Hi All,
Saturday, I had an interesting experience. I was approaching a stop sign in San Clemente when two OC Sheriffs on motorcycles passed through the intersection going the opposite direction. One of these guys, upon seeing me, came to a complete stop in the middle of the road so he could see whether I would stop at the sign. Part of me was tempted to stop without putting my foot down to see what he would do, but I decided that any cop willing to stop and watch me like this was just waiting to ruin my ride, so I put my foot down and then continued through. I'm still in disbelief that this guy actually stopped in the middle of a roadway and obstructed traffic (he almost got hit by a car from behind) just to watch me stop at the intersection. It seemed to me that these two were patrolling for the sole purpose of ticketing cyclists. The Irvine Bicycle Club was having their annual weekend trip to Carlsbad and back this past weekend and these two were heading down along their route. Last month, there was another club doing a ride down in San Diego County and motorcycle officers in Oceanside were camped out along their route (note that these were club rides, not big organized rides), issuing tickets to riders who failed to completely stop at a stop sign. In both cases, this was done on a road that was not a major road and at places where riders going through the stop sign would not cause much harm even if they did blow through them (they were at T-intersections where riders were passing through the top, where they wouldn't obstruct a turning car). With all the bad driving that I see all over, this seems like a big waste of time and it feels like these guys are singling out cyclists. In addition, they seem to be a little too aware of where bike club rides are going to be and taking advantage of that situation. Sorry, this is more of a rant, but it annoys me a lot that there seems to be some element in law enforcement that feels that we as cyclists are such scofflaws that we merit this extra attention. Joe _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
