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Old February 28th 08, 12:34 AM posted to rec.autos.driving,rec.bicycles.misc
Nate Nagel[_2_]
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Default Saw an intelligent bicyclist today

Larry Farrell wrote:
N8N wrote:

On Feb 27, 3:40 pm, Larry Farrell wrote:

N8N wrote:

On Feb 27, 3:25 pm, Larry Farrell wrote:

N8N wrote:
[snip]

Why? If I hit another car because the driver did something illegal,
or hit a cyclist because he did something illegal, I still hit
something. I'm still inconvenienced, and I still have to deal with a
lot of BS. Since my observations are that 100% of cyclists
flagrantly
violate the rules of the road, that seems like a real problem to me.

[snip]

100% of cyclists blatantly ignore stop signs.

Both of your 100%s are 100% BS.

Feel free to ride with me someday and prove me wrong. You won't.
You'll be shocked at what you see. I stand by my statement. 100% of
cyclists that I encounter flagrantly violate the rules of the road.
Most common infraction is blowing through stop signs at speed. It
sounds incredible, but it is true - ALL cyclists that I encounter ride
like they want to be hit. There's a fair number of cyclists around
where I live, too - my commute to/from work takes me across a bike
trail, so there's a lot of cyclists that I assume are getting on/off
the bike trail and riding on the same roads on which I'm driving.
nate

Your original statements were that 100% of bicyclists were doing
illegal things, not that 100% of the bicyclists you observed were
doing so. Therefore, your original statements were blatantly wrong.
I stand by *my* statement.



So the ones I don't see are perfectly law-abiding? Somehow I doubt
that.

nate



No one said that. But you *did* say that 100% of bicyclists do illegal
things, and that is clearly false.


I said "my observations are 100%." That is a 100% true statement.

nate

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