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By Johnny, October 22, 2009 10:56 pm

Last night I decided to go over to the Bike Oven to see if I could help out with some building up of bikes. Unfortunately, after 45 minutes of waiting, nobody showed up so I decided to ride back home. I cruised through Cypress Park, Eagle Rock, and then Glendale. It was there on Verdugo riding north uphill when a Honda Accord honks at me. The person switches lane and speeds off like many drivers these days would do. Funny part was that I caught up to him on a bike while he was waiting at the light. People are just so impatient when they’re driving. And why would you honk at a bicyclist pedaling along? What am I going to do? Where am I going to go? I have the right to be on the road and I wasn’t going snail pace. Probably a good 18 mph when I looked down at my cyclometer. I guess some people still don’t get it. Why the hell is this bicyclist blocking my right lane? As slow as I was going, folks can still get around me by changing lane. Why can’t you just move over and not honk? What does honking accomplish? In my opinion absolutely nothing!

Unfortunately, I’m not the only one facing this recent rash of semi-road rage. Josef, the owner of The Flying Pigeon LA bicycle shop posted up a scarier story where he was literally run off the road on his bakfiet loaded with a bicycle. He was able to maintain balance but his bicycle on top was knocked off the bakfiet and slid across the road. I’m glad he’s okay but to add insult to injury the passenger flips him off! Another story came from a tweet @ActOut who was riding today and a “sophisticated” business man flips her off while driving off in his SUV. The last example came from @SoapBoxLA who was on a bus while the bus driver honks at a bicyclists and explains that the cyclists shouldn’t be there! What is going on here? Why so much anger from drivers of Los Angeles? Oh well, we live another day to ride.

Photo provided by samsstuff’s on Flickr.

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By Johnny, March 24, 2009 8:34 pm

So I was riding home tonight and had to take a lane. A pick-up truck honks at me and then gives me another honk after passing me. I gave him a thumbs up for his effort and he in turn gives me the middle finger salute proudly above his roof. The funniest part of this whole ordeal, I was passing him continuously as I cruised my way home for the next 2 miles. All that haste and he was held behind either because of traffic, speed bumps, or a light. It was hilarious. I caught up to him so many time and was laughing and smiling the whole way while I waited with him on a light. However fast he wanted to go, he was going no where fast. Some people need to slow down in life and enjoy the ride.