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  • Ready to defend bike paths (erstwhile Freeper on the lunatic fringe here)

    03/02/2003 2:49:07 PM PST · by Clinging Bitterly · 26 replies · 275+ views
    The Eugene Red Guard ^ | Mar. 2. 2003 | MICHAEL J. McCARTHY
    Ready to defend bike paths If the Segway electric scooter, two-cycle engine-powered skateboards and other machines ridden by able-bodied people are allowed access to the bike path system, it is a step onto the slippery slope of destruction. The paths should be for human-powered travel only, unless one cannot use one's legs normally. I have watched foolish hot-rodders weave hazardously through a heavy weekend load of bike riders and strollers. They naturally assume they are the preferred users of the paths, much in the same foolish way that those in automobiles regularly harass and bully bicycles on regular city streets....