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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 10:17 AM Original message |
If the fucking stretch-shit bike suit doesn't scream "ASSHOLE" loud enough, the riding does. |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. Count yourself lucky. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 11:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. My wife and I always ride single-file - we have no choice when on the tandem. |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. on a tandem, |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 02:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. I have to steer! |
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charlie and algernon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
2. The same with hiking trails |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 12:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. As someone who almost got flattened by a cyclist |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. I've noticed a different pattern here: on trails, our cyclists are generally polite |
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Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
3. So true. The spandex crowd winds up bringing down the world's wrath on the rest of us normal bikers |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
4. The bicyclers here in Seattle scare me to death. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 11:17 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. We have bells AND "honky horns" (the kind Harpo Marx used with the big rubber bulb). |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 11:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I'm with you on urban bikers nolabear |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 12:11 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. The way that some of the younger ones weave through dense city traffic, |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 12:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Man, HFG, I feel your pain. |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I live just on the western fringe of Uptown |
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Demoiselle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 07:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. I was driving down a one-way street in center city Philly |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 02:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. MrsCoffee actually did get run down by a Seattle biker while walking |
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nadine_mn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-26-11 01:59 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. off topic - InfantCoffee made me spew my coffee |
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Mutley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
8. People riding bikes on the road scares me. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 12:09 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. You have to make yourself REALLY visible. Lots of reflectors and lights if it is even close to dark |
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Mopar151 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
15. Does right-of-way trump physics? |
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Mopar151 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-25-11 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
16. We have lost an event date to these clowns |
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AmyDeLune (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-26-11 01:48 AM Response to Original message |
21. The most jaw-dropping thing I've seen a cyclist do so far... |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-26-11 01:53 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I like that image in your sig. |
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quakerboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-26-11 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
24. Semi-opposite here |
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