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Wrong Side Of The Road
If you bicycle on the wrong side of the road you deserve to become weenie
meat. winnard |
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"winnard" wrote in message news:z5lBe.115962$yV4.52002@okepread03... If you bicycle on the wrong side of the road you deserve to become weenie meat. winnard What exactly is "the wrong side of the road?" Do you remember (and maybe I'm remembering incorrectly) being taught as kids (way back--not in the 80s, you punks) to bicycle so that cars are facing you? I could swear this was the original plan..... Now the rule is that cyclists follow the same rules as cars. BTW, I saw two kids doing exactly that just two days ago...... riding into oncoming traffic, which is especially dangerous when they are crossing one of those right hand turn "merge type lanes." I wanted to tag one, but talked myself out of it. Peach |
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"WiNK" wrote in
: What exactly is "the wrong side of the road?" Do you remember (and maybe I'm remembering incorrectly) being taught as kids (way back--not in the 80s, you punks) to bicycle so that cars are facing you? I could swear this was the original plan..... Now the rule is that cyclists follow the same rules as cars. In most states in which I've bothered to check the laws, bicycles = cars insofar as rules of the road are concerned. They shouldn't be up on the sidewalk and they shouldn't be riding facing oncoming traffic. -- "I wish people who had trouble communicating would just shut up." -- Tom Lehrer http://www.livejournal.com/users/jayfurr/ |
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"Jay Furr" wrote in message ... "WiNK" wrote in : What exactly is "the wrong side of the road?" Do you remember (and maybe I'm remembering incorrectly) being taught as kids (way back--not in the 80s, you punks) to bicycle so that cars are facing you? I could swear this was the original plan..... Now the rule is that cyclists follow the same rules as cars. In most states in which I've bothered to check the laws, bicycles = cars insofar as rules of the road are concerned. They shouldn't be up on the sidewalk and they shouldn't be riding facing oncoming traffic. -- "I wish people who had trouble communicating would just shut up." -- Tom Lehrer http://www.livejournal.com/users/jayfurr/ I know it's that way *now*....I am talking about in the early 70s. I could have sworn when I went to a bicycle safety course and earned my big, fluorescent orange flag for my bike, that it wasn't that way. Peach |
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"WiNK" wrote in
: In most states in which I've bothered to check the laws, bicycles = cars insofar as rules of the road are concerned. They shouldn't be up on the sidewalk and they shouldn't be riding facing oncoming traffic. I know it's that way *now*....I am talking about in the early 70s. I could have sworn when I went to a bicycle safety course and earned my big, fluorescent orange flag for my bike, that it wasn't that way. People offer dumb-ass safety courses to kids on all kinds of things. It doesn't mean that anything they say actually has any bearing on real life. A well-meaning group can get an idea to offer bike safety courses, tell kids to do something, and next week a cop'll stop one of the kids and say "you know that's against the law, right?" -- "I wish people who had trouble communicating would just shut up." -- Tom Lehrer http://www.livejournal.com/users/jayfurr/ |
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"Jay Furr" wrote in message ... "WiNK" wrote in : In most states in which I've bothered to check the laws, bicycles = cars insofar as rules of the road are concerned. They shouldn't be up on the sidewalk and they shouldn't be riding facing oncoming traffic. I know it's that way *now*....I am talking about in the early 70s. I could have sworn when I went to a bicycle safety course and earned my big, fluorescent orange flag for my bike, that it wasn't that way. People offer dumb-ass safety courses to kids on all kinds of things. It doesn't mean that anything they say actually has any bearing on real life. A well-meaning group can get an idea to offer bike safety courses, tell kids to do something, and next week a cop'll stop one of the kids and say "you know that's against the law, right?" -- "I wish people who had trouble communicating would just shut up." -- Tom Lehrer http://www.livejournal.com/users/jayfurr/ I think that is exactly what happened....I was doing some research, because it was bugging me. My guess is laws for bicycles were a later addition... but the bike safety courses often taught kids improper riding: "Many cyclists make these mistakes because they were taught to ride this way as children." I remember riding that way til I was a teenager! Peach |
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WiNK wrote: " I think that is exactly what happened....I was doing some research, because it was bugging me. My guess is laws for bicycles were a later addition... but the bike safety courses often taught kids improper riding: "Many cyclists make these mistakes because they were taught to ride this way as children." I remember riding that way til I was a teenager! FWIW, I remember arguing about that when I was a teenager, in the early 1960s. I clearly recall four of us riding along debating the issue, with two of us on the right, the other two guys on the left. My guess is the laws were already on the books. They are stated rather generally, after all - something like [from memory] "The operator of a bicycle has all the rights and all the duties of a vehicle operator." If there had been a great flurry of bicycle law changing, I think I'd have heard. But it's clear the laws were not well known. And yes, any good-intentioned but ignorant group can put on a Bike Rodeo and tell the kids all sorts of nonsense. So there have always been kids - and adults - who just don't know. Still, I believe the level of ignorance has gone down over the years. I think this, and better medical care, are the main reasons the annual bike fatality toll has been dropping since 1970 or so. - Frank Krygowski |
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WiNK wrote: "Jay Furr" wrote in message ... "WiNK" wrote in : In most states in which I've bothered to check the laws, bicycles = cars insofar as rules of the road are concerned. They shouldn't be up on the sidewalk and they shouldn't be riding facing oncoming traffic. I know it's that way *now*....I am talking about in the early 70s. I could have sworn when I went to a bicycle safety course and earned my big, fluorescent orange flag for my bike, that it wasn't that way. People offer dumb-ass safety courses to kids on all kinds of things. It doesn't mean that anything they say actually has any bearing on real life. A well-meaning group can get an idea to offer bike safety courses, tell kids to do something, and next week a cop'll stop one of the kids and say "you know that's against the law, right?" -- "I wish people who had trouble communicating would just shut up." -- Tom Lehrer http://www.livejournal.com/users/jayfurr/ I think that is exactly what happened....I was doing some research, because it was bugging me. My guess is laws for bicycles were a later addition... but the bike safety courses often taught kids improper riding: "Many cyclists make these mistakes because they were taught to ride this way as children." I remember riding that way til I was a teenager! Peach We were taught (early 60's) to ride with traffic. The reason given was that you'd be knocked away from traffic if you were riding with it, but into traffic if you were riding toward it. |
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How do you prefer your martini, Mr. "WiNK" ? Shaken,
or stirred? "winnard" wrote in message news:z5lBe.115962$yV4.52002@okepread03... If you bicycle on the wrong side of the road you deserve to become weenie meat. winnard What exactly is "the wrong side of the road?" Do you remember (and maybe I'm remembering incorrectly) being taught as kids (way back--not in the 80s, you punks) to bicycle so that cars are facing you? I could swear this was the original plan..... Now the rule is that cyclists follow the same rules as cars. BTW, I saw two kids doing exactly that just two days ago...... riding into oncoming traffic, which is especially dangerous when they are crossing one of those right hand turn "merge type lanes." I wanted to tag one, but talked myself out of it. Peach I don't know where you learned to bicycle, but back in '64 or so when I was 8 and getting my "rules of the road" from the local police at a bicycle clinic they held in my home town, we were told from the get-go that you had to obey the same traffic rules as cars: drive on the right, stop for signs and lights, and give turn signals. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ James Schrumpf http://www.hilltopper.net Well, look. I mean, is he gonna be able to chase us? Cause if I woke up lookin' like that, I would just run towards the nearest living thing and kill it. -- Master Shake |
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