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The original was posted on /r/cycling by /u/too_techie on 2023-09-27 18:59:37.
So, for context, I used to ride a trek road bike, loving to zip down the edge of the road going 35mph until my bike broke about 5 years ago and I never got around to buying a new one (or justifying the cost of the carbon one I had my eye on).
I am a UPS guy and last night I pulled to the exit of a parking lot of a large convenience store and stopped before turning right onto a 2 lane one-way street ( no stop sign, it's just a habit of mine to stop for safety). There are tall hedges both to the left and to the right creating a blind exit so I then started slowly pulling forward to make sure it was safe to turn right. I then see a blur fly past my front bumper so I came to a full stop.
As it turns out, a road cyclist had been flying at a high rate of speed down the sidewalk. She at some point saw my 10 1/2 foot tall truck, panicked and swerved to the left losing control and hitting a curb popping her front tire. She managed to unclip and set a foot down in the grass to avoid tipping over, but commenced screaming and swearing at me with a string of expletives as if her crashing was my fault.
Setting aside for the moment that it is against the law to ride on the sidewalk here, and that she was flying like a bat out of hell, even though I know that everything I did was the proper thing to do and I was being 100% safe, this has been weighing on me since yesterday.