Isnt it illegal in most places to ride vehicles on the sidewalk? Does it cause a lot of fights? I could imagine someone "accidentally" stretching at the right time to clothesline someone riding down the sidewalk. It's making me angry just thinking about it.
Isnt it illegal in most places to ride vehicles on the sidewalk? Does it cause a lot of fights?
Two days ago I said these words to a cyclist on the sidewalk coming toward me: please don't ride on the sidewalk. His reaction was to park his bike and walk toward me flipping the bird and yelling at me to "shut the fuck up"... I've never been in a fight over this, but too often this is the result.
And lest you think I yelled those introductory words, I said them in the most pleading way I could muster.
It is illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk where I live. That doesn't stop the dozens of people I see each day.
And this fun thing happened last night when I left my building (a very busy street): 2 cyclists coming through the intersection and one cyclist wanted to get around the other, so at the intersection he whipped onto the sidewalk, at about 20 mph, and rode between the people walking there. Had I exited my building seconds earlier I could have been serious injured by stepping into his path.
