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Right/Wrong way riding for survival.
Neil Brooks wrote:
A few of you just need to travel to Northern California and start sucking face with Bill Baka. Get it over with. It'd be a favor to most of the rest of us. Neil, If you insisted on 'taking the lane' in front of a train of semis driven mostly by illegals you would rapidly become a Darwin statistic. 6 trucks tailgating at 65 MPH means that the first one might see you an move over, but the next 4 or 5 will almost certainly kill you. They also refuse to slow down since that costs them money so the first one will lay on the air horn but rarely slow down. Come on up and take the lane. Then I could post the the great (in his own mind) Neil got spread over about 200 feet of bicycle unfriendly road, but he was riding legally. Please try it, and prove me right. Bill Baka |
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Bill,
I was subtly trying to get the small crew of assholes to quit screwing with you, on r.b.m. I was never particularly bothered by you, your tall tales -- true or not -- or your unique character. I think you're a hoot -- sui generis! What I wrote wasn't in response to anything you wrote. |
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More bad advice from Blustering Bill Baka. Doing what Bill advises is likely to get you killed. |
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Neil Brooks wrote:
Bill, I was subtly trying to get the small crew of assholes to quit screwing with you, on r.b.m. I was never particularly bothered by you, your tall tales -- true or not -- or your unique character. I think you're a hoot -- sui generis! What I wrote wasn't in response to anything you wrote. Thanks for that. There are a few fanatics that will probably forever mess with me, but the fact that I survive these roads without becoming a statistic only serves to prove me right. There are some roads where there is a bike lane or even shoulder on one side only, and the other one is inviting a 'Darwin'. I do my own thing and assess the situation before I do something stupid, in this case being stubbornly self righteous, and most likely 'dead' even if correct according to following the rules. When I go out for my 60 mile mountain rides I do want to come back alive. The only tall tale I told was the tricycle incident, which will plague me probably forever. 55 MPH down a 15% grade hill with my feet out the back, losing the leg wind resistance really does work but I highly do not recommend it. It was a prone position but my arms were killing me from holding my face off of the bars. I did it once, and that was more than enough. I may ride crazy but I am not stupid enough to try that again. Bill Baka |
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On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:41:08 -0800, Bill wrote:
Neil Brooks wrote: Bill, I was subtly trying to get the small crew of assholes to quit screwing with you, on r.b.m. I was never particularly bothered by you, your tall tales -- true or not -- or your unique character. I think you're a hoot -- sui generis! What I wrote wasn't in response to anything you wrote. Thanks for that. There are a few fanatics that will probably forever mess with me, but the fact that I survive these roads without becoming a statistic only serves to prove me right. There are some roads where there is a bike lane or even shoulder on one side only, and the other one is inviting a 'Darwin'. I do my own thing and assess the situation before I do something stupid, in this case being stubbornly self righteous, and most likely 'dead' even if correct according to following the rules. When I go out for my 60 mile mountain rides I do want to come back alive. The only tall tale I told was the tricycle incident, which will plague me probably forever. 55 MPH down a 15% grade hill with my feet out the back, losing the leg wind resistance really does work but I highly do not recommend it. It was a prone position but my arms were killing me from holding my face off of the bars. I did it once, and that was more than enough. I may ride crazy but I am not stupid enough to try that again. Bill Baka Yeah Bill. Right. How many times do you need to tell this tall tale? Are you trying to repeat it enough times until even you believe it? -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org Ahhhhhhh!: http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/relieve.jpg |
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Neil Brooks wrote:
Bill, I was subtly trying to get the small crew of assholes to quit screwing with you, on r.b.m. I was never particularly bothered by you, your tall tales -- true or not -- or your unique character. I think you're a hoot -- sui generis! What I wrote wasn't in response to anything you wrote. All I can say is that, yes, I am unique, and only the tricycle story was a tall tale. The rest happened and I still don't know why I am alive after all of that. My body is like a road map from all the surgeries I have caused myself with my royal wipe-outs. Yet, here I am. Bill Baka |
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Any chance you'll be getting a life soo, Dan??
This humping Baka bit is getting older than the Sornson-humping-Jobst- Brandt bit. Whatcha' think? Almost done?? |
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On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:47:12 -0800, wrote:
All I can say is that, yes, I am unique, and only the tricycle story was a tall tale. You mean other than all the "stories" you've told in the Linux newsgroups? The rest happened and I still don't know why I am alive after all of that. The real question should be: Why were you ever alive in the first place? My body is like a road map from all the surgeries I have caused myself with my royal wipe-outs. Yet, here I am. Here's hoping the next one is the "King" of all "royal wipe-outs". -- "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me". The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org Ahhhhhhh!: http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/relieve.jpg |
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