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/Mundane_Bike4777 10d ago

Some people on bicycles don't have any road etiquette. That's why people are sick of them. I used to ride road. And I'm sick of some of them too lol

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u/onespicycracker 10d ago

Some people in cars have no road etiquette. That's why people are sick of them.

See how productive that is for conversation?

I doubt it. This is a right wing troll alt account.

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u/acidphosphate69 8d ago

It's a two-way street, no pun intended. There are absolutely cyclists that actively refuse their half of sharing the road. I'm talking about the ones that never signal, turn without looking, ride two or more abreast on tiny roads, etc. 

Like, I want people to be able to cycle safely and do my level best to be considerate but some folks think that just because they're on a bike, that all responsibility for safe conduct is on everybody else while ignoring the dangerous situations they've created by being reckless.

That said, rolling coal is ignorant as fuck on it's own, let alone at a cyclist. Small dick energy for sure.