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Bracelets for Bike Lanes?
donquijote1954 said the following on 20/3/2005 9:35:
'"The Lance Armstrong Foundation and Nike are raising funds for youth-cancer support groups, research, and education by selling $1 yellow rubber bracelets etched with the phrase 'LIVE STRONG,'" Michelle Milford, spokesperson for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, said in an e-mail interview.' http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWi.../Life_bands.asp Giordano (a regional clothing chain here in Asia, apparently HQd in HongKong and comparable to Benetton) had an ad in yesterday's Straits Times with multi-coloured bands much alike to the Livestrong bands carrying inscriptions of 'peace', 'love', etc. Have not seen the bands in th actual stored, so I can't positively say whether they were just used for the ad or they are actually selling them. |
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He may as well have launched a band for the millions of Americans who--like me--can't go out and enjoy a bicycle ride around the neighborhood. His remains an elitist sport, not something kids in America can enjoy to school. Perhaps a model for cancer patients, but not for the average kid, who needs BIKE LANES to go to school safely. That band remains to be launched... what do bike lanes have to do with anything? it is laisyness that needs to be cured. no use having bike lanes if everyone is a couch potato. we need potato slow lanes (G) -- Knight-Toolworks & Custom Planes Custom made wooden planes at reasonable prices See http://www.knight-toolworks.com For prices and ordering instructions. |
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donquijote1954 wrote:
Obviously it got to do with SAFETY. Would you push an 11 year old child with a bike into the mean streets of America? Sounds to me like throwing a sardine into a tank full of sharks. Well, I don't know about anyone else, but when I was about nine or so I started riding a bike to school just about every day, as long as it wasn't snowy or raining. And yes, this was on the "mean streets" of America. I wasn't kidnapped or hit by a car, either. If you're paranoid about your kid getting hit by a car, is a bicycle lane really going to keep you from worrying? I think bicycle lanes are a nice amenity, but hardly a requirement to prevent accidents. Proper riding instruction, the use of hand signals, and always wearing a helmet will go a lot further to keep a bicyclist safe. -Bill H. |
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Tom Sherman writes: Just what we need, a cross-posted h*lm*t flame war! I guess it's a way to get even for the Jesus/abortion thing. cheers, Tom -- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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19 Mar 2005 22:21:21 -0800,
.com, "donquijote1954" quoted, in part: \cut,rec.bicycles.racing,rec.bicycles.rides,alt.p lanning.urban \snip Jackson says that the tours have two purposes. "First, to show them that bike lanes work. Second, to get them to think about bike lanes in their design work." Bike lanes suck, especially when they _END_ on a gravel shoulder with the only warning being a notice of same painted on said lane 5 meters before said eventuality. -- zk |
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Zoot Katz wrote:
19 Mar 2005 22:21:21 -0800, .com, "donquijote1954" quoted, in part: \cut,rec.bicycles.racing,rec.bicycles.rides,alt.p lanning.urban \snip Jackson says that the tours have two purposes. "First, to show them that bike lanes work. Second, to get them to think about bike lanes in their design work." Bike lanes suck, especially when they _END_ on a gravel shoulder with the only warning being a notice of same painted on said lane 5 meters before said eventuality. I would rather have an extra 2-meters/6-feet (unmarked) added to the outside lane (right lane for all but the Commonwealth island nations and Japan) than a bike lane. The outside lane should also be regularly traversed by a Pelican [1] or similar creature. [1] http://www.elginsweeper.com/pelican/index.asp. -- Tom Sherman - Earth (Downstate Illinois, North of Forgottonia) |
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Bill H. wrote:
donquijote1954 wrote: Obviously it got to do with SAFETY. Would you push an 11 year old child with a bike into the mean streets of America? Sounds to me like throwing a sardine into a tank full of sharks. Well, I don't know about anyone else, but when I was about nine or so I started riding a bike to school just about every day, as long as it wasn't snowy or raining. And yes, this was on the "mean streets" of America. I wasn't kidnapped or hit by a car, either.... I rode my Peugeot P-8 to school every day during junior high school, and this was in Wisconsin where it did get cold and snow quite a bit in the winter. That bike rode and handled very well, especially considering it was about the least expensive "LBS quality" bike available at the time. -- Tom Sherman - Earth (Downstate Illinois, North of Forgottonia) |
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donquijote1954 wrote:
[Snip rec.bicycles.racing and text] Why was this cross-posted to rec.bicycles.racing? That group is mostly interested in personal flames. -- Tom Sherman - Earth (Downstate Illinois, North of Forgottonia) |
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Tom Sherman wrote in
: Bill H. wrote: donquijote1954 wrote: Obviously it got to do with SAFETY. Would you push an 11 year old child with a bike into the mean streets of America? Sounds to me like throwing a sardine into a tank full of sharks. Well, I don't know about anyone else, but when I was about nine or so I started riding a bike to school just about every day, as long as it wasn't snowy or raining. And yes, this was on the "mean streets" of America. I wasn't kidnapped or hit by a car, either.... I rode my Peugeot P-8 to school every day during junior high school, and this was in Wisconsin where it did get cold and snow quite a bit in the winter. That bike rode and handled very well, especially considering it was about the least expensive "LBS quality" bike available at the time. I never rode my bike to school (this was in the 60s), but I often rode it out of our subdivision, along a US highway, across a bridge into town and over to the library, where I would stay half the day until my mom called the library to make sure I was there. I was prolly about 10. Now I'm afraid to let my teen daughters ride around through the small town we live in. Why am I paranoid? I think it's partly that there truly is more traffic on the roads now than there used to be, and proportionally there are more idiot drivers out there. There are more kids behind the wheel than there used to be. I don't think this country (the US) does enough to maintain the proper level of competence in drivers. Once you get your license you pretty much have it for life. If driver training included something about sharing the road; if maintaining a driver's license included a mandatory behind-the-wheel re-test every 10 or 15 years; if traffic enforcement concentrated more on encouraging proper motoring and less on traffic citations (and revenue and statistics) - then I'd worry less about my kids biking. |
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