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21-08.-2007, 05:09 AM
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Getting harassed while training!
Okay, so I've been egged once, screamed at countless times, honked at countless more times. What is going on here? Any one have the same problems?
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21-08.-2007, 06:22 AM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
Sounds about right to me.
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21-08.-2007, 06:43 AM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
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Sad thing is, I'm concentrating, so when someone screams at me, I jump like a little girl. They love it. |
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21-08.-2007, 07:46 AM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
I've not had any problems since I found a bunch of back roads near where I live to ride on. Maybe get one car an hour and there is plenty of room for them to pass me. Another good place to train is in an Industrial Park on a weekend. Nobody's there!
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21-08.-2007, 08:35 AM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
Don't forget those large cemeteries with the nicely edged 8' wide paved access roads. There's hardly a soul in them that minds a fellow out to get a little fast crit riding in or accelleration intervals.
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21-08.-2007, 09:01 AM
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Location: Chicago, Illinois
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
I'm fortunate to live about 1/2 mile from a bike trail so I rarely encounter idiots in traffic anymore, although we probably all have at one time or another. I still do once in a while when I'm crossing streets along the path. I wait for lights, cross in crosswalks, yet I still find a knucklehead every so often who thinks I'm in his way. I've learned to shrug it off and not let it interfere with what I'm trying to accomplish.
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21-08.-2007, 10:36 AM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
The most common thing I get is "hey lance!", although motorists do occasionally do some harassing. I actually had one guy start to get out of his car after I yelled at him for almost pushing me off the road. I immediately got off my bike and started walking towards him, and he got back in and blew a red light. Guess I looked smaller when I was bent over in the drops,but I'm really 6'1", 190 pounds and fairly muscular.
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21-08.-2007, 10:50 AM
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Location: Tyler, TX
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
I got a almost hardly eaten hamburger thrown at me once while I was at a local club time trial. The funny thing is that he missed. So wasted a perfectly good hamburger and couldent even hit me.
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21-08.-2007, 11:59 PM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
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I get hey lance too, I hate when people heckle me. Specially when they tell me to get on the sidewalk, yeah, i'm gonna take my beautiful carbon ROAD bike on a crappy sidewalk. 
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22-08.-2007, 03:53 AM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
I always tense up when running past a small group of children/teenagers... Though, I haven't had any bad experiences yet!
Knock on wood... |
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22-08.-2007, 03:56 AM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
Great idea! Why didn't I think of this?
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22-08.-2007, 04:14 AM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
I think this happens to most if not all of us.
I have a riding buddy that had an incident a year ago. Someone grabbed his ass and tried to throw something into his rim on a hill. He remembered the car model and make and about a year later, he ran into the car again after confirming the car had done several things to other riders in the area. This car was notorious in their local club. Now that he knew where this guy lived, he paid it a visit at 3am. He and another guy let out all the air out of the cars tires & left a note stating "don't screw with any of the cyclists in this area - we know where you live now!" No problems since! In fact, the club members have seen the car out and about and not even the slightest bit of toying around. Personally, I wouldn't go that far, but I make note of those cars that intentionally play games with out there. Mostly, I get away from the traffic as quickly as possible, or use the high traffic areas as a warm up. Now, I don't want to promote violence in anyway, but I wouldn't want to be the guy getting out of the car with a cyclist who is already amp'd up and could probably turn over a small car. Adrenaline is an amazing thing! dave Quote:
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22-08.-2007, 05:24 PM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
Happens every so often. I just try to ignore it. Annoys the car drivers a lot if you do not give their ranting importance.
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22-08.-2007, 09:03 PM
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
Hey Pplz.
Doesn't really bother me because I train with 20 other people! Probably to scared to even honk the horn as they wouldnt want 20 cyclists rushing at them at 30km/h!
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22-08.-2007, 09:53 PM
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Location: North Carolina
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Re: Getting harassed while training!
Seems to me like I only get the wierdo's on Sundays...went out for my normal Sunday recovery ride...got into town and be damned if the car in front of me didn't stop for the GREEN light...had to grab onto the side of his truck to keep from falling over due to the sudden stop...rolled up to his window and asked him if he stopped for many green lights and he kindly told me he just wasn't paying attention and to hold on and he would pull me through the intersection when the light turned green again...I declined and slid back behind him...then on the trip home some a__hole passed me and then stopped in front of me to take a left turn...there were a line of cars coming so he had to wait...I passed on the right and gave him the evil eye while his wife was chewing him a new one...guess she took it the same way I did...then I got about a half mile down the road and a damn motorcycle rode by so close the wind bout blew me off the road...no kidding...had I swerved even an inch we would have crashed...his buddy gave me at least 8 inches when he went by...
I looked at it as not to ride on Sundays...thats now my rest day |
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