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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   Unfortunately, the way a LOT of people drive, AND RIDE, it’s all too true.
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   Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago

   Typical bicyclist: “I am a vehicle! Unless it’s to my advantage to act like a pedestrian.”
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   omQ R said, 3 months ago

   I see the cyclist/driver divide exists elsewhere other than the U.K. Hmm. I found riding in France, Germany, Austria, Netherlands & Belgium an absolute pleasure. Even Paris was a whizz. In the U.K. I don’t venture out on a bike unless fully lit up and with neon viz jacket, even if only down to the café and back.

   
   Conflicts between driver / cyclist / pedestrian are in inverse proportion to the cycling facilities available in each country.
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   Clark Kent said, 3 months ago

   As a cyclist, I ride on the sidewalk along busy roads. If there is no sidewalk or if the only sidewalk is under the overhead powerlines along the road, I don’t ride there, I find another route.
   (BTW, in many parts of the USA the power distribution system is old and decrepit with rotting wooden poles leaning over at 30 degree angles and somtimes wires break and fall to the ground making a big loud humming fireball. That is why I avoid being under them.)
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   edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago

   WTF does gun control have to do with this you troll? Cyclists have the LEGAL right to be on the roads. If more people were actually shown the laws, and PROPERLY trained in driving, we’d have fewer accidents. Based on the driving I see, current driver training is a waste of money.
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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   In most states, a bicyclist has the exact same rights AND responsibilities as a motorcycle rider would. Ride safely, obey ALL the traffic rules, and so forth.
   Sadly, there are WAY too many bike riders out there that like to blow through stop signs since it’s a pain to unclip out of the cleats, and clip back in, they ride against traffic, and the like
   I used to carry a bicycle with me in my Semi, and have ridden in about 35 states. It seemed to be the same no matter where I went. When I rode following the laws, I NEVER had a problem, even in Cities
   A little common sense goes a long ways, folks. .
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   ansonia said, 3 months ago

   @

   I guess I could modify edinbaltimore’s comment:
   “WTF does [the tea party]l have to do with this you troll?”
   but instead, I’ll just politely ask: How will "tea baggers’ politicize this?
   And please give us examples of they “politicize everything.”
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   swr said, 3 months ago

   @Clark Kent

   Don’t know where you live,I suspect a blue state, but here in the heartland I’ve never seen a pole like that unless it was after a tornado. I will grant we need to harden out distibution net. Heck I deer hunt along some.
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   swr said, 3 months ago

   @

   why are you presuming that the commenter was a homosexual??
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    omQ R said, 3 months ago

    @ansonia

    ’
    And please give us examples of they “politicize everything.”’

    
    Do you ever provide examples or sources for your statements? I’ve asked these of you repeatedly and remain disappointed. Want examples of these evasions?
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    ansonia said, 3 months ago

    I can relate to this cartoon.
    I used to live near a very windy (lots of curves) paved mountain road, one road going downhill and a separate road going uphill. It was a good workout to ride my bike down and back up, probably about 3 or 4 miles one way with about a 3,000 foot elevation change. Riding up, the road was wide enough and well marked so there was no problem. But riding down so I could get to the road up, was an exercise in terror. Although the shoulder was clearly marked with a white line and there was a sign to watch for bicyclists, drivers often drove too fast and to compensate for the curves, would drive off the marked road on the right and left to “straighten” the drive so they could go faster. After one too many close calls, I finally had to give it up.
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    ansonia said, 3 months ago

    @omQ R

    Sure. Give me cartoons and dates. I’ll go back.
    In the meantime, can you back you statement?
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    deerflatener said, 3 months ago

    @edinbaltimore

    Last time I checked, bicycles are not allowed on all roads. Where I live, they are specifically banned from roads, as are pedestrians. Pedestrians get the sidewalk on both sides of the road. Bicycles get the sidewalk on the north or west side of the road. Plus the bicycles have plenty of designated bicycle trails running parallel to the major streets. Then there are the expressways and interstates which have a ban on everything without an engine and unable to meet the requirements for the minimum speed limit. Electric cars are banned because they lack suitable power for sustained and reliable running at the minimum speed limit.

    If the bicyclists were properly trained to follow traffic laws and yield to automobiles as the law says, there would be fewer accidents.

    Of course, there is always the Red Green method of determining right of way. The one with the biggest tires, has the right of way. That is, if you know what’s good for you.
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    ahab said, 3 months ago

    @Sharuniboy

    Ah,my old digs Sharuniboy. I cycled west on Mississippi to Washington Park every evening to do my 10 laps, or about 20 miles. The tough area was the block in Glendale up to Colorado Blvd. I was twice knocked off my bike by vehicles taking my right of way. Shattered a hemet on the curb, and road rash. Did either driver even stop despite seeing what they had done? Nope! I used to love the Breckenridge to Vail cycling trail. Denver was far more cycle friendly on the whole, than any place in Utah.
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    DrCanuck said, 3 months ago

    @ahab

    You’re lucky you only have to put up with cars.

    
    Zipping down the highway in Northern Canada, I saw an elk jump out of the ditch, and mistaking my “tuck” position as a threat, lowered its head and charged at me, crossing the highway, just in time to get t-boned by an oncoming pickup truck. It smashed the grill, deployed the air-bag, rode up the hood to the windshield, and because of its slant, got projected into the air. The carcass exploded, hooves went one way, the horns the other, and its ripped apart carcass, ribcages sihouetted against the sky, flew over my head and smashed on the highway behind me, while I blithely rode through the hail of blood, guts, and truck bits safely through to the other side.
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