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Bicycles Allowed Use Of Full Lane, The Million Car Challenge Campaign
BAUFL launched a bicycle awareness campaign this week at http://www.baufl.org/
.. The mission is to get one million cars driving around with one million stickers that say bicycles allowed use if full lane and to advertise the message on web sites and magazine ads. It's something every cyclist can do to make drivers aware of cyclists right to use the roads. I'm in, are you? |
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On Dec 19, 7:14 am, Gary wrote:
BAUFL launched a bicycle awareness campaign this week athttp://www.baufl.org/ . The mission is to get one million cars driving around with one million stickers that say bicycles allowed use if full lane and to advertise the message on web sites and magazine ads. It's something every cyclist can do to make drivers aware of cyclists right to use the roads. I'm in, are you? I'm 100% for spreading this message, but when reading their web pages I couldn't find any info regarding whom these people are. That makes me nervous about sending credit card info. Is this real? |
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On Dec 19, 7:30*am, Peter Smith wrote:
On Dec 19, 7:14 am, Gary wrote: BAUFL launched a bicycle awareness campaign this week athttp://www.baufl.org/ . The mission is to get one million cars driving around with one million stickers that say bicycles allowed use if full lane and to advertise the message on web sites and magazine ads. It's something every cyclist can do to make drivers aware of cyclists right to use the roads. I'm in, are you? I'm 100% for spreading this message, but when reading their web pages I couldn't find any info regarding whom these people are. *That makes me nervous about sending credit card info. *Is this real? Yes 100%. I just put three on my Prius,my Sabb and on my van. |
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On Dec 19, 7:36*am, Jobst Brandt wrote:
Gary who? wrote: BAUFL launched a bicycle awareness campaign this week at *http://www.baufl.org/* The mission is to get one million cars driving around with one million stickers that say bicycles allowed use if full lane and to advertise the message on web sites and magazine ads. *It's something every cyclist can do to make drivers aware of cyclists right to use the roads. *I'm in, are you? Oh, wouldn't John Forester be proud of you, (Take the lane!) perpetuating traffic rudeness that causes harsh interactions between motor vehicles and bicyclists, the former being the preferred mode of transport for most citizens in industrialized nations. *Don't ignore that more people drive huge trucks now than at any previous time and that they love their powerful monsters. *They are not encouraging more bicycle travel as you may believe: *http://i1.tinypic.com/505ukc2.jpg Get real! Jobst Brandt Great picture! It's not about taking the lane. Most streets in the US don't have bike lanes, are substandard in width and don't have shoulders. It's about spreading the word that bicycles do have the right by law to use the road, to get motorists thinking abount their actions when overtaking a cyclist. You're right that there are way too many people with disregard to cyclists driving around in huge trucks like that. The more reason to spread the word. |
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Bicycles Allowed Use Of Full Lane, The Million Car Challenge Campaign
Gary wrote:
On Dec 19, 7:30 am, Peter Smith wrote: On Dec 19, 7:14 am, Gary wrote: BAUFL launched a bicycle awareness campaign this week athttp://www.baufl.org/ . The mission is to get one million cars driving around with one million stickers that say bicycles allowed use if full lane and to advertise the message on web sites and magazine ads. It's something every cyclist can do to make drivers aware of cyclists right to use the roads. I'm in, are you? I'm 100% for spreading this message, but when reading their web pages I couldn't find any info regarding whom these people are. That makes me nervous about sending credit card info. Is this real? Yes 100%. I just put three on my Prius,my Sabb and on my van. Just curious. Why didn't you say your Toyota, your Saab and your van? Does the Prius negate the carbon footprint of the other two "evil" vehicles? Bill "as JB said, get real" S. |
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On Dec 19, 8:56*am, "Bill Sornson" wrote:
Gary wrote: On Dec 19, 7:30 am, Peter Smith wrote: On Dec 19, 7:14 am, Gary wrote: BAUFL launched a bicycle awareness campaign this week athttp://www.baufl.org/. The mission is to get one million cars driving around with one million stickers that say bicycles allowed use if full lane and to advertise the message on web sites and magazine ads. It's something every cyclist can do to make drivers aware of cyclists right to use the roads. I'm in, are you? I'm 100% for spreading this message, but when reading their web pages I couldn't find any info regarding whom these people are. That makes me nervous about sending credit card info. Is this real? Yes 100%. I just put three on my Prius,my Sabb and on my van. Just curious. *Why didn't you say your Toyota, your Saab and your van? *Does the Prius negate the carbon footprint of the other two "evil" vehicles? Bill "as JB said, get real" S. And as _I've_ often said: Get help, Bill. Really. |
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Bicycles Allowed Use Of Full Lane, The Million Car Challenge Campaign
Per Gary:
BAUFL launched a bicycle awareness campaign this week at http://www.baufl.org/ . The mission is to get one million cars driving around with one million stickers that say bicycles allowed use if full lane and to advertise the message on web sites and magazine ads. It's something every cyclist can do to make drivers aware of cyclists right to use the roads. I'm in, are you? No way. Encouraging people who are basically defenseless to provoke total strangers who can kill or maim them with a flick of the wrist - and probably beat the rap - strikes me as irresponsible. -- PeteCresswell |
