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To: Castlebar

I was responding to your assertion that no motorists are being put at risk.

Crossing the yellow line, even though it’s legal, is a risky proposition, which is something motorists have to do daily to deal with bicyclists. If you can do deal with 10 or 20 spread out cyclists in 7 seconds you’re either a better driver than me, or don’t give the cyclists as much courtesy as me.

Or the bicyclist couple who decided to drive north on I-25, I was southbound so I was able to observe rather than be part of the fiasco, they had to have a Highway Patrol escort to prevent them from being driven over (I presume), the backup was over 8 miles.

Those 90% of self absorbed cyclists give the other 10% a bad name.

The conclusion I have come to is that most cyclists are Leftists whose sole mission on their trips is to inflict as much of their belief on others as they can.


25 posted on 08/24/2013 6:25:51 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (When America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
I was responding to your assertion that no motorists are being put at risk.

Crossing the yellow line, even though it’s legal, is a risky proposition, which is something motorists have to do daily to deal with bicyclists.

So motorists do it daily, it's a constant thing, a jillion times every day, and the number of motorists whose deaths are caused annually by cyclists is......what?

I'll help you with that research. Other than the surprising number of deaths from face-to-face altercations and fistfights (mostly in the UK, Australia and New Zealand) there is ONE case (about 10 years ago in South Georgia) where:

- a cyclist ran a red light, caused a woman motorist to swerve into the path of an oncoming semi. Ultimately, the cyclist was sentenced to two years for manslaughter. I HAVE FOUND NO OTHER CASES; if you can, I'd be happy for you to enlighten me.

Alternatively you could simply make some up from whole cloth, as you do with your imagined motivations of cyclists.

26 posted on 08/24/2013 9:00:41 AM PDT by Castlebar
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