Safety How can we make cagers safer?
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Kraazy
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Ever seen the damage a 230lb guy does to a car when it hits him? I know... Buick Century Custom vs Me.
Car:
Broken front windshield
Hood smashed
Me:
I about wet myself from laughing so hard.
Long story, but I didn't get hurt, the car was a different story. When I'm walking in parking lots, I always think to myself...try it car you will get more hurt than me most likely. Someday I'm sure I'll end up paying for this when I lose haha.
Car:
Broken front windshield
Hood smashed
Me:
I about wet myself from laughing so hard.
Long story, but I didn't get hurt, the car was a different story. When I'm walking in parking lots, I always think to myself...try it car you will get more hurt than me most likely. Someday I'm sure I'll end up paying for this when I lose haha.
machiasmort
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I actually like the lynch mob mentality... The Cops sit and watch while these idiots drive like fools... They only concern themselves with stickers and radar guns, an occasional cell phone or seatbelt... Tailgaters, right hand lane passers and swervers are free to go...
I think you are being much too kind... I say strap them to a skateboard (helmet optional) and take them for a ride on the back of one of our bikes durring rushhour!
happycheapskate
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re: Kraazy. Sounds like you are lucky you went over the grille easy enough and the safety glass took most of your impact. Glad you are ok.
Parking lots are probably the most dangerous place in America to walk, because people are so **** impatient, don't know how to back up their SUVS (Selfish Urban Vanity), and are usually talking on the phone and slapping their kids while speeding through the lot.
I suggest if you walk in dark lots to carry a bright flashlight. LED flashlights are cheaper than ever now. $20 will get you a nice one even at Wongmart, and Brinkmann and Garrity make good $3 3aaa mini flashlights: I got 10 for $10 with batteries, at home depot.
Parking lots are probably the most dangerous place in America to walk, because people are so **** impatient, don't know how to back up their SUVS (Selfish Urban Vanity), and are usually talking on the phone and slapping their kids while speeding through the lot.
I suggest if you walk in dark lots to carry a bright flashlight. LED flashlights are cheaper than ever now. $20 will get you a nice one even at Wongmart, and Brinkmann and Garrity make good $3 3aaa mini flashlights: I got 10 for $10 with batteries, at home depot.
Kraazy
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I live in a very small populated area. Normally you never have to worry so I am lucky. I got hit by a friend actually. I thought he was going to stop, and he figured I would move. That was something like 3 years ago actually. That was the very short story!
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critical mass a mistake
Why do you think that it is a unusual thing when you take a group 140 pound objects and willfully go and **** off folks in three ton objects? I also could hear the group reciting license plate numbers while the whole thing is going on. To me its like taking down the serial numbers on the guns of people while they are pointing them at you. Its a bad concept to begin with.
I used to live in Portland OR and I remember having to ride past a group of Critical Mass riders in Portland (one of the most bike friendly cites in the country) and it kind of made me angry and I was on a bicycle. These self righteous bozos are not going to convince anyone but themselves that bicycles are a better way to go. Chances are that they would try to attack you because your riding a evil internal combustion vehicle.
the problem is once you reach critical mass you get an explosion and thats what they wanted and guess what? it blew up in their face.
Mike Frye
Why do you think that it is a unusual thing when you take a group 140 pound objects and willfully go and **** off folks in three ton objects? I also could hear the group reciting license plate numbers while the whole thing is going on. To me its like taking down the serial numbers on the guns of people while they are pointing them at you. Its a bad concept to begin with.
I used to live in Portland OR and I remember having to ride past a group of Critical Mass riders in Portland (one of the most bike friendly cites in the country) and it kind of made me angry and I was on a bicycle. These self righteous bozos are not going to convince anyone but themselves that bicycles are a better way to go. Chances are that they would try to attack you because your riding a evil internal combustion vehicle.
the problem is once you reach critical mass you get an explosion and thats what they wanted and guess what? it blew up in their face.
Mike Frye
happycheapskate
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I agree: C.M. has done terrible damage, and made many other peaceful bike rides and silent protests unimaginable because the police and drivers will expect the participants are "bozos".
I love my car. I love gasoline engines. I love pushing one pedal to haul home 300# worth of groceries. But I also enjoy my bikes (gas or not), and I gladly wait or go around a bicycle. The only ones I get mad at are the ones who run the wrong way on the street like idiots, or people who ride in the dark with no lights and do unpredictable stuff.
I love my car. I love gasoline engines. I love pushing one pedal to haul home 300# worth of groceries. But I also enjoy my bikes (gas or not), and I gladly wait or go around a bicycle. The only ones I get mad at are the ones who run the wrong way on the street like idiots, or people who ride in the dark with no lights and do unpredictable stuff.
happycheapskate
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I think it was a small peaceful group a few years ago that rode in the NW USA, on bicycles with large rectangles made of 2x4's hung from their shoulders like backpacks. It was supposed to demonstrate that bikes get a lane just like cars, but actually take up a lot less space and could let people by or group up as well.
happycheapskate
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I think I'm going to wear a neon shirt that says "I love my car" so maybe drivers will have sympathetic thoughts instead of "f'n bicycle".
If any of you are near Dallas and want to make a funny MB/bike promotional PSA, let me know. I don't have a camera, but I have some ideas.
If any of you are near Dallas and want to make a funny MB/bike promotional PSA, let me know. I don't have a camera, but I have some ideas.
machiasmort
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Happy, that vid of the bird brings back memories of about four years ago... I lived in the country and played harmonica a lot to pass the time while enjoying a beer at the end of the day...
We have mocking birds that fly north in the summer and they are excellent repeaters. This little bird would drive me nuts. He had the ring to my phone down solid... He'd wait till he seen me outside and make me walk back in. Can't tell you how many times he got me and I knew he was there!
Anyway, one of the first songs I learned was "Dixie" and this bird had, (And I wish I was in Dixie, ho-ray, ho-ray) too a TEE, clear as a bell... I actually taught him after hearing him repeat a few notes.
He came back year after year for about three years and then no more... The last year I seen him, he had an ambulance siren down pat from where he must have lived in the winter..
We have mocking birds that fly north in the summer and they are excellent repeaters. This little bird would drive me nuts. He had the ring to my phone down solid... He'd wait till he seen me outside and make me walk back in. Can't tell you how many times he got me and I knew he was there!
Anyway, one of the first songs I learned was "Dixie" and this bird had, (And I wish I was in Dixie, ho-ray, ho-ray) too a TEE, clear as a bell... I actually taught him after hearing him repeat a few notes.
He came back year after year for about three years and then no more... The last year I seen him, he had an ambulance siren down pat from where he must have lived in the winter..
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