Re: Bikes!

tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxx (Brent P) wrote in
news:fIidnZ2dnZ2C0QDDnZ2dnfR1jt6dnZ2dRVn-0Z2dnZ0@xxxxxxxxxxx:

> In article <Xns96C2274E7372jyanikkuanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Yanik wrote:
>> tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxx (Brent P) wrote in
>> news:ivadnd2yMaO_TI7eRVn-rA@xxxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>>> In article <Xns96C1C7BAA88C9jyanikkuanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Yanik
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If a bicyclist comes between me and the curb,and I decide to make a
>>>> legal right-on red turn,they could get crunched.There's no
>>>> requirement that I check next to me when I have the right lane to
>>>> make a R-on-red,nor do I.
>>>
>>> What about the more typical situation where a driver increases speed
>>> to pass right before the intersection and then hooks right directly in
>>> front of the bicyclist he just passed?
>>
>> "more typical" as defined by Brent. Not "typical" in reality.
>
> It is so typical it has a name. "the right hook".


Only in that narrow class of cyclists.

> Does the other?
>
>> Gee,they would only do that if the bicyclst were slowing down traffic.
>> If the cyclist were going -faster- as you claim,it wouldn't happen.
>
> That's because these arseholes accelerate, pass, jam on the brakes, and
> make a right. If they kept course and speed they wouldn't have passed.

Maybe they didn't want to stay stuck behind the slow bicyclist.

>
> BTW, stop inserting 'always'. I stated that motorists normally slow me
> down more than I slow them down. And that's the truth.
>
And AGAIN,-you- are not representative of all bicyclists,not even a
majority of them.

And that's the truth.


Oh,BTW,WHERE in the text you included is that "always"??
It appears to not be present,so you must be imagining it.
Or are you referring to text that you DIDN"T include in this post of yours?
Why is that? Why refer to something you edited out?



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