General: someone actually just threw a mcdonalds cheeseburger at me...

and hit me in the back of the neck. i was mad at first, but after he called me a "dumb fucking white bitch" and told me "the side of the road aint a mothafuckin bike lane nigga" i opted not to talk shit or explain civil law and just ride away and laugh. kinda wish the burger didn't fall out of the wrapping i would have eaten it. that is all.

Ah, Baltimore.

Posted By: suicide_doorsAh, Baltimore.

hahahha

your uncle rules

Posted By: mattattattyour uncle rules

He's the coolest guy ever haha

That sounds like a hate crime to me!

someone threw a 2 liter bottle of coca-cola at my dad. he tells me picked it up and chased the lady to the next stop light, she rolled up her window and kept ignoring him when he was knocking on her window. so he unscrewed the cap and poured it through the sunroof that she forgot to close. i still laugh when he tells that story to people.

My dad told me once he was riding with this one dude out in the country somewhere. Some redneck yelled at them and threw a beer bottle at him. He either caught it or it landed without breaking and he picked it up. Either way he threw it back at their truck at the next stop sign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3EVajeiGCs

no offense just Baltimore reminds me of the video

A few weeks ago, a lacrosse ball whizzed by my ear after a school bus passed. Nothing too bad.

ive never had anyone throw something at me but i once had this bro in his lifted truck push me off the road up a dirt embankment. so when i caught up to him at the next light i made sure to break off his mirror maybe i have an anger issue but next time he will think twice about messing with someone

There must be a thing with bike riders and taco bell. I was riding around my town here in little ole festus, kinda a hick(country town i suppose), I was riding my orbea(flashy it is yes) i went inside, had my bag over my shoulder, and had my pants rolled up for obvious reasons right. A group of people walked in, i recognize them(but dont know them personally), one of the guys says to me(under his breathe so i wouldnt hear and his friends would).....Nice Highwaters fag.... I just looked at him and smiled, got my food and left. Turns out the guy is a cousin of one of my best friend, and has messed with another friend of mine, he's already got his big time for the same kind of crap!!

Posted By: iron jaiden1) Baltimore is a goddamn ghost town, nothin but creepy. Although Ottobar had some really good shows. We used to roll up there from D.C. like two or three times a month. Is that place still around?

2) The idea of a flying cheeseburger is pretty funny but the idea of a flying ANYTHING aimed at a cyclist just bums me out. Why on earth would anyone show such violence toward someone riding the least threatening vehicle there is? This seems like a more and more common reaction to anyone doing anything different than other people. Hurt them. Damn shame.

Anyways excuse my downer moment, on with the flying food stories.

ottobar is overpriced (10$-25$ for terrible shows) and idiot rockabilly hipsters hang out there. not my scene but whatever, different strokes for different folks. two drinks for the price of one on tuesdays is the only reason i show up there anymore.

I live in a university town, so most nights downtown (where I live) it's bar night, and the streets are flooded with bros, guidos and bar sluts. People scream stuff at us all the time, and more then once a person has attempted to shove another person into the road so me or one of my friends runs them over. It's really funny they would do that to their "bros".

Also, It's still fun yelling "hail satan" at them though, hahaha.

Incredible.

Posted By: iron jaiden

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Posted By: iron jaiden1) Baltimore is a goddamn ghost town, nothin but creepy. Although Ottobar had some really good shows. We used to roll up there from D.C. like two or three times a month. Is that place still around?

2) The idea of a flying cheeseburger is pretty funny but the idea of a flying ANYTHING aimed at a cyclist just bums me out. Why on earth would anyone show such violence toward someone riding the least threatening vehicle there is? This seems like a more and more common reaction to anyone doing anything different than other people. Hurt them. Damn shame.

Anyways excuse my downer moment, on with the flying food stories.

ottobar is overpriced (10$-25$ for terrible shows) and idiot rockabilly hipsters hang out there. not my scene but whatever, different strokes for different folks. two drinks for the price of one on tuesdays is the only reason i show up there anymore.

Wow, didn't used to be that way. Some shows sucked but seeing Converge for $4 was nice. It's been a while.

eyehategod just played there. 25 bucks but they destroyed all the lights and played for like an hour and forty five minutes which i kinda wish i had seen.

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my brother's friend's friend was biking home in riverwest at night and someoone threw a brick at him, he kept on going but instead of going home he went straight to the hospital and had to get a bunch of stitches. that whole time he was on his bike.

Posted By: upthemaidenSurprisingly I've never had anything thrown at me, but I constantly have people swerve over as if for some reason I'm not allowed to pass them on the right side of the road. I assume it's because when the law says to stay on the right side of the road so faster moving cars can pass you, that still doesn't mean you're allowed to pass them when they're the slow ones.

