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To: BenLurkin

I bike 10-20 miles a day and I’m not a cuck.


41 posted on 08/21/2023 8:22:02 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The threads about cycling here are always an extreme example of people who have no clue what they are talking about spewing nonsense about an issue they have not got even the slightest inkling about.

For some perspective and no other reason I will mention that I was a state champion and nationally highly ranked cyclist in my long distant past. I used to ride approximately 10,000 miles a year. After I got married my wife and I became avid tandem cyclists.

From what I observe near us the increase in cycling injuries and fatalities in the past few years has less to do with serious cyclists. Every year we take more and more precautions to avoid being run over by distracted motorists, drunks and people driving while smoking marijuana. The increase in people who are getting killed and injured are mostly those who are using electric bikes. They allow people who have not developed any defensive riding skills to go much faster than they are capable of on their own. Some varieties are really just electric motorcycles with no licensing requirements. Young inexperienced motorcyclists are always a group at high risk, but at least they typically have some minimal training. We now see children and adults on electric bicycles completely ignoring traffic rules weaving in and out of traffic and making a nuisance of themselves on a daily basis. And for whatever reason we often see black people who obviously have no previous cycling experience riding like this... I am surprised the statistics are not even worse for them.


53 posted on 08/21/2023 10:28:44 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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