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Old 06-20-2009, 01:05 AM   #82
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Re: Stallworth to serve 30 days

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Originally Posted by tryfuhl View Post
They do have the same rights. It's not all that often that you'll get a line of traffic stuck behind a cyclist as most cars have no problem shooting right around one. I always make sure to move over as far as safely possible when being trailed, it's too dangerous to get too close to the edge of the road or the center-line. People just hate to have to slow down a bit and are too impatient. You'll spend less time behind a cyclist in a month than you will at a single stoplight in NoVA in most cases.
I cut through Rock Creek Park at least 3 or 4 days a week. I spend too much time behind cyclists. My big beef isn't so much that they're on the road. It's that they want every right a car has, and then (for the most part, but not all) they ignore things like stop signs. Just rubs me the wrong way.
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