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Old February 24th 07, 08:33 PM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides
Bill Baka
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Default cars get the lion's share

Daryl Hunt wrote:
"Bill Baka" wrote in message
The idea is to relax at the mid-point of an 80 mile ride. Besides, since
the radio only takes about 1.5 watts at full volume and the solar panel
puts out about 250ma at 6 volts it works just fine. Pedaling for less than
1 watt is a tad ridiculous. Riding is riding, and relaxing is laying on
the grass, listening to the waterfall and the radio, with the radio being
optional.
Bill Baka


I know, Bill. I was poking fun at some.


I can handle that.
Bill
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Old March 3rd 07, 08:40 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc,rec.autos.driving,alt.planning.urban,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.bicycles.rides
Tom Keats
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Default cars get the lion's share

In article ,
"Paul Hovnanian P.E." writes:

Who said anything about speeding? If a cyclist impedes more than 5
vehicles, that's a violation.


Not necessarily. Are you sure there isn't a proviso
in that legislation that says the slow moving vehicle
may proceed until the first opportunity to /safely/
allow following traffic to overtake, if it's built-up
to five or more following vehicles?


There's the link right below. I saw no such proviso, but you are welcome
to search for it.


Okay, I did follow your link:

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.61.427


and it says:

"On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of
traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, a
slow moving vehicle, behind which five or more vehicles are
formed in a line, shall turn off the roadway wherever
sufficient area for a safe turn-out exists, in order to
permit the vehicles following to proceed. As used in this
section a slow moving vehicle is one which is proceeding at
a rate of speed less than the normal flow of traffic at
the particular time and place."

Note the part about "sufficient area for a safe turn-out."

Sometimes self-interested car drivers try to
disguise themselves as cyclists.
The results of their thrashings and wailings and
nashing of teeth are amusing. Like now.


And sometimes cyclists don't want to get killed due to the road rage
that those seeking to make political statements incite.


"Incite", eh? As in: "She was just /asking/ for it?"

If you want to be taken seriously, you are going to have to quit acting
like children.


How so? Do you mean by exercising one's rights to use
the road despite not being motorized? If so, how is
that childish?

Nobody is going to invest millions of dollars into
infastructure to coddle law breakers (other than prisons that is).


FWIW I, unlike certain autoholics, don't want or need millions
of dollars of infrastructure or political statements. The
infrastructure and the politics are already in place for us
cyclists. All we need is for some self-interested, selfish
people to stop trying to impede our due access to them.

Tell ya what -- I'll leave you to your own pitard.

But I sure hope you don't represent too many drivers.


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