaning if the road surgace is unsafe - try another route
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What do you think is the most annoying?
Drivers on their cell phones making a right turn but only look to their left and taking up the bicycle lane.
What do you think is the most dangerous? BMW drivers, It's not if, it's when...
What has gotten you in trouble the most (crash, swerve, etc..) ?
Sorry for the bad MS paint:
Black = road
red = car
blue = me
What is the best piece of advise to give to a friend?
Assume everyone is blind and completely unpredictable.
Drivers on their cell phones making a right turn but only look to their left and taking up the bicycle lane.
What do you think is the most dangerous? BMW drivers, It's not if, it's when...
What has gotten you in trouble the most (crash, swerve, etc..) ?
Sorry for the bad MS paint:
Black = road
red = car
blue = me
What is the best piece of advise to give to a friend?
Assume everyone is blind and completely unpredictable.