Road Hazards

Yesterday, I was driving down Forest in the right lane and right as I came to The Bike Shop there were about 20 or 30 folks on bikes out front on the lawn. They chose to enter traffic right in front of me at that particular moment and they didn’t seem to be paying attention to oncoming traffic. I generally have no problem with bicyclists as long as they seem to be competent and following the law themselves.

I slammed on my brakes to avoid hitting those guys you see up ahead (in this picture I took later) making the turn onto the side street from the right lane there. My camera which had been sitting on the seat next to me at the time ended up under the gas pedal. There’s now a dent that affects how fast I can change the zoom, which now requires a lot of fiddling as it seems to get stuck quite often, usually in the setting I don’t want it in.

I was planning on buying a new high end P&S camera in July, but this morning I broke down and ordered a Canon Powershot S3 IS. It’ll be here tomorrow. I’m both excited and annoyed.

tags: bicyclists, road hazards, driving, reckless, dangerous, camera, Canon Photoshot S3 IS, photo blogging, flickr

2 comments

1. on May 15, 2007 at 8:25 pm

   Thud said:

   Roar! Bikers annoy me. Our town went to a great deal of expense to make bike lanes and bike paths, and what do I have to do today? Pass bicyclists in the actual street instead of the bike lane bike lane ten feet away.

2. on May 31, 2007 at 6:32 am

   Jessica said:

   We’ve got a huge problem here with bicyclists, namely that they don’t know the rules of the road. The experienced long distance bikers do but the thousands of college kids on bikes? No way. We’re constantly slamming on brakes here on and off campus because they bike out in front of us. And you know of course it would be OUR Fault because in this town the cops say the bikers have the right of way. Go figure!

   I’m enjoying your blog!

   Jess

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