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On Dec 19, 9:36 am, Jobst Brandt wrote:
Gary who? wrote: BAUFL launched a bicycle awareness campaign this week at http://www.baufl.org/ The mission is to get one million cars driving around with one million stickers that say bicycles allowed use if full lane and to advertise the message on web sites and magazine ads. It's something every cyclist can do to make drivers aware of cyclists right to use the roads. I'm in, are you? Oh, wouldn't John Forester be proud of you, (Take the lane!) What are *you* advocating, O Great and Mighty One? That we cyclists cower in fear at the edge of the public right of way? -remaining Brandt FUD snipped- |
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On Dec 19, 7:48 am, Gary wrote:
On Dec 19, 7:36 am, Jobst Brandt wrote: Gary who? wrote: BAUFL launched a bicycle awareness campaign this week at http://www.baufl.org/ The mission is to get one million cars driving around with one million stickers that say bicycles allowed use if full lane and to advertise the message on web sites and magazine ads. It's something every cyclist can do to make drivers aware of cyclists right to use the roads. I'm in, are you? Oh, wouldn't John Forester be proud of you, (Take the lane!) perpetuating traffic rudeness that causes harsh interactions between motor vehicles and bicyclists, the former being the preferred mode of transport for most citizens in industrialized nations. Don't ignore that more people drive huge trucks now than at any previous time and that they love their powerful monsters. They are not encouraging more bicycle travel as you may believe: http://i1.tinypic.com/505ukc2.jpg Get real! Jobst Brandt Great picture! It's not about taking the lane. Most streets in the US don't have bike lanes, are substandard in width and don't have shoulders. It's about spreading the word that bicycles do have the right by law to use the road, to get motorists thinking abount their actions when overtaking a cyclist. You're right that there are way too many people with disregard to cyclists driving around in huge trucks like that. The more reason to spread the word. Last night I was passed by two big trucks - one right behind the other - in the span of a few seconds. I was riding on the far right, about a foot from the edge, in a 90° blind hairpin with a double solid yellow center line. The first one (a jacked up pickup with huge off-road tires), pulled way over the center line to give me plenty of room (courteous, in a way, though dangerous and illegal), but had to sweep back in for an oncoming car. Then he immedaitely turned left onto to side road. He'd saved maybe five seconds by dangerously and illegally passing me. The second big truck, right behind the first, also dangerously and illegally pulled way over the center line to pass me, but didn't even make it all the way past before also turning left onto the side road. He saved maybe a couple of seconds with that maneuver. What's got to change is motorists sense of exclusive entitlement to the public roads. Interestingly, I did sense more regard for me as a valid transportation alternative when fuel prices shot way up a couple of years ago. A certain rabble-rouser may be a nut, with some very bad specifics in his solutions, but he has a point sometimes. There's a certain sensibility to turning this insane upside-down hierarchy - where cars and trucks rule the road and everything else is just a thorn in their side operating at its own risk - to one where the more obtrusive you are in the public space, the less entitlement and more responsibility you bear. I don't believe in taking the lane - except in rare circumstances where you can be reasonably sure the (reasonable) motorists (ha) behind will understand what's going on. I do wish, though, that more of them would understand it *is* my lane - and I am only on the shoulder as a courtesy to them - when they blow by *my* shoulder at 60+ mph. |
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Bicycles Allowed Use Of Full Lane, The Million Car ChallengeCampaign
On Dec 19, 7:56*am, "Bill Sornson" wrote:
Gary wrote: On Dec 19, 7:30 am, Peter Smith wrote: On Dec 19, 7:14 am, Gary wrote: BAUFL launched a bicycle awareness campaign this week athttp://www.baufl.org/. The mission is to get one million cars driving around with one million stickers that say bicycles allowed use if full lane and to advertise the message on web sites and magazine ads. It's something every cyclist can do to make drivers aware of cyclists right to use the roads. I'm in, are you? I'm 100% for spreading this message, but when reading their web pages I couldn't find any info regarding whom these people are. That makes me nervous about sending credit card info. Is this real? Yes 100%. I just put three on my Prius,my Sabb and on my van. Just curious. *Why didn't you say your Toyota, your Saab and your van? *Does the Prius negate the carbon footprint of the other two "evil" vehicles? Bill "as JB said, get real" S.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hi Bill, I don't know, I've had the Prius for five years and just always called it the Prius around the house, same with the other two. Never gave it much thought about negating a carbon footprint. It is way cheaper to drive though. I average 44mpg in that thing, 27 on the Saab and 12 on the van. It's a v-10 Sportsmobile but I just call in the van. My bikes get about 50 mpb (miles per borrito) maybe more at times. Gary |
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