Discuss: Your pet peeves while riding?

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What are you pet peeves while riding? What bugs you the most?
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#2 Unread post by ceemes »

In a word, traffic. Nothing worse then flying down a deserted empty road and then run into the back of a long line of cages crawling about like so many fat and bloated cows. And cows is a apt descriptions as cagers seem to have this herd mentality and like to bunch up, usually when they should be spreading out.

My pet peeve, traffic.
Always ask why.

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I can agree on the traffic. What peeves me is the lack of respect here in Houston they give each other (and other riders). It's the me first, then me, then me again, then maybe you attitude. No turn signals, no respect for red lights and no road manners at all. :(

They say "Ride like other cars are trying to kill you", here they are!! :shock:

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Trucks that don't have tarps on their load. I live a couple of miles from a Campbell soup factory and right now it's tomato season...it's too dangerous to take the bike down the road near there for fear of catching a tomato in the face. I suspect that at 55-60mph, that would hurt.

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Moron left lane bandits on I-295 during rush hour.

Also, see this oldie post of mine from 2011: :mrgreen:
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#6 Unread post by dr_bar »

jstark47 wrote:Moron left lane bandits on I-295 during rush hour.

Also, see this oldie post of mine from 2011: :mrgreen:
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Just re-read that whole thread and saw a post by Verm... Do you realize his last post was only about 18 months (or so) ago...???
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#7 Unread post by blues2cruise »

Aside from traffic....which clearly irritates all of us....

Smokers. They blow their smoke out the window and of course it blows back my way....Then they have the audacity to toss their butt out the window....still smouldering....at a red light....beside me....
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When Carrie and I are riding staggered formation and some half-brained dimwit decides there's precisely enough room between us for THEIR car.

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#9 Unread post by blues2cruise »

JackoftheGreen wrote:When Carrie and I are riding staggered formation and some half-brained dimwit decides there's precisely enough room between us for THEIR car.
Yeah...what's up with that....some drivers do that on the highway as well. You gotta wonder where their brain is.....
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Blues, I hate when that cigarette has it's ashes flicked off in the wind and then thrown out while I'm riding at speed behind them. No respect for a rider, or the environment. I've seen this done in forested areas during the summer...
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