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Old 04-28-2007, 09:44 AM
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Ouch, that sucks man. heal soon!

About a year ago, I was on my bike (on the sidewalk which nobody ever uses, and I don't have to worry about cars behind me) going about 25-26 mph, and it was about dusk, and not very light out, and I had my LED headlight on, and also my rear red light, and so I was going down small hill, when all of a sudden a white BMW 740iL races toward an intersection that I'm about to cross. It was going the wrong way on a one-way street, and they didn't have their lights on. So I hit both both brake handles as hard as I possibly could (I think I pulled a muscle in my arm) and I barely skidded to a halt just before it blew right through a stop sign and kept going. Didn't even try to stop. I ended up warping my front brake disc (I have disc brakes) from the heat created. Oh well. Stupid drivers. What an idiot.
xnsf: bicyclists have the same exact rights of drivers, so they have every right to act like cars, and they should, for safety's sake.
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