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In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.950614173841.27556E-100000@odin.cbu.edu>,
Indian Outlaw  <bvaughan@odin.cbu.edu> wrote:

>	First, you got more dollars than sense if your bike cost more 
>than $900 and you ride it in the city.  My old Shogun was $400.  I'd 
>never pay that again for a bike.

First, you got more dollars than sense if you drive around in an overpowered,
gas-guzzling '73 SD-455 Trans Am rather than a nice, economical, '86
Chevy Sprint (heavens, NOT the turbo, that's for wild drivers!!).

There is a difference in bicycles.  Just like with cars.  'Nuff said.

>	Second,	define "fault of the driver".  Let me guess, he didn't swerve 
>out of *your precious* way because a car was in the next lane?  I don't know 
>the legalities of this I'd admit, but I'll sacrifice my front right 
>corner before I sacrifice my whole left side by side swiping the car to 
>my left.  When you shits pop up out of nowhere, it's hard to slam on the 
>brakes, but I guess I'm supposed to brake for wheeled minorities, too.
>For every X hundred cars, there's one bicycle out there.  Take a 
>hint pal.  If you want to hang with the big boys and do it on two wheels, 
>get a motorcycle.   

And if the bicycle is following a nice, straight path, a safe distance
out from the curb, and you see the bicyclist from a ways back ('cause
yer not blind, eh), do you still sideswipe 'em?  As another thread
goes, "Doh, there was like a bale of hay in my way, and wouldn't get
out of my way, so I HIT IT!!  YEE HAA!!!"

>Let me re-phrase:  If I can't*** get out of the way of a pathetic jackass 
>whose little bicycle belongs on less traveled residential roads, and I 
>hit him, he'll probably sue me because I'll stop and see if he's okay. 
>Then I will stick his fancy bike where the sun doesn't shine.

Well now, if you insist on driving yer nice old Pontiac on public roads
where it's clearly overpowered and gas-guzzling (rather than on a drag
strip or closed race course where all those "off-road-only" intakes,
cylinder heads, carburetors, and exhaust systems obviously belong)
then we'll just have to crush yer car for a pollution credit.  Seems
fair to me.

>*** I do get out of the way when I can.  I alike most have had close 
>calls.  It takes a lot of nerve or *stupidity* to take a bicycle into the 
>domain of 3000lb vehicles.

Lessee, I'm getting in shape, the babes can admire my legs (or maybe not,
but, well....), I'm getting a nice tan, all from cycling in to work.
So on the weekend I can don my gold chains and cruise in my '78 gold SE
T/A with all the gas I've saved on the weekdays.  Eh.

Ed (need strong legs for that 11" Centerforce clutch) Treijs