Yes Mr. Cyclist, I will gladly share the road with you…
…when you actually obey the same traffic laws I do.
Yes Mr. Cyclist, I will gladly share the road with you…
…when you actually obey the same traffic laws I do.
Yeah, the local bicyclist lobbyist group is all pissed off because the police have announced they are going back to enforcing traffic laws against cyclists. The group is claiming that it would be better to just focus on education and making the streets safer for everyone.
That kind of falls apart when you start looking at the number of pedestrians hit by bicyclists.
Cycle hoodlums in the country around here. Packs of 50-60 running down country lanes. The blow through stop signs, block the road to turn and generally make life hell.And I can’t imagine what would happen if one of them crashed in the middle of that mess.
Sure, I went this way so I could go 18.
I don’t know if you bought the car like that or if you modified it to do this, but turn signals are supposed to alert other drivers that you’re going to make a turn or lane change, not flash so brightly and quick enough that they could be a strobe light.
Oh, you’ve got a motorcycle? I didn’t know that. I was completely unaware you had a motorcycle. You know, I’m still not quite sure you have a motorcycle. You better rev that engine more so I can double check.
Nope, not enough. Still not convinced you have a motorcycle. Better do it louder. Nope. Louder. Still having a hard time believing you have a motorcycle. Keep going. Oh, you’ve triggered a car alarm.
Sorry. Must be a figment of my imagination. You couldn’t possibly have a motorcycle.
Or, as I like to refer to them, the “2000 cc testosterone replacement shot”.
I don’t dislike motorcycles. I just dislike the once that cause seizures in small animals and children, just from driving past, one block away.
That probably means they have a bulb out. I’m pretty sure the manufacturers do it deliberately for safety reasons - so that people will investigate why the indicators are going nuts.
Yeah, that’s been my experience, too. While they could regulate the circuit, I figure that it is just as easy to use an industry standard flasher module. Most will use a bi-metal strip as a conductor, which bends when it changes temperature… it heats up when current passes through it, which opens the circuit, then cools off and closes again - lights off & on, rinse & repeat. When a bulb is out, the resistance changes in the rest of the circuit. Kind of cool. When I had a pickup, I had a flasher module with a different current rating that I would install when I was pulling a trailer. It wasn’t so bad with like a boat trailer, but u-haul trailers would make the flash pattern super slow. Probably a combination of more lights and longer runs of crappy/old wiring in the u-hauls.
Not that lots of people ever do.
Except in this case, the light was a very bright white light. White is typically reserved for the reverse indication and not the turn signal. Those are usually yellow if the indicator is separate, or red if the car maker decided to use the brake lights to do double duty.
Now that I think about it, maybe the car has a short in the electrical system that caused the back-up light on that side to trigger instead of the turn signal, even though the car looked like a new model.
Exhaust-sniffers sniffing your exhaust fumes like an aroused canine usually piss me off. Especially in slow-moving traffic.
Grrrr.
My car has a whopping 990cc engine, with a truly astounding 67bhp to accelerate its thunderous 0.92 US ton (835kg) carcass around. So no, sir, no matter how close you tailgate, I cannot make it up this 1:3 hill any faster.
I know my truck doesn’t have the fastest acceleration, but when I can measure my 0-to-60 time relative to the mile, you guys are going way too slow.
I found a bumper sticker for my car that I absolutely love, in the same vein:
Yes, I can do 0-60
Eventually, downhill
(and with a good wind behind me)
If there is a notice up on the traffic display up ahead, READ WHAT IT SAYS. Don’t just automatically put on your brakes. That way, you can avoid creating a second spot of slow traffic five miles before the real one.
Heh, I hear you. I was about to add:
You see that red X over lanes two and three? And all those cones that you’re slaloming through to get back into lane one? Yeah. You’re in the roadworks, dipshit. Drivers like you are the reason why they have to close two whole lanes to repair the median barricades in the first place.
Dear $ijit
I had right of way. I indicated to move over into your lane. You were more than 500m behind me.
All of a sudden you speed up to sit on my a$$ and sniff my exhaust fumes just because you did not like my moving over into your lane.
Piss off.
Edited by Nabiki: Moved to appropriate thread
That’s how people drive in California too. They take someone trying to get in front of them as a personal affront.
I have yet to live in a state where they didn’t drive like that.
This is why I drive a Durango. Very few drivers try to pull that crap when their car would pretty much fit in my cargo area. I joke that’s why it’s named that…because that’s where their cargo.
Ok, so I also drive a Durango for hauling purposes and winter driving. And because I will not drive a minivan. But alot of the reason is for the above. No one messes with me. I’m not aggressive, just confident.