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Think of this as a Missed Connection.

You blew the red light east bound on Lawrence at Damen at 5:26 pm this evening.

 

There was enough time for the biker in front of me to make it half way into the intersection, northbound on Damen, before you came whizzing past my front wheel.

 

I yelled "You're an idiot!" at your big haired chick, self, and you looked back at me. I meant it!

 

I woulda testified for any of the cars, that managed to not kill you, if they had.

 

Keep riding like a tard!

love,

gabe

 

Witness bad behavior during your commute? Feel free to post. Maybe that lovely human can read it and think they are famous. Maybe you can also inspire the whole generation of kids to shower but we can start with small things.

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Permalink Reply by pat 5.5mi on June 3, 2014 at 2:37pm

You: Everyone on a bike back in Chicago.

Me: Guy driving a rental car in North Dallas for work for the week.

Can't wait to rejoin you at the end of the week.

Permalink Reply by Michelle Milham on June 3, 2014 at 2:38pm

Man, as if that area isn't crazy enough to begin with with the luxury cars piling up on eachother at the hotel. 

I had a fun one this morning: dude in an old black car yelling "MOVE FATASSES" out of his window at a bunch of cyclists trying to get around the stupid merge left signs and multiple black rubber bases for traffic barrels, without traffic barrels on top, that have been left to obscure the road AROUND the merge left sign (it's ... somewhere in Wicker Park... by division maybe? I can't remember...) 

Who's a fatass? The person sitting in his friend's car doing absolutely nothing (not even driving...) or the people exercising their way to work? Just curious. Maybe be more creative next time and pick something that actually makes sense to yell. 



Bradford Smith said:

Woman driving black Honda Fit with "Share the Road" plates on Huron at Michigan Ave yesterday rush hour, setting a such a good example by talking holding phone in front her face.

Permalink Reply by Crazy David 84 Furlongs on June 3, 2014 at 2:51pm

Well.... the guy's comment was kind of on point.  The problem is that he used the word fat (and big would have been a similar problem).  Had he said "heavyass" it would have kind of worked.  After all muscle weighs more than fat and a good bicyclist is going to have  strong and powerful set of legs..   in other words a "heavyass".   So I guess it was a compliment... 

Now if he really meant to say "fatass" my guess is that he was yelling at himself... since that trait tends to apply, as you noted,  to car drivers...



Michelle Milham said:

Man, as if that area isn't crazy enough to begin with with the luxury cars piling up on eachother at the hotel. 

I had a fun one this morning: dude in an old black car yelling "MOVE FATASSES" out of his window at a bunch of cyclists trying to get around the stupid merge left signs and multiple black rubber bases for traffic barrels, without traffic barrels on top, that have been left to obscure the road AROUND the merge left sign (it's ... somewhere in Wicker Park... by division maybe? I can't remember...) 

Who's a fatass? The person sitting in his friend's car doing absolutely nothing (not even driving...) or the people exercising their way to work? Just curious. Maybe be more creative next time and pick something that actually makes sense to yell. 



Bradford Smith said:

Woman driving black Honda Fit with "Share the Road" plates on Huron at Michigan Ave yesterday rush hour, setting a such a good example by talking holding phone in front her face.

Permalink Reply by Huck1eberry on June 3, 2014 at 3:00pm

Me: Driving and getting caught in the middle of Critical Mass, I had the whole family, son 6, still not comfortable on bike ride. 

You: Guy who yelled "We're not scared of you." as you buzzed by. 

You're part of the problem. This won't help raise awareness. It will make cyclist look like jerks. Nice job. . . 

Permalink Reply by Michelle Milham on June 3, 2014 at 7:12pm
Hoping all is good with everyone out there: pretty sure I saw a cop talking to a cyclist and an ambulance tending to a different cyclist on the way home down Milwaukee. No one looked too injured, but was kind of worrying!
Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on June 3, 2014 at 8:08pm

To the shoaling fellow in the black t-shirt with the huge headphones westbound on Hubbard about 4:45 p.m., I did not care about the shoaling, but you scared the s**t out of the pedestrian crossing Hubbard at Noble as you passed between a car stopped car turning right and a westbound car stopped behind the stop line allowing the pedestrian with the right of way to cross.  Of course you could not be bothered to look or slow down, and you could not hear anything outside of your own little world with those headphones on.

Permalink Reply by Steve Weeks on June 3, 2014 at 10:10pm

Maybe one of the cyclists blew a red light and T-boned the other one. It has nearly happened to me more than a couple times, and as cycling gets more popular it's going to happen more often.

Steve

Michelle Milham said:

Hoping all is good with everyone out there: pretty sure I saw a cop talking to a cyclist and an ambulance tending to a different cyclist on the way home down Milwaukee. No one looked too injured, but was kind of worrying!
Permalink Reply by Michelle Milham on June 3, 2014 at 10:20pm
Oh, probably not haha. They were at completely different intersections several blocks apart.
Permalink Reply by Steve Weeks on June 4, 2014 at 5:58am

Ah, I guess I missed that little detail in the story! <_/p>

Steve

Michelle Milham said:

Oh, probably not haha. They were at completely different intersections several blocks apart.
Permalink Reply by David P. on June 4, 2014 at 9:29am

Was that by Sacramento?

Michelle Milham said:

Hoping all is good with everyone out there: pretty sure I saw a cop talking to a cyclist and an ambulance tending to a different cyclist on the way home down Milwaukee. No one looked too injured, but was kind of worrying!
Permalink Reply by Michelle Milham on June 4, 2014 at 9:41am

The one with the cop was, yes. The cyclist seemed to be locking up his bike and looking down at his ankles while assuring the cop he was ok. I didn't stop or anything since I didnt' see anything happen. 

The first one with the ambulance was... I'm blanking on the street name, but it was between Division and Damen, there's a T intersection. It was near there. 

Permalink Reply by Ann Sch 9.3 on June 4, 2014 at 9:46am

ME:  riding northbound on LFT yesterday evening, just south of North Avenue.  Trying my best to be cautious of all the happy, wandering folks standing around on the path talking.  Passing some, being passed as well.

YOU:  a couple minutes south of the split at North Avenue where the path goes either to the bathhouse (right) or to the light by LSD (left) you pull along side and take longer to pass me than I have ever seen in my life.  I thought we would have a conversation, you were on my left for a good 60 seconds.  As we get to the fork in the road, you are literally a foot in front of me but still on my left, and you swerve in front and slow down to go right. 

Yes, I nearly ran you down and that's why I said something sarcastic. I thought more things that my mother wouldn't approve of.

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