What are they (cars) thinking when we... - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

04-06-2004, 09:05 PM

So on this morning's regular King's Mtn road ride, we're heading fast down
Skyline towards Sky L'onda, with one of our guys in front of a rather large
tank truck of some kind. I guess he (the cyclist) wasn't feeling super-fast
this morning, so he decided to ride towards the edge of the road to allow
the guy to pass him.

Well, of course the tank truck passes him... on a blind corner, going well
into the other lane! What an idiot. About five seconds later and it would
have been blammo, as a car came by.

In my opinion, the cyclist on our ride should have taken the lane, to keep
the guy from passing in a dangerous area. Which brings me to this-

When we're heading up the hill, which has many blind corners, I routinely
give hand signals to hold cars back (keep them from passing) when I can see
ahead and there's a car heading down. Likewise I'll give hand signals to
cars coming down the hill, telling them to slow down, when there's a car
coming up from behind us.

So I'm thinking, are the car drivers actually appreciative of this, or
totally clueless and think that we're just in their way? Not that it would
matter, as it's the prudent thing to do, as, in my opinion, if something we
can do while riding makes the world just a bit better or safer place, we
ought to do it.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
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