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Forum: General August 27th 07, 07:16 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 281
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Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

wrote:


So, what is "hugely beneficial" about that stripe? It's never done me
any good that I could tell.


Well, at least here in Oregon, it is illegal for a car to...
Forum: General August 23rd 07, 12:19 AM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 281
Views: 5,143
Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Paul Johnson wrote:
On Aug 22, 9:06 am, Festivus wrote:
Lobby Dosser wrote:
Wayne Pein wrote:
Festivus wrote:
The behaviors we all...
Forum: General August 22nd 07, 05:33 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 281
Views: 5,143
Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Bjorn Berg f/Fergie Berg and All the Ships at S wrote:

You forgot to tell him he almost got caught tickling his sister last
time.

Brother. Sister's too ugly.
Forum: General August 22nd 07, 05:29 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Raged motorist strikes two cyclists

wrote:
On Aug 21, 7:07 pm, Festivus wrote:
wrote:

That's where you're going astray. You say "Perhaps no study can show
...
Forum: General August 22nd 07, 05:06 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 281
Views: 5,143
Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Lobby Dosser wrote:
Wayne Pein wrote:

Festivus wrote:


The behaviors we all routinely see:

1. Failure to stop and red lights and stop signs
2. Riding...
Forum: General August 22nd 07, 04:51 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 281
Views: 5,143
Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Tom Keats wrote:
In article exOyi.3899$wr3.1016@trndny04,
I guess there's no law against fantacizing
about running people down, or hurting/maiming/
killing them in various other ways.

And...
Forum: General August 22nd 07, 04:41 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 281
Views: 5,143
Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Brent P wrote:

1) Adult bicyclists already have passed the tests for an automobile in
numbers that make going after the remaining tiny portion, silly.

Perhaps. Yet we still require EVERY...
Forum: General August 22nd 07, 12:23 AM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 281
Views: 5,143
Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Brent P wrote:

As much as bicycling hating motorists want to whine about stop signs
being run by people on bicycles going 8mph, they actually prefer that over
having a bicyclist take the...
Forum: General August 22nd 07, 12:07 AM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Raged motorist strikes two cyclists

wrote:


But the fact is, wearing a helmet does bother many people, for reasons
related to heat as well as other reasons. They should be allowed to
make their own choice,...
Forum: General August 21st 07, 10:35 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 281
Views: 5,143
Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Angry Dave wrote:
On Aug 21, 8:50 am, Festivus wrote:

I'm not anti-bike. I commute 20 miles round trip 2-3 times a week in
all weather year round. Every time some...
Forum: General August 21st 07, 10:11 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 281
Views: 5,143
Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Brent P wrote:
In article , Festivus wrote:
Brent P wrote:
In article , Festivus wrote:

Sounds good...
Forum: General August 21st 07, 08:11 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
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Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Tom Keats wrote:
sigh of heard-it-so-many-times-before exasperation
"I'm not a racist, but ..."

Every time some ass on a bike decides he's
above the rules of the road I become a...
Forum: General August 21st 07, 07:09 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
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Views: 5,143
Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Brent P wrote:
In article , Festivus wrote:

Sounds good to me. The number of cyclists sharing the road with
motorists who display a mend-bending...
Forum: General August 21st 07, 04:50 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,alt.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 281
Views: 5,143
Posted By Festivus
The days of the bicycle as basically a kids recreational vehicleare long gone

Tom Keats wrote:
In article ,
Paul Berg writes:

For those bicyclists without a drivers or moped license, AND who...
Forum: General August 21st 07, 04:41 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Helmets: was Raged motorist strikes two cyclists

Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman wrote:
Festivus wrote:
Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman wrote:

So you extrapolate an accident with a hard-shell MOTORCYCLE helmet to
a BICYCLE foam hat that...
Forum: General August 21st 07, 04:32 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Raged motorist strikes two cyclists

Matthew T. Russotto wrote:
In article ,

I'm willing to bet that the hair you carried on your noggin as a 20
year old was or would have been a far more...
Forum: General August 20th 07, 11:53 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Raged motorist strikes two cyclists

Matthew T. Russotto wrote:
In article ,
SMS wrote:
What's also annoying is to see uninformed individuals deriding helmets...
Forum: General August 20th 07, 10:38 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
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Posted By Festivus
Helmets (was Raged motorist strikes two cyclists)

wrote:
On Aug 20, 12:36 pm, Festivus wrote:

Broke his collarbone and cracked his helmet front to back. The helmet
may or may not have saved his...
Forum: General August 20th 07, 10:25 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Helmets: was Raged motorist strikes two cyclists

Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman wrote:

So you extrapolate an accident with a hard-shell MOTORCYCLE helmet to a
BICYCLE foam hat that has 1/8 the mass and covers a significantly
smaller area of...
Forum: General August 20th 07, 10:18 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Helmets: was Raged motorist strikes two cyclists


Quite full of holes. NTM that "passing more closely" appears to be 3.33
inches closer than 4.4 FEET!

They probably measured to the side of the cyclist's head/helmet!
Forum: General August 20th 07, 10:12 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Helmets: was Raged motorist strikes two cyclists

wrote:

Let me propose an equivalent test. Let me hold your head close to a
large truck passing at 70 mph. We'll make sure the truck clears your
scalp by 1/2". Would...
Forum: General August 20th 07, 09:28 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Helmets: was Raged motorist strikes two cyclists

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
"Tom "Johnny Sunset" Sherman" wrote in message
...
The ones I have seen have a paper thin...
Forum: General August 20th 07, 09:18 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Helmets: was Raged motorist strikes two cyclists

wrote:

New York Times, July 29, 2001. National data shows helmet use has
risen tremendously, bicycling has declined somewhat, yet bicyclist
head injuries (or at least, ER...
Forum: General August 20th 07, 05:42 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Helmets (was Raged motorist strikes two cyclists)

Curt wrote:
Bicycle helmets scrub off some of the acceleration your brain undergoes when
your head hits something. That's all anyone ever claimed.


Correct, which is why they are more than...
Forum: General August 20th 07, 05:36 PM Posted to pdx.general,or.politics,rec.bicycles.misc,alt.true-crime,rec.autos.driving
Replies: 680
Views: 13,933
Posted By Festivus
Helmets (was Raged motorist strikes two cyclists)

Tom Keats wrote:
Yeah. I see. So does everybody else.

Nice dismissal.

Got a brother who has logged more miles on a bike than most people alive
who went down riding in Seattle on an approved...
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