rural amusement

just thought i would share an amusing anecdote from my weekend past.

sent my sister up the coast to our parents place in nambour/burnside
last weekend with all my textbooks/photography stuff (the heavy ****)
in the car so i could have a pleasant saturday riding from work to the
train, then get to nambour station and ride to parents place, around
7pm.

the main street of nambour is 2 lanes, i was lit up like a christmas
tree, and almost at the end of the long but steady hill to get to right
turn at the lights near the KFC... this white van has been sitting
inches away from my rear wheel since i changed into the rightmost lane,
not bothering to move into the left lane which is empty and go around
me.

just at the top of the hill, van moves into the left lane, and a rather
obese man smoking a cigarette with big fat wife next to him doing the
same pokes his big fat head out of the window, his multiple chins
wobbling and offers me some sterling advice:

"great way to get yourself killed, love."

i almost fell off my bike i was laughing so hard.


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asterope

asterope wrote:

snip

just at the top of the hill, van moves into the left lane, and a rather
obese man smoking a cigarette with big fat wife next to him doing the
same pokes his big fat head out of the window, his multiple chins
wobbling and offers me some sterling advice:

"great way to get yourself killed, love."


Aah! Good one that. My weekend highlight was a huge guy (well over the
120 kg mark) on a bike near Bonython. He seemed to be hootin' along but
I couldn't quite work out what was going on 'cos he wasn't pedalling!
Once I'd caught up to him I realised he had a little electric motor on
the rear wheel doing the work. While I give him 10 points for getting
on the bike, he loses a couple for woosing out with the motor.

--
Bean

Remove "yourfinger" before replying

Bean Long Wrote:
asterope wrote:

snip

just at the top of the hill, van moves into the left lane, and a
rather
obese man smoking a cigarette with big fat wife next to him doing
the
same pokes his big fat head out of the window, his multiple chins
wobbling and offers me some sterling advice:

"great way to get yourself killed, love."


Aah! Good one that. My weekend highlight was a huge guy (well over
the
120 kg mark) on a bike near Bonython. He seemed to be hootin' along
but
I couldn't quite work out what was going on 'cos he wasn't pedalling!
Once I'd caught up to him I realised he had a little electric motor on
the rear wheel doing the work. While I give him 10 points for getting
on the bike, he loses a couple for woosing out with the motor.

--
Bean

Remove "yourfinger" before replyingWhen reading this I was going to write ---

leave the guy alone; sure, he's big but he's trying (I've been - still
am there).

Then I read the bit with the motor....

sigh

Let's hope this is his first step and he eventually loses the motor.

Scotty


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scotty72

scotty72 wrote:


leave the guy alone; sure, he's big but he's trying (I've been - still
am there).

Then I read the bit with the motor....

sigh

Let's hope this is his first step and he eventually loses the motor.

Naah, lets hope he actually starts pedalling. There are a lot of people
that could use this technology for mobility and the more it is seen, the
better.

I always thought these motors were assistance only and not strong enough
to actually hoot you along with out pedalling.

If he is seen again, try to find out what system/gearing/other specs
please and how long he has had it.

I need to play wth something similar for hill boosting for a cargo trike
I am planning.

In aus.bicycle on Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:53:35 +1000
asterope wrote:

"great way to get yourself killed, love."

i almost fell off my bike i was laughing so hard.

I had a bod on a Vespa tell me I ought to get a flag cos I was "so
hard to see".

If he can't see something 2 foot wide, a foot longer than most
bicycles, and where the rider's seat is as high as a car seat then I
think the RTA's eyesight test needs work.

Coming from a motorcyclist it was especially funny. For some reason I
didn't say "sure, when you get one, don't you know motorcycles are
hard to see?"


Zebee

Zebee Johnstone wrote:

In aus.bicycle on Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:53:35 +1000
asterope wrote:

"great way to get yourself killed, love."

i almost fell off my bike i was laughing so hard.

I had a bod on a Vespa tell me I ought to get a flag cos I was "so
hard to see".

If he can't see something 2 foot wide, a foot longer than most
bicycles, and where the rider's seat is as high as a car seat then I
think the RTA's eyesight test needs work.

Coming from a motorcyclist it was especially funny. For some reason I
didn't say "sure, when you get one, don't you know motorcycles are
hard to see?"

Zebee

*gasp* no flag? Zebee, I'm shocked! don't tell me - oh my
god you probably don't even have facial hair!

