Morning:Weather: 28 degrees, clear, sunny - a spectacular day.
Quality of Ride: Excellent - traffic very light - breezed through Kenmore, Commonwealth/Mass Ave intersection free and clear. Took the Charles river route instead of Mem drive cause the day is so beautiful.
Tech Issues: None
Incidents: Pedestrian on Beacon walked out between two parked cars
and nearly into my path.Comments: First photo is along Charles River looking toward Longfellow bridge. Second photo is intersection of Commonwealth Ave and Mass Ave looking toward the Mass Ave Bridge.
Evening:
Weather: 32 degrees. cool, clear, no wind.
Quality of Ride: Great
Tech Issues: None
Incidents: Two Suddenly Appearing Pedestrians (SAPs). One bolted out from between parked cars (a typical SAP manoever), and one blithley crossed First Street about 25 feeet in front of me after looking directly at me (more typical SAP behavior). It has been my experience that pedestrians don't consider bicycles a threat at all, even though being hit by a bike could kill you, or give you a serious head injury, or break all kinds of pedestrian bones etc. The worst of these situations is this: You're approaching a red light and traffic is backed up at the light so you're screaming along what I call "The Gutter" - that space between the waiting line of traffic and the curb. A pedestrian crosses from the opposite side of the street way before the crosswalk, thinking that they are going to take advantage of the stopped traffic and not use the cross walk. So instead of popping out in front of you from the right-hand curb side, they suddenly appear from the left, darting out from between two cars in the traffic line - the reason this is so bad is that the pedestrian is thinking that once they plant one foot in the Gutter, they're home-free, that they don't have to worry about getting in the way of the cars. I've had this happen several times and have just locked up the brakes and shouted at the SAP.
Comments: Photo is of Uneasy Rider midway through Lights Out.
1 comment:
Recall a former brother in law of yours being knocked out by a passing bicylist - resulting in concussion!! Actually, YOU WERE THERE TOO! A culminating event, after having the good sense to chase three people down the street so we could beat up the Kicking Girl! Oh the wonders of beer-laden thinking!
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