Posted on 04/02/2011 6:48:43 PM PDT by OddLane
A fibrosis of bicycle lanes is spreading through the cities of the world. The well-being of innocent motorists is threatened as traffic passageways are choked by the spread of dull whirs, sharp whistles and sanctimonious pedal-pushing.
Bike lanes have appeared in all the predictable placesAmsterdam, Copenhagen, Berkeley and Palo Alto. But the incidence of bike lanes is also on the rise in unlikely locales such as slush-covered Boston, rain-drenched Vancouver, frozen Montreal and Bogotá, Colombia (where, perhaps, bicycles have been given the traffic lanes previously reserved for drug mules). Even Dublin, Ireland, has had portions of its streets set aside for bicycles onlysurely unnecessary in a country where everyone's car has been repossessed.
Then there is the notorious case of New York City. Not long ago the only people who braved New York on bicycles were maniacal bike messengers and children heeding an abusive parent's command to "go play in traffic." Now New York has 670 miles of bike lanesrather more than it has miles of decently paved streets.
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Twenty years ago I used to ride my bike to work early in the morning along rural lanes dodging wild Indian dogs, the occasional coyote, 400 pound hogs and pick up trucks. It was a thrill, but I never got in the way of a motor vehicle.
“Hint back at you, you need the helmet because you aren’t Lance Armstrong or Evel Knievel. The helmet isn’t for speed, it’s mostly for protection.”
I have to agree.
Every day I think I should have some kind of hard hat, such as the one I wore when ridding horses.
I would not be caught dead in one of those fruity bicycle helmets, even though I might be one day.
Where I live, there are no stop lights or even stop signs.
At four ways, It is catch as catch can.
After dark is quite a fright, with poor street lighting.
I do not worry so much about cars as I do other bicycles, pedestrians and tricycle cabs, which also have no lights.
Nice.
So who mows the street, you or the village?
yeh, something VERY odd about some dude parading around in skintight spankex showing off his 1” pee-pee. WEIRD and gross.
I know this has been posted before but some may have missed it.
Behold, the vision for our future. (By insane commie libs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7rCAYkoMT0
A BIG tax on bikes - liberal elites hit us up with taxes all the time...
Turn about's fair play...
I hate wearing helmets because they don’t have a visor and I get the glare over my sunglasses. Much prefer a baseball cap with a visor, but I know I’m risking my noggin every time I go out on my bike. My biggest fear is the college-age women who are yapping on their cell phones and looking to the left as they run right through a stop sign and will turn right into you. I keep outta da way of those dingbats if I can and prefer to stay on the canal pathways versus the roads. But even on the canals, you have to cross with the cars at intersections.
I LIKE IT.
Two bike lanes!
I think you're on to something.
“I hate wearing helmets because they dont have a visor and I get the glare over my sunglasses. Much prefer a baseball cap with a visor.
Go to an equestrian supply store.
There are numerous forms of helmets for jumpers and polo players. They are fiberglass with a velvet covering.
They have visors, but not quite as long as a baseball cap.
There are also helmets for race horse jockeys.
Anything would be better then those fruity bicycle helmets.
There’s a bicycle shop in a nearby town from me. I took my g/son and his flat bicycle tire there to get it fixed. While waiting, I thought I’d just look at some of the prices of new bikes they had displayed on a rack.
I couldn’t believe it, the first one I looked at was $29.95, I found the reason that it was unbelievable the next time I looked, it was not $29.95 but $2995.
They did only charge $3.50 to fix the flat though.
They’re obnoxious in the suburbs and in the countryside as well.
LOL. Just saw "Spinal Tap" today and remembered this line:
Nigel: We've got, you know, armadillos in our trousers. I mean, it's really quite frightening.
In most places, riding a bike on the sidewalk is illegal.
Riding a bike on a road is legal, except for freeways.
That’s the law.
Change the laws if you don’t like them but at least know what the current laws are in your area.
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