Had someone brake check me while on the bicycle this afternoon.

[MRC01]

We are clearly neighbors. I'm in Sammamish. I love the Centennial Trail. I rode part of it yesterday as part of a longer ride. My commute is mostly on the Sammamish River Trail and then low traffic surface streets. The SRT and the other trail systems in KingCo can be very busy in summer. In winter, it is a different story, but you see more wildlife on the trail. I saw a cougar once on the SRT. It certainly pushed my speed up quite a bit!

I live near Gig Harbor, previously near Seattle. The Seattle area paved trails, like Burke-Gilman, Sammamish River, Centennial out further east, are great. Here in the southern Kitsap Peninsula it's more traditional country roads - narrow, few bike lanes, with plenty of big trucks. Most drivers are courteous but some are downright dangerous, speeding while passing cyclists on blind turns, running them off the road, etc. When I lived on Orcas Island it was similar, narrow roads, but the drivers were much slower and safer. They're on "island time".

As an avid road cyclist for over 40 years I have high tolerance and don't hog the road, courtesy goes both ways, but I've had to take down a couple of license plate numbers since we moved here.

 

[TimeFlies]

Not sure anymore, it was long ago, but guessing it was the summer of 2016, when i got rear ended by a cyclist. He got up off the road, yelling and screaming at me, for stopping at a 4 way stop. His front wheel was pretty bent up, from my pickups rear bumper. I wasn't mad, until he started blaming me. He obviously wasn't seriously hurt since he was standing up yelling and screaming, and flailing his arms around. So before I got out of my F150 and really hurt him, I just drove off. A few hours later a cop showed up at my door, and I explained to her what really happened, and the rubber marks almost dead center in my rear bumper. Never heard anything else about it again. If someone rides like a jerk, and hits a vehicle, apologize, don't scream like a lunatic, and blame the driver you hit.

 

[burbguy82]

I had a friend in college who was stopped at a red light and got rear ended by a bicyclist who came flying down a hill and tried to pass him on the right. The cyclist took out his passenger side tail lights and flew over the car and landed in the crosswalk.

Guess who's insurance was liable in our state when a bicyclist runs into a car and gets hurt?

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