5/8 Berkeley Critical Mass this Friday, downtown Berkeley BART
gather 5:30 PM to depart after 6 PM. Sound system, water
pistols, movies after. http://guest.xinet.com/bike/couch
\_ And please drink and drive your SUVs.
\_ And bring out your guns.
\_ puleeze. more underpowered twinks who will get themselves
killed thinking they can mix in with regular traffic
\_ they also bitch and cry when their handle bars get stuck
on someone's mirror. only an idiot and careless biker
gets that close to a car.
\_ while waiting on a red light on Market St. in SF couple of weeks
ago, a woman tried to squeeze between my car and the sidewalk. She
ended up toppling over as her bike hit the sidewalk. I tried damn
hard not to laugh, but was quite unsuccessful. Oh, and it's not
like she couldn't have ridden her bike on the sidewalk... there were
hardly any pedestrians and the sidewalk's 20 feet wide.
\_ so if you ride on the sidewalk, you get a ticket.
if you ride between cars, you die.
if you ride your bike in traffic and take up the whole
lane, you get harassed.
\_ Cyclists should do what motorists do. If you see a bunch of
cars behind you waiting to pass you, pull over to the side
and let them pass. For the most part, this is convention on
the highways and should work for cyclists as well.
\_ How typical, a motorist advocating that cyclists break the law.
\_ They do anyway without any help.
\_ Like not stopping for pedestrians at stop signs (and even
red lights) while whining about car drivers not stopping
for them.
\_ Like the 4 cars that sped through red lights just
this morning on my walk from bart to work.
\_ yeah, but bicyles don't weight 2 tons, cars do..
all the more reason to respect their power even if
there are morons behind it.
\_ Some cyclists are fucking stupid (crossing against
a red light, etc), but this is hardly the
behavior most cyclists have.
\_ I'm saying she should've ridden the sidewalk for her own good.
Fine by me if she wants to risk hurting herself. In fact, I'm
glad she fell on her sorry ass. If she insists on sharing the
road, she could've waited like all the other motorists instead
of squeezing through.
\_ I agree, and tend to take the whole lane when I'm
riding on Market. Which is really the right thing
to do. --dpassage
\_ the right answer is 1) stay the hell off the sidewalk and
2) obey the rules of the road (such as the CVC) when riding
and if you can't be bothered to do either, suck it. --jon
\_ Bring 'em on. I just got a new grill on my Suburban and a little
blood will help give it color!
\_ Wow. A little bicycle advocacy seems to bring out more
than any recent trolling. That's fine. Yer cure when
yer angry. -ulysses
\_ ulysses? who names their kid ulysses? |
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