;-)

Tam

"Tamyka Bell" wrote in message
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Zebee Johnstone wrote:

In aus.bicycle on Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:53:35 +1000
asterope wrote:

"great way to get yourself killed, love."

i almost fell off my bike i was laughing so hard.

I had a bod on a Vespa tell me I ought to get a flag cos I was "so
hard to see".

If he can't see something 2 foot wide, a foot longer than most
bicycles, and where the rider's seat is as high as a car seat then I
think the RTA's eyesight test needs work.

Coming from a motorcyclist it was especially funny. For some reason I
didn't say "sure, when you get one, don't you know motorcycles are
hard to see?"

Zebee

*gasp* no flag? Zebee, I'm shocked! don't tell me - oh my
god you probably don't even have facial hair!

Tam

The above message by Tam leads me to believe that she is an aborigine. Can
any of you on this confounded group enlighten me as to her true status in
the human scheme of things?

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

Edward Dolan wrote:
"Tamyka Bell" wrote in message
...
Zebee Johnstone wrote:
In aus.bicycle on Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:53:35 +1000
asterope wrote:
"great way to get yourself killed, love."

i almost fell off my bike i was laughing so hard.
I had a bod on a Vespa tell me I ought to get a flag cos I was "so
hard to see".

If he can't see something 2 foot wide, a foot longer than most
bicycles, and where the rider's seat is as high as a car seat then I
think the RTA's eyesight test needs work.

Coming from a motorcyclist it was especially funny. For some reason I
didn't say "sure, when you get one, don't you know motorcycles are
hard to see?"

Zebee
*gasp* no flag? Zebee, I'm shocked! don't tell me - oh my
god you probably don't even have facial hair!

Tam

The above message by Tam leads me to believe that she is an aborigine. Can
any of you on this confounded group enlighten me as to her true status in
the human scheme of things?

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota


I can confirm that she is human yes

Dave

"dave" wrote in message
...
Edward Dolan wrote:
"Tamyka Bell" wrote in message
...
Zebee Johnstone wrote:
In aus.bicycle on Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:53:35 +1000
asterope wrote:
"great way to get yourself killed, love."

i almost fell off my bike i was laughing so hard.
I had a bod on a Vespa tell me I ought to get a flag cos I was "so
hard to see".

If he can't see something 2 foot wide, a foot longer than most
bicycles, and where the rider's seat is as high as a car seat then I
think the RTA's eyesight test needs work.

Coming from a motorcyclist it was especially funny. For some reason I
didn't say "sure, when you get one, don't you know motorcycles are
hard to see?"

Zebee
*gasp* no flag? Zebee, I'm shocked! don't tell me - oh my
god you probably don't even have facial hair!

Tam

The above message by Tam leads me to believe that she is an aborigine.
Can
any of you on this confounded group enlighten me as to her true status in
the human scheme of things?

I can confirm that she is human yes

But if she is an aborigine, is she of our species? That is the question!

I am of the opinion that the Australian aborigine is verging on a separate
species of Homo. This would account for the very strange way the brain of
Tamyka Bell works - as well as flyingdutch who I am convinced is an
aborigine. Why is it that their messages on AB never make any sense to me?
It may be that I just don't understand how the female mind works, but how do
you explain flyingdutch? Nay, I think your newsgroup is riddled with
aborigines.

Does anyone know if it is possible for an Australian aborigine to mate with
a human being and have viable offspring that are not total freaks? Ed Dolan
the Great needs to know before he can ever rest peacefully in his grave.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

"Zebee Johnstone" wrote in message
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In aus.bicycle on Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:53:35 +1000
asterope wrote:

"great way to get yourself killed, love."

i almost fell off my bike i was laughing so hard.

I had a bod on a Vespa tell me I ought to get a flag cos I was "so
hard to see".

He's got a point. I mainly lurk here but when you were deciding on a bike I
almost piped up to talk you out of a recumbent. For a lot of drivers
they're practicaly invisible, they're less manouverable and wider so more
likely to be clipped. A flag doesn't cut it, a burning flare might be a
better option.

If he can't see something 2 foot wide, a foot longer than most
bicycles, and where the rider's seat is as high as a car seat then I
think the RTA's eyesight test needs work.

As you yourself have pointed out it's not about eyesight, it's about
processing what you see. People just aren't looking for recumbents so they
won't see them. I've seen recumbents so low they don't make it up to a cars
window, on top of that they keep getting stuck lane splitting. A driver
could do everything right and still hit them.

Maybe it sounds just like car drivers talking about uprights but you have to
draw the line somewhere.