Re: Why do drivers hate cyclists?

On Apr 23, 8:36=A0am, N8N <njna...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 22, 7:58=A0pm, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." <p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Skinty wrote:
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> > > Hmmm
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> > > I Think maybe it could they get in the way on roads
> > > Jump red lights & are not =A0regulated
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> > I got hit in the post office parking lot the other day. No damage to
my
> > truck, but a guy had to swerve to miss a delivery service cyclist
riding=

> > the wrong way in the lot (he entered the "exit only, do not enter"
> > ramp). He got a nasty crease all the way down the side of his car
where
> > it dragged along the corner of my rear bumper.
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> > I felt sorry for him. The paint he left on my bumper can be sanded
off,
> > but he's got a couple of grand in body work, minimum.
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> > It would have been cheaper for him to hold his position and take the
> > cycle under his front bumper.
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> It's a judgement call. =A0Personal injury lawyers can be nasty.
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> nate

Forgot to mention, you don't live in my town do you?  i was just
thinking that I needed to go pick up some flat rate boxes to ****p some
minor items and was contemplating riding over to the post office, but
then realized that the only way to avoid being on a 4-lane main road
with no shoulder and fairly poor pavement was... you guessed it...
entering the post office parking lot through the exit.

Sometimes it's a tag team between douchebag cyclists *and* poor urban
planning.

nate