Re: Bikes!

In article <Xns96C2BE4A4A570jyanikkuanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Yanik wrote:
> tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxx (Brent P) wrote in
> news:7d6dnbUOyYu5BYneRVn-qw@xxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> In article <Xns96C26EA7BE136jyanikkuanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Yanik
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> It is so typical it has a name. "the right hook".
>>
>>> Only in that narrow class of cyclists.
>>
>> Not at all. That term is in various publications to educate even the
>> least experienced.
>
> Various BIKING publications,which the vast majority of bicyclists do not
> read. IOW,MORE of your reframing in narrow classes.

Um no, these are things put out by government agencies and the like.
I've never reas a "BIKING publication".

>>>> 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.
>>
>> I was traveling as fast or faster than the either the posted speed
>> limit (residential roads) or as fast as the car in front of me.

> AGAIN,you believe that YOU are representative of all bicyclists,and you ARE
> NOT.Not even close.

I am discussing what motorists do to ME quite frequently. I am pointing
out that speed is of the bicyclist is not even a factor in the rude
behavior as I move as fast in these situations as I would while driving
and no one tries this *** when when I am driving.

>> Hmm... Everybody whom I've ever worked with
>
> Here we go again;-still- thinking you are representative,or your little
> clique of "commuter" bicyclists.

Clique? Not at all. Just the random chance of the co-workers I've had.

I've never talked to any of these people outside of a work event except
for the one I rode with on the way home once or twice because we left at
the same time and were going the same route for several miles.

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