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To: donmeaker
Take a basketball, and a tennis ball hold them together with the tennis ball on top, and drop them together from about shoulder height. The momentum of the basketball is transferred nearly elastically to the tennis ball. The tennis ball takes off.

Of course when (not if) car strikes cyclist, the collision is not elastic, rather it deforms the cyclist a lot, and in a painful way. Cyclists should be very careful, as they are at risk of death. Drivers should be very careful, as they could kill a loved one, a friend.

It's more like "take a basketball and a wet washcloth, hold them together with the washcloth on top, and drop them together from about shoulder height."

I've seen plenty of obnoxious, holier-than-thou bicyclists. I don't desire to kill them, or to see them crash. Sometimes I have to ride behind them at 10 mph as they struggle to make it up a hill because I can't safely pass them.

I chalk it up to "they pay taxes too."

41 posted on 11/10/2013 7:31:46 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Steely Tom

They don’t pay gas taxes while riding their bicycle.


47 posted on 11/10/2013 7:35:56 PM PST by donmeaker (The lessons of Weimar will soon be repeated.)
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To: Steely Tom

If they are riding in a pack, blocking traffic, and going 10 MOH up a ling hill...

The loud horn is what they deserve.

Bunch of entitled, elitist @ssholes.

What would they do if an ambulance was hindered by their antics?

Scumbags.


70 posted on 11/10/2013 7:49:47 PM PST by Prole
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