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[Tanner Lovelace <lovelace AT wayfarer.org>]

zman wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Alan MacHett wrote:
>
> > Don't get me wrong.  I don't like being held up in my car, and I *really*
> > like to go fast; I'm the poster child for road rage.  But that only
> > applies on the open road.  In town, I pay attention to the speed limit ...
> > pedestrians and bicyclists and all that to watch out for.  I don't wiz
> > past cyclists at mere inches.  I don't honk at them, potentially startling
> > them and getting them run over.  I don't pull out in front of them.
>
>
> I understand your dilemma. I think a lot of what you experience is also a 
> bi-product of those bicyclists who don't obey traffic laws. Who split 
> lanes at lights, who breeze through them, who ignore stop signs, and who 
> basically only obey the traffic laws when it benefits them. I for one am 
> all for bikers rights, but then when some idiot splits the lane on me and 
> blows through a light it just makes me want to honk my horn as I barley 
> miss them. By the way I am an avid motorcylist for the last 20 something 
> years.

I agree with both of you on this (which is why I ride mountain bikes
and not road bikes).  Bikers that don't follow the laws do a lot to
give a bad perception of cyclists to motorists, but there's still absolutely 
no
excuse for what some motorists do.  Of course, it doesn't help when
local "celebreties" like Bob Dum[b]as[s] urge their listners to physically
hurt cyclists by hitting them (with cars) or throwing bottles at them.

References:
http://www.trianglemtb.com/pages/projects/g105.html
http://www.trirats.org/g105.html
http://newsobserver.com/front/story/2911503p-2677916c.html

Tanner
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