On Nov 19, 9:16 pm, "Bellsouth Ijit 2.0 - Global Warming Edition (R)"
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> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:10:29 -0500, "Roger Zoul"
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> >>"Don Wiss" <donwiss@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:39:41 -0500, dgk <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>Maybe, but he wasn't inexperienced. If he's riding fixies with
> >>>>Critical Mass I'd guess he knew his stuff.
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> >>> Is that a fixie in this picture?
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>>>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/18/2007-11-18_son_of_brooklyn...
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> >>> Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).
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> >>Apparently, there was drinking involved and honking cars. Those
combined
> >>with gaps in the lanes and night time made for a deadly combination.
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> > NA$CAR ***** Power killed him.
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> > WTF were those morons honking for if not to threaten, menace and
> > force the cyclists off the road?
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> > zk
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> It's tragic, but they were riding on motorized vehicle only level. I
used
> to commute over Manhattan bridge bike path all the time, but riding in
> traffic over the bridge AT NIGHT would be near suicidal.
No it's not. I've done highways many times when I am forced to, at
night, in the city and out in Jersey, and actually very few people
honk -- but the point is, you ignore them.
What cyclists need is a lot more nerve! The problem with the
mainstreaming of cycling (a propos the "please stop all bike paths"
thread) is that we get a lot of casual riders who freak out at the
slightest bother. The ultimate problem is, I SAY AGAIN, that there's
this mentality that motorists have a right to be on the road. They do
not. They are licensed to drive, and that means taking proper
precautions and SHUTTING THE **** UP WITH THE ****ING HORNS over every
little speed bump and inconvenience.
You people are all missing the whole point of bicycles vis-a-vis cars.
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