Check both ways
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Check both ways
Just a reminder that when you cross an I/S to check both ways before doing so even if you have a green light. Yesterday my wife and I were in Vegas on the last leg of a Bonzai trip from Arizona. We were driving our cage and had just stopped for a pee break and to switch drivers. My wife was now driving and we were stopped at a red light waiting for the green arrow to turn left. The light turned green for us and my wife proceeded into the I/S. Just as she reached the middle of the I/S a car came blasting through the red light doing at least 50MPH. Thank heaven my wife was paying attention and slammed on the brakes or he would have T-Boned us on the passenger side. Considering the 3 second delay between the red and green lights, this idiot was at least 10 seconds late. If it had been a rider and he/she wasn't paying attention it would have been a fatal accident considering how fast this jerk was going.
Last summer I violated my own rule about looking both ways while riding one day. The light turned green and I looked to the left to see a car running the red light. I waiting for him to clear the I/S and started going never thinking that the car behind him would also run the red light. Anyway, it did and she almost hit me, missed me by inches. I was more pissed at myself for violating my own rule about checking both ways than at her for running the light.
Anyway, as riding season is upon us, just a reminder to check both ways before crossing a I/S, even with a green light, to make sure all opposing traffic is stopped or stopping. BE SAFE OUT THERE!
Last summer I violated my own rule about looking both ways while riding one day. The light turned green and I looked to the left to see a car running the red light. I waiting for him to clear the I/S and started going never thinking that the car behind him would also run the red light. Anyway, it did and she almost hit me, missed me by inches. I was more pissed at myself for violating my own rule about checking both ways than at her for running the light.
Anyway, as riding season is upon us, just a reminder to check both ways before crossing a I/S, even with a green light, to make sure all opposing traffic is stopped or stopping. BE SAFE OUT THERE!
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On a related note, always wipe your butt after you poop. You learn that when you're pottie trained. You're also taught to look both ways before proceeding through an intersection when you get your license (cage AND cycle).
Not trying to be a major dick, but if checking both ways isn't automatic in cage or on bike (like it is for OP's wife), you might also wanna check your butt! ;-)
Not trying to be a major dick, but if checking both ways isn't automatic in cage or on bike (like it is for OP's wife), you might also wanna check your butt! ;-)
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My *** stinks because sometimes I forget to ck for bicyclist! But still use the 10 second AARP rule in S FL while assuring both ways are clear, and has proven being a good rule of thumb as some elders take 10 seconds to press the brake pedal upon seeing the red light when 9 seconds before it.
But while on your bike, and not in the trk, those behind ya are pushing you forward with their horn by courtesy of giving ya not one but the two New York second to roll.
That's next to being immediate, and mostly by impatient teenage females going nowhere fast. In this case I let the vehicles next to me run the forward block.
But while on your bike, and not in the trk, those behind ya are pushing you forward with their horn by courtesy of giving ya not one but the two New York second to roll.
That's next to being immediate, and mostly by impatient teenage females going nowhere fast. In this case I let the vehicles next to me run the forward block.
Last edited by 13dino; Mar 17, 2014 at 07:55 AM.
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I think there is an unofficial 10 second rule here in NJ, possibly everywhere now? Once your light turns red you still have 10 seconds to go blasting thru the intersection AS LONG AS THERE ISN'T A COP SITTING THERE! I've even seen more than one cop not even persue a red light runner. Oh well. Moral of my post - keep your head on a swivel, expect the unexpected, have eyes in the back of your head, in other words STAY SAFE OUT THERE!
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On a related note, always wipe your butt after you poop. You learn that when you're pottie trained. You're also taught to look both ways before proceeding through an intersection when you get your license (cage AND cycle).
Not trying to be a major dick, but if checking both ways isn't automatic in cage or on bike (like it is for OP's wife), you might also wanna check your butt! ;-)
Not trying to be a major dick, but if checking both ways isn't automatic in cage or on bike (like it is for OP's wife), you might also wanna check your butt! ;-)
But you are correct. That being said I think what does make this thread worth while is people stressing that not only should you have the green light, you should wait a few seconds AND look both ways.Having a green light gives you the Right of Way legally, but the Reaper don't give a damn about what's legal or not.
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A year or two ago I was sitting in the right turn lane at a red light . It was around noon and a lot of traffic the light turned green and at the same time a young girl behind me hit her horn . I stopped got out of my pickup and walked back to her car and ask what she wanted .