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14391 messages, Last post on Nov 28, 2009 at 4:26 PM
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It was such a beautiful day yesterday that I loaded up my hybrid bike to take to the trails. Getting about a block or two from my home still on the side streets I came on someone backing out of their driveway not looking. I had to stop as this guy backed all the way into the street without seeing me. Second is when I got on the the expressway and got in the left lane following someone going a bit slow. When they merged over and I went to pass they speed up, I guess I wasn't supposed to pass them. Final one was on the way home. Driving down a secondary street near my house that opened up to two lanes in each direction for a couple of blocks when the right lane becomes a right turn only lane. I was in the left lane and there was a car in front of me in the right lane going to make a right turn. Well I noticed some clown in an SUV running in the right lane real fast. He got next to me (and a little in front) and tried to merge. Of course almost hitting me, the car making the right turn and the car in front of me (I was rather close simply because traffic was going about 20 MPH).
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Replying to: tjc78 (Nov 08, 2009 7:29 am) 
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Replying to: elias (Nov 08, 2009 4:48 am) Back home in VA, I have Erie Insurance. Their premiums are low, and even if someone could beat them on price, I wouldn't switch because of the outstanding service I've received over the last 30 years. Unfortunately, Erie doesn't do business out west, only in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states. |
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Replying to: 210delray (Nov 08, 2009 5:02 pm) I used it everyday when I commuted from the south Jersey area to King of Prussia. It was horrible, probably the worst road in the Philly region (although the Roosevelt Blvd is no picnic either) I don't miss it at all. |
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I just spent a few weeks in Germany and Switzerland. I saw no LLCs. Zero. Never had to pass on the right, not once. I had no problem cruising along on unlimited roads at 120+ mph, and on roads with limits, those who didn't want to speed simply kept right or moved over for speeders, then back in their lanes. No wannabe traffic deputies. The "keep right" ideal works, no way around it. Also a huge difference regarding lane positioning and paying attention. Few stop signs - mainly yield signs or even unposted intersections, yet I only saw one fender bender in many days of driving. I saw exactly two phone yappers. I saw more than that in my first 5 minutes back home. I saw nobody eating while driving - which I also saw endless times within my first few minutes driving here. I'm going to feel suicidal having to drive back in the land of the lowest common denominator  
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Nov 08, 2009 8:51 am) 
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Replying to: xwesx (Nov 09, 2009 10:23 am) If I was going to be on the road I would have taken a road bike. Its rather fun chasing down cars on a bike.
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Replying to: snakeweasel (Nov 09, 2009 3:07 pm)  I have only ridden a road bike once, but it was quite an experience. I never thought I could travel highway speeds (I was going ~50 for a short while) on a bicycle. On my bike, a pseudo-mountain bike, it was all I could do to push it up to about 35 unless I had a lot of help from gravity....
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Replying to: xwesx (Nov 09, 2009 3:25 pm) On the hybrid I can hit sprints of the low 30's and maintain around 14-15. I do a training ride (that's about a mile long loop) that climbs a very steep paved bike trail then onto a side street that goes down the hill. Part of the training is to bike as fast as you can going down the hill just after the climb. Doing this I have actually passed cars.
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