Posted on 08/09/2009 9:21:20 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
“Please understand that Critical Mass is not supported by the majority of serious cyclists. Don’t paint us with that brush. Critical Mass is to cycling as Bill Ayers is to civil politics. These people are nihilists.”
Absolutely right. They are a gang of violent and arrogant bullies.
They are required to have the same lighting as a motorcycle when ridden at night in almost every municipality in the US.
Next?
Every time someone can’t relax for 30 seconds and instead gets their panties in a wad because a few of their fellow citizens are enjoying themselves a SEIU member gets a t-shirt.
car vs. 18 wheeler... 18 wheeler always wins.
I say remove cars from the highways...
“The guy was drunk was his point. And he murdered people.”
And your point is?
Doesn’t matter. It is still one hell of an illustration of what happens when a car takes on bikes. Bikes lose.
I would never ride a bike on a public highway now, too easy to get bumped’’ by an oh so sorry moterist. I grew up on hwy. 50 in Ill. We would ride facing on coming trafic and get of the road when we seen trafic coming. Also I noticed when the fitness crowd took up jogging, they jog along or on a street or Hwy. Pure suicide IMO, just asking to be hit by a car.
No they aren’t. Bicycles just have to have a light, not the high power light lights required on a motorcycle. They aren’t required to pass a safety inspection or have a license plate or registration.
Nor are they required to yield to traffic. People obstruct the flow of traffic with these toys. It isn’t allowed with any other toy and shouldn’t be allowed with these toys.
So what exactly should cyclists do to protect themselves from people breaking the law. Several laws in this case as the guy had to drive through barricades to hit them?
“car vs. 18 wheeler... 18 wheeler always wins.
I say remove cars from the highways...”
When did I say remove ANYBODY from the highways?
I merely disagreed with a post that said the picture shouldn’t be shown.
I say everyone who rides bikes in a group should see it.
Doesn’t matter who is right and who is wrong, being in a big mass won’t make you invincible.
No, the commute would be a lot faster. Drivers wouldn't be slowed down to 10mph because a biker is taking too much room and with on coming traffic you can't go around the obstacle. Traffic patterns at intersections would be better because you wouldn't have bikers running lights, or stop signs.
I asked a friend who is a biker why bikers don't follow the rules of the road at intersections. His response was, "because we would never get anywhere if we stopped with traffic". Every year there are 5-6 bikers killed in Chicago. It's not a good activity in a large urban environment. Bikers should go back to the suburbs.
We all saw this one coming. These are anarchists more than cyclists
“So what exactly should cyclists do to protect themselves from people breaking the law.”
Damned if I know.
But they shouldn’t be out there inciting violence against them from motorists, as this group of morons “critical Mass” does. It is just stupid. As you can see from the picture, if a car goes into a gaggle of bikes, people die.
Single Speed, baby!
you sure you’re conservative?
BTW, how long have you been here?
you don’t...
Just like you can’t protect yourself from the drunk driver that runs the red light and slams into a family in a mini-van...
it is the risk we all take when we drive on the roads... no matter what vehicle we are driving/riding.
“We all saw this one coming. These are anarchists more than cyclists”
Exactly. They’re the same thing to cycling that Tim McVeigh was to gun rights.
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