Damn. Could have been ugly. Glad it wasn't. +1 on your IG about road safety.
Yep, I got lucky. And fittingly of course, some jackass acquaintance of a friend made some asshole comments on my FB post. Paraphrasing, I'm sure I deserved it because I must have been breaking the law by running stop signs and running redlights before hand :rolleye
Of course, I pretty much don't (only except is on the bike route along the river where there is no cross traffic I normally roll through when no one is around, but I stop at those now too).
But he also calls himself a troll on his page, and then gets all butt hurt when I call him a troll :rolleye
i feel like it gets more and more dangerous to commute by bicycle. people are angrier than ever and twice as distracted. i really took for granted all of the bike trails in sacramento. i wish san diego had something similar. something's gotta give eventually.
Sadly, it is worse here then when I was in San Diego a couple of years ago. Not saying SD is heaven, but this area is total shit.
Yikes, hope you are OK.
When I lived in Irvine 7+ years ago it was shit show then. Not all, but good percentage, of drivers in SoCal are self entitled sociopathic assholes.
There was an incident in LA this year where a fucktard took out a triathlete at stop light, then sued her for damages to his car. Of course Police couldn't even bother to do a report.
Yep, pretty much the same attitude here. Though most of these people are OC commuters.
When I was assaulted earlier this year by two guys, the cops that came out blamed me. Something along the lines of "you must have done something to start it". No, I didn't. "Well, not much we can really do except write a ticket if we can even find who it was." The cop didn't care at all that the two guys tried to scare me off the road, and then jumped out of their truck and punched me a couple of times before driving off!
Sadly, I figured out who it is, and it is a neighbor. And since I am a renter with horses, I can't risk him starting shit and me getting kicked out of my home until I can buy.
. i am going deep down the rabbit hole with this bike. it was supposed to be kind of a beater but i fell in love with it and now im upgrading everything on it. i just threw on some 700x30 tires and now im waiting for my carbon drop bars so i can put my new cables and new shifters on. the tires are big, fat and ridiculous! i love it. gonna be so much fun grinding some gravel with this one. 
