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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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To the young woman riding east on Polk Street on a black and yellow 'cross bike:

If you're going to ride in the drops, you should consider wearing underpants. The visualization of the intergluteal sulcus is always a touchy issue, best avoided. ;-)

And to the driver of the shiny black pick-up truck that stopped next to me while I was waiting for the light to change at Hubbard and Oakley, then just went on through the red:

I suppose you might have done that to show me what motorists feel when cyclists blow red lights, but I suspect you're really just a self-important prick taking advantage of a police-free intersection. Am I right?

Steve

Steve


You beast.


Steve Weeks said:

To the young woman riding east on Polk Street on a black and yellow 'cross bike:

If you're going to ride in the drops, you should consider wearing underpants. The visualization of the intergluteal sulcus is always a touchy issue, best avoided. ;-)

Steve

I've had similar experiences on Adams and Van Buren.

SC said:

While biking home along Madison, I met up with two Divvy bicyclist just as they passed under Wells in the bike lane --- HEADING EAST. I should have told them they're going the wrong way, but can't they tell with ALL the cars going in one direction?


Was this around 4 or 4:15 on Thursday? If so I saw those people. Was sort of shocking in its brazenness. And all the westbound cyclists I saw encounter them veered into the traffic lane to avoid.


SC said:

While biking home along Madison, I met up with two Divvy bicyclist just as they passed under Wells in the bike lane --- HEADING EAST. I should have told them they're going the wrong way, but can't they tell with ALL the cars going in one direction?

Yes. It was around 4:15-4:30 went I saw them approaching me in the bike lane. They weren't going fast. They were casually biking. I went to the right of the bike lane to avoid them. After they went by me, I stopped and waited at the red light at Wells. I looked back to see if these guys were still biking the wrong way. And sure enough, they were and at LaSalle already.


Alex Z said:


Was this around 4 or 4:15 on Thursday? If so I saw those people. Was sort of shocking in its brazenness. And all the westbound cyclists I saw encounter them veered into the traffic lane to avoid.


SC said:

While biking home along Madison, I met up with two Divvy bicyclist just as they passed under Wells in the bike lane --- HEADING EAST. I should have told them they're going the wrong way, but can't they tell with ALL the cars going in one direction?

Does this qualify as "hate speech"?  ;-)

Steve

curt(is) locke said:


You beast.

To the "TAIPAN" license-plated, foul-mouthed idiot who blew the stop sign at the lakefront trail and Belmont Harbor and denied it when confronted ... GFY.

To the black Nissan that was driving northbound and passing cyclists on the busy LFP at 6:15p between Belmont and Recreation Drive, please take Lakeshore Drive next time.  "I got lost" is inadequate.

To the pickup truck going west on 18th blazing a left turn in front of me going eastbound in the bike lane: thank you for not stopping as I fell. Thank you for your polite usage of expletives aimed at me for biking in a dedicated bike lane. I hope when you rage stress pop a hemorrhoid or berry aneurysm you only take yourself out. So thank off, you thank wad. Thank me? Thank you. Now I must rage less before I pop a berry. : (
Hey I know that guy, I will pass along the love and have a chat with him about this.



Gene Tenner said:

To the "TAIPAN" license-plated, foul-mouthed idiot who blew the stop sign at the lakefront trail and Belmont Harbor and denied it when confronted ... GFY.

Unfortunately I must admit that I know that guy, too, and pretty well.  I will also have a little chat, and remind him that the cyclist that he hits could very well be me.

Tim S said:

Hey I know that guy, I will pass along the love and have a chat with him about this.



Gene Tenner said:

To the "TAIPAN" license-plated, foul-mouthed idiot who blew the stop sign at the lakefront trail and Belmont Harbor and denied it when confronted ... GFY.

Thank you, Lisa and Tim.


Thanks to your acquaintance I learned that I can come to a stop sideways like a ski jumper at the bottom of the hill. My 225 pounds and 50 pounds of trike ended up perpendicular to the lakefront trail; if I had hit my brakes 1/2 second or arrived that split second later, I would now be roadkill.


His response to my shout was, "F**k you." When confronted he claimed he stopped at the stop sign which he did not, and his final words to me were, "Take that bike and shove it up your a**."


Whether or not he stopped or ran the stop sign is moot. I still had the right-of-way in either case, and he should have respected that.


His rude, boorish and I-am-right-you-are-wrong behavior is another matter.


He certainly needs a talking to.

Lisa Curcio 6.6mi said:

Unfortunately I must admit that I know that guy, too, and pretty well.  I will also have a little chat, and remind him that the cyclist that he hits could very well be me.

Tim S said:

Hey I know that guy, I will pass along the love and have a chat with him about this.

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