Either way people here are too stupid to consider anything beyond 3 seconds into the future, and traffic here is stop and go, so I end up passing most of them again anyway, and depending on how much of an ass they've been will determine what happens to their mirror.

I tried calling the cops once when someone actually pulled past me, got out of their car, threw me off my bike, and held me up by my neck. That was the biggest waste of effort to do the right thing I've ever been involved in. That's the last time I'll ever even think about calling the cops to fix a problem like that again.

Now, this is just my personal opinion, so get all bent, OK?

I figure that if I’m riding on the road, I’m supposed to fallow the rules like everybody else. So if I’m in the right lane, & then pass someone on there right either by using the same lane or the shoulder of the road, then such an act would be illegal. (Think of it like if a car did the same to you on your bike or in your car.)
I can’t say that I have never done it, I have, & still do. But I can understand there reaction, particularly if they just get stuck behind me once the flow of traffic is moving faster than I am again.
Now if I’m using the shoulder as my personal bike lane, and in so doing, free up there lane so that I am not impeding there passage, then there lane stops, then I feel that I have every right to pass them if my lane (the shoulder) is clear.

Some people just can’t cope with the fact that someone on a bicycle is seeming to beat the system or not waiting there turn & is doing better than they are in a car. They feel that the road is only for motorized vehicles, & since they are in a car that they have some right to enforce there will over someone on a bike.
I can understand this point of view, particularly if they only see cyclists riding as they please without regard of traffic laws.
Ever notice that drivers are real brave & belligerent in there car when it’s moving or they feel that they can get away? It’s a rare thing indeed when they want to pick a fight stopped at a light or on the side of the road. To me, that’s what U-locks were made for.

Look, I’m not out there to get in anyone’s way, but I’m not going to stay off the road simply because it inconveniences motorists either. It’s a mutual respect sort of thing to me really.

Sure, it’s never going to happen that cars will treat cyclists with the respect they do other motorized vehicles, but till they do I’ll likely find it hard to play by there rules either.
I take particular satisfaction when I’m working driving my truck at 160,000 GVW to block in some A-hole driver while I let the cyclists through though.

I think he's just hitting on you. Give the poor guy a break. He's obviously in an awkward phase.

Posted By: stinky pete...
I figure that if I’m riding on the road, I’m supposed to fallow the rules like everybody else. So if I’m in the right lane, & then pass someone on there right either by using the same lane or the shoulder of the road, then such an act would be illegal. (Think of it like if a car did the same to you on your bike or in your car.)
I can’t say that I have never done it, I have, & still do. But I can understand there reaction, particularly if they just get stuck behind me once the flow of traffic is moving faster than I am again.
Now if I’m using the shoulder as my personal bike lane, and in so doing, free up there lane so that I am not impeding there passage, then there lane stops, then I feel that I have every right to pass them if my lane (the shoulder) is clear.
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stinky pete is correct. it is illegal in most states to pass stopped traffic on the right if you don't have your own lane to do it in. more importantly, it is dangerous. i'm not here to change anyone's behaviour necessarily, just reminding that you are assuming additional risk when you ride like that. my motto is "safe, legal and courteous -- in that order" which means that making nice with cars is not my top priority. there is one stretch of my commute where it is all stop and go for a mile in the afternoon rush (north on state street between morgan and ellsworth), and i will sometimes pass the stopped traffic there but it is scary as hell and i have gone down on the shoulder a couple of times as a result. once i get up to where the cars are lined up behind the light i take my place in the lane and keep it there, all the way through the intersection. not a lot of other cyclists do this, and it is confusing to motorists sometimes, but it pretty much eliminates the risk of the right hook. i see a lot of other cyclists threading their way through traffic and it probably saves them a few minutes but i doubt they do anything productive with that additional time spent off the bicycle, after getting to their destinations sooner. if they were couriers that would be different, but there are no bicycle couriers in ann arbor (that guy from the jimmy john's on packard doesn't count).

for my troubles i have had a number of things thrown at me, usually on south state street, but never anything i would eat.

I remember being hit by eggs while driving with my mom on the way to school when I was like six... I think someone tossed a rock at our Prius yesterday. But I've never been fucked with while riding.

When I worked as a bike messenger, a huge dude got out of his car, ran after me and hit me in the face. I got his license plate number and had the police come, but they didn't want to file a report. I was told that it "wasn't really a problem" to them. Now I'm more hasty to be aggressive toward angry drivers.

Timmy's right: if you take space like you belong there, cars respect you. I mean, most people don't *want* to hit a cyclist. They're regular people out doing their regular people stuff. Getting too close to the gutter is a good way to get sideswiped.

Even more depressing is the fact that the maximum sentence is 5 years... That was more than just an assault, it was attempted murder. Hopefully he'll get a few aggressive prostate exams in prison.