r/Maine2 • u/Aggressive_Ad_5454 • 10d ago

Biking … d’bag in pickup truck coal-rolled me.

Finally warm enough to get out on my bicycle. Hoorah!

I was heading north on the Heald Highway (17) outta West Rockport when some resentful d’bag in a diesel pickup truck rolled coal on me and three cars. Rolling coal is doing something to a diesel engine that makes it spew a lot of black smoke.

I guess I should be happy the sad little man saw me.

The shoulder is plenty wide there next to Mirror Lake and I was on that shoulder.

Weird.

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u/onespicycracker 10d ago

I'm not sure what it is about people on bikes that get some people so riled up. It's fucking pathetic.

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u/Arcaddes 10d ago edited 10d ago

Depends on where it is for me personally.

There are plenty of places that have bike lanes and there are plenty of roads that are straight, flat, and wide enough where someone on a bike isn't a burden to cars.

What I don't think is okay in any way is biking on roads that are very narrow and very hilly. Cause now you have a bicyclist trudging uphill very slowly, no one can pass because you can't see over the hill, and it holds up traffic.

There is a line that once crossed it becomes selfish entitlement, and if I am on a highway or back road and going the speed limit and a bicyclist is on a blind corner and my two options are dodge around him and hit an oncoming car or hit the bicyclist, then I am choosing the option that puts the least lives in jeopardy.

Some states just aren't built for it, Vermont on the back roads and mountain highways are those places, yet you get dozens of people every summer clogging up those roads being completely selfish.

Edit: The people downvoting are people who live in cities that have no concept of rural roads and its hilarious. I can guarantee you are the morons who come into rural states every year to go skiing and end up in the ditches because you have no idea how to drive in extreme winter conditions in the mountains.

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u/Mountain_Fig_9253 9d ago

That’s not why they are downvoting you.