I was cruis­ing along on my bicy­cle head­ing south down one-way Castil­lo Street and was approach­ing Islay (no stop sign for me) when a HUGE, i.e. nor­mal sized, trash truck came into my view slow­ing for a quick right hand turn direct­ly in front of me.

I was about 100 feet from the truck and, being in defen­sive rid­er mode, noticed that my bike and I were total­ly behind the dri­ver’s large left mirror.

I tried swerv­ing a bit to get vis­i­ble but I was, of course, clos­ing dis­tance to the truck and con­tin­ued to be obstruct­ed by the large mir­ror. So I slowed as he rolled on through the stop sign, turned right,  and accel­er­at­ed  on down Castillo.
I eas­i­ly swerved behind the turn­ing truck and kept on down Castil­lo too!

I am very glad I real­ized what was devel­op­ing as I’m sure if I had­n’t I would have rid­den into the turn­ing truck or, worse yet, been run into by it.