Posted on 07/30/2008 4:07:43 PM PDT by Harley
IT'S murder out there if you like to walk. The bike people won't repeat this. But those who enjoy hoofing it on city streets stand a good chance of experiencing a close encounter with a kamikaze rider who treats stoplights like suggestions, and pedestrians like speed bumps. And some of you will die.
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Many bicyclists want to be treated alternately as cars or as wheeled pedestrians, depending upon whats convenient to them at the time.
Those actually in cars or on foot are supposed to read their minds & make way, I guess. With this mindset, no wonder so many are getting flattened these days.
You know, we had a stupid teenager near here who thought exactly like you, except that he carried out your thought in his actions.
Did a wee bit o' jail time after he threw something from his car that hit, knocked down and permanently maimed a local church pastor, who was in the bike lane so the kid could "drive by" rather fast than the cycling pastor.
I thought FReepers tended were a pretty law-abiding crowd, but it seems pretty clear you approve of the kid's assault.
My parish priest rides his bicycle to and from church pretty often. He's also a very conservative guy -- please don't throw anything at him either.
They need to carry liability insurance, too.
Bad choice almost always, especially with sudden changes, and prohibited in some locales.
Anti-bicyclist rants always build to this predictable crescendo. Which makes one wonder if the pitiful anti-cyclist ire is actually a thinly veiled effort to suppress those nagging homo-erotic thoughts coursing through the haters mind.
“They are arrogant..they think they are better than everyone else.”
“...I’m not arrogant, nor do I think I’m better then anyone else.”
“...it just makes me cooler (read temperature) than the idiot in drenched cutoffs.”
Hmmmm
From the article: "They own the city - at least they think they own the city," griped Larry, 70, who walked carefully on the bike path.
Did everyone else here miss that in their haste to spew venom on cyclists?
I ride a bike, obey the law, ride on the shoulder or designated bike paths when possible and stay off the sidewalks. Still I have to deal with the occasional A-hole in a car that throws trash or worse at me or tries to run me off the shoulder with their car (Attempted vehicular homicide). That's why I've started carrying my .45 in a tanker type chest holster when I ride. Not that it would help if someone hit me from behind but it is a comfort and, judging from some of the comments here, fully justified.
BTW, I agree about the spandex.
The laws in this state declare the rules for bicycles on the roadways, no matter what you assert. And I drive in other states without registering or paying taxes to that state.
Consider too the wear & tear upon the roads, which is proportional to the 4th power of the weight of the vehicle. As I presume the taxes you pay for the roads to be somewhat under $10k, if your car+driver weights 2000 lbs and a cyclist + bicycle weighs 200 lbs... it'll cost the state a WHOLE lot more to collect the tax than what they get from it. (And I don't know any cyclists who don't also drive.)
But those who break the laws, TICKET them d*mmit!
Not me. It makes a difference (though when I wore it I stuck to basic black), particularly for commuting where you doff it at work and don it again to go home. If that made me look gay to some folks, well, I'm mature enough I don't have to worry about such things.
You obviously think you're better than Ron Jeremy.
I wear spandex when I ride a bike, and that doesn't make me gay,
A likely story.
Seattle area too. Many years ago I looked up the laws regarding cyclists and the local cycling club printed flyers with the summaries, for distribution. It doesn't seem to have changed things much.
I wear mountain bike gear: baggies over bike shorts and a plain t-shirt style jersey. I’m talking about the Tour de France wannabe outfits. You have to admit, they do look stupid.
Its time to give cyclists the same treatment that tobacco users are getting.
Let’s start with a $1.00 per trip tax. We can expand it by $1.00 each year, and outlaw cycling in public places.
If Dante were to write the Inferno today, there would be a special place in hell for militant urban bicyclists.
As hood ornaments.
I was just thinking of the irony of posting your last comments to Ron Jeremy....
Then I realized your screen name was Morgana....
I'm not enamoured with the advertising, absolutely. But these days especially the advertising would look silly on me, for all the billboard area has increased. ((;-)} When I go riding now I go incognito -- the useful spandex underneath baggies. I'm not commuting anymore, and as I'm moving slower the drag is insignificant.
” I ride a bicycle and I’m not arrogant, nor do I think I’m better then anyone else.”
” PM by Melas (Offending stupid people since 1963) “
Well, which is it ?
Ron Jeremy has advocated support for an action that can, has, and is likely to continue to damage lives of innocent people, including "men of God." Melas has not. (In all fairness to Ron Jeremy, he or she might not be online at present and thereby unable to recant in a timely manner.)
At this point, solely on information available on this thread at the time of posting, I rank Melas way above Ron Jeremy in being "better"; unlike Ron Jeremy he/she has not advocated an action that could be very damaging to an innocent person.
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