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Old August 11th 03, 11:42 PM
Ron Hardin
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Default "Bike trailers to relieve road-congestion for charity food deliveries"

Dave wrote:

If you are so against bike trailers, why do you get your softener salt using
one? Actually, I don't care but I'm just pointing out the contradiction in
your post.


What contradiction? I use bike trailers all the time. But not in traffic because
it interferes heavily with it. Cars can get by a bicycle easily (at least me
they can because I'm indian-like in taking up space, back when indians knew about
taking up little space) but a trailer involves having a clear lane in both
directions when the car tries to pass.

Loading up a bunch of bike trailers in city traffic so as not to obstruct traffic
is stupidity at its highest. Of course I'd guess that's the point; activists
don't share my politics.

The contradiction you detect comes from your assuming every bike rider shares even
slightly the activist politics; quite the opposite. They're idiots.

I use my bike for almost everything; I would be happiest if nobody else did. The
fewer bikes on the road the happier the motorists are with actual bicyclists, meaning me.

http://www.lodrag.com is my favorite trailer (between it, a Tanjor cargo, and my
old Burley). I have a fleeced floor in the Tanjor for the Doberman, who did not like
the curved floor that comes with it. She was always standing on the internal frame
instead. So now there's available storage space under the floor too. However it raises
her center of gravity enough that I have to have a rule that she either sits or lies
down. No standing while the trailer is in motion